Dionysians / Apollonians; avant-garde chamber group / rock and roll dance band; violent nihilists / compassionate humanists; white noise tornado / neo-folk tonic .... satanists / moralists         

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Final collection copy!

First glance in negotiating (was expensive, but - so what) was like: WOW, THIS is really nice ~ quick reason for immediate thought: hardly ever see a Banana skin without ANY tears, wears or issues - here is a 52 year old survivor... IF you have been waiting for an original copy of this timeless collectible investment (destined to increase in value as long as the economy holds together - won't get into that, intelligence always a factor with sincere hope :>)   

TOP SOUGHT COLLECTIBLE => 52 YEARS AGO !

You don't often see the legendary STEREO issue in high end condition !

for example in March 2019, a VG+ far lesser copy sold for $1400. on eBay

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Sought After, UN-PEELED BANANA GATEFOLD COVER

OBVIOUSLY INVESTMENT STATUS COLLECTIBLE

Original VERVE double sided inner sleeve included!


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HIGHLY collectible 1967 (non torso) issue in pretty much beautiful condition (See Full Details below!!)
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Original = UN-PEELED BANANA COVER without issues besides only a tiny delete drill
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Recorded in '66 during Andy Warhol's multimedia event tour, The Velvet Underground & Nico would gain notoriety for its experimentalist performance sensibilities, as well as its focus on controversial subject matter expressed in many of their songs.

Theirs was the dim world of drugs and sexual perversion, of heroin addiction and the desperate loss of hope that goes with it. Their concern was with death and violence... Oozing evil and lubricity, they made every other group look like kid stuff, and they made a lot of people nervous... There is no word for their sound but sometimes it seems as if a presence has taken it over, perhaps even His Satanic Majesty himself. You can easily imagine someone performing black masses with the Velvet Underground’s albums. Not for the kiddies.

Their world view was dark and nihilistic at a time when everyone else was singing about peace and flowers... The Doors (whose first album was a hit when Velvet Underground & Nico was released) had a darker vision than The Velvet Underground! Even Jefferson Airplane, whose Surrealistic Pillow LP defined for the time capsules the romance of the Hippie Moment, didn’t turn a blind eye to the dark side of the counterculture-- and the Airplane and The Doors were the most popular bands in America during the Velvets’ time.

The Velvet Underground & Nico (the latter being a Warhol-recommended "chanteuse" who departed after the album was released to pursue an even more quixotic solo career) does function as a kind of "map of their music" (to paraphrase The Doors’ description of their own debut LP). The overall impression created is dark, noisy, more than a little paranoid and seemingly amoral (as opposed to immoral)-- "Heroin" makes a point of being neither for nor against, but simply about; similarly, no specific judgment is passed upon the characters in songs like "I’m Waiting For The Man" and "Venus In Furs." The album concludes with "The Black Angel’s Death Song" and "European Son," likability self-indulgent exercises in sonic (and verbal) envelope-pushing. But the ballads Lou wrote for Nico to sing (including the album opener "Sunday Morning" ) provide a disarmingly sweet balance, and even a specific reassurance: "When you think the night has seen your mind, / That inside you’re twisted and unkind, / Let me stand to show that you are blind-- / Please put down your hands, / ‘Cause I see you-- / I’ll be your mirror..."

• Side one
•     "Sunday Morning" (Reed, Cale) – 2:54
•     "I'm Waiting for the Man" – 4:39
•     "Femme Fatale" – 2:38
•     "Venus in Furs" – 5:12
•     "Run Run Run" – 4:22
•     "All Tomorrow's Parties" – 6:00
• Side two
•     "Heroin" – 7:12
•     "There She Goes Again" – 2:41
•     "I'll Be Your Mirror" – 2:14
•     "The Black Angel's Death Song" (Reed, Cale) – 3:11
•     "European Son" (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker) – 7:46

CONDITION: The Cover: rated: NEAR M- here, a decidedly beauty, has no obvious issues visual problems which is so very hard to come by... look around at past and present sales and offers on 'popsike' or whatever. There are NO issues to the close to mint banana skin - no kidding... and oh by the way, the insides gatefold are minty-clean as well (see photos.) again- impossibly hard to find better copy. This legendary Warhol art design is famous as you know if reading this far! The gatefold has no bends, no split seams, no cut corners, no saw marks, no writing and no fading...yes, smallest delete drill at top right, the back cover has no more than a mere trace of visual past use, excellent! And that's it!