MINT UK NICO CHELSEA GIRL VELVET UNDERGROUND Psych
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MINTY CLEAN VINTAGE U.K. COLLECTIBLE
ex-VELVET UNDERGROUND
Nico
Chelsea Girl
UK - MGM Records - 2353025
TOP COPY!
Scarce old vintage BRITISH pressing from 1971...with clean minty vinyl (see details down below song titles)
The very first solo album by Velvet Underground's vocalist...NICO....
Backed in the studio by The Velvet Underground (minus Maureen Tucker) and Jackson Browne, and with the legendary Tom Wilson in the producers chair...Because of the Velvet Underground band members involvement and the similarities with the softer The Velvet Underground and Nico tracks, Chelsea Girl is sometimes seen by fans as a companion record to that album. "Little Sister" and "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams," and perhaps others included here, had also been played live by The Velvet Underground during Nico's time with the band.
After collaborating as a singer with The Velvet Underground on their debut The Velvet Underground and Nico (recorded during 1966, released in March 1967), Warhol superstar Nico toured with the band in Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia roadshow. Before the EPI came to an end in 1967, Nico took up residence in a New York City coffeehouse as solo folk chanteuse, accompanied in turn by acquainted guitarists, such as Tim Hardin, Jackson Browne and Leonard Cohen, but also her Velvet Underground colleagues Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and John Cale.
Some of her accompanists wrote songs for her to sing, and these form the backbone of Chelsea Girl. Browne and Hardin contributed some songs, Lou Reed gave her one of his early Velvet Underground songs, "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (which did not surface as a Velvet Underground recording until it was included in the 1995 box set Peel Slowly and See), and Reed, Cale and Morrison in various combinations contributed four more songs. Additionally, Bob Dylan gave her one of his songs to record: "I'll Keep It with Mine".
Musically, Chelsea Girl is best described as a cross between chamber folk and Sixties poprock. The musical backing is relatively simple, consisting of one or two guitars or, alternatively, a keyboard instrument, played by either Browne or (a combination of) her Velvet Underground colleagues. There are no drums or bass instruments.
'Chelsea Girl' is a record of great fragility and poignancy and stands up as an affecting, hauntingly beautiful piece of work benefiting of repeat listens. As the most conventional sounding album in her catalog in terms of song structure and production, it is perhaps unsurprising to find out that Nico was dissatisfied with the finished product. 'Chelsea Girl' was released in October 1967 and it is an album so full of high points and tracks that can be admired endlessly as stand alone pieces that it easy to lose site of this as a consistent body of work, especially now in a time where albums appear to be losing the battle for consistent levels of attention, however, as with most great works, it is a record who's true magic is best discovered when experienced as a whole.
- Nico – vocals
- Jackson Browne – acoustic guitar (A1-2, B2-3, B5)
- Lou Reed – electric guitar (A3, A5, B1, B4)
- John Cale – viola, organ, guitar (A3-5)
- Sterling Morrison – electric guitar (B1, B4)
Side A
- "The Fairest of the Seasons" – 4:06
- "These Days" – 3:30
- "Little Sister" (John Cale, Lou Reed) – 4:22
- "Winter Song" (Cale) – 3:17
- "It Was a Pleasure Then" (Nico, Reed, Cale) – 8:02
Side B
- "Chelsea Girls" (Reed, Sterling Morrison) – 7:22
- "I'll Keep It With Mine" (Dylan) – 3:17
- "Somewhere There's a Feather – 2:16
- "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (Reed) – 5:07
- "Eulogy to Lenny Bruce" – 3:45
CONDITION: The cover is a fragile UK production, and well preserved at M- been very well preserved over the years, so should make a nice collectible, only getting more scarce by the day (40 years old collection keeper)
The vinyl is still glossy on both sides; M- looks VERY clean and the the playback is clear and smooth TOP level ...both labels are clean
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