VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO Verve 5008 TORSO Original CANADIAN MONO Lou Reed

ARTIST: VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO

TITLE: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO PRODUCED BY ANDY WARHOL

LABEL: VERVE V5008

PRESSING: 1967 ORIGINAL

COUNTRY: CANADA

GATEFOLD: NO

CONDITION OF VINYL:  VG, light scratches,  some light surface noise 

CONDITION OF LABELS: VG, light rubbing, some spindle marks.

CONDITION OF COVER: VG, some discolouration, very light staining, light ring wear, corners and seams are fine.

STEREO/MONO: MONO

ANALOG/DIGITAL:  ANALOG

MATRIX NUMBERS (SIDE A/SIDE B): 

V-5008-S1 / V-5008-S2

Weight of record (includes record, cover, inner sleeve, outer sleeve):280g

DESCRIPTION or information on this record

From Wiki:

The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut album by American rock band the Velvet Underground with vocalist Nico, released in March 1967 by Verve Records. Recorded in 1966 during Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia event tour, the album would gain attention for its experimental performance sensibilities and a controversial lyrical topics, including drug abuse, prostitution, sadism and masochism and sexual deviancy.

From allmusic.com:

One would be hard-pressed to name a rock album whose influence has been as broad and pervasive as The Velvet Underground & Nico. While it reportedly took over a decade for the album's sales to crack six figures, glam, punk, new wave, goth, noise, and nearly every other left-of-center rock movement owes an audible debt to this set. While The Velvet Underground had as distinctive a sound as any band, what's most surprising about this album is its diversity. Here, the Velvets dipped their toes into dreamy pop ("Sunday Morning"), tough garage rock ("Waiting for the Man"), stripped-down R&B ("There She Goes Again"), and understated love songs ("I'll Be Your Mirror") when they weren't busy creating sounds without pop precedent. Lou Reed's lyrical exploration of drugs and kinky sex (then risky stuff in film and literature, let alone "teen music") always received the most press attention, but the music Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker played was as radical as the words they accompanied.  Few rock albums are as important as The Velvet Underground & Nico, and fewer still have lost so little of their power to surprise and intrigue more than 40 years after first hitting the racks.

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