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The Velvet Underground & Nico (Deluxe Edition)

The Velvet Underground & Nico
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Studio album by The Velvet Underground and Nico
Released March 12, 1967 (1967-03-12)
Recorded April–May and November 1966
Studio
Genre
Length 48:51
Label Verve
Producer Andy Warhol
The Velvet Underground chronology
The Velvet Underground & Nico
(1967)
White Light/White Heat
(1968)
Nico chronology
The Velvet Underground & Nico
(1967)
Chelsea Girl
(1967)
Singles from The Velvet Underground & Nico
  1. "All Tomorrow's Parties" / "I'll Be Your Mirror"
    Released: July 1966
  2. "Sunday Morning" / "Femme Fatale"
    Released: December 1966
Alternative cover
The early LP edition with the banana-skin sticker peeled off.
Professional ratings
Retrospective reviews
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 5/5 stars
Chicago Tribune 4/4 stars
Encyclopedia of Popular Music 5/5 stars
Pitchfork 10/10
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 5/5 stars
Sputnikmusic 4.5/5
The Village Voice A

The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut album by American rock band the Velvet Underground, released in March 1967 by Verve Records. Accompanied by vocalist Nico, the album was recorded in 1966 while the group were featured on Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia event tour, which gained attention for its experimental performance sensibilities and controversial lyrical topics, including drug abuse, prostitution, sadism and masochism and sexual deviancy.

Though the record was a commercial failure upon release and was almost entirely ignored by contemporary critics, The Velvet Underground & Nico is now widely recognized as one of the greatest and most influential albums in the history of popular music. It ranked 13th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and was added to the 2006 National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. In 1982, musician Brian Eno famously stated that while the album initially only sold 30,000 copies, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band." Genres that were significantly informed by the album include art rock, punk, garage, grunge, shoegaze, gothic, indie, and most other forms of alternative music.


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