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The Velvet Underground & Nico

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The Velvet Underground & Nico

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The album cover for The Velvet Underground & Nico is recognizable for featuring a Warhol print of a banana. Early copies of the album invited the owner to “Peel slowly and see”; peeling back the banana skin revealed a flesh-colored banana underneath. A special machine was needed to manufacture these covers (one of the causes of the album’s delayed release), but MGM paid for costs figuring that any ties to Warhol would boost sales of the album. Most reissued vinyl editions of the album do not feature the peel-off sticker; the original copies of the album with the peel-sticker feature are now rare collector’s items.

This version is the 1985 reissue of Verve V6-5008.

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Tracklisting

  1. “Sunday Morning”
  2. “I’m Waiting for the Man”
  3. “You Said It All”
  4. “Femme Fatale”
  5. “Venus in Furs”
  6. “Run Run Run”
  7. “All Tomorrow’s Parties”
  8. “Heroin”
  9. “There She Goes Again”
  10. “I’ll Be Your Mirror”
  11. “The Black Angel’s Death Song”
  12. “European Son”

The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut album by American rock band The Velvet Underground and vocal collaborator Nico. It was originally released in March 1967 by Verve Records. Recorded in 1966 during Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia event tour, The Velvet Underground & Nico would gain notoriety for its experimentalist performance sensibilities, as well as the focus on controversial subject matter expressed in many of its songs including drug abuse, prostitution, sadism and masochism and sexual deviancy.

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