The Velvet Underground’s self-titled debut album, probably the most influential albums in rock historical past, is among the many first data to grow to be a part of UMe’s new hi-fidelity vinyl collection, Vinylphyle.
The album joins different entries within the Vinylphyle collection, together with Bob Marley & The Wailers’ Exodus and Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song.” Like these releases, it should see a recent urgent on 180g black vinyl, courtesy of RTI. The discharge will even be accompanied by a four-panel insert full with authentic pictures and art work, plus brand-new liner notes from music critic Anthony Fantano.
Launched in 1967, the report was co-produced by Andy Warhol and featured German singer Nico; multi-instrumentalist John Cale; guitarist and lyricist Lou Reed; bassist Sterling Morrison; and percussionist and keyboardist Maureen Tucker. Warhol additionally made the album’s notorious cowl, a pop art-style image of a banana. The band recorded The Velvet Underground & Nico in 1966, throughout the band’s time performing as a part of Warhol’s collection of gesamtkunstwerk occasions, the Exploding Plastic Inevitable.
Regardless of its formidable legacy, The Velvet Underground & Nico’s recording course of was marred with label rejections, manufacturing delays and unfavourable critiques of dwell reveals. It was finally launched on Verve Data, however drew controversy over its stark depictions of drug abuse, prostitution and sadomasochism. Though reported numbers range, the album didn’t promote nicely inside its first 5 years of launch–however as Brian Eno famously quipped in 1982, “everyone who bought one of those [early] copies started a band.”
As Eno’s remark illustrates, the report turned a lodestar for a technology of recent musicians, and songs like “Venus In Furs,” “Heroin,” “Sunday Morning” and “Femme Fatale” at the moment are thought-about classics. The report additionally launched the solo careers of each Reed and Cale, a number of the late-’60s New York avant-garde’s most outstanding figures. The band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 1996, and a decade later, The Velvet Underground & Nico was added to the Library of Congress’s Nationwide Recording Registry.
Purchase the Vinylphyle version of the Velvet Underground & Nico’s debut right here.
