All tomorrows parties is reportedly Andy Warhol's favorite Velvet Underground song, though probably more for having Nico (born Christa Päffgen) sing the lead than Velvet Underground's part in it.This is ironic, considering that Zappa himself also hated the hippie scene, and in fact was mocking it the entire time the way he later would parody other musical genres. The album The Velvet Underground and Nico was finished and waiting to be released by early 1966, but Verve Records held it back in favor of releasing Zappa and the Mother's Freak Out! This provoked guitarist Sterling Morrison into spending the rest of his life complaining about Zappa, sneeringly lumping him in with "that hippie music," along with other acts like Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. Another competing band was Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. In 2006, The Library of Congress added The Velvet Underground and nico into the National Recording Registry, in which every year, 25 sound recordings are selected, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States.".Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico, and Maureen Tucker have all recorded solo versions of I'm Waiting for the man.(tfw i just learned this today and still can't get over the fact it's lou reed singing Sunday morning, did everybody knew this?, have i been this much of a retard?.) Reed wrote Sunday morning for Nico but then decided not to let the German ex-model sing it.The Velvet Underground & Nico is ranked #13 on Rolling Stone's Top 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, calling the album "the most prophetic rock album ever made".Andy Warhol, who helped finance the album, suggested he write a song about the paranoia associated with the effects of a drug wearing off. Lou Reed wrote Sunday morning on a Sunday morning around 6am.like Femme Fatale and i'll be your mirror Why wouldn't you listen to it? You have the fun of reading that, and you get the fun of rock on top of it", although some of the songs are not about dark themes. Lou Reed said in a interview that joining gritty subject matters and music was "obvious" and "That's the kind of stuff you might read. Venus in Furs, which is based off the book of the same name (which has BDSM), and heroin, which involves a person experience through heroin, and There she Goes again, which is about prostitution. The lyrics on The velvet underground and nico cover such topics as drugs, in which the second track, I'm Waiting for the Man, talks about a man who waiting for his dealer. Peeled version of the album cover lyrics and themes Since this was considered shocking at the time, the album art is often seen as a precursor to that of No Love Deep Web. Early copies of the record included " Peel slowly and see", in which you peel the banana skin to reveal a pink banana. The album cover was designed by Andy Warhol, it's a banana. like Lou reed on lead vocals (also doing lead guitars and backing vocals), Sterling Morrison on guitar, John Cale on electric violin/Piano/celesta/ect, Maureen Tucker on drums, and Nico on vocals on tracks like Sunday morning, Femme fatale, All tomorrow's parties, and i'll be your mirror. with help from Tom Wilson, who has worked with very influential artists, like Bob Dylan.The album consist of the Original line up of The Velvet Underground members. who brought an acetate disc to Columbia so the album can be distributed.Ī Acetate disc of the original Velvet underground and nico recordingsīut they decline along with Atlantic Records and Elektra Records, until Verve Records (owed by MGM Records), accepted the recordings. and Columbia Records' sales executive, Norman Dolph. The album was Recorded around April of 1966 at Scepter Studios.
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