This album ("Nico") is a five star classic going away, and is without question my LEAST FAVORITE of their official releases.where to start? "I'm Waiting For The Man", "Femme Fatale", "Venus in Furs", "The Black Angels Death Song", the mind melting "European Son".simply stated, there had NEVER been anything like this in recorded music before, EVER. The first disc of "Peel SLowly and See" is a bunch of demos.all lengthy, all OBVIOUSLY demos, and all worth your time.there is an 18 minute "All Tomorrow's Parties", a 13 minute "Heroin", 15 minute version of "Venus In Furs".these are the bare bones versions, performed by Lou Reed, John Cale, and Sterling Morrison, before the Andy Warhol/Nico intervension that would occur before album #1 appeard.And album #1, "The Velvet Underground and Nico", appears here as Disc 2 of "Peel Slowly and See".the lineup for this effort: Reed, Cale, Morrison, Maureen Tucker, and the infamous Nico.when referring to the track list below, take note, tracks #2-#12 are the original album as released, Track #1 is the "single Version" of "All Tomorrow's Parties", then tracks #13-15 are three rarities you will not wish to miss, and it is THIS stuff that is the reason for using the box set.to say that the "rarities" are must-hear brilliant is incredible understatement. The rest of the digital versions make up for it in crispy clean sound which subtly rocks out as it did on my turntable in my beadroom back in the mid 1970's. The reason is, not only are the vinyl rips really in pretty rough condition, but the box set includes a ton of demos and the like which we could not find elsewhere.the one downside to posting the digital is the CD version of "Sister Ray" (from "White Light White Heat") is one of those tracks that they need to digitalize over again, as there are sheets of guitar noise on it which absolutely disappear when played on CD.we will remedy this with a boot in the next day or two which has NOTHING but versions of "Sister Ray" on it. Tonight I am going to put up their brilliant original studio albums, with one slight caveat.I had to decide between using my original vinyl rip CD's, or using the killer 5-disc box set "Peel SLowly and See".a difficult choice, but I finally decided on the box set.
They were THAT influential, argueably THE most influential rock band of the last 50 years. Post.I am going to post ALL of my Velvet Underground stuff here over the enxt three days, and there is a good bit of it, when studio albums, live stuff (official and boot, both), rarities discs and other abound here.and the Velvets deserve to have every note of thier glorious career documented for anyone who wishes to hear them in all their was once said that the first album sold but 30,000 copies, but each of those 30,000 people who made the purchase started a band of their own. This post is not going to be a joke, although a portion of it will be repeated from an older "rarities"