MINT 1968 Orig NICO CHELSEA GIRL + VELVET UNDERGROUND = DARK MOODY PSYCH LP

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• MINTY 1968 FIRST PRESSING
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  #1st NICO SOLO 
  with: VELVET UNDERGROUND
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• . NICO .
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• " CHELSEA GIRL"
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• USA - (royal blue w/ silver letters) Verve - V 5032 - STEREOPHONIC

1. "I like sad songs, tragic ones ... I like to improvise with the notes, with the feeling I have at the time about the song."
   
2. Even those people who were friends of hers only six months ago, she feels isolated from, because in this Underground movement (the italics are hers) things move so fast because yesterday doesn't exist. 
3. People, places, the years no longer exist for Nico except as blocks of emotion that can't be recaptured but only re-felt.
   
   "I can't respond in the old way ... it's, you know, fake ... with people that you like for good reasons but not the most important reasons."
   
   One of Nico's favorite people she says, was Lenny Bruce. "I like him for that thing ... that nothing is wrong to do or to say or to take ... he really destroyed himself in the end."
   
   Her voice is low but strong; sensuous but reserved. Sometimes she seems as if she is talking to herself.
   
   Nico's speech is slow; she makes sudden leaps of thought jettisoning the bridging word. Like a movie camera her thoughts keep cutting, instead of panning, from one to another; if only feeling linking them up and leading her on. Her voice flies high as she talk putting her emphasis on the conjunctions instead of the adjectives or verbs.
   
   The conversation changes to Andy and Chelsea Girls, three and a half hours long. "I like the last sequence with the Pope and Ondine and that quiet film beside it." Nico was also in his then latest film, all in color, which runs for twenty-four hours.
   
   She says Andy likes other people to become Andy for him; that he doesn't want to be always in charge of everything.
   
   "He would rather be me or someone else sometimes ... like the radio interview when I couldn't show up ... he went on and took my part — said the sings I would say."
   
   "It's part of pop-art, I guess, that everybody can impersonate somebody else ... that you don't always be you.
   
   If tomorrow I find somebody who is pretty much like me and I put her here to sing, she can be Nico while I go to do something else.
   
4. She is beautiful. And in a world where so much can easily be possessed on a whim or for a promise, she is un-possessable. She has a clear, pure ring, a trueness, like an arrow that has hit an inner mark and can't be wedged loose. Her voice and her manner, that stretch farther into the past than perhaps she realizes, may set the style: and existential pop style that is as earthy as Mary Travers (Peter, Paul & Mary) yet more elegant, more isolated.
   
   Her name is Nico. I don't know where she was born, how old she is or anything about her life as a model in Paris, an actress in Rome, a "beat" in Ibiza or as a member of the Velvet Underground.
   
   I could have easily found out, but rather not. 
5. All that was yesterday.
6.     Nico – vocals
       Jackson Browne – acoustic guitar (A1-2, B2-3, B5)
       Lou Reed – electric guitar (A3, A5, B1, B4)
       John Cale – viola, organ, guitar (A3-5)
       Sterling Morrison – electric guitar (B1, B4)
   
7.  Side A
   "The Fairest of the Seasons" – 4:06 
8. "These Days" – 3:30 
9. "Little Sister" (John Cale, Lou Reed) – 4:22 "Winter Song" (Cale) – 3:17 
10. "It Was a Pleasure Then" (Nico, Reed, Cale) – 8:02
11. 
    Side B
        "Chelsea Girls" (Reed, Sterling Morrison) – 7:26
        "I'll Keep It With Mine" (Dylan) – 3:17
        "Somewhere There's a Feather – 2:16
        "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (Reed) – 5:07
        "Eulogy to Lenny Bruce" – 3:45:
    
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13. CONDITION:
14. The cover: rated: M- no wear on the black background per usual...nice keeper artifact, tiny circle delete mark is insignifcant, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ... TOP COPY

1. The vinyl: Rated: M- total shiny gloss keeper collectible and both VERVE orig '68 labels are perfect