THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO 1971 UK MGM PRESS NEAR MINT
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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO 1971 UK MGM PRESS NEAR MINT

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO

1971 UK MGM/VERVE (VERVE SUPER 2315 056) PRESSING OF THE VELVET UNDERGROUND'S DEBUT LP
NICE COPY WHICH PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY

PRESSED WITH THE GOLD/TURQUOISE MGM LABELS
MATRIX: 2315056 A//1 ∇ 420 11 10 / 2315056 B//1 ∇ 420 11 8
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT GATEFOLD SLEEVE "Printed and made by MacNeill Press Ltd., London, S.E.1"
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED POLYDOR INNER SLEEVE

 One would be hard pressed to name a rock album whose influence has been as broad and pervasive as The Velvet Underground & Nico.
While it reportedly took over a decade for the album's sales to crack six figures, glam, punk, new wave, goth, noise, and nearly every other left-of-center rock movement owes an audible debt to this set.
While The Velvet Underground had as distinctive a sound as any band, what's most surprising about this album is its diversity.
Here, the Velvets dipped their toes into dreamy pop ("Sunday Morning"), tough garage rock ("Waiting for the Man"), stripped-down R&B ("There She Goes Again"), and understated love songs ("I'll Be Your Mirror") when they weren't busy creating sounds without pop precedent.
Lou Reed's lyrical exploration of drugs and sex (then risky stuff in film and literature, let alone teen music) always received the most press attention, but the music Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker played was as radical as the words they accompanied.
The bracing discord of "European Son," the troubling beauty of "All Tomorrow's Parties," and the expressive dynamics of "Heroin," all remain as compelling as the day they were recorded.
While the significance of Nico's contributions have been debated over the years, she meshes with the band's outlook in that she hardly sounds like a typical rock vocalist, and if Andy Warhol's presence as producer was primarily a matter of signing the checks, his notoriety allowed The Velvet Underground to record their material without compromise, which would have been impossible under most other circumstances.
Few rock albums are as important as The Velvet Underground and Nico, and fewer still have lost so little of their power to surprise and intrigue more than 40 years on

Side One:
Sunday Morning (2:53)
I'm Waiting For The Man (4:37)
Femme Fatale (2:35)
Venus In Furs (5:07)
Run, Run, Run (4:18)
All Tomorrow's Parties (5:55)
Side Two:
Heroin (7:05)
There She Goes Again (2:30)
I'll Be Your Mirror (2:01)
Black Angel's Death Song (3:10)
European Son To Delmore Schwartz (7:40)

LABELS: EXCELLENT
Clean labels with a faint original owners name but few spindle traces (please see close-up photographs)
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT
Both surfaces are clean with just some superficial, harmless light marks
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays beautifully throughout with no major audible issues of note.
An occasional light tick but nothing else.
No scratches, loud clicks or pops and clean on the quieter sections
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+
Apart from a little grubbiness to the white of the outer cover the gatefold IS SOLID WITH LITTLE WAE TO THE TOP/BOTTOM EDGES AND ALL SPINE TEXT CLEAR AND BOLD

POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £11.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Signed For delivery)

Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
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