wlp VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO I'll Be Your Mirror / All Tomorrows Parties VERVE
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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO
I'll Be Your Mirror / All Tomorrows Parties
1966 VERVE VK-10427 mono
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Promo / Special Disc Jockey Record (light blue label)
Will come in a plain white sleeve (The PS for this is super rare see picture & info down below)*
CONDITION: VG to VG+ both sides start off with moderate but diminishing static out of the dead wax which is very
light to gone once the singing starts. Both sides look a clean VG+. I play graded it on 2 different record players.
LABELS-A black marker X on the "Mirror" side. May be mostly removable with lighter fluid but I personally dig marks made by the Disk Jockey,
WIKIPEDIA
"I'll Be Your Mirror" was the most difficult for Nico to record, as the band wanted her to provide slender, delicate vocals for the song, yet she would sing louder, more aggressive vocals take after take. Sterling Morrison described the ordeal in an interview:
“ She kept singing "I'll Be Your Mirror" in her strident voice. Dissatisfied, we kept making her do it over and over again until she broke down and burst into tears. At that point we said, "Oh, try it just one more time and then f*ck it — if it doesn't work this time, we're not going to do the song." Nico sat down and did it exactly right. ”The members of the band enjoyed her particular performance on the song so much that after she left the band in late 1967, live vocals for the song were done imitating Nico's accent.
Mentor and manager Andy Warhol suggested that the album have a built-in crack in it so the line "I'll be your mirror" would repeat infinitely on a record player until the listener moved the needle themselves, but nothing ever came of this idea"All Tomorrow's Parties" written by Lou Reed and later released on the group's 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico.
Inspiration for the song came from Reed's observation of the Warhol clique; according to Reed, the song is "a very apt description of certain people at the Factory at the time. ... I watched Andy. I watched Andy watching everybody. I would hear people say the most astonishing things, the craziest things, the funniest things, the saddest things.] The song was Andy Warhol's favorite by The Velvet Underground.
The picture sleeve is known as one of the rarest picture sleeve ever printed - the Holy Grail for the Velvet Underground collector. It was reviewed by Andy Davis in Record Collector's Diggin' For Gold section: "the sleeve to All Tomorrow's Parties was never issued commercially, and was only ever intented for promotional purposes. Legend has it that this cover was never packaged with actual vinyl copies; certainly, it has only ever surfaced as a paper artefact and then in only single figure quantities. It's this extreme rarity coupled with the immortal, unlit power of the Velvets, which has conspired to produce a non-vinyl collectable of such magnitude."
THIS IS THE SUPER RARE PICTURE SLEEVE*THIS 45 FOR AUCTION DOES NOT HAVE THE PICTURE SLEEVE
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NM (Near Mint): Record and cover appear virtually unmarked.
VG++: A hair under near mint may have just a very few visual marks that should not affect sound.
VG+ : Used but not abused. A few mostly surface lines. Will usually have some slight audible imperfections but sometimes almost none.
VG : Many only surface lines or may have a small scratch that causes just a few pops. .Background sound but still very enjoyable. Cover defects will be noted.
VG-: significant background sound from various defects but music always quite audible above it. Cover has some damage that will be noted.
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