The Velvet Underground & Nico VG/VG+ RARE 1967 Verve Orig Andy Warhol Lou Reed

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199

Vinyl:  VG/VG+ Play Tested. Sounds Great with some warm vinyl crackle. No skips. Turn It Up!   Verve Labels are Clean.  This is the Original 1967 Pressing!  One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!  Influential beyond Compare!  Legendary Hipsters!
Cover: VG+ (see photos) Gatefold.  Here's the Reality:  You're Purchasing an Andy Warhol Print, of which, at least in this, the Original Pressing, there are less than 100,000 in circulation...Oh, and of course, there's the Record to Play!!!
There is a remnant of the original banana sticker covering the bottom of the banana.  I left it there because I thought it was cool that there was just a little bit of it remaining and obviously you can see through it to see the whole banana  :)  I also carefully took a tiny bit of lighter fluid and a Q-tip and tweezers and very easily took a tiny bit of the remnant off so that I could tell you, dear customer, that if you want to, it's very easy to take off the rest of the sticker without any chance of damaging the cover if you want to see the whole banana!  :)  ...or you can leave it the way it is and it still looks great...

Goldmine Standards.   I play test every album that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album. 

See Review Below!

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AllMusic Review by Mark Deming  [-]

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 kinky 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 & Nico, and fewer still have lost so little of their power to surprise and intrigue more than 40 years after first hitting the racks.