original pressing Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/original-pressing/ Tue, 23 Nov 2021 02:25:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 https://vinylfromthevault.com/the-velvet-underground-nico-196667-verve-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-velvet-underground-nico-196667-verve-2 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:04:30 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=3574 "The Velvet Underground & Nico" 1966/67. Verve Records. Original pressing (V6-5008) gatefold with the Andy Warhol “peel slowly and see” banana. Today, March 2nd, is Lou Reed’s birthday (b. 1942 d. 2013). This album is so massive, so influential: it’s #13 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and Brian Eno said of its original [...]

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]]> “The Velvet Underground & Nico” 1966/67. Verve Records. Original pressing (V6-5008) gatefold with the Andy Warhol “peel slowly and see” banana. Today, March 2nd, is Lou Reed’s birthday (b. 1942 d. 2013). This album is so massive, so influential: it’s #13 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and Brian Eno said of its original (and low-selling but we have a copy!!! not bought by us in 1967 though) release that “everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band.” I wonder if “Jan,” whose name is scrawled on the record label and I assume was the original owner of this copy, started a band back in the 60′s.

It’s been reviewed only about a million times, so just highlighting my favorite tracks here: “I’m Waiting For the Man”, “Run, Run, Run” (which I like to sing in my head when I run – OK, plod – along sometimes), “Venus in Furs,” “All Tomorrow’s Parties” and “Heroin.”  Those last three always make me feel like I should be draped over a settee in an opulent den of disrepute, shrouded in a haze of candles and incense.

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