Somewhere There's a Feather always causes me to mist up.
― thirdalternative, Saturday, 6 November 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Royal Tennenbaums almost ruined "These Days" for me
― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, May 12, 2004 4:56 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark
This is your own fault.
― thirdalternative, Saturday, 6 November 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
You can't ruin "These Days." It even survived a Zellers commercial.
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 November 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
If you let a good song get fuined by a movie or a commercial, it's the fault of your own lack of imagination, it's a sentiment that really irks me, that a good song can be killed by a commercial or film.
― thirdalternative, Saturday, 6 November 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"I'm Not Saying" > pretty much everything else Nico has ever sang on
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 6 November 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
nico had a weird life, didn't she.
― tylerw, Friday, November 5, 2010 7:51 PM (2 years ago)
and not a very happy one afaict
― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, November 5, 2010 8:03 PM (2 years ago)
These guys OTM. Watched Nico: Icon last night. What a bleak and harrowing fucking story. The contrasts between beauty and ugliness in her life is striking. Sadly, the beauty usually relates to her art, and the ugliness to her life.
Never really listened much to this record, btw. Went straight to Marble Index. It's very nice, though.
― Mule, Monday, 4 November 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
she sang out of tune because she was deaf in one ear, and the velvets used to mock her for it. happy life, I believe she shared her heroin with her child.
― OutdoorFish, Monday, 4 November 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
According to the movie, she did. The guy from Ash Ra Tempel, whom she lived with in the 70s said so. I think maybe her son Ari says so himself, too.
It's a sordid story.
― Mule, Monday, 4 November 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
I didn't know about this:http://www.audiospace.vn/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/the-bill-evans-trio-moon-beams-3.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 4 November 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
Not finding a general Nico thread...This just opened here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38RBdHtWkWo
Not sure if I'll see it. I saw the poster a few weeks and assumed it was a documentary--that I'd see. It's not, and it looks like it might be an ordeal from the trailer.
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 August 2018 00:14 (five years ago) link
It Was A Pleasure Then was definately the Velvet Underground song i always wished they had done.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, May 11, 2004 5:27 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Haven't read all of the thread but this wasn't responded to at the time it was posted. I heard that the backing of the song was based on Melody Laughter the improvisation the VU did live I think regularly and definitely on the Columbus Ohio set that's now available with the larger box set of the first lp and in edited form on the Peel Slowly and See box set.Columbus, Ohio version is 28 minutes long as is The Nothing Song which they also did in the same set. I think both were done live with wordless vocal improvisations by Nico.
I would heavily recommend the frozen Borderline set that mops up the recordings from marble Index and Desertshore plus out takes.Also the 2cd version of The End. Don't like the title track of that '70s lp though seems too close to the original. But tracks on the first side are long term favourites as they have been for the last 35 odd years.Are those lps labeled proto-goth these days? Hope not, seem pretty original to me. & maybe Goth has faded into the distant past already.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 12 August 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
Co-sign on The Frozen Borderline, it sounds great and the outtakes are wonderful.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 12 August 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
I didn't know about this:― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, November 4, 2013 9:13 AM (four years ago)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, November 4, 2013 9:13 AM (four years ago)
Link broke, fixed:
https://i.imgur.com/oIbalp8.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 12 August 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
This album just got a mention on Coronation Street!
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Friday, 31 December 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
What was said about it?!
― dow, Friday, 31 December 2021 22:37 (two years ago) link
There was a conversation between two characters about the name for a hairdressers or something, the dialogue went something like:
"What about Elsie's Girls? You know like Chelsea Girls...""What? What's that?" "You know, the album by Nico, the woman who sang with the Velvet Underground?"
... something like that.
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Friday, 31 December 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
"What about Elsie's Girls? You know like Chelsea Girls...""What? What's that?""You know how in 1955 Lewis Separates was rebranded Chelsea Girl and became one of the UK's first female fashion chains, before being subsumed under the River Island umbrella in the 90s? Like that, but plural!"
^^ more realistic
― Alba, Saturday, 1 January 2022 09:14 (two years ago) link
Well, Mico did live in Weatherfield Manchester for a while.
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 January 2022 10:09 (two years ago) link
... Nico (flaming phone!)
Manco
― Alba, Saturday, 1 January 2022 10:14 (two years ago) link
Lol I wondered if this was a Corrie-related revive
God that dialogue was clumsy
― Khafre's clown (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 January 2022 10:25 (two years ago) link