The Velvet Underground and Nico ｜Vinyl Monday
I don’t know just where I’m going, but I’m gonna try for the kingdom if I can.
Welcome to the final Vinyl Monday of 2025! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. My revised thoughts on The Velvet Underground & Nico (released 1967.) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday!
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Timestamps:
intro – 0:00
art/packaging/personnel – 1:50
The Velvet Underground and Nico – 5:38
track listing/release – 21:33
my thoughts – 29:40
thanks for watching! – 57:06
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@abigaildevoe
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
that's a wrap on Vinyl Monday for 2025!
what's your favorite VU song? and what would you like to see on the show in the big '26? comment below!
@LANCSKID
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
That’s enough Nico, Reed, Cale, Warhol etc. Overrated and pretentious jerks.
@jasonweinstock1282
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
I first found out about this album around 1978,when I was 8 years old..a friend of my mom's gave this to me. The banana album…I was instantly drawn to the album.
@jasonweinstock1282
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
There was the old saying..maybe velvet underground didn't sell many records, but it seemed like everyone who bought velvet underground albums went out and started a band
@retrofan75
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
To be perfectly honest, Sunday Morning is the standout on that album. I get the influence the album has but for me, I can't really enjoy listening to it much, but I can listen to Sunday Morning over and over and always find joy in it.
@rafibustos2750
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
46:30 “I’ll be your mirror” was a song me and my Dad bond over (besides Billy Bragg’s “To have and To Have Not”). To me, this was a song I came around the time I was disowned by my biological father (we already had a strained relationship) and I came from a pretty unstable/bad home that always hammered to me that if I can’t come up to expectations, I’m basically worthless. The man who eventually I come to call my “Dad” now sent me a poem by Audre Lorde on how cheap/scammers make mirrors that reflect poorly the person who looks at them, and this song. My adopted dad became my mirror.
My favorite song on that album right next to “Venus and Furs.” Have so many good memories.
@XFLexiconMatt
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
Abigail, I recently did a review on my blog about John Coltrane's 'Meditations', if you know it, I wish you'd review it.
@chrisnicol1644
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
Good question… I haven't used iTunes in over a year, so I don't know if they are still around…
@ronhiggins3296
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
Thanx for your research…Too many great songs to have a favorite…too young to see velvets but got to see Nico at McCabe's guitar shop, John at the Whiskey Au Go Go and Lou at the New Orleans Municipal Auditorium…Gene Clark…
@burningbothbinaries9889
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
I heard it aged 14 in '92, got the poster (stole the poster) had it next to bad moon rising and where you being, f knows how many years later it's still a go to album, it's still up in the top ten, I will beat it though, I am living this shit, I will do it
@Cigarshark1
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
There's a Dutch band called Lewsberg that have great Velvety track called Cold Light of Day.
@AlwaysBeBrian
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
This reminds me. When are you going to review Marquee Moon?
@GaryIngraham-i7j
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
You are just so freakin' adorable! Love your writing. Your metaphors are right on and so clever. They often make me smile. YOU make me smile!n Thank you. I only recently became a huge fan of the VU. I love this album.
@zamrocker
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
Nico is to the debut album what Yule is to Loaded 🍌
@sjbang5764
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
Here is a comment on this video…
@joeeyy123
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
amazing video as always love this
@Goatchild90
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
The best debut album that isn't Are You Experienced
@mariocontreras1911
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
The Velvet Underground and Nico cam out after i was born. I always get a kick out of paying attention to song structure of that period. Thank you for your spotlight on this piece for a little holiday listening. There is so much to go through as every unique song has its place.
@hanselmerson3366
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
This album is totally art.
I have a cut out and a Japan press.
Missed Velvet live Stockholm Modern Art Museum 1967?
@evilscientistrecords
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
Thank you for all the great videos in 2025! 🥰 Here's to a rockin 2026!
@duncanmacphee200
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
A perfectly imperfect album. This, and Sebadoh's 'III' album, is beyond definition, as if multiple deals were made with the devil. Sublime.
@volatile_idiot
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
the transition was sooo fire
@gazfunk
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
I like Japan's version of All Tomorrows Parties.
@starovingv
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
one of the greatest albums, life changing album for me
@soundclash420
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
I'm Gen X and we got into VU through the backdoor with bands like REM going on about them (and Big Star). We even learned There She Goes Again from Dead Letter Office
@michaelevans898
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
Sixties Art Major: I was in High School when this album came onto the scene. Garage bands were fading, but their rawness was still appreciated by our Baby Boomer audience.
NOBODY was as deliberately raw or noisy as the Velvet Underground, though, and nobody wrote songs as in-your-face vivid as Lou Reed. The multi-media effects by Warhol's acolyte Danny Williams would become as omnipresent as oil flowing over rainy street puddles, but were (mistakenly) associated with the West Coast, where they had been readily adopted after the Exploding Plastic Inevitable's tour.
Whether one liked it or not, this record was a lighthouse of possibilities in an overwhelming ocean of oft-dangerous historical changes. Commercialism be damned — this album steadily claimed its importance over the next decade and beyond. I'm glad you are illuminating this circle of artists online in the here & now!
@Jopes17
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
I wish other albums had a flavour associated with them, like where’s the peanut butter album?
@AndrewMatthews-i9w
December 24, 2025 at 1:29 pm
Ooh, one more thing quick. I was in a band for a while in PHX and the bass player was a scholar on the city's more outre music scene. He played me a record by a band called Paris 1942 with Moe Tucker on drums, Alan and Richard Bishop who afterwards formed underground legends Sun City Girls, and someone I'm not familiar with on vox. It's fun – sounds like VU but with SCG's extra distorted guitar and loud bass. Anyone else know Sun City Girls or PHX music scene?
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