The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (Half-Speed Master) (LP)

Dead serious. If your were to ask who the best band or musician was of the 1960s, people will usually fall into either Beatles or Rolling Stones camps. The thing is both the Beatles and Stones largely served as the terminus of a movement rather than the beginning of one. Honestly, how many bands wouldn't exist if not for those bands? ... There are entire genres of music that simply do not exist without the Velvet Underground. In combination with the MC5, they led directly to glam and punk, which then led to new wave and goth, to alternative and its various off shoots. The only people comparable would be James Brown, who birthed funk and ultimately hip hop into the world, and Jimi Hendrix who along with Cream resulted heavy metal.

Considering what came out them, the half speed master show how surprisingly mellow and subdued and crisp their sound can between bouts of harsh experimentalism. *purchased from another seller

Dead serious. If your were to ask who the best band or musician was of the 1960s, people will usually fall into either Beatles or Rolling Stones camps. The thing is both the Beatles and Stones largely served as the terminus of a movement rather than the beginning of one. Honestly, how many bands wouldn't exist if not for those bands? ... There are entire genres of music that simply do not exist without the Velvet Underground. In combination with the MC5, they led directly to glam and punk, which then led to new wave and goth, to alternative and its various off shoots. The only people comparable would be James Brown, who birthed funk and ultimately hip hop into the world, and Jimi Hendrix who along with Cream resulted heavy metal.

Considering what came out them, the half speed master show how surprisingly mellow and subdued and crisp their sound can between bouts of harsh experimentalism. *purchased from another seller