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The Album Cover is equally famous: a huge banana, designed by Creator/AndyWarhol. On the original record cover the yellow skin could be peeled off. This was later nodded to in the title of their box set ''Peel Slowly and See'', which featured the same artwork and peelable skin.
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The Album Cover is equally famous: a huge banana, designed by Creator/AndyWarhol. On the original record cover the yellow skin could be peeled off. This was later nodded to in the title of their box set ''Peel Slowly and See'', which featured the same artwork and peelable peel-able skin.
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* CreepyMonotone: Nico's voice.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The Velvet Underground's debut album featured songs about sado-masochism, drugs and sounds that most listeners would call gratuitous noise. Back in 1967, there weren't many rock groups like them.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The Velvet Underground's debut album featured songs about sado-masochism, drugs and sounds that most listeners would call gratuitous noise. Back in 1967, there weren't many rock groups like them.
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* CreepyMonotone: Nico's voice.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The Velvet Underground's debut album featured songs aboutsado-masochism, sadomasochism, drugs and sounds that most listeners would call gratuitous noise. Back in 1967, there weren't many rock groups like them.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The Velvet Underground's debut album featured songs about
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* DrugsAreBad: "Run Run Run", "Heroin" and "I'm Waiting For The Man", though [[MisaimedFandom not all listeners got the message]]. Music/LouReed was horrified whenever fans told him that they took their first shot of heroin while listening to "Heroin".
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* DrugsAreBad: "Run Run Run", "Heroin" and "I'm Waiting For The Man", though [[MisaimedFandom not all listeners got the message]]. Music/LouReed was horrified whenever fans told him that they took their first shot of heroin while listening to "Heroin".
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* HemoErotic: The sado masochistic song "Venus in Furs" closes with Lou Reed droning: "Now bleeeeeeed for me!"
* LarynxDissonance: That female voice you hear in "Sunday Morning"? Well, it's not a woman, it's just Lou Reed putting on an incredibly convincing female voice! Many listeners have been fooled into thinking it's Nico, though if you compare it to her other tracks on the album you immediately notice the difference.
* LarynxDissonance: That female voice you hear in "Sunday Morning"? Well, it's not a woman, it's just Lou Reed putting on an incredibly convincing female voice! Many listeners have been fooled into thinking it's Nico, though if you compare it to her other tracks on the album you immediately notice the difference.
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* HemoErotic: The sado masochistic song "Venus in Furs" closes with Lou Reed droning: "Now bleeeeeeed for me!"
me!"
* LarynxDissonance: That female voice you hear in "Sunday Morning"? Well, it's not a woman, it's just Lou Reed putting on an incredibly convincing female voice! Many listeners have been fooled into thinking it's Nico, though if you compare it to her other tracks on the album you immediately notice the difference.
* LarynxDissonance: That female voice you hear in "Sunday Morning"? Well, it's not a woman, it's just Lou Reed putting on an incredibly convincing female voice! Many listeners have been fooled into thinking it's Nico, though if you compare it to her other tracks on the album you immediately notice the difference.
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* CoverVersion: Most of the songs have been covered by other artists.
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* CoverVersion: Most of the songs have been covered by other artists.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The Velvet Underground's debut album featured songs about sado-masochism, drugs and sounds that most listeners would call gratuitous noise. Back in 1967, there weren't many rock groups like them.
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* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover was designed by Creator/AndyWarhol and his artists at the ''Factory''. On the original LP the banana could be peeled too.
* DroneOfDread: A staple of several songs, especially "European Son" near the end.
* DroneOfDread: A staple of several songs, especially "European Son" near the end.
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* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover was designed by Creator/AndyWarhol and his artists at the ''Factory''. On the original LP the banana could be peeled too.
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* DroneOfDread: A staple of several songs, especially "European Son" near the end.
* DroneOfDread: A staple of several songs, especially "European Son" near the end.
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* EroticEating: The risqué lyrics make it tempting to interpret the banana on the cover as a phallic image. It doesn't help that anyone who manages to "PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE" would see that the banana is a fleshy pink colour.
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* EroticEating: The risqué lyrics make it tempting to interpret the banana on the cover as a phallic image. It doesn't help that anyone who manages to "PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE" would see that the banana is a fleshy pink colour.color.
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* MinimalisticCoverArt: A banana.
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* NothingLeftToDoButDie: What the Black Angel of Death seems to advise in "The Black Angel's Death Song".
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** Or generally, all the songs where Nico sings the lead.
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* RecordProducer: Creator/AndyWarhol. Although credited as producer, his influence primarily seems to have been just to pay for the recording, the actual production work was done by Tom Wilson and the band themselves. Lou Reed acknowledged that Andy's pedigree allowed them to get away with a lot for their debut that might've otherwise been lost in executive meddling.
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* RecordProducer: Creator/AndyWarhol. Although credited as producer, his influence primarily seems to have been just to pay for the recording, the actual production work was done by Tom Wilson and the band themselves. Lou Reed acknowledged that Andy's pedigree allowed them to get away with a lot for their debut that might've otherwise been lost in executive meddling.{{executive meddling}}.
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** "Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me)" from Music/{{dEUS}} album ''Music/WorstCaseScenario'' (1994) is a title shout-out to "Heroin (Be The Death Of me)".
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** "Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me)" from Music/{{dEUS}} album ''Music/WorstCaseScenario'' (1994) is a title shout-out to "Heroin (Be The Death Of me)".Me)".
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* ShoutOut: "Venus in Furs" is a reference to the eponymous novel ''Literature/VenusInFurs'' by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** "Venus in Furs" is a reference to the eponymous novel ''Literature/VenusInFurs'' by Leopold vonSacher-Masoch.Sacher-Masoch.
** "Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me)" from Music/{{dEUS}} album ''Music/WorstCaseScenario'' (1994) is a title shout-out to "Heroin (Be The Death Of me)".
** "Venus in Furs" is a reference to the eponymous novel ''Literature/VenusInFurs'' by Leopold von
** "Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me)" from Music/{{dEUS}} album ''Music/WorstCaseScenario'' (1994) is a title shout-out to "Heroin (Be The Death Of me)".
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* GenreRoulette: Gregorian Chants ("All Tomorrow's Parties"), Eastern drones ("Venus In Furs", "Heroin"), lullabies ("Sunday Morning"), pop ballads ("Femme Fatale", "I'll Be Your Mirror"), free jazz ("European Son"), Motown ("There She Goes Again"), your basic Rock 'n Roll ("I'm Waiting For The Man", "Run Run Run") and an avant-garde flamenco tune ("Black Angel's Death Song").
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* GenreRoulette: Gregorian Chants ("All Tomorrow's Parties"), Eastern drones ("Venus In Furs", "Heroin"), lullabies ("Sunday Morning"), pop ballads ("Femme Fatale", "I'll Be Your Mirror"), free jazz ("European Son"), Motown ("There She Goes Again"), your basic Rock 'n Roll ("I'm Waiting For The Man", "Run Run Run") and an avant-garde flamenco tune ("Black Angel's Death Song").
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--> ''She's a femme fatale)''
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--> ''She's ''(She's a femme fatale)''
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* AlliterativeTitle: "'''F'''emme '''F'''atale".
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* AlliterativeTitle: "'''F'''emme '''F'''atale".'''F'''atale", "'''R'''un '''R'''un '''R'''un".
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* TheBigRottenApple: "I'm Waiting for the Man" and "Run Run Run".
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* TheBigRottenApple: "I'm Waiting for the Man" and "Run Run Run".Run", both show a not so pretty sight of New York's night life.
--> ''Sunday morning, praise the dawning''
--> ''It's just a restless feeling by my side''
--> ''Early dawning''
--> ''Sunday morning''
--> ''It's just a restless feeling by my side''
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* DeathSeeker: The narrator of "Heroin" and the one in "The Black Angel Death Song".
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* DeathSeeker: The narrator of "Heroin" "Heroin (Be The Death Of Me)" and the one in "The Black Angel Death Song".
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* DroneOfDread: A staple of several songs.
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* DroneOfDread: A staple of several songs. songs, especially "European Son" near the end.
--> ''Cause everybody knows''
--> ''She's a femme fatale)''
--> ''She's a femme fatale)''
* NewSoundAlbum: Both instrumentally and lyrically this album was quite unique when it came out: experimental rock; songs about heroin, male prostitution and sado-masochistic sex; weird instruments like the viola and to top it all off: Nico's bizarre CreepyMonotone singing.
* OneManSong: "European Son".
* PepTalkSong: "I'll Be Your Mirror", where Nico offers to be "your mirror", "your eyes" and "your hand in the darkness, so you won't be afraid."
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--> ''I find it hard to believe you don't know''
--> ''The beauty that you are''
--> ''But if you don't, let me be your eyes''
--> ''A hand in your darkness, so you won't be afraid''
--> ''The beauty that you are''
--> ''But if you don't, let me be your eyes''
--> ''A hand in your darkness, so you won't be afraid''
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* HellIsThatNoise: The loud hissing from "The Black Angel's Death Song" is rather startling when you first hear it.
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* HellIsThatNoise: The loud hissing from "The Black Angel's Death Song" is rather startling when you first hear it.it, especially since it's higher in the mix than the other instruments.
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* AlliterativeTitle: "'''F'''emme '''F'''atale".
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-->"Watch out the world's behind you/ there's always someone around you who will call".
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* LecherousLicking: "Kiss the boot / of shiny, shiny leather" in "Venus in Furs".
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* LecherousLicking: "Kiss "Venus in Furs".
--> ''Kiss the boot / of shiny, shinyleather" in "Venus in Furs".leather''
--> ''Kiss the boot / of shiny, shiny
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle / FilkSong: "Venus In Furs" is based on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novella of the same title.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle / FilkSong: "Venus In Furs" is based on [[Literature/VenusInFurs Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novella of the same title.title]].
* NonAppearingTitle: Seeing this is a SelfTitledAlbum the title never appears in any of the lyrics.
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* RipVanWinkle: The lines "I'm tired/I'm weary/I could sleep for a thousand years/a thousand dreams that would awake me" in "Venus in Furs".
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* RipVanWinkle: The lines "I'm tired/I'm weary/I "Venus In Furs"
--> ''I'm tired/ I'm weary''
--> ''I could sleep for a thousandyears/a years''
--> ''A thousand dreams that would awakeme" in "Venus in Furs". me''
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--> ''I could sleep for a thousand
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* [[AlbumCoverDesigners Album Cover Designer]]: Creator/AndyWarhol.
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* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover was designed by Creator/AndyWarhol and his artists at the ''Factory''. On the original LP the banana could be peeled too.
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'''''The Velvet Underground & Nico''''' is the debut studio album by Music/VelvetUnderground and Music/{{Nico}}, released in 1967. It is one of the most influential rock albums of all time. Together with Music/FrankZappa's ''Freak Out!'' (1966) it's often considered to be the first underground rock album. Also a CultClassic, since it didn't sell well upon its original release, but did become one of the best known rock albums in history.
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'''''The Velvet Underground & Nico''''' is the debut studio album by Music/VelvetUnderground and Music/{{Nico}}, released in 1967. It is one of the most influential rock albums of all time. Together with Music/FrankZappa's ''Freak Out!'' ''Music/FreakOut'' (1966) it's often considered to be the first underground rock album. Also a CultClassic, since it didn't sell well upon its original release, but did become one of the best known rock albums in history.
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[[caption-width-right:280:''[[Music/VelvetUnderground The Velvet Underground]] & Music/{{Nico}}''.]]
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The Music/VelvetUnderground's debut album, released in 1967, and one of the most influential rock albums of all time. Together with Music/FrankZappa's ''Freak Out!'' (1966) it's often considered to be the first underground rock album. Also a CultClassic, since it didn't sell well upon its original release, but did become one of the best known rock albums in history.
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!! Tracklist:
# "Sunday Morning"
# "I'm Waiting For The Man"
# "Femme Fatale"
# "Venus In Furs"
# "Run Run Run"
# "All Tomorrow's Parties"
# "Heroin"
# "There She Goes Again"
# "I'll Be Your Mirror"
# "The Black Angel's Death Song"
# "European Son"
----
!!Principal Members:
* Music/JohnCale - viola, piano, bass, vocals, celesta
* Sterling Morrison - guitar, bass, vocals
* Music/{{Nico}} - lead vocals
* Music/LouReed - lead vocals, guitar
* Maureen Tucker - drums, percussion
----
# "Sunday Morning"
# "I'm Waiting For The Man"
# "Femme Fatale"
# "Venus In Furs"
# "Run Run Run"
# "All Tomorrow's Parties"
# "Heroin"
# "There She Goes Again"
# "I'll Be Your Mirror"
# "The Black Angel's Death Song"
# "European Son"
----
!!Principal Members:
* Music/JohnCale - viola, piano, bass, vocals, celesta
* Sterling Morrison - guitar, bass, vocals
* Music/{{Nico}} - lead vocals
* Music/LouReed - lead vocals, guitar
* Maureen Tucker - drums, percussion
----
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* {{Dedication}}: "European Son", to the writer Delmore Schwartz, who had been one of Lou Reed's college professors. (Reed's solo song "My House" memorialized Schwartz.)
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* {{Dedication}}: "European Son", to the writer Delmore Schwartz, who had been one of Lou Reed's college professors. (Reed's solo song "My House" memorialized memorialised Schwartz.)
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* EroticEating: The risqué lyrics make it tempting to interpret the banana on the cover as a phallic image. It doesn't help that anyone who manages to "PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE" would see that the banana is a fleshy pink color.
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* EroticEating: The risqué lyrics make it tempting to interpret the banana on the cover as a phallic image. It doesn't help that anyone who manages to "PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE" would see that the banana is a fleshy pink color.colour.
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->'''NICO''': "When you think the night has seen your mind\\
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->'''NICO''': "When "''When you think the night has seen your mind\\
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--'''The Velvet Underground''', "''I'll Be Your Mirror''"
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--'''The Velvet Underground''', "''I'll "I'll Be Your Mirror''"
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* BeingWatched: ''"Sunday Morning":
-->"Watch out the world's behind you/ there's always someone around you who will call"''.
* TheBigRottenApple: ''"I'm Waiting for the Man"'' and ''"Run Run Run"''.
-->"Watch out the world's behind you/ there's always someone around you who will call"''.
* TheBigRottenApple: ''"I'm Waiting for the Man"'' and ''"Run Run Run"''.
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* BeingWatched: ''"Sunday "Sunday Morning":
-->"Watch out the world's behind you/ there's always someone around you who willcall"''.call".
* TheBigRottenApple:''"I'm "I'm Waiting for the Man"'' Man" and ''"Run "Run Run Run"''.Run".
-->"Watch out the world's behind you/ there's always someone around you who will
* TheBigRottenApple:
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* {{Corpsing}}: Music/LouReed can be heard cracking up on the last verse of ''"Heroin"''.
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* {{Corpsing}}: Music/LouReed can be heard cracking up on the last verse of ''"Heroin"''."Heroin".
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* DaysOfTheWeekSong: ''"Sunday Morning"''.
* {{Dedication}}: ''"European Son"'', to the writer Delmore Schwartz, who had been one of Lou Reed's college professors. (Reed's solo song ''"My House"'' memorialized Schwartz.)
* DeathSeeker: The narrator of ''"Heroin"'' and the one in ''"The Black Angel Death Song"''.
* {{Dedication}}: ''"European Son"'', to the writer Delmore Schwartz, who had been one of Lou Reed's college professors. (Reed's solo song ''"My House"'' memorialized Schwartz.)
* DeathSeeker: The narrator of ''"Heroin"'' and the one in ''"The Black Angel Death Song"''.
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* DaysOfTheWeekSong: ''"Sunday Morning"''.
"Sunday Morning".
* {{Dedication}}:''"European Son"'', "European Son", to the writer Delmore Schwartz, who had been one of Lou Reed's college professors. (Reed's solo song ''"My House"'' "My House" memorialized Schwartz.)
* DeathSeeker: The narrator of''"Heroin"'' "Heroin" and the one in ''"The "The Black Angel Death Song"''.Song".
* {{Dedication}}:
* DeathSeeker: The narrator of
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* DrugsAreBad: ''"Run Run Run", "Heroin"'' and ''"I'm Waiting For The Man"'', though [[MisaimedFandom not all listeners got the message]]. Music/LouReed was horrified whenever fans told him that they took their first shot of heroin while listening to ''"Heroin"''.
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* DrugsAreBad: ''"Run "Run Run Run", "Heroin"'' "Heroin" and ''"I'm "I'm Waiting For The Man"'', Man", though [[MisaimedFandom not all listeners got the message]]. Music/LouReed was horrified whenever fans told him that they took their first shot of heroin while listening to ''"Heroin"''."Heroin".
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* EverythingIsAnInstrument: That ungodly noise that kicks off the instrumental portion of ''"European Son"'' is Music/JohnCale pushing a metal chair with a stack of plates on it across the studio.
* FemmeFatale: ''"Femme Fatale"''.
* FemmeFatale: ''"Femme Fatale"''.
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* EverythingIsAnInstrument: That ungodly noise that kicks off the instrumental portion of ''"European Son"'' "European Son" is Music/JohnCale pushing a metal chair with a stack of plates on it across the studio.
* FemmeFatale:''"Femme Fatale"''."Femme Fatale".
* FemmeFatale:
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* GenreRoulette: Gregorian Chants (''"All Tomorrow's Parties"''), Eastern drones (''"Venus In Furs", "Heroin"''), lullabies (''"Sunday Morning"''), pop ballads (''"Femme Fatale", "I'll Be Your Mirror"''), free jazz (''"European Son"''), Motown (''"There She Goes Again"''), your basic Rock 'n Roll (''"I'm Waiting For The Man", "Run Run Run"'') and an avant-garde flamenco tune (''"Black Angel's Death Song"'').
* HemoErotic: The sado masochistic song ''"Venus in Furs"'' closes with Lou Reed droning: ''"Now bleeeeeeed for me!"''
* LarynxDissonance: That female voice you hear in ''"Sunday Morning"''? Well, it's not a woman, it's just Lou Reed putting on an incredibly convincing female voice! Many listeners have been fooled into thinking it's Nico, though if you compare it to her other tracks on the album you immediately notice the difference.
* LecherousLicking: ''"Kiss the boot / of shiny, shiny leather"'' in ''"Venus in Furs"''.
* HemoErotic: The sado masochistic song ''"Venus in Furs"'' closes with Lou Reed droning: ''"Now bleeeeeeed for me!"''
* LarynxDissonance: That female voice you hear in ''"Sunday Morning"''? Well, it's not a woman, it's just Lou Reed putting on an incredibly convincing female voice! Many listeners have been fooled into thinking it's Nico, though if you compare it to her other tracks on the album you immediately notice the difference.
* LecherousLicking: ''"Kiss the boot / of shiny, shiny leather"'' in ''"Venus in Furs"''.
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* GenreRoulette: Gregorian Chants (''"All ("All Tomorrow's Parties"''), Parties"), Eastern drones (''"Venus ("Venus In Furs", "Heroin"''), "Heroin"), lullabies (''"Sunday Morning"''), ("Sunday Morning"), pop ballads (''"Femme ("Femme Fatale", "I'll Be Your Mirror"''), Mirror"), free jazz (''"European Son"''), ("European Son"), Motown (''"There ("There She Goes Again"''), Again"), your basic Rock 'n Roll (''"I'm ("I'm Waiting For The Man", "Run Run Run"'') Run") and an avant-garde flamenco tune (''"Black ("Black Angel's Death Song"'').Song").
* HemoErotic: The sado masochistic song''"Venus "Venus in Furs"'' Furs" closes with Lou Reed droning: ''"Now "Now bleeeeeeed for me!"''
me!"
* LarynxDissonance: That female voice you hear in''"Sunday Morning"''? "Sunday Morning"? Well, it's not a woman, it's just Lou Reed putting on an incredibly convincing female voice! Many listeners have been fooled into thinking it's Nico, though if you compare it to her other tracks on the album you immediately notice the difference.
* LecherousLicking:''"Kiss "Kiss the boot / of shiny, shiny leather"'' leather" in ''"Venus "Venus in Furs"''.Furs".
* HemoErotic: The sado masochistic song
* LarynxDissonance: That female voice you hear in
* LecherousLicking:
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle / FilkSong: ''"Venus In Furs"'' is based on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novella of the same title.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle / FilkSong: ''"Venus "Venus In Furs"'' Furs" is based on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novella of the same title.
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* NoiseRock: ''"European Son"'' is the prototype.
* NothingLeftToDoButDie: What the Black Angel of Death seems to advise in ''"The Black Angel's Death Song"''.
* TheNotRemix: Several times over - for instance, the first CD issue had an alternate mix of ''"All Tomorrow's Parties"'', and with all the various remasters, re-releases and luxury editions the album has seen, you can pretty much be a collector of this one album.
* ObligatoryBondageSong: ''"Venus In Furs"''. Potentially the originator of this trope, as they were one of the first bands to write and record songs of this nature.
* OneWomanSong: ''"Femme Fatale"''.
* NothingLeftToDoButDie: What the Black Angel of Death seems to advise in ''"The Black Angel's Death Song"''.
* TheNotRemix: Several times over - for instance, the first CD issue had an alternate mix of ''"All Tomorrow's Parties"'', and with all the various remasters, re-releases and luxury editions the album has seen, you can pretty much be a collector of this one album.
* ObligatoryBondageSong: ''"Venus In Furs"''. Potentially the originator of this trope, as they were one of the first bands to write and record songs of this nature.
* OneWomanSong: ''"Femme Fatale"''.
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* NoiseRock: ''"European Son"'' "European Son" is the prototype.
* NothingLeftToDoButDie: What the Black Angel of Death seems to advise in''"The "The Black Angel's Death Song"''.Song".
* TheNotRemix: Several times over - for instance, the first CD issue had an alternate mix of''"All "All Tomorrow's Parties"'', Parties", and with all the various remasters, re-releases and luxury editions the album has seen, you can pretty much be a collector of this one album.
* ObligatoryBondageSong:''"Venus "Venus In Furs"''.Furs". Potentially the originator of this trope, as they were one of the first bands to write and record songs of this nature.
* OneWomanSong:''"Femme Fatale"''."Femme Fatale".
* NothingLeftToDoButDie: What the Black Angel of Death seems to advise in
* TheNotRemix: Several times over - for instance, the first CD issue had an alternate mix of
* ObligatoryBondageSong:
* OneWomanSong:
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* PostRock: ''"Heroin"'' is often said to be the song that started this trend off.
* RipVanWinkle: The lines ''"I'm tired/I'm weary/I could sleep for a thousand years/a thousand dreams that would awake me"'' in ''"Venus in Furs"''.
* RipVanWinkle: The lines ''"I'm tired/I'm weary/I could sleep for a thousand years/a thousand dreams that would awake me"'' in ''"Venus in Furs"''.
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* PostRock: ''"Heroin"'' "Heroin" is often said to be the song that started this trend off.
* RipVanWinkle: The lines''"I'm "I'm tired/I'm weary/I could sleep for a thousand years/a thousand dreams that would awake me"'' me" in ''"Venus "Venus in Furs"''.Furs".
* RipVanWinkle: The lines
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* SingleStanzaSong: ''"European Son"''.
* TheSomethingSong: ''"Black Angel's Death Song"''.
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: ''"I'll Be Your Mirror"'', which sounds really innocent between those other songs about sex and drugs.
* UnusualEuphemism: Warhol called Nico a ''"chanteuse"'' when he introduced her to the Velvet Underground so that the band wouldn't have the impression he was actually adding a new front singer to the group.
* WordSaladLyrics: ''"Black Angel's Death Song"'', deliberately by Reed.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: ''"I'll Be Your Mirror"''.
* TheSomethingSong: ''"Black Angel's Death Song"''.
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: ''"I'll Be Your Mirror"'', which sounds really innocent between those other songs about sex and drugs.
* UnusualEuphemism: Warhol called Nico a ''"chanteuse"'' when he introduced her to the Velvet Underground so that the band wouldn't have the impression he was actually adding a new front singer to the group.
* WordSaladLyrics: ''"Black Angel's Death Song"'', deliberately by Reed.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: ''"I'll Be Your Mirror"''.
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* SingleStanzaSong: ''"European Son"''.
"European Son".
* TheSomethingSong:''"Black "Black Angel's Death Song"''.
Song".
* SurprisinglyGentleSong:''"I'll "I'll Be Your Mirror"'', Mirror", which sounds really innocent between those other songs about sex and drugs.
* UnusualEuphemism: Warhol called Nico a''"chanteuse"'' "chanteuse" when he introduced her to the Velvet Underground so that the band wouldn't have the impression he was actually adding a new front singer to the group.
* WordSaladLyrics:''"Black "Black Angel's Death Song"'', Song", deliberately by Reed.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre:''"I'll "I'll Be Your Mirror"''.Mirror".
* TheSomethingSong:
* SurprisinglyGentleSong:
* UnusualEuphemism: Warhol called Nico a
* WordSaladLyrics:
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre:
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* [[AlbumCoverDesigners Album Cover Designer]]: Creator/AndyWarhol.
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!!! "And what trope shall the poor girl wear to all tomorrow's parties?":
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* {{Corpsing}}: Lou Reed can be heard cracking up on the last verse of ''"Heroin"''.
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* {{Corpsing}}: Lou Reed Music/LouReed can be heard cracking up on the last verse of ''"Heroin"''.
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* LarynxDissonance: That female voice you hear in ''"Sunday Morning"''? Well, it's not a woman, it's just Lou Reed putting on an incredibly convincing female voice! Many listeners have been fooled thinking it's Nico, though if you compare it to her other tracks on the album you immediately notice the difference.
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* LarynxDissonance: That female voice you hear in ''"Sunday Morning"''? Well, it's not a woman, it's just Lou Reed putting on an incredibly convincing female voice! Many listeners have been fooled into thinking it's Nico, though if you compare it to her other tracks on the album you immediately notice the difference.
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* ObligatoryBondageSong: ''"Venus In Furs"''.
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* ObligatoryBondageSong: ''"Venus In Furs"''. Potentially the originator of this trope, as they were one of the first bands to write and record songs of this nature.
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* LarynxDissonance: That female voice you here in ''"Sunday Morning"''? Well, it's not a woman, it's just Lou Reed putting on an incredibly convincing female voice! Many listeners have been fooled thinking it's Nico, though if you compare it to her other tracks on the album you immediately notice the difference.
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* LarynxDissonance: That female voice you here hear in ''"Sunday Morning"''? Well, it's not a woman, it's just Lou Reed putting on an incredibly convincing female voice! Many listeners have been fooled thinking it's Nico, though if you compare it to her other tracks on the album you immediately notice the difference.
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* BeingWatched: ''"Sunday Morning": "Watch out the world's behind you/ there's always someone around you who will call"''.
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* BeingWatched: ''"Sunday Morning": "Watch Morning":
-->"Watch out the world's behind you/ there's always someone around you who will call"''.
-->"Watch out the world's behind you/ there's always someone around you who will call"''.
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* EverythingIsAnInstrument: That [[HellIsThatNoise ungodly noise]] that kicks off the instrumental portion of ''"European Son"'' is Music/JohnCale pushing a metal chair with a stack of plates on it across the studio.
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* EverythingIsAnInstrument: That [[HellIsThatNoise ungodly noise]] noise that kicks off the instrumental portion of ''"European Son"'' is Music/JohnCale pushing a metal chair with a stack of plates on it across the studio.
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* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: The title of the album deliberately separating Nico from the rest of the band could come off as this, although it's technically accurate as she wasn't actually a member of the band.
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* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: The title of the album deliberately separating Nico from the rest of the band could come off as this, although it's technically accurate as she wasn't actually a member of the band.
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* SelfTitledAlbum: Just the name of the band.
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* SelfTitledAlbum: Just the name of the band.band and their guest.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatNoise: ''"European Son"''.
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The Album Cover is equally famous: a huge banana, designed by Creator/AndyWarhol. On the original record cover the yellow skin could be peeled off. This was later nodded to in the title of their box set ''Peel Slowly and See''.
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The Album Cover is equally famous: a huge banana, designed by Creator/AndyWarhol. On the original record cover the yellow skin could be peeled off. This was later nodded to in the title of their box set ''Peel Slowly and See''.
See'', which featured the same artwork and peelable skin.
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* LecherousLicking: ''"Kiss the boot... of shiny, shiny leather"'' in ''"Venus in Furs"''.
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* LecherousLicking: ''"Kiss the boot... boot / of shiny, shiny leather"'' in ''"Venus in Furs"''.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: Lou Reed was inspired to write ''"All Tomorrow's Parties"'' by watching Andy Warhol and the people at Warhol's Factory.
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* GainaxEnding: The album ends with a mad free jazz section.
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* EroticEating: The risqué lyrics make it tempting to interpret the banana on the cover as a phallic image.
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* EroticEating: The risqué lyrics make it tempting to interpret the banana on the cover as a phallic image. It doesn't help that anyone who manages to "PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE" would see that the banana is a fleshy pink color.
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That inside your twisted and unkind\\
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That inside your you're twisted and unkind\\
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* TheChanteuse: How Warhol named Nico to avoid the band from thinking that he was actually adding a female front singer to the group. (Which he, in a sense, did.)
