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The End

Nico

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Along with Big Star's Third/Sister Lovers, Neil Young's On The Beach, and Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue, Nico's The End is an album that surrenders to darkness with some of the most beautifully desolate human deterioration ever recorded. Released in 1974, Nico's fourth album found her collaborating with John Cale again. Like her two preceding albums Desertshore and The Marble Index, Cale gave her haunting dirges a natural inborn feel with rich old acoustic tones, undulating harmonium drones, dramatic piano touches, and spare cello notes. This time Brian Eno was brought in to contrast Cale's organic production with cold synthesizer sounds that helped haunted songs like "You Forgot To Answer" sound more ghostly and spectral — quite appropriate since her lyrics are about not being able to reach Jim Morrison by phone only to later learn that her Lizard King lover had died (hence the bleak cover/title track). The brooding "Innocent And Vain" is bookended with Eno's synths distorting and howling to sound like mass destruction and her rendition of the German national anthem "Das Lied Der Deutschen" is wonderfully disturbing.

Customer Reviews

The Title Cut!

The Title Cut! The best dollar you'll ever spend. Even if you don't know it right away, it's more frightening than any great horror movie. Once you've entered this hollow world of addiction, you'll wonder how she lived as many years as she did. (I should hesitate using the word 'lived'.) After you've traveled her ~10 minute dark pathetique, you'll feel the morbid compulsion to fork-over the other 7 dollars, and explore Hades further. Don't underestimate the power of a recording studio, the shell of a woman, and her needles. A near-death experiment gone horribly left of sanity.

Nico the Goddess

You really have to love and appreciate Nico, especially Marble Index or later, to love this album. Which I do. Vocals, while not "classically" beautiful, has it's own gorgeous and painful tonality. Definately do not listen to this while in the tub, or you may feel the need to drop your docking station, or nearest electrical appliance in with you. But enjoy Nico for what she is, the tragic female archetype that men and women can embrace, if only during the rougher patches we all inevitably go through.

Haunting

Shut the lights and enjoy the voice and the music on this one. It's classic heroin music at it's best

Biography

Born: October 16, 1938 in Cologne, Germany

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s

One of the most fascinating figures of rock's fringes, Nico hobnobbed, worked, and was romantically linked with an incredible assortment of the most legendary entertainers of the '60s. The paradox of her career was that she herself never attained the fame of her peers, pursuing a distinctly individualistic and uncompromising musical career that was uncommercial, but wholly admirable and influential. Nico first rose to fame as a European supermodel, also landing a bit part in Fellini's La Dolce Vita...
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