Nico - Chelsea Girl

On her 1967 debut album Chelsea Girl, Nico's unmistakable voice sings the songs of Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, and Jackson Browne. Chelsea Girl helps define her as a mercurial aura and a manifold, complicated artist.

The album can rightly be seen and heard as the Velvet Underground’s sophomore effort, seeing as it includes the participation of everyone except Mo Tucker (there are no drums on the album). She may have varied the recipe a bit on each subsequent album, but the end result pretty much follows the blueprint laid down on this essential masterpiece.

Heavyweight vinyl produced by Verve Records in 2017. Remastered from the original analog tapes.