Thanks to a new feature of iPhoto, I can now share my high resolution album art easily with the rest of the world. Photocasting allows me to share my entire library via RSS feed. And if you are lucky enough to be on a Mac, you can subscribe to my photocast, and view my album just as if it were yours, updated in real-time.
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After purchasing The Velvet Underground & Nico on eBay, I decided to add another “white” album to my famed, framed collection. This time around, it’s Love’s “Forever Changes” (1967). With another in my sites, you may see part III in the very near future.
Judged by music critics as one of the best albums of the sixties; Rolling Stone calls it “one of the most distinctive masterpieces in that era of masterpieces.”
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Normally I don’t buy LPs (long-play vinyl records for you kiddies), but I did pick one up on eBay a couple days ago. I paid $321.89. That price is certainly not just for the music, although it does have some good tunes, but for the artwork contained on the album.
The album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, was released in March 1967 on Verve records. Rumor says it took more than ten years for this album to sell into the six figures in total units. To say it wasn’t the success sought is an understatement. But decades later, many people look back and see an influential project in experimental rock and punk.
The Velvet Underground was little known during its lifetime; now, more than thirty years after the band collapsed, it has a world-wide following, but the band’s music still tends to divide listeners. You either get it or you don’t. For those who DO get it, this recording, with its Andy Warhol-designed “Peel Slowly and See” cover, is a must-have.
– Gary F. Taylor, Amazon.com review
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