Here's something that's pretty weird, and I'm curious if anyone has feedback on it. This really surprised me. I knew Nico recorded that song on her first solo album, 's "Chelsea Girls.
So this would have been a really nice find, except that while the bootleg recording had decent sound, Nico's vocals were so low in the mix as to be nearly inaudible.
No doubt that's why it hasn't appeared on any of the VU's archival releases, because hearing faint vocals is much worse than no vocals at all. But then I had a crazy idea: what if I took Nico's vocals from her performance of that song on "Chelsea Girls" and add them to the recording?
There was a big problem with this, in that VU performed the song totally differently. On the "Chelsea Girls" album, Nico does a folky version of the song, with strings and flutes as pretty much the only musical backing. But the live VU version, while lacking drums, has a slow but driving rock and roll rhythmic guitar backing. It's a really unusual version of the song in general, and some of the chord structure had to be changed to get the rhythmic pattern to work.
Plus, there were differences in pitch and tempo. It turned out the two versions were in totally different keys,and I had to try to sync them up. I also had to try to isolate just the vocals from the "Chelsea Girls" version, and I'm very inexperienced in doing that.
Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Search uDiscover Music. Angel N January 12, at pm. Luther January 12, at pm. Michael Levine January 12, at pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. A tale of loss and regret, of experiences past and never had, yet remaining undefined throughout that makes it universally relatable. By all accounts, Nico herself had very little creative control of the recording process for Chelsea Girl.
Producer Tom Wilson was responsible for a great many of the string and flute arrangements that adorned many of the tracks, something that Nico herself had no knowledge of at the time and which were added after her vocal contributions had been finished.
I asked for drums, they said no. I asked for more guitars, they said no. And I asked for simplicity, and they covered it in flutes! But the flute! The first time I heard the album, I cried and it was all because of the flute. Nico also had to put up with a fair amount of professional ridicule and belittlement around this time. She was deaf in one ear, which caused her to occasionally veer off-key while singing live. The more research one does into the recording process, the more it reads as a case of female creative input being casually sidelined or worse, and determined by a male-dominated process — something that seems difficult to imagine fifty years later in , or at least in such a routine and egregious manner.
Commercially speaking, it barely registered.
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