Il 12 marzo 1967, 50 anni fa, veniva pubblicato l'album The Velvet Undeground & Nico. Una pietra miliare nella storia della musica. Questa serie di cache ne vuole celebrare l'anniversario.
Edizioni differenti
A causa della travagliata fase di produzione e di impaginazione grafica, l'album venne pubblicato in un gran numero di versioni differenti. Si calcola che, nei soli Stati Uniti, ne esistano circa 30 edizioni diverse: la versione originale, la versione con l'adesivo a coprire sul retro il viso di Eric Emerson, quella con la faccia cancellata e quella con una diversa foto sul retro di copertina. Inoltre copie mono e stereo di ognuna di queste versioni, LP con la banana realmente sbucciabile ed altre con solo il disegno della stessa.
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Fonte: "The Velvet Underground & Nico." Wikipedia, L'enciclopedia libera. 20 dic 2016, 14:49 UTC. 5 mar 2017, 21:23 <//it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Velvet_Underground_%26_Nico&oldid=84867131>.
10. THE BLACK ANGEL'S DEATH SONG
Sperimentazione sonora attraverso un massiccio uso del feedback e della viola distorta e lancinante di Cale. Il testo è un fluire di immagini onomatopeiche, nonsensi e associazioni verbali senza un particolare significato. Sulla canzone circola una celebre leggenda metropolitana confermata anche da Sterling Morrison, si dice che la sera stessa che i Velvet Underground suonarono la canzone per la prima volta in pubblico, furono licenziati in tronco dal proprietario del locale in cui si esibivano.
Fonte: cit.
The Black Angel's Death Song [...] è stata composta da Lou Reed e John Cale. Il testo sembra essere scritto dal punto di vista di un uomo o di un imprecisato "angelo nero" (The Black Angel), personificazione della morte stessa, che filosofeggia circa la vita e la morte in un fluire di immagini onomatopeiche, nonsensi e associazioni verbali senza un particolare significato.
Registrazione
Il brano venne registrato nell'aprile 1966 presso gli Scepter Studios di New York City, la musica è dominata dallo stridente suono della viola elettrica di John Cale, che crea forti dissonanze lungo tutta la composizione. Presenti anche forti feedback audio, dovuti principalmente ai sibili di Cale nel microfono.
Fonte: "The Black Angel's Death Song." Wikipedia, L'enciclopedia libera. 6 feb 2017, 16:18 UTC. 6 mar 2017, 21:02 <//it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Black_Angel%27s_Death_Song&oldid=85795826>.
On March 12, 1967 - 50 years ago - it was released the album The Velvet Undeground & Nico. A milestone in music history. This series of caches has been placed to celebrate the anniversary.
Reappraisal
It was not until a decade later that the album started to receive almost unanimous praise by numerous rock critics, many of whom made particular note of its influence in modern rock music. Christgau wrote in his 1977 retrospective review for The Village Voice that the record was difficult to understand in 1967, "which is probably why people are still learning from it. It sounds intermittently crude, thin, and pretentious at first, but it never stops getting better". In The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (1998), Colin Larkin called it a "powerful collection" that "introduced Reed's decidedly urban infatuations, a fascination for street culture and amorality bordering on voyeurism." In April 2003, Spin led their "Top Fifteen Most Influential Albums of All Time" list with the album. On November 12, 2000, NPR included it in their "NPR 100" series of "the most important American musical works of the 20th century". Rolling Stone placed it at number 13 on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time in November 2003, calling it the most prophetic rock album ever made.
In 1997, The Velvet Underground & Nico was named the 22nd greatest album of all time in a "Music of the Millennium" poll conducted in the United Kingdom by HMV Group, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In his 1995 book, The Alternative Music Almanac, Alan Cross placed the album in the number 1 spot on the list of "10 Classic Alternative Albums". In 2006, Q magazine readers voted it into 42nd place in the "2006 Q Magazine Readers' 100 Greatest Albums Ever" poll, while The Observer placed it at number 1 in a list of "50 Albums That Changed Music" in July of that year. Also in 2006, the album was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best albums of all time.
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Source: Wikipedia contributors. "The Velvet Underground & Nico." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 25 Feb. 2017. Web. 5 Mar. 2017.
10. THE BLACK ANGEL'S DEATH SONG
"The Black Angel's Death Song" [...] was written by Lou Reed and John Cale. In a footnote to the lyrics, Lou Reed wrote: "The idea here was to string words together for the sheer fun of their sound, not any particular meaning."
According to Cale, Sterling Morrison refused to play bass on the song because he disliked having to play it on "Venus in Furs", hence, Cale overdubbed the bassline while Morrison stuck to his usual guitar.
The song was an early favorite for the band. In late 1965 Al Aronowitz arranged for the Velvets to play at the Café Bizarre in Greenwich Village for a fortnight in December 1965; while there they played a "furious" version of "Black Angel's Death Song"; the manager ordered them not to play that song again, to which the band responded by playing it again "with a vengeance", and were sacked.
Recording
The song was recorded in April 1966 at Scepter Studios in Manhattan. The music is dominated by the piercing sound of John Cale's electric viola, creating dissonance throughout the song. Also throughout the song are loud bursts of audio feedback, primarily from Cale hissing into the microphone. Reed and Morrison's guitars in the song are downtuned a whole step (as is common with a handful of other songs on The Velvet Underground & Nico).
Source: Wikipedia contributors. "The Black Angel's Death Song." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 9 Feb. 2017. Web. 6 Mar. 2017.
THE CACHE
Coordinate finali:
Final coordinates:
N 46°11.XXX
E 009°23.YYY
Nel testo della canzone appare la parola:
In the lyrics does it appear the word:
Swan XXX=420
Horse XXX=449
Pig XXX=478
In quale istante viene pronunciata la parola "stone":
At what time of the track do you hear the word "stone":
tra/between 1'15" e/and 1'25" YYY=937
tra/between 1'55 e/and 2'05" YYY=965
tra/between 2'25" e/and 2'35" YYY=993
