Wednesday, June 12, 2019

The 1985 Listening Post - Nico - Camera Obscura

Nico - Camera Obscura


#226/877
June
Nico
Camera Obscura
Genre: Experimental
1.75 out of 5


The worst thing that ever happened to The Velvet Underground was that they were heralded as more than a really excellent late 60s changing of the tides band. 
It gave us a decade + of crappy music by Lou Reed and this horrid offering from Nico and John Cale. 
Oh, man. That “My Funny Valentine” cover…was it a joke? Was she trying to sound like a parody of Marlene Dietrich? Because Madeline Kahn got there way first.
We already have a Tom Waits, a Laurie Anderson, a Yoko Ono and a Nina Hagen. We don’t need a shitty version of all four.  
This is unattractive music, poorly sung and gratingly dull.


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