Chelsea Girl

I couldn’t do more than a couple songs, voice was annoying

Just because she was the velvet underground’s knocking stick doesn’t mean she can sing

The music started, and I thought, "This is really pretty." Then she started singing. She sings half an octave below her range, on purpose I assume, and she has no control of her voice. It sounds as if an emo teenager who didn't give two shits about singing was forced in front of a microphone. I hope the band is doing well.

So so so uninteresting

Horrible. Do not understand why this one is on the list

I thought her voice was interesting but odd and wondered how she got into singing ... found out on Wikipedia that she was a Nazi and racist, so didn't continue listening after that.

I like to think I have eclectic taste in music, but that doesn't include this album. Nico reminds me of Lili Von Shtupp in Blazing Saddles.

I cannot figure out the hype surrounding Nico. She cannot sing. The instrumentation on here was even bland. The best track on here was "These Days" which isn't even her song, the Jackson Browne version is much better.

no way

She cannot sing. She fucked a lot of artists so her numbers prob did well but gdamn I think a deaf person would shut this album off

Longest 46 minutes of my life. I would have to be at gunpoint to listen to this album again.

It baffles me that Nico had any sort of singing career but if you like lifeless droning, then this is the album for you.

Couldn't get through it, it sounds like it's for kids, or 40 year old women, I don't know

Honestly no idea how this album was ever recommended. Absolute snore fest. So slow, too stripped down and the singer's voice is garbage. Her vibrato sounds like she's holding back tears and her pitch is just slightly off which makes my skin crawl. Made it to the title track and had to shut it down.

There was 0 talent in the development of this album. Boring and pretentious and furthers my hypothesis that sometimes the originator of the 1001 list of albums threw a dart on a board to get him to the 1001 count. 2/10.

This could have been a good folk at album at certain points, but the low, flat singing was just not it at all. Some parts were just incredibly annoying to sit through

Forgetable.

Wow, elle a vraiment réussi à mettre 10 fois la même chanson dans un album. Pis une chanson plate en plus de ça

Uh I’m so sorry but this was diabolical :(

Yeh,nah.dreary not my cuppa.

This does nothing for me. Even as a fan of some Velvet Underground - I either don't have the context required for this or I'm right.

Seichtes denglisches Singer-Song-Writer Gedudel bis Geschrammel mit Flöte, Streicher, selten Gitarre.

I got to the flute then gave up

Wow. Why would anyone enjoy this album? It's a solo album by a singer who seems to be able to sing in only one single, constant tone and with extremely sparse, yet badly executed instrumentation. The strings and flut make for some of the most bland, tepid and shallow classical instrumentation I have ever heard. The rest of the instrumentation is worse, when it's present at all. The obvious German accent makes Nico's singing even more grating - as if it weren't droning, dragging and moany enough by itself. I understand that Nico herself did not think this is a good album. I absolutely agree with her. To be fair, there are worse-sounding albums on this list. Often that comes down to personal taste though. For this one, I can't hear any redeeming qualities whatsoever.

How tf does Nico have 2.4M monthly listeners on Spotify right now? Bizarre. This music reminds me of a Wes Anderson movie. It's got to be on one of his soundtracks. I want to love it because of the Velvet Underground and Nico. But her voice is so flat and boring. The music follows suit. 60s folk-rock... meh

Was geneigd om Nico het voordeel van de twijfel te gunnen, omdat ik het zo vet vind klinken in de Velvet Underground sound, maar zo is het eigenlijk gewoon echt niet te harden.

Leuk weetje is dat ze dus in Velvet Underground zat. Maar dat is het dan ook. Niet om aan te horen.

Ugh.... interessant hoe iemand blijkbaar gehyped kan worden via Lou Reed en Andy Warhol, en dat er dan ineens hordes mensen met dit gedrocht van een album gaan lopen dweepen. Het is gewoon ronduit vals en zo ontzettend saaaaaaai. En dat monotone Duitse accent....werkelijk abominabel.

Ga weg enge vrouw met je verschrikkelijke accent!

"I still cannot listen to it, because everything I wanted for that record, they took it away. 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! ... They added strings and – I didn't like them, but I could live with them. But the flute! The first time I heard the album, I cried and it was all because of the flute."

Nach dem 5. Song ausgemacht. It was not a pleasure at all. Wott a tärräbl äkksent auch.

Just awful singing, flat untuned garbage.

"These Days": Perfect Comedy Gold! Not my cup!

Looks European, like something you'd find in a pile of vinyl LPs in an op-shop. You know when you see the CDs/vinyl in a thrift store and it's clear someone's grandmother died and they "donated" all her old records rather than taking them to the dump? This cover is *exactly* that. Ok yes, European lol. I was expecting French for some reason, but I'll take German. Singing is rough, she kept holding these really bum notes - almost like someone picked them out on purpose just to highlight how bad her voice is. Music vaguely folky garbage that is only there to prop up the singing more often than not... which is fucking saying something. I gave yesterday's album a 1 and it was so much better than this. 1/5.

Good god save me and rip out her vocal cords and burn them.

trigger warning velvet underground association. jfc. Starts off deceptively sweet or nice but quickly dissolves into nothingness and then chaos and hey - who allowed Nico into the studio? simply rotten singer. Dreadful. Seems a pattern since that cretin Lou Reed was involved. "It Was A Pleasure Then" is definitely a bad joke played on anyone foolish enough to have purchased this. Burn your records. This one, at least. 1/10 1 star

She can't sing.

She really can't sing, and there's nothing interesting enough in the music or the lyrics that really atones for that, particularly given that it's quite a stripped back album with a lot of focus on the vocals. Actually unpleasant, it's another 1/5.

Why? Why would this album need to be on the list? I had listened to the Velvet Underground and Nico album a few years ago, and I remember liking it *despite* Nico's vocals. Now I have to listen to a album with *only* her vocals? Anything that the music has going for it, which isn't that much, is ruined by the flat, lifeless, emotionless vocals with a speech impediment (yes, I know it's just a German accent, but still). It reminded me a bit of the vocals from The Shaggs. Oh, and that song with all the annoying feedback, horrible. The Beatles she is not, but you can tell they influenced some of what is here, like the song that sounds like an Eleanor Rigby ripoff. I will say one good things about the album - the lyrics weren't too bad.

Did not like it at all. Not the voice, instrumentation, lyrics - nothing.

Couldn't finish it. Awful

I really hate her voice

Idk, I think this is awful.

Unlike others, I did not appreciate Nico with Velvet Underground. In fact, I thought she nearly ruined that album. On "Chelsea Girl," despite an all-star cadre of writers and musicians supporting, Nico's voice (along with the flute she never wanted) are free to ruin this whole thing. English is her second language, so maybe she should be cut a break? "These Days" is the only song that's even tolerable for me, and I think that's mainly due to my associating it with perfect placement in "The Royal Tenenbaums."

Nico’s collaboration with the Velvet Underground is fantastic. So I had high hopes for a Nico solo offering. This is the hippy, dippy version of improvisational jazz with Nico’s naked, underwhelming vocals on full display. If I had to think of the worst way to surround Nico in a musical setting, this is it. Her voice is bad when it’s isolated here. It is awesome with the Velvet Underground’s grittiness. The flute is horrible. Credit to Nico for not being on board with it. But still, the album is what it is…unlistenable.

Menudo tostón...(LNB) Tostonazo de señora(PSP)

Zero stars. Would not recommend. I imagine this is what life in Soviet East Germany sounded like. Track highlight: Eulogy to Lenny Bruce, because Fuck censorship.

nope

Did not really enjoy her voice. Some interesting arrangements with the guitar and other instruments. I think with a different singer it could have been much better. For a bunch of songs she sang with such a flat voice it was not pleasant at all.

Jarring and discordant, which I'm sure is the point but it did not gel with me. Vocals were a bit of a sour point as well

this was quite vague, not really my thing

At first I thought this was palatable, but at track 5 I realised that actually, it's not.

There is absolutely no rhyme or reason to to this shit, it's boring and monotonous. All I could think was shut the hell up - with her terrible voice, while the same repetitive guitar and flute play off beat for 45 minutes. "It Was A Pleasure Then" could be used in the third act of an A24 horror film as a character gets tortured. Reading the wiki, I found out she was probably a Nazi, so fuck you.

Rubbish lyrics, terrible vocals, horrible instrumentation, and no drums at all! The worst album I have ever listened to, and I never will again. Virtually a crime against humanity, and I can only assume that some reviewers (who liked it) have no ears, or taste, or were afraid to admit it should be nowhere near this list. 0 🌟

I get that this album came out in 1967 and she’s German. In a vacuum her singing is not good, and everything I liked - the composition and instruments - were done by the velvet underground. Just go listen to velvet underground 1

The only interesting sound is horrible screeching violin

Very mehh got bored after the second song

Bleh

Why ? She can't even sing

Noise

Ég hafði háar væntingar þegar ég opnaði þetta en svo drulluleiddist mér allan tímann.

Sounds like trash

Nope, don't like it. If someone else was singing might have got a 2 or 3. Not great even without Nico but with her, yikes. I don't know why this album got made and I sure don't understand why someone thought I needed to listen to it.

Aburrido para mí gusto

I’ve never heard of Nico and I’ve never heard a song by the Velvet Underground before, so I’m going in totally blind. Starts very nice, but the mixing is not great: the music often overwhelms her voice. Her voice isn’t great for listening to repeatedly, I think. It’s starting to grate on me a little. Songs and music are nice, though that seems to be due to Jackson Browne, who I really like as well. It might be due to her voice, but all the songs sound the same. It’s an okay album, sadly fairly forgettable. Having looked into her a little more, she was an anti-Semite. No reason to listen a single track by her. Fav Track: The Fairest of the Seasons 1/5

This could have been a great album, but it ends up a pretty embarrassing one. Let's face it: Nico couldn't sing. At all. So all what could have been a collection of beautiful songs with haunting arrangements is utterly ruined as soon as she begins to what obiously passed as singing back then. I gave up after the first half, but spot checked the second one. Same result. 1/5

I just don't get it. her voice gives me the heebie jeebies and always has

A bit dull to say the least.

I was never a fan of her work with the Velvet Underground. I always felt they’d have been better with a singer… I forgot she had this record. I would like to go to there again.

It’s tragic that I have 2 ears and subjected them to this album.

Not my thing. Very simple songs.

Si on met de côté le fait que Nico chante comme une casserole et que sa voix ressemble à un vomissement de morse, celle-ci n'a pas été très aidée par son producteur et compagnon Jim Morrisson (non crédité mais bel et bien aux manettes) qui a tout fait pour la pousser à bout. D'après plusieurs sources, alors que Nico avait réclamé pour ce projet des percussions et des guitares, Jim Morrisson fit semblant d'accepter la proposition pour finalement se faire livrer différents portails rouillés ainsi qu'un flûtiste totalement novice. Sa façon d'opérer était ensuite la suivante : il demandait à Nico de commencer son couplet en lui assurant que les percussions et les guitares allaient arriver d'un moment à l'autre, puis au bout de quelques secondes, faisait discrètement entrer dans le studio le flûtiste et les portails. Jim râpait alors ces derniers sur le sol et les murs dans un son d'une stridence des plus absolues et faisait signe au flûtiste de répéter chacun des phrasés de la chanteuse jusqu'à ce que des larmes apparaissent sur ses joues. Nico s'effondrait alors de désespoir devant une paire Jim-flûtiste au septième ciel, arborant chacun un sourire de satisfaction.

She was better with the Velvet Underground. Interesting voice but a bit of a dull album.

J'aime pas, m'a cassé les couilles sa voix.

Baroque folk/ chamber pop is a genre I normally quite like, but thanks to Nico's awful singing, this is frankly terrible. I don't understand why it is on the list. There are far better albums in this vein (Judy Collins' Wildflowers being one that springs to mind). I can only assume it's here due to Velvet Underground connections). I can imagine her vocals being used on a comedy German album, that might actually work!

What the actual fuck is going on here then? It has to be one of the worst records, I can only hope that everyone involved was completely off their heads when it was recorded. Wonder what they thought of it when the drugs wore off?

Apart from The Belle and Sebastian link, didn't enjoy this. She couldn't hold a key

Really hard to listen to this. "These Days" is good, but I had to listen to it like 20 times before I started to like it. Maybe the same thing would happen with the rest of them, but I'm not going to do that. "It Was A Pleasure Then" was a miserable experience that I wouldn't wish on anyone, and this album was not a pleasure.

Не мое

Rubbish lyrics, terrible vocals, horrible instrumentation, and no drums at all! The worst album I have ever listened to, and I never will again. Virtually a crime against humanity, and I can only assume that some reviewers (who likes it) have no ears, or taste, or were afraid to admit it should be nowhere near this list

Heel erg zagerig en klagerig. Ik kan normaal echt wel naar zo'n muziek luisteren, maar dit is me net iets te klagerig

Speciale stem, maar in combinatie met de muziek niet noodzakelijk aangenaam om naar te luisteren. Halverwege gestopt.

Those strings and that fucking flute!!!

I'll keep it with mine (written by dylan) and the eulogy to lenny bruce are the standouts, the first for the song the second for the content, however overall the album feels both too much of the same and inconsistent