#proto punk

[kulturegroupie]

[undergroundrockpress]

Lou Reed – Rock N Roll Animal, 1974. Photo by Dwayne Dalrymple.

[postpunkindustrial]

Martin Rev and Alan Vega of Suicide, photographed by Roberta Bayley for Punk Magazine, issue #17 May-June,1979.

[eroticlamb]

New York Dolls photographed by Bob Gruen, 1973 ★

[gloomysundayxx]

[balleralbumcovers]

EPIC ALBUM COVER #107

The Velvet Underground & Nico - self-titled

Released: 1967 (Verve)

Art rock, experimental rock

Bonus:

[instanttaneas-archivoenfoto]

Television, 1977

[music-is-my-life-man]

Lemmy 🤣

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[metalcultbrigade]

MC5 - Back in the USA. 15/01/1970

[blackros78]

Wayne Kramer - MC5

[undergroundrockpress]

The Pink Fairies play for free at the Isle of Wight Festival, 1969. Photo : David Hurn.

[postpunkindustrial]

Patti Smith with Lenny Kaye

Photo by Gus Stewart 1976

[eroticlamb]

New York Dolls on their way to perform at Academy of Music, New York City, February 15, 1974 ♡ Photographed by Bob Gruen

[bitter69uk]

“Make no mistake, my friends, for this record is dark, dark. Its dominant mood is Gothick: guttering candles sputtering black wax on cold stone floors as the sound of Nico’s harmonium drifts in from another room. It doesn’t have a beat, and you can’t dance to it.”

/ Rolling Stone magazine’s review of Desertshore /

“Nico isn't here to be pleasant, neither is she a ghoul: she's a presence which makes us conscious of our mortality and of our own uncertainty with it. It's both life-affirming and morbid at the same time, and it feels like you went on a wondrous hike along the Styx and have faced death after listening to the record.”

/ Sputnik Music review of Desertshore /

“The Nico-(John) Cale collaboration continued on Desertshore. Here the disjunctive imagery is set to slightly less gothic arrangements than before, proving Nico’s chanting (she doesn’t “sing” any more than she writes “songs”) can be as chilling a cappella as it is accompanied by a horror-movie soundtrack.”

/ From The Trouser Press Record Guide (1985) /

Light a black candle! Desertshore, the bleak masterpiece (described by Melody Maker as “a medieval ruin of a record” and by New Musical Express as “one of the most miserable records I’ve ever heard”) by the late, great heroin-ravaged German chanteuse Nico was released on this day (20 December 1970). Nico (née Christa Päffgen, 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), of course, was the Marlene Dietrich of punk, Edith Piaf of The Blank Generation, Warhol Superstar, Moon Goddess, Exiled Countess of Gloom and “possessor of the most haunting wraith cheekbones of the twentieth century”. I discovered her essential trilogy of records (Marble Index (1968), Desertshore (1970) and The End (1974)) as a maladjusted teen and it’s been the soundtrack to my life ever since! Pictured: Nico photographed in Amsterdam in 1975 by Gijsbert Hanekroot. Essential viewing: Nico singing "The Falconer" from Desertshore on British TV in 1971.

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