The unedited version of Nico's session for `Disco 2' in honour of what would have been her 80th birthday on 16/10/18. `Janitor Of Lunacy', `The Falconer' and some cutaway shots of Nico pedalling the harmonium.
In 1995 while working on Channel 4 TV's The White Room I found some two inch masters of a few surviving outtakes of BBC 2's defunct and mainly wiped Disco 2: a whole then unseen episode too even surfaced featuring a band called L.A. 2 a dire re-incarnation of the Love Affair. But two short outtake or insert reels revealed the tapes you are watching here. I still have these two songs on VHS straight off the two inch with outtakes of Nico's feet playing the Harmonium peddles at the tail of the Falconer.
This performance is an absolute piece of art and showcases Nico at her most brilliant, beautiful and darkly poetic. Can you believe "Desertshore" will turn 50 in November? It still sounds as avant-garde and anachronistic as ever. A true timeless Masterpiece.
My heart is empty but the songs I sing are filled with love for YOU. Nico is the Godmother of all things Goth. Her influence is INESCAPABLE. And yet a true original, that no one who dared follow- can even touch.. -Doghead
Nico - everlasting bliss that bewitches every time... Flawlessly delivered. As well as being the Ultimate femme fatale moon goddess and queen of the bad girls, fluent in 5/6languages, muse, Warhol superstar, and coolest rock and roll lover to many artists, her music stands toe to toe with all of them but possesses an ageless genius and crafted mastery. Her poetry, diction and avant- grade style harmonium work and The Faction are still to this day miles ahead. She is simply the perfect person to meet in a forest.
Her two Immediate singles are great. When was young, I first heard of Nico & VU thru R.E.M. Dead Letter Office covers. When I heard the original of Femme Fatal I was so turned off!!! Years later I returned with an opened mind. I enjoyed the listen with more mature ears.
The Marble Index, Desertshore and The End had such an impact of what was to become Postpunk and Goth. Nico, the Godmother, together with the Prince Of Darkness, John Cale as her producer and arranger would take Avantgarde to a completely new level.
"Disco 2", Eh ?... I can't really imagine Nico doing a cover of Gloria Gaynors I will survive, but if she had, it would have been haunting and etherial.
Listening to the End now, bought the album when I was 17, a very long time ago, expecting something like the Velvet Underground. Right. Still cannot play the triptych in one sitting.
Nico's look is so hardcore for the time. I wonder if the Costume Designer or even Stephen King thought of Nico when deciding on Piper Laurie's look in the film 'Carrie'?
@@somebraveapollo8211 do we know for sure????I’ve also read quite a few spoken rumours about her bigotry and anti-semitism,but not sure if they stand true.!
@@fugeefugee That is true.Her hair is naturally brown but that was the time when she dyed her hair from blond (60s time with the Velvet Underground &Andy Warhol) to red (early 70s), because she didn't want to be beautiful anymore.Nico said that she was unhappy when she was beautiful.
@@danielaschwarz1971 Early 1970s when she was in a relationship with junkie film director Philippe Garrel. She had managed to avoid the drug during her Velvet Underground / Warhol phase in New York. She had actually managed to quit it shortly before her death, through treatment with methadone.
@@chriswareham1547 I think she began her relationship with Garrell around 1969. She contributed the second song from this set to their first film together. I'm guessing she was a user around this time because it never takes two years for a heroin addiction to develop.
I wonder if she ever watched at that time the film 'More'....I suppose or I hope she didn't, because who can be so desperate or so unconscious to fall into heroin after watching that film?...it is so sad, so desperate...Love her work so much and that heroin thing is so disheartening...I wish she had lived and created more music....it would be amazing music, for sure...
She started using recreationally in the late 60s, 68 or 69. I can’t remember when The Marble Index was recorded, but I read an article where John Cale said she either used while she was writing the songs and/or during the recordings. So pretty much, once she changed her image it wasn’t long after that she began using. She had previous history with drug use when she was a model, but it was normalized for models to take prescribed amphetamines to keep them thin. No judgements on her addiction though, she went through some shitty stuff.
I don't seek out 'difficult' or outsider/cult music. Her real records after that awful Lou Reed's idea of Nico, Chelsea Girls, just spoke to me, felt strangely familiar.
A JANITOR OF LUNACY and TYRANNY never is there to "bring hope to them and me" nor to e l e v a t e a goddess to a status of i m m o r t a l i t y...these kind of janitors are completely incompetent and useless when it comes to label immortals and/or put them in some kind of category box (or looney bin or jail. )
