Nico: Difference between revisions

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* [[Creepy Monotone]]

* [[Darker and Edgier]] – ''The Marble Index'' is a hell of a shift from ''Chelsea Girl''.

* [[Doing It for ~~The~~ Art]] – Despite her talent as a singer-songwriter/musician, Nico was deaf in one ear.

* [[Doing It for the Art]] – Despite her talent as a singer-songwriter/musician, Nico was deaf in one ear.

* [[Dream Team]]/[[Hey, It's That Guy!]] - Nico was good at getting help from talented musicians on her albums. For starters, her first single "I'm Not Sayin'"/"The Last Mile" was produced and had guitar by [[Led Zeppelin|Jimmy Page]]. ''Chelsea Girls'' features her old VU mates Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison along with [[Jackson Browne]]. ''The Marble Index'' and ''Desertshore'' had instrumentation entirely by Nico and Cale, ''The End'' kept Cale and added [[Roxy Music]] alumni [[Brian Eno]] and Phil Manzanera, ''Drama of Exile'' featured [[Ian Dury and The Blockheads]] saxophonist Davey Payne and [[David Bowie]]'s keyboardist Andy Clark.

* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Her first single, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgdZFnZ6M0k&feature=related "I'm Not Saying"]/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5lGAeLEkkw "The Last Mile"], is an unusually sunny affair compared to the Gothic gloom of her later works.

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* [[Harmony]] - From ''The Marble Index'' onwards, Nico wrote and recorded her songs on an Indian harmonium, which is tuned to an entirely different scale than the Western instruments that make up the rest of the music. The effect can be...

* [[Kids Rock]] - "Le Petit Chevalier" from ''Desertshore'' is a 1 minute tune of Nico playing the harpsichord and her son Ari singing a few lines.

* [[Lighter and Softer]] - The more [[~~New Wave (Music)|~~New Wave]] influenced ''Drama of Exile'' coming right after the HONF-concentrated ''The End...''

* [[Lighter and Softer]] - The more [[New Wave]] influenced ''Drama of Exile'' coming right after the HONF-concentrated ''The End...''

* [[Magnum Opus]] – ''Chelsea Girl'', although ''The Marble Index'' was probably her most influential album.

* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]] – Throughout Nico’s career, she has touched [[Baroque Pop]], proto-goth, [[Synth Pop]], folk, classical, rock, experimental, and [[~~New Wave (Music)|~~New Wave]].

* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]] – Throughout Nico’s career, she has touched [[Baroque Pop]], proto-goth, [[Synth Pop]], folk, classical, rock, experimental, and [[New Wave]].

* [[New Sound Album]] – All of them!

* [[One-Scene Wonder]] - Her work on ''The Velvet Underground & Nico'': vocals on "Femme Fatale", "All Tomorrow's Parties" and "I'll Be Your Mirror". She was supposed to sing "Sunday Morning" as well but Lou Reed decided to take over at the last minute; you can still hear her backing vocals in the last minute of the track if you turn up the volume and pay attention.

* [[Perishing Alt Rock Voice]] - Yeah, she and pretty much everybody else in VU. Except maybe Mo Tucker.

* [[The Rashomon]] - Try to get a straight story of why there are two versions of ''Drama of Exile''. [[The Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:Drama of Exile|has more details]].

* [[Revival By Commercialization]] - "These Days" after it was in [[The Royal Tenenbaums]]. The K-Mart commercial didn't hurt either. [[Jackson Browne]], the song's writer and guitarist, had to re-learn it before he could start playing it live again when people started requesting to hear it.

* [[Revival by Commercialization]] - "These Days" after it was in [[The Royal Tenenbaums]]. The K-Mart commercial didn't hurt either. [[Jackson Browne]], the song's writer and guitarist, had to re-learn it before he could start playing it live again when people started requesting to hear it.

* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]] - It's "You Forg''e''t To Answer", not "You Forg''o''t To Answer".

* [[Stage Names]] - Christa Päffgen was named "Nico" by Herbert Tobias, after his ex-boyfriend Nico Papatakis.