Nico: Marble Index (Deluxe Edition)

Elvis Plebsley · Post by **Elvis Plebsley** » 30 Jan 2007 14:41

lostblues wrote:I was always wondering why there's no anniversary edition of "Chelsea Girls".

Yeah, I'd love to hear a version with the orchestration and the flute stripped away, but if I remember correctly, the masters have been lost

iaredatsun · Post by **iaredatsun** » 23 Feb 2007 00:32

Review of the Frozen Borderline CD in this month's (March) copy of The Wire. By Ian Penman and with nice (60's?) photograph of Nico.

Temporary copy of image:

MJG196 · Post by **MJG196** » 10 Mar 2007 23:27

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BlueTyson · Post by **BlueTyson** » 15 Mar 2007 13:05

astonishing nico photo here

http://smironne.free.fr/NICO/marb.php

iaredatsun · Post by **iaredatsun** » 17 Mar 2007 09:50

Full page Nico article by music journalist Simon Reynolds in yesterday's Guardian.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic ... 04,00.html

Evolution One · Post by **Evolution One** » 21 Mar 2007 22:03

Just got hold of these CDs. Really enjoying them and some of the added tracks are really worth hearing!!

I'm not so keen on the format of the package though. I'd much rather of had the two albums released separately as double CD sets. The first disc on each set would contain the original album and the second disc would contain the bonus cuts.

iaredatsun · Post by **iaredatsun** » 22 Mar 2007 01:26

Agreed. The Marble Index is one of those perfect LPs that shouldn't be tampered with.

Also the repackaging messes with the original artwork in one of those tiresome ways that says 'you are holding a CD re-presentation of a classic LP in your hands because you wont get the original without some extra added value and some modern graphic and textual sign-posting to make the whole experience seem more relevent and desirable to a popular contemporary audience'. I think an original LP or CD cover becomes an integral part of the music but maybe I'm just being old-fashioned in a world of mp3 music increasingly divorced from any original context.

I know it's all for commercial reasons but compare this approach with the very good Stooges re-issues.

The remastering seems to be good but I would also recommend a copy of the original LP.