who gives a shit, nico was a known racist and fascist, who once yelled "I hate blacks" and attacked jimmy hendricks black backup singer with a broken glass cutting her eye. That same night she left america and her career with velvet underground ended. Lots of info about her racism online in rolling stone articles and other publications.
@@realplonk that’s totally irrelevant to her clear mountain of talent. Bowie had sex with teenage groupies but he is still he greatest pop artist ever.
i think i can pretty much say that _the marble index_ changed my life. digging into the lyrical content was the beginning of a great adventure, and i had never heard feelings like these before. thank you for posting the individual songs!
I think she was at her peak with this album. Although i like chelsea girls they were not her own songs. The Marble Index comes from a very deep and painfull and dreamy place and it comes out in her songs. Poor Christa ..............a shame she did not find the happyness she so deserved in her life . one can hope she has found it now.
Friar hermit stumbles over The cloudy borderline Frozen warnings close to mine Close to the frozen borderline Frozen warnings close to mine Close to the frozen borderline Into numberless reflections Rises a smile from your eyes into mine Frozen warnings close to mine Close to the frozen borderline Frozen warnings close to mine Close to the frozen borderline Over railroad station tracks Faintly flickers a modest cry From without a thousand cycles A thousand cycles to come A thousand times to win A thousand ways to run the world In a similar reply Friar hermit stumbles over The cloudy borderline Frozen warnings close to mine Close to the frozen borderline Frozen warnings close to mine Close to the frozen borderline Close to the frozen borderline Close to the frozen borderline Close to the frozen borderline
One of those albums that is perfect all the way thru. One of my top ten albums of all times! Another is Roxy Music's first album. Totally different but perfect!
@rsoul2011 I'm honoured to receive your message under my heroin, Nico's spiritual voice and image. Thank you too for leading me back to this song. Also let me tell you that David Courtney is one of the most original musicians I've ever met. Keep musical.
I spent three months on a little island off Galway Bay called Mutton Island coming off alcohol and barbiturates. I listened to The Marble Index and the other side of the tape was The Man Who Sold The World. I took acid every night. For some reason this didn't help me, I went to the Hebrides and listened to the screaming wind for a winter, then sat in silence for another six months. That didn't cure me. Then met a woman who dragged me into the sea and tried to drown me. So far, so good..
A lot of Northern European and German Folk Singers sound similar to Nico or Björk. They both have a lot of unique ideas in there but nothing there is really that far out of left field.
The heretical hymns of my people, teutonic truth sayers, Sightline frequency of heart ache, the deepest well depths of a haunted being. The frozen borderline of existence, the terror one is catapulted into when born, falling in love, when so severely dope sick it forces you to spike the veins in your neck just to release into the moment.... riding the bells ringing, ringing bells...
To those who say that Nico can't sing ,where are your songs then ? Do you listen to Madonna and Britney a lot ? So sorry that you don't quite get it , I think it's your loss ,but please Don't criticize .
@@esquilaxjohnson singers maybe ? it's all so subjective and I am no expert and don't want to put you or any of those singers down . It's just ,this kinda music is so far removed from all that pop bubblegum muck , They Are World's Apart ,World's Apart .
I feel like Nico aswell as probably Lou Reed and John Cale would have really liked Black Metal. I know thats probably nerdy pr whatever but i do see the ways this inspired Post Punk too. Really forward thinning stuff musically. Big influence on Punk and Metal. I can see Neofolk and Anarcho Punk and maybe like some indie even here in that too. Both Nico and The Velvet Underground. I feel the same way about The Spiffys and Love.
I 'll take 1 minute of "wild side" over her whole catalogue. "and the colored girls say 'dit da dit'" that's poetry on the real tip on top of real music. "frossen boarderrloines" . Boring pretentious lyrical crap, not well sung. lifted out it's original state of musical vapidity by creative production.
Heroin unlocked a massive gate in Nico, if not it at very least catalyzed opportunity for access right in front of the fates. Power in prayer is as close a comparison as I can contend with her verse and lyric. Shes is in deity communication, translation, the ancient source of her northern European lineage. All symbols recognized, and beautifully presented...
Rosa Fiammante As was clearly written above I said that heroin unlocked a door to Nico’s creativity,(and many millions of other Artists Creativity!!) there’s a difference in these two separate yet simultaneously influenced events. I never said heroin was responsible to Nicos brilliance as an Artist and Musician. You made that claim! all on your own, thats what you believe its your narrative not mine. Also, to answer your question, No!! i’ll support all artists freedom to use whatever drug they dam well choose and I’ll write about it or whatever else I please.
@Ham Food: Song Meaning "Frozen Warnings" embraces the 'cloudy borderline' of her repeated dreams with an ominous image of Lubbenau, (Over railroad station tracks / faintly flickers a modest cry,' quote taken from Nico: Life and Lies of an Icon. I believe these dreams were inspired by the sights Nico saw in her youth. She lived near a railroad track and was apparantly fascinated by trains and would watch them pass her by. She once said that she saw Jews smiling on the trains as she passed them by, unaware of their fate and I believe that is what the song is about. - Found it here -songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858508127/ - as a comment by someone awesome called JJKELSALL - songmeanings.com/profiles/view/17514643/ -
Nothing captures heroin or opiate withdrawal except ones own experience of it. Its Living life within a Pain Amplifier and every sense you have ever felt becomes a signal for suffering. Your blood itches, your eyes feel as if they’re burning, you feel burning sweaty hot...seconds later(minutes feels like hours)you’re freezing and cant get comfortable. Opiate Withdrawal was actually quite creatively used as a technique for getting POW’s to tell government secrets. Takes 3-4 days of constant supply of opiates to create opiate dependence. Horror.
Ha! Nico was around in the early-mid sixties so you got it all twisted. This is visionary! Patti is just hippie ramblings done in the equivalent style of a female Tom Verlaine. Patti so pleasant and harping on about Mapplethorpe who was oblivious to the fact that he was transferring HIV recklessly killing a number of so called “lovers.” Ha! What a sadistic and Venice creature. All that breast f*g material. Oooooo…how shocking! His best work was with his his still lifes and flowers. No point for being a reckless carrier. But, Patti so pleasant…. Ha!!
One of the most haunting songs ever written by Nico and recorded by the genius of John Cale
Great sewing - every album John cale touched was pure gold. He is an actual genius!
The whole Goth movement started with Queen Nico
and her crazy harmonium!
John Cale's musical genius once more at display. This guy over the past five decades has always been creative and inventive, unlike anybody else.
who gives a shit, nico was a known racist and fascist, who once yelled "I hate blacks" and attacked jimmy hendricks black backup singer with a broken glass cutting her eye. That same night she left america and her career with velvet underground ended. Lots of info about her racism online in rolling stone articles and other publications.
@@realplonk AWESOME
@@realplonk Even if that's true, it doesn't mean her music has any less artistic merit or can't be praised
Everything John cale touched was pure gold
@@realplonk that’s totally irrelevant to her clear mountain of talent. Bowie had sex with teenage groupies but he is still he greatest pop artist ever.
beauty doesn`t come more beautiful than this.
I LOVE this song. Sounds like it could have been made today, totally timeless
The Marble Index is one of the greatest albums ever!
It's more than 50 years old by today, and yes, still unmatched excellence and vision even now☆☆☆
@@bretfoley424yes
i think i can pretty much say that _the marble index_ changed my life. digging into the lyrical content was the beginning of a great adventure, and i had never heard feelings like these before. thank you for posting the individual songs!
I think she was at her peak with this album. Although i like chelsea girls they were not her own songs. The Marble Index comes from a very deep and painfull and dreamy place and it comes out in her songs. Poor Christa ..............a shame she did not find the happyness she so deserved in her life . one can hope she has found it now.
NICO ICON -she was not looking for the same things you might be - she looked beyond herself to a bigger cosmos
Friar hermit stumbles over
The cloudy borderline
Frozen warnings close to mine
Close to the frozen borderline
Frozen warnings close to mine
Close to the frozen borderline
Into numberless reflections
Rises a smile from your eyes into mine
Frozen warnings close to mine
Close to the frozen borderline
Frozen warnings close to mine
Close to the frozen borderline
Over railroad station tracks
Faintly flickers a modest cry
From without a thousand cycles
A thousand cycles to come
A thousand times to win
A thousand ways to run the world
In a similar reply
Friar hermit stumbles over
The cloudy borderline
Frozen warnings close to mine
Close to the frozen borderline
Frozen warnings close to mine
Close to the frozen borderline
Close to the frozen borderline
Close to the frozen borderline
Close to the frozen borderline
there is a magic inside like the great important books of Hermann Hesse
Nico's song and John Cale's cover is just outstanding I love both of them :)
A friend of mine has Borderline personality disorder. She's like this song: beautiful, but filled with tragic.
I find this song incredible!
One of those albums that is perfect all the way thru. One of my top ten albums of all times! Another is Roxy Music's first album. Totally different but perfect!
Beautiful 😎
Does the sound of the harmonium here remind anyone else of the organ's sound in The Who's Baba O'Riley?
i think thats electric viola overdubs you're hearing with some sort of tremelo
Yeah, John Cale's viola drones here. The Who's Baba O'Riley is a tribute to Terry Riley, with whom John Cale collaborated on the Church Of Anthrax lp.
A really epic one! One of her best releases which I know.
You don't need to wear black to be a Goth
Sublime..
@rsoul2011
I'm honoured to receive your message under my heroin, Nico's spiritual voice and image.
Thank you too for leading me back to this song.
Also let me tell you that David Courtney is one of the most original musicians I've ever met.
Keep musical.
Beautiful!
Nico's really great
Masterpiece
I spent three months on a little island off Galway Bay called Mutton Island coming off alcohol and barbiturates. I listened to The Marble Index and the other side of the tape was The Man Who Sold The World. I took acid every night. For some reason this didn't help me, I went to the Hebrides and listened to the screaming wind for a winter, then sat in silence for another six months. That didn't cure me. Then met a woman who dragged me into the sea and tried to drown me. So far, so good..
sounds like material for a song
Sounds more like a warning on how not to be a young idiot and get yourself into an utter mess
Beau et effrayant à la fois
Where do you think Bjork learned her craft.
A lot of Northern European and German Folk Singers sound similar to Nico or Björk. They both have a lot of unique ideas in there but nothing there is really that far out of left field.
The heretical hymns of my people, teutonic truth sayers, Sightline frequency of heart ache, the deepest well depths of a haunted being. The frozen borderline of existence, the terror one is catapulted into when born, falling in love, when so severely dope sick it forces you to spike the veins in your neck just to release into the moment.... riding the bells ringing, ringing bells...
To those who say that Nico can't sing ,where are your songs then ? Do you listen to Madonna and Britney a lot ? So sorry that you don't quite get it , I think it's your loss ,but please Don't criticize .
Nico Madonna and Britney are all great singers and in that order.
@@esquilaxjohnson singers maybe ? it's all so subjective and I am no expert and don't want to put you or any of those singers down . It's just ,this kinda music is so far removed from all that pop bubblegum muck , They Are World's Apart ,World's Apart .
Haunting as it gets.
DIY bedroom cover - soundcloud.com/canonanon/frozen-warnings
There is an interesting article in the German FAZfrom today. 9/11/23 about this song
I luv Siouxsie but I'll die listening to Nico
certainly amoungst her many greatest.
Jim Morrison
Lou Reed called her tone deaf!? He was not worthy to be in her presence. She was in a class all her own. Who can you compare her to?!
christopher galvin She was deaf in the left ear. That's all that was said.
projection.
blah blah blah bark bark check your urban legend facts . down boy.
Oh poor poo poo Lou. He just wasn’t as pretty and in touch with the nuances that are offered in this gem of aural achievement. Oh Lou…
Icy coolness.
I feel like Nico aswell as probably Lou Reed and John Cale would have really liked Black Metal. I know thats probably nerdy pr whatever but i do see the ways this inspired Post Punk too. Really forward thinning stuff musically. Big influence on Punk and Metal. I can see Neofolk and Anarcho Punk and maybe like some indie even here in that too. Both Nico and The Velvet Underground. I feel the same way about The Spiffys and Love.
Such a good fuckin song
So much more interesting than the velvets last 2 albums, and most of lou reeds career for that matter...
I 'll take 1 minute of "wild side" over her whole catalogue. "and the colored girls say
'dit da dit'" that's poetry on the real tip on top of real music. "frossen boarderrloines" . Boring pretentious lyrical crap, not well sung. lifted out it's original state of musical vapidity by creative production.
Kleinequietboy Kleinequietboy If this is pretentious, metal machine music is definitely pretentious.
Goddess..again
Karma brought me here.
lol
My heart is ice right now. I refuse to allow love in me
Ooooops.
I love her I love her
Heroin unlocked a massive gate in Nico, if not it at very least catalyzed opportunity for access right in front of the fates. Power in prayer is as close a comparison as I can contend with her verse and lyric. Shes is in deity communication, translation, the ancient source of her northern European lineage. All symbols recognized, and beautifully presented...
Please stop praising heroin for the accomplishments of the person.
Rosa Fiammante As was clearly written above I said that heroin unlocked a door to Nico’s creativity,(and many millions of other Artists Creativity!!) there’s a difference in these two separate yet simultaneously influenced events. I never said heroin was responsible to Nicos brilliance as an Artist and Musician. You made that claim! all on your own, thats what you believe its your narrative not mine. Also, to answer your question, No!! i’ll support all artists freedom to use whatever drug they dam well choose and I’ll write about it or whatever else I please.
this album is pre heroin for her i believe
busy strange is a clown
My Teutonic Goddess
nico songs you never hear on the radio
@893thewaytobe Thanks. Where?
@heavybreizhad les deux adjectifs les plus répandus pour Nico
thank u nico bb
obvious association i guess...
This song really captures what heroin withdrawal is like; I imagine she wrote it out of said difficulty.
Didn't know that!
@Ham Food:
Song Meaning
"Frozen Warnings" embraces the 'cloudy borderline' of her repeated dreams with an ominous image of Lubbenau, (Over railroad station tracks / faintly flickers a modest cry,' quote taken from Nico: Life and Lies of an Icon.
I believe these dreams were inspired by the sights Nico saw in her youth. She lived near a railroad track and was apparantly fascinated by trains and would watch them pass her by. She once said that she saw Jews smiling on the trains as she passed them by, unaware of their fate and I believe that is what the song is about.
- Found it here -songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858508127/ -
as a comment by someone awesome called JJKELSALL
- songmeanings.com/profiles/view/17514643/ -
Nothing captures heroin or opiate withdrawal except ones own experience of it. Its Living life within a Pain Amplifier and every sense you have ever felt becomes a signal for suffering. Your blood itches, your eyes feel as if they’re burning, you feel burning sweaty hot...seconds later(minutes feels like hours)you’re freezing and cant get comfortable. Opiate Withdrawal was actually quite creatively used as a technique for getting POW’s to tell government secrets. Takes 3-4 days of constant supply of opiates to create opiate dependence. Horror.
This album is from the late 60s, Nico wasn't an addict until the 70s
on my channel.
N I C O : I C O N
Patti Smith look-a-like...check out The High Priestess of Rock's book Babel : a tidal wave of dreams , hallucinations + ecstasy
Nico arrived first. She was the original.
Ha! Nico was around in the early-mid sixties so you got it all twisted. This is visionary! Patti is just hippie ramblings done in the equivalent style of a female Tom Verlaine. Patti so pleasant and harping on about Mapplethorpe who was oblivious to the fact that he was transferring HIV recklessly killing a number of so called “lovers.” Ha! What a sadistic and Venice creature. All that breast f*g material. Oooooo…how shocking! His best work was with his his still lifes and flowers. No point for being a reckless carrier. But, Patti so pleasant…. Ha!!
I'm pretty sure she meant her drug addiction nothing more romantic nothing more sad
too much 4 me man
Ok man…! Put on “ Born in the USA” and stay in your generic bubble you peasant!
it's Cale's musical arrangements that really make this genius
I view it as a collaboration. Nico's stark lyrics and Cale's haunting arrangements. They did their best work together (IMHO).
I love this song. John Cale's singing version is something extraordinary as well.
Yes, the album is really a Nico/Cale collaboration, both great artists.
Nico’s harmonium and Cale’s viola together is the sound of paradise
True but also the melody is pure Nico’s
you are so right about both those things
Masterpiece
Masterpiece