The End...
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| Studio album by Nico | ||||
| Released | 1974 | |||
| Recorded | 1973 at Sound Techniques in London, England | |||
| Genre | Experimental, art rock | |||
| Length | 42:02 | |||
| Label | Island | |||
| Producer | John Cale | |||
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The End... is the fourth studio album by Nico, released in November 1974. The album was her fifth collaboration with John Cale and third with him as producer. It carried the same harmonium-based sound heard on The Marble Index and Desertshore with the addition of Brian Eno's synthesizers and electronic instruments. The song "You Forget To Answer" tells of the misery felt when she failed to reach ex-lover Jim Morrison by phone only to find out later that he had died.
All but two of the songs on the album were written by Nico: there is a cover of The Doors' "The End" and a version of the German national anthem "Das Lied der Deutschen".
The End was Nico's only album on Island Records; despite strong reviews, like its predecessors, it was not a commercial success and Nico's partnership with Island ended. It was to be her last studio album until she found a deal with Aura to release Drama of Exile in 1981.
Nico had performed two songs from the album in concert several years prior to the album release: "Secret Side" had been performed at a John Peel session for the BBC on February 2, 1971, and she had also performed "You Forget to Answer" on TV in France and the Netherlands in early 1972.
The front and back covers feature stills from the Philippe Garrel film, Les hautes solitudes (1974), in which Nico appears.
The CD edition of the album cuts off the song 'You Forget To Answer' about ten seconds early. No explanation is given for this.
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Nico except where noted.
Side one
- "It Has Not Taken Long" – 4:12
- "Secret Side" – 4:08
- "You Forgot to Answer" – 5:08
- "Innocent and Vain" – 3:52
- "Valley of the Kings" – 3:57
Side two
- "We've Got the Gold" – 5:44
- "The End" – 9:37 (Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison)
- "Das Lied der Deutschen" – 5:29 (Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Joseph Haydn)
[edit] Personnel
- Nico – lead vocals, harmonium
- John Cale – bass guitar, xylophone, acoustic guitar, synthesizers, organ, marimba, triangles, cabaça, boobams, glockenspiel, percussion, piano, electric piano
- Phil Manzanera – electric guitar
- Brian Eno – synthesizers
- Vicki Wood – backing vocals
- Annagh Wood – backing vocals
- John Wood, Victor Gamm - engineers
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