Chelsea Girl
by Nico

Album
Chelsea Girl by Nico
Year: 1967
Release date: 1967-10-00
Overall rank: 626th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 504 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1967 (18th)
Award Top 100 albums of of the 1960s (72nd)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (626th)

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Chelsea Girl is ranked as the best album by Nico.

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- This album (626th)
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Chelsea Girl track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Track pick (870 - 127 votes)
The Fairest Of The Seasons
Average Rating: 87 (127 votes)Comments: View 0
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These Days
Average Rating: 89 (158 votes)Comments: View 2
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Little Sister
Average Rating: 80 (97 votes)Comments: View 0
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Winter Song
Average Rating: 80 (93 votes)Comments: View 0
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It Was A Pleasure Then
Average Rating: 77 (89 votes)Comments: View 0
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Track pick (870 - 121 votes)
Chelsea Girls
Average Rating: 87 (121 votes)Comments: View 1
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I'll Keep It With Mine
Average Rating: 83 (99 votes)Comments: View 0
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Somewhere There's A Feather
Average Rating: 80 (90 votes)Comments: View 0
9.
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
Average Rating: 78 (92 votes)Comments: View 0
10.
Eulogy To Lenny Bruce
Average Rating: 78 (83 votes)Comments: View 0

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Chelsea Girl rankings

Chelsea Girl rankings summary
Overall rank: 626th | 1960s rank: 72nd | 1967 rank: 18th  Overall chart history
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 !		4 days ago Siromynian  Ratings distribution  1,70876/100
 
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 !		08/02/2026 21:42 Milhaud  Ratings distribution  2,16171/100
 
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 !		07/18/2026 19:52 xhitmanx  Ratings distribution  1,60475/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 76.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.4.


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Chelsea Girl forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 3 days ago in Chart of the day (#5451): By ffudnebbuh
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by ffudnebbuh () 1. by (1967) 2. by (1975) 3. by (1972) 5. by (1956) 6. by (1968) 7. (1981) 8. by by (1991) 10. by (2010) 11. by (2009) 12. (1977) 13. by (2015) 14. by (1989) 15. by (1964) 16. by (1998) 17. by (1973) 18. by (1963) 19. by (1977)…”
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“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by ) 1. by (1979) 3. by (1977) 4. by (1975) 5. by by (1971) 7. (1969) 8. (1978) 9. by (1979) 10. by (1978) 11. by (1978) 12. by (1977) 13. by (1979) 14. (1979) 16. by (1969) 18. by by by (1978) 21. by (1969) 22. by by (1977) 24. by (1969) 25.…”
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From BestEverAlbums 11/07/2024 21:00 in Album of the day (#5072): Chelsea Girl by Nico
“Today's album of the day Chelsea Girl by Nico ( | ) Year: 1967. Country: Overall rank: 617 Average rating: 77/100 (from 487 votes). Tracks: 1. The Fairest Of The Seasons 2. These Days 3. Little Sister 4. Winter Song 5. It Was A Pleasure Then 6. Chelsea Girls 7. I'll Keep It With Mine 8. Somewhere…”
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From 09/08/2011 20:32 | #27242 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Not bad, huh? The musos and scenesters may well opt for The Marble Index, and Nico may have later disowned it, but Chelsea Girl is a truly stunning LP. The opening triumverate of songs (Fairest Of The Seasons/These Days/Little Sister) are truly sublime - the missing link between the Velvets and Nick Drake. All this in spite of half of "It Was A Pleasure Then" sounding like someone scraping their nails down a blackboard. (Edited)
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From 03/30/2014 19:12 | #108113 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I used to hate Nico's voice. Even when I started to love VU & Nico, I still hated her voice. After mass listening of VU & Nico, her voice grew on me, but I still wasn't a fan. It took this record to change my view. Wow, this record. So folksy, so different to her VU contributions (bar It Was a Pleasure Then). She is a beautiful singer and a beautiful human being. So much beauty. Like sitting in a daisy field. Aah. Daisies. (Edited)
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From 03/15/2018 00:33 | #210944 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Sad to hear that Nico didn’t like the production, orchestrations and especially flute. I love all of these elements, along with her voice and goth-like appearance. She was a pop culture fenomenon, and this is a damn brilliant album. Makes you feel like you’re in the 18th century, 1967 and 24th century all at once, if that makes any sense (Edited)
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From 10/18/2014 06:19 | #124708 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Sounds nothing like its contemporaries, and also like nothing since. A real gem of an album. (Edited)
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From 09/02/2019 16:15 | #242113 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Sure she couldn't sing on key. Sure she had the musicality of a door-stop. But Nico exuded STAR. Her cool, aloof ice-queen persona are delivered here for everyone to see. She was unlike all the other 60s, 70s, 80s it-girls because of this. It was typical of her to disown this album and dismiss it as trash. In Nico's evaluation EVERYthing was trash as soon as it was manufactured. One of a kind and a necessary part of any serious record collector's collection.
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