The Velvet Underground & Nico 
Variations: The Velvet Underground*, The Velvet Underground & Nico.
The best album credited to The Velvet Underground & Nico is The Velvet Underground & Nico which is ranked number 10 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 39,019.
The Velvet Underground & Nico is ranked number 35 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 39,019.
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- Lou Reed
- Nico
- John Cale
- Moe Tucker
- See also:
- John Zorn / Lou Reed / Laurie Anderson
- Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio
- The Velvet Underground
- Lou Reed / John Cale
- Eno / Cale
- Lou Reed & Metallica
- John Cale & Terry Riley
- Kevin Ayers - John Cale - Eno - Nico
- Artists United Against Apartheid
- John Cale / Bob Neuwirth
- Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground
- Lou Reed / John Cale / Nico
- Zeitkratzer / Lou Reed
- John Cale & Band
- John Cale / Tony Conrad / Angus MacLise / La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| 03/06/2026 17:30 | stareaterogni0n | 29 | 73/100 | |
| 11/09/2024 04:34 | BurndenAce | 44 | 85/100 | |
| 10/06/2024 03:53 | bribri56 | 17 | 89/100 | |
| 04/29/2024 02:02 |  sssvnnn | 508 | 75/100 | |
| 01/27/2024 21:07 | Deckard | 21 | 83/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 1% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 85.9/100, a mean average of 84.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.4/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 18.1.
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So influential! And they had a contender for best record of '67, the best year in music ever imo
Fischman 12/05/2018 16:46 | #226255
Weak vocals, uninteresting music (basic chords, little if anything in the way of modulation), silly subject matter. This is one naked ass emperor right here.
Best record of 1967. And that is saying something. Everyone went flower power, Velvet Underground made the music of the years and decades to come.
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