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Title: masterpiece after the fact
Review: As the 279th review I'm not going to bore you with what songs I think stand out and how stupendously influential this album is now but let me toss this tidbit at you:Released in 1967, it peaked at #171 on the Billboard charts. The hippy dippy world of 1967 was not ready for the Velvets yet. Yes, one of the seminal albums of all-time did not really sell at all well back when it was first released. Hard to believe especially when you think it was 1967 not 1977--an era when US radio avoided anything punk or New Wave and there was a decided reason good stuff didn't sell. This was the '60s when FM radio was open to new sounds yet the Velvets sold squat really in their entire lifetime.Goes to show, eh, maybe the masses just don't "get it" as they missed one of the greatest albums of all-time in the banana album.
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