This is a great start for that, cos you get the interviews, the little bit of video with "heros", etc. HOWEVER, if you really want to know NICO the person, listen to her LIVE. MARBLE INDEX defined GOTH ROCK, way before it even had a name. Nico and John Cale (her producer/Velvet Underground alumni) had a chemistry that is remarkable. If you want to find out about NICO's music, naturally you start with her studio albums. Maybe you could score smack easily at both cities, or they were both bombed out in WWII, whatever. She says this in her interview, altho WHY the two towns are similar, who knows. Aparently, NICO liked Manchester too, because it reminded her of BERLIN. She seemed to be comfortable, and well liked at these shows. Some of NICO's live material suffers from poor recording, or a bad audience response. For sound quality, JANITORY OF LUNACY is very clear. If not, then three years MAY have elapsed between these two live Manchester shows, but you cant hear it, in her singing, or in most of the songs' arangements.
(the same show that is available on DVD, of the same name.) I have played both shows next to each other, and I find the sound from the two MANCHESTER LIBRARY shows to be so close, as to qualify for sequencial nights, of the same concert run. "Here is NICO, playing a set that dovetails nicely, as far as material goes, with the music from the other LIVE MANCHESTER SHOW, Heroine. Nico newbies would do best to buy one of her studio recordings first (or Do or Die if you want a live recording) collectors must own this as it is cool to hear Nico talk every once and a while, and the Faction sounds awesome." Forget this one cause it's just terrible, go buy the Underground DVD. version of the performance from Underground Experience. The live video feed of her performing Heroes is a.
The studio versions of Vegas and Saeta are the same ones that were on the Icon album her best 80's songs aside from My Heart is Empty and the entire Fata Morgana recording. Orley Flights was misnamed Closing the Door it's ok, but still a weak song. No One is There is a pleasant surprise powerful and nice harmonium sound. A voice only version of All Tomorrows Parties is still powerful. The jazz version of Femme Fatal is terrible (worst on here). Janitor of Lunacy is good, but nothing spectacular.
Ghengis Khan has fantastic instrmentation except for the fact that Nico's voice fade's in and out due to the slip shod recording. The best moments on this CD are when Nico is backed by her band The Faction. What I do know is that this CD is fantastic in some parts and not in others. I think the performance takes place in Berlin, but I'm not totally sure. ""Janitor of Lunacy" is the newest release of a live Nico show.
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