All Tomorrow's Parties / I'll Be Your Mirror

by The Velvet Underground & Nico

All Tomorrow's Parties / I'll Be Your Mirror cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: July 1966
  • Label: Verve
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 5:11
  • Community rating: 4.66/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Reportedly Andy Warhol's favorite song by the group, 'All Tomorrow's Parties' offers a haunting, observational vignette of the eccentric socialites inhabiting The Factory. Lou Reed utilized an ostrich guitar tuning鈥攚here all strings are tuned to a single drone note鈥攚hile John Cale provided repetitive, percussive piano motifs. Nico's cold, Germanic vocal delivery cemented the track's beautifully austere, detached atmosphere.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, repetitive, avant-garde, melodic, classic

Tracklist

  1. All Tomorrow's Parties (2:55)
  2. I'll Be Your Mirror (2:16)

Credits

  • The Velvet Underground - primary artist
  • Nico - primary artist
  • Lou Reed - written-by

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