Nico's 'Chelsea Girls'

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I bought a copy of this on saturday - I've heard a lot about Nico's solo work, but there have always been about 8908 albums I wanted more. This was sort of an accidental purchase - someone handed me a copy on the way to the counter, and it was a fiver, so I bought it.

I can't believe I left it so long. This album is so beautiful - her version of 'I'll Keep It With Mine' is one of the loveliest things I've ever heard. (I was going to say it made me cry, in a good way, but that's far too twee for these parts, I think..)

I don't have anything more perceptive than that to offer at the moment. I'm hoping someone else will offer the insight. Perhaps its a mistake to start a thread when you don't have much to say except 'this is really good, innit'... Then again, perhaps YOU will say something so marvellous it will make this thread worthwhile.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I like "Eulogy to Lenny Bruce" a lot - a song about a heroin addict, written by a heroin addict and sung by heroin addict, I mean, you can't go wrong can you?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"these days" really is one of the greatest songs in existence

― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

have you heard greg allmans cover?

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

noo

― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

hehehehe, someone here is in an allman brothers phase. I'm not digging it.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

This is my favourite Nico record, it took me a while to really appreciate how beautiful her voice is.

― holojames (holojames), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Dunno, The Marble Index is pretty cool.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Her other albums have much more of her influence on them - on this album she really just sings over other people's music. No bad thing, by all means.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Would you say that 'her influence' made the other albums better, or worse??

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

the 70s trilogy of Marble Index/Desert Shore/The End is amazing, far better than Chelsea Girls, which is admittedly nice, flutes, jackson browne and all.

― Dave Amos, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Her influence (and john cale's arrangments and production) makes the later albums... stranger, richer, more mysterious. Perhaps less traditionally melodic, but to quote the wordsworth lines that the marble index title comes from "a mind forever wondering strange seas of thought, alone". I rate them higher than any of the work of her 60s rock buddies (and that includes Jacques Brel, who she hung out with before moving to NYC!)

― Dave Amos, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Would you say that 'her influence' made the other albums better, or worse??

Much much better, I think that trilogy of albums is unique, some of the most truly original music of the late 60s/early 70s. Of course John Cale had an awful lot to do with it as well, in fact it's really a collaboration between the two. "Chelsea Girl" is a good 67/68-ish art/folk rock album, Nico herself is what makes it stand out.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave has just said it for me.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

the 70s trilogy of Marble Index/Desert Shore/The End is amazing, far better than Chelsea Girls, which is admittedly nice, flutes, jackson browne and all.

I fundamentally agree with this, but I see why people like Chelsea Girl (singular or plural, fact fans?).

If you like Chelsea Girl you may also like Nick Drage's "Bryter Layter".

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't he in Black Rebel Motorcycle Club?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

there are a couple of gems on this LP, yes. If you love this, you should try and find the recordings she did for Andrew Loog Oldham a year or two earlier. Very nice.

Chelsea Girl (singular or plural, fact fans?)
LP title is singular, song title/film title is plural.

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

But let's not forget "Chelsea Girls" contains the big, lovely drone of "it was a pleasure then" straddling the middle of the LP like a giant fuck you sign to Dylan, Lenny Bruce and J. Browne.

― Dave Amos, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

But why would she want to give a fuck you to Dylan and Lenny? And she had designs on fucking the delectable young Master Browne, if she hadn't in fact already carried out the dastardly deed.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

If you love this, you should try and find the recordings she did for Andrew Loog Oldham a year or two earlier.

"i'm not sayin'" and "the longest mile" - they're on the immediate singles collection and a more recent nico best of.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

But why would she want to give a fuck you to Dylan and Lenny?

no reason really, just acting out the psychodramas in my own head, er i mean joking.. sorry

but i really hate the way nico is misogynistically denigrated by pube headed rock archaeologists like charlie shaar murray and oliver stone as just a groupie... she didn't need anyone's help to shine (except arguably cale's)

― Dave Amos, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I don't think there's much argument that those albums wouldn't have been as special without Cale. But then, John Cale didn't make a comparable album himself (in terms of sonic adventurousness) till "Music For a New Society".

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

CG's is the Nico album to perform cunnilingus to.

― queen gnifty, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fairest of the Seasons is a great song. I think Nico's voice sounds a LOT better over orchestral stuff like this than it did over rock n' roll.

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

And you know what, Cale owed way more to Nico than she owed to him, as any album he did without her voice was shit. (I can't get passed his terrible, terrible voice).

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh you silly tin-eared person you

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Nico's albums sound different to Cale's partly cos of the pitching of her harmonium - it wavered up and down 1/2 or 1/4 of a tone the whole time, which gave him a nightmare with the pitching of other instruments, hence some of the lovely off-key sounds and the esoteric arrangements. so i've read, but for the life of me can't remember where.

Music for a New Society is great, but it doesn't have the beauty of those Nico records, it frostier, more nihilistic.

― Dave Amos, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone else read MOJO's Velvet's special (which, naturally, had Brian Wilson on the cover). Paul Morrissey is very funny (and, of course, incorrect) in his assesment of how John Cale ruined Nico's music, turned her into a junkie, drove her insane, et al. But even he likes Chelsea Girls. Marble Index is the best thing she ever did, though. In fact, it's better, in toto, than any Velvet's album.

Ornette taught her how to play the harmonium, btw.

― D. Strauss (musicmope), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"i'm not sayin'" and "the longest mile"

yes, the prelude to a sadly never-realized "nico sings lightfoot" lp

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i really don't like the lenny bruce thing but otherwise this record is gold

i like browne's own version of "these days" too--it's a lovely song

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

It Was A Pleasure Then was definately the Velvet Underground song i always wished they had done.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Amen, that song keeps that album interesting IMO.

― Trever Booth (xjzico), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The Jackson Browne songs are the gems on this, but 'Wrap your troubles in dream' is pretty great too.

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a good album if you like really flat, out of tune singing.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

(gets weak in the knees)

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought the Royal Tennenbaums soundtrack mainly because of the Nico songs ("These Days", "Fairest of the Seasons"). I've been meaning to buy the albums at some point as well.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Royal Tennenbaums almost ruined "These Days" for me

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

you should! get chelsea girls, the marble index, and camera obscura for starters. there's also a good best of - the classic years, i think.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"i'm not sayin'" and "the longest mile"

yes, the prelude to a sadly never-realized "nico sings lightfoot" lp

you guys probably know this but that's Jimmy Page playing guitar on those songs.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

yup, just got that rpm comp of brit songbirds singing folk-rock and he's all over it

nico sort of flattens out the gordon lightfoot melody, ridding it of his bluesy inflections (which i quite like, before the lightfoot hatas come out to make fun). but i still think it's a really cool arrangement--i think andrew loog oldham produced it.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

also i should add that nico's cover ranks well above the raincoat's "lola" for meaningful gender-switch of pop song. "i'm not sayin" is purest mysogyny, even if self-consciously so, in the original. nico singing it makes it into something much different.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I would not recommend Camera Obscura for starters. I used to like it, but re-listening to it recently I found it mostly boring (except for the fantastic 'My Heart is Empty').
Drama of Exile, on the other hand, could be a good place to start.

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Thursday, 13 May 2004 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"all saints night from a polish motorway"
"drama of exile"
"my heart is empty"
"janitor of lunacy"
"facing the wind"
"saeta"

my god she had the best song titles ever!

― Dave Amos, Thursday, 13 May 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"all saints night from a polish motorway"
Where is this from?

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Nico, live behind the iron curtain", double live LP bought around 1992. Don't know if it's on any of her studio recs.

― Dave Amos, Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

this one, live in Warsaw, released 1986. It's very good. The only other Nico live thing I can recommend is the ROIR tape which has a fantastic version of "the end" - you can polish a turd after all!

― Dave Amos, Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

This sounds pretty good actually, although, at this stage i'm not sure I really need any Nico bootleg..

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ornette taught her how to play the harmonium, btw.

I heard that Ornette bought her the harmonium not that he actually taught her to play it. But, let's be honest, do you believe anything Nico said?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 May 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

yes

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 28 May 2004 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I just picked this up -- is it me or does it not get its proper dues? It's fucking fantastic.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

yes, it is. talk upthread of the trilogy is otm tho. u should pick up "desertshore" and cry all night.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

I just bought Desertshore on vinyl in anticipation of the record player I'm getting from my grandparents' house. Huzzah!

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

need to hear 'chelsea girls'

was completely unprepared for the first time I ever heard 'Alone'

― confuse your hunger, capture the fake (Jon L), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

It's a good album if you like really flat, out of tune singing.
-- shookout (shookou...), May 12th, 2004.

Does she really sing out of tune sometimes? I think she hits notes pretty well overall, no? You might not like the timbre of her voice, but that's different.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i think her pitch is fine.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

When she's off-pitch at all, it seems more like a stylistic thing than a tin-ear thing. And yes, sometimes I do like out-of-tune singing. In fact, sometimes perfect, always-on-pitch singing is boring.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

I seem to recall that she actually had some training as a singer. Took lessons.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

What was the Chelsea area like at the time when this album came out? I assume the Chelsea Girls of the song = prostitutes? I know there was already art stuff going on there, with Warhol's factory and whatnot. Can anyone fill me in more on the atmosphere?

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

This album sure is nice

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Any relation to Michael Costello?

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

Brothers

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

christ there's two of them

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

I believe the chelsea girls are dudes.

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

>>What was the Chelsea area like at the time when this album came out? I assume the Chelsea Girls of the song = prostitutes? I know there was already art stuff going on there, with Warhol's factory and whatnot. Can anyone fill me in more on the atmosphere?

Chelsea Girls is a film by Andy Warhol that Nico was in. The title refers to the Chelsea Hotel in NY, where the characters were supposed to be (and probably actually were) living.

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

see next month's plan b magazine for the l/d on the warhol film.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

http://ddesassis.free.fr/magma/textes/1982/letter_to_ari.htm

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 5 August 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

The record label added the orchestrations, apparently (judging by press releases) under the delusion they could sell her as the sadeyed ingenue Marianne Faithful, if not Melanie! I think some of the gothic flutes etc.work (impressions of Man Ray's solarized flowers, xray meadows etc.), like on "Little Bird." Probably most of it(haven't listened in while though).If they'd gotten her to do a whole LP of psychfolkpop, like the Immediate single (with Mr.Page supervising, rather than stringmeister Larry Fallon or whoever he was),it could have worked aesthetically(certianly well enough for current trends in retro), but not commercially, I don't think (not normal enough:wild wimmen sang d blues, or they got out of town; hell Bangs even quoted a female suit as putting down Moe Tucker for playing drums:"that is not a feminine instrument") Speaking of VU, wasn't there a 2-disc edition of The VU With Nico that incl. "It Was A Pleasure" and other post-VU things they did with her? Maybe even (excerpt?) of "Melody Laughter," the jam on the 1966 boot?

― don, Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, that's disappointing to hear, in a way, as I rather like the strings and don't want to believe that they don't belong there.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 6 August 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of VU, wasn't there a 2-disc edition of The VU With Nico that incl. "It Was A Pleasure" and other post-VU things they did with her? Maybe even (excerpt?) of "Melody Laughter," the jam on the 1966 boot?

maybe yr thinking of the bonus tracks on the Peel Slowly and See box set? I know it includes It Was a Pleasure and Melody Laughter...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 6 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

oh yes

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 December 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

we listened to this at work today, and later we listened to moe tucker's "playin possum" and i'm not sure which record i like better.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 11 December 2005 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

It's really best not to get me started with Nico, I pulled out all of her CD's the other weekend. Really, we'll be here for days if I get started talking about her.

― Funky New Order Jazz Farts (Bimble...), Sunday, 11 December 2005 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgdZFnZ6M0k

I can't stop listening to this song

― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 November 2010 18:00 (fourteen years ago)

so weird i just put on these days today

― plax (ico), Friday, 5 November 2010 18:00 (fourteen years ago)

well i guess not that weird

i like this album a lot

― plax (ico), Friday, 5 November 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago)

shakey mo, here's the original (w/o jimmy page on 12-string unlike Nico's):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Af5d1FeJn4

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 5 November 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago)

yeah I know. prefer Nico's version with the cavernous percussion

― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 November 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago)

I heard the Nico version on the radio a couple of years ago and had the same obsession, Shakey. Shame the sound quality's so ratty on that clip.

― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 5 November 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago)

yeah doesn't really do it justice, it's a beautiful production

― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 November 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago)

nico had a weird life, didn't she.

― tylerw, Friday, 5 November 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago)

and not a very happy one afaict

it's funny but I don't really care for any of the rest of her solo work - I really dig her in baroque folk-pop mode but the End and Marble Index are like soundtracks to silly German movies I don't really have any interest in watching

― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 November 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago)

I only knew Chelsea Girls and Marble Index but I fell head over heels in love with "Janitor of Lunacy" after hearing it earlier this year. What a vocal performance.

― willem, Friday, 5 November 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago)

More than once I've put "It Was a Pleasure Then" on repeat for an hour or so. It was, in fact, a pleasure.

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 6 November 2010 06:02 (fourteen years ago)

Somewhere There's a Feather always causes me to mist up.

― thirdalternative, Saturday, 6 November 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago)

Royal Tennenbaums almost ruined "These Days" for me

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, May 12, 2004 4:56 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

This is your own fault.

― thirdalternative, Saturday, 6 November 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago)

You can't ruin "These Days." It even survived a Zellers commercial.

― clemenza, Saturday, 6 November 2010 15:35 (fourteen years ago)

If you let a good song get fuined by a movie or a commercial, it's the fault of your own lack of imagination, it's a sentiment that really irks me, that a good song can be killed by a commercial or film.

― thirdalternative, Saturday, 6 November 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

"I'm Not Saying" > pretty much everything else Nico has ever sang on

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 6 November 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

nico had a weird life, didn't she.

― tylerw, Friday, November 5, 2010 7:51 PM (2 years ago)

and not a very happy one afaict

― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, November 5, 2010 8:03 PM (2 years ago)

These guys OTM. Watched Nico: Icon last night. What a bleak and harrowing fucking story. The contrasts between beauty and ugliness in her life is striking. Sadly, the beauty usually relates to her art, and the ugliness to her life.

Never really listened much to this record, btw. Went straight to Marble Index. It's very nice, though.

― Mule, Monday, 4 November 2013 13:57 (eleven years ago)

she sang out of tune because she was deaf in one ear, and the velvets used to mock her for it. happy life, I believe she shared her heroin with her child.

― OutdoorFish, Monday, 4 November 2013 14:19 (eleven years ago)

According to the movie, she did. The guy from Ash Ra Tempel, whom she lived with in the 70s said so. I think maybe her son Ari says so himself, too.

It's a sordid story.

― Mule, Monday, 4 November 2013 14:21 (eleven years ago)

I didn't know about this:
http://www.audiospace.vn/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/the-bill-evans-trio-moon-beams-3.jpg

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 4 November 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago)

four years pass...

Not finding a general Nico thread...This just opened here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38RBdHtWkWo

Not sure if I'll see it. I saw the poster a few weeks and assumed it was a documentary--that I'd see. It's not, and it looks like it might be an ordeal from the trailer.

― clemenza, Sunday, 12 August 2018 00:14 (seven years ago)

It Was A Pleasure Then was definately the Velvet Underground song i always wished they had done.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, May 11, 2004 5:27 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haven't read all of the thread but this wasn't responded to at the time it was posted. I heard that the backing of the song was based on Melody Laughter the improvisation the VU did live I think regularly and definitely on the Columbus Ohio set that's now available with the larger box set of the first lp and in edited form on the Peel Slowly and See box set.
Columbus, Ohio version is 28 minutes long as is The Nothing Song which they also did in the same set. I think both were done live with wordless vocal improvisations by Nico.

I would heavily recommend the frozen Borderline set that mops up the recordings from marble Index and Desertshore plus out takes.
Also the 2cd version of The End. Don't like the title track of that '70s lp though seems too close to the original. But tracks on the first side are long term favourites as they have been for the last 35 odd years.
Are those lps labeled proto-goth these days? Hope not, seem pretty original to me. & maybe Goth has faded into the distant past already.

― Stevolende, Sunday, 12 August 2018 14:14 (seven years ago)

Co-sign on The Frozen Borderline, it sounds great and the outtakes are wonderful.

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 12 August 2018 14:16 (seven years ago)

I didn't know about this:
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, November 4, 2013 9:13 AM (four years ago)

Link broke, fixed:

https://i.imgur.com/oIbalp8.jpg

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 12 August 2018 15:05 (seven years ago)

three years pass...

This album just got a mention on Coronation Street!

― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Friday, 31 December 2021 20:10 (three years ago)

What was said about it?!

― dow, Friday, 31 December 2021 22:37 (three years ago)

There was a conversation between two characters about the name for a hairdressers or something, the dialogue went something like:

"What about Elsie's Girls? You know like Chelsea Girls..."
"What? What's that?"
"You know, the album by Nico, the woman who sang with the Velvet Underground?"

... something like that.

― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Friday, 31 December 2021 22:46 (three years ago)

"What about Elsie's Girls? You know like Chelsea Girls..."
"What? What's that?"
"You know how in 1955 Lewis Separates was rebranded Chelsea Girl and became one of the UK's first female fashion chains, before being subsumed under the River Island umbrella in the 90s? Like that, but plural!"

^^ more realistic

― Alba, Saturday, 1 January 2022 09:14 (three years ago)

Well, Mico did live in ~~Weatherfield~~ Manchester for a while.

― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 January 2022 10:09 (three years ago)

... Nico (flaming phone!)

― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 January 2022 10:09 (three years ago)

Manco

― Alba, Saturday, 1 January 2022 10:14 (three years ago)

Lol I wondered if this was a Corrie-related revive

God that dialogue was clumsy

― Khafre's clown (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 January 2022 10:25 (three years ago)

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