In 1995 while working on Channel 4 TV's The White Room I found some two inch masters of a few surviving outtakes of BBC 2's defunct and mainly wiped Disco 2: a whole then unseen episode too even surfaced featuring a band called L.A. 2 a dire re-incarnation of the Love Affair. But two short outtake or insert reels revealed the tapes you are watching here. I still have these two songs on VHS straight off the two inch with outtakes of Nico's feet playing the Harmonium peddles at the tail of the Falconer.

@jat13

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing, I was just thinking nothing from Disco 2 survived and this explains the provenance of this footage. Well done for rescuing it!

This performance is an absolute piece of art and showcases Nico at her most brilliant, beautiful and darkly poetic. Can you believe "Desertshore" will turn 50 in November? It still sounds as avant-garde and anachronistic as ever. A true timeless Masterpiece.

She’s unique but I still think of medieval music when I hear her. I’m so glad I discovered her work. I like it more than the velvets.

It's all there if you look, all the pain of her childhood in Berlin and the subsequent searching but finding mostly emptiness.

My God.this is so over whealming, what an experiencia, sublime, out of this world❤❤❤

@josephyearwood1179

9 ай бұрын

Yower an overwhelmenerer.

She somehow combines darkness with a beauty suggesting a belief in the light. So complex.

@josephyearwood1179

9 ай бұрын

WHITE WITH BLACK 😊

@adamkieler1833

23 күн бұрын

Slightly in a way David Berman did.

Overwhelmingly magnificent as a performance by Maria Callas or Èdith Piaf. Avant-garde at it's finest.

Remarkable and totally unique. Her music was both haunting and deeply touching.

Stunning! Thank you. I think Nico was one of the great poets of the 20th Century.

@memoriesmarmymind...5587

Жыл бұрын

Why poet?

This is an absolute treasure. Thanks for uploading

goth mother

Wow. She was only 32 years old. Incredible music.

hypnotique et mystic , sublime nico

THANK YOU for posting this! Thousands of listens and Janitor Of Lunacy still tears the heart right outta me. I have the lyrics tattooed on my hand.

Disco 2, eh? I would like very much to go to a disco where Nico is played. She's a good lass.

Remembering the amazing Nico on her anniversary 18th July 1988. RIP

Still give me goosebumps

Her two Immediate singles are great. When was young, I first heard of Nico & VU thru R.E.M. Dead Letter Office covers. When I heard the original of Femme Fatal I was so turned off!!! Years later I returned with an opened mind. I enjoyed the listen with more mature ears.

My heart is empty but the songs I sing are filled with love for YOU. Nico is the Godmother of all things Goth. Her influence is INESCAPABLE. And yet a true original, that no one who dared follow- can even touch.. -Doghead

@mennobults6464

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely true man. She is amazing.

Wonderful! Just wonderful.

nico performed this while I was being born, that day...it"s kind of a baptism

@memoriesmarmymind...5587

Жыл бұрын

What?!?

@sametkrutzo

2 күн бұрын

you can’t imagine how much i envy you lol

There will never be another Nico

50 years ago....♥✨🌠

Криста Нико я тебя люблю. Привет из Екатеринбурга Россия. Пусть земля тебе будет пухом

pure genius

Thanks for uploading. Nico a one off gem.

just noticed that Nico is on the cover of a 1962 Bill Evans recording- so cool!

Wow, I mean WOW. Enchanting.

The Marble Index, Desertshore and The End had such an impact of what was to become Postpunk and Goth. Nico, the Godmother, together with the Prince Of Darkness, John Cale as her producer and arranger would take Avantgarde to a completely new level.

Nico - everlasting bliss that bewitches every time... Flawlessly delivered. As well as being the Ultimate femme fatale moon goddess and queen of the bad girls, fluent in 5/6languages, muse, Warhol superstar, and coolest rock and roll lover to many artists, her music stands toe to toe with all of them but possesses an ageless genius and crafted mastery. Her poetry, diction and avant- grade style harmonium work and The Faction are still to this day miles ahead. She is simply the perfect person to meet in a forest.

@siebentau

5 жыл бұрын

I always wondered what's meant by the expression "moon Goddess" - can you explain?

@hom0s4cer

3 жыл бұрын

@@siebentau I think Andy Warhol called her Moon Goddess

Knocked me out man. Fuckin ace!

Doomed Goddess : The Doors to another world

Música extraña , pero hermosa,y fascinante. La forma de cantar de nico y las notas del armonio poseen ecos de la música medieval

Nico is awesome

Thanks ever so much for putting this here, ever so moving... it's left me a bit ... (speechless) ...

Mesmerising!

she never died

Thank you so much! Also, for the Family, Residents, and Wyatt clips. As I recall, The Falconer was not broadcast--so, especially nice.

te amooooooo, me ayudas con las crisis de ansiedad ♡

This is a rare gem indeed. Thnks

La plus belle musicienne de tous les temps.

Absolutely darkly magic...

Incredible

@ettorealbertogelli8893

4 жыл бұрын

Yes Orla...incredible. But...Du not open the Doors of HER SOUL...

@orlabannon537

4 жыл бұрын

@@ettorealbertogelli8893 ..not unless you have a loaded syringe

@ettorealbertogelli8893

4 жыл бұрын

@@orlabannon537 sirynge for the cosmic desert...for the BROKEN SYMMETRY before space-time..For the fall in Matter...Do not open the CRHISTA' s DOOR...

How fantastic is this?

The remarkable and one off Nico

Thanks!❤️Great stuff.

Sweet beautiful sexy talented woman. RIP

thanks you very very much

Amazing 🖤

this is just fuck-all lovely.

Nico's look is so hardcore for the time. I wonder if the Costume Designer or even Stephen King thought of Nico when deciding on Piper Laurie's look in the film 'Carrie'?

IMPRESIONANTE!!!

wow : )

I almost missed the ending! It's awesome!

wow thank you

"Disco 2", Eh ?... I can't really imagine Nico doing a cover of Gloria Gaynors I will survive, but if she had, it would have been haunting and etherial.

wonderful

Testify my vanity Mortalize my memory Deceive the devil's deed

Listening to the End now, bought the album when I was 17, a very long time ago, expecting something like the Velvet Underground. Right. Still cannot play the triptych in one sitting.

Thanks

Love Nico

@josephyearwood1179

9 ай бұрын

We ❤ N icons

♥

The last composer of lieder

"Disco 2" is actually the name of the show she was appearing on and not a song title

I would have loved to see her do a version of “Biko”.

@somebraveapollo8211

3 жыл бұрын

She was a horrible racist, so it'd be safe to say she wouldn't perform it even if there was the possibility she could.

@ronaldjones2047

3 жыл бұрын

How about her versh of YMCA?

@renias8965

3 жыл бұрын

@@somebraveapollo8211 do we know for sure????I’ve also read quite a few spoken rumours about her bigotry and anti-semitism,but not sure if they stand true.!

Wow,the time when Nico dyed her hair from blonde to red...

@fugeefugee

2 жыл бұрын

Red is from the lights. Her hair is naturally brown

@danielaschwarz1971

2 жыл бұрын

@@fugeefugee That is true.Her hair is naturally brown but that was the time when she dyed her hair from blond (60s time with the Velvet Underground &Andy Warhol) to red (early 70s), because she didn't want to be beautiful anymore.Nico said that she was unhappy when she was beautiful.

@jalijali8448

2 жыл бұрын

@@fugeefugee Nope, she hennaed her hair after meeting Jim Morrison & kept it that way until about 72/73

Wonderful performance from before the heroin took hold.

@danielaschwarz1971

4 жыл бұрын

When did she start taking heroin ??

@chriswareham1547

4 жыл бұрын

@@danielaschwarz1971 Early 1970s when she was in a relationship with junkie film director Philippe Garrel. She had managed to avoid the drug during her Velvet Underground / Warhol phase in New York. She had actually managed to quit it shortly before her death, through treatment with methadone.

@somebraveapollo8211

3 жыл бұрын

@@chriswareham1547 I think she began her relationship with Garrell around 1969. She contributed the second song from this set to their first film together. I'm guessing she was a user around this time because it never takes two years for a heroin addiction to develop.

@nelohagen

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if she ever watched at that time the film 'More'....I suppose or I hope she didn't, because who can be so desperate or so unconscious to fall into heroin after watching that film?...it is so sad, so desperate...Love her work so much and that heroin thing is so disheartening...I wish she had lived and created more music....it would be amazing music, for sure...

@alexanderbrettdoane1537

3 жыл бұрын

She started using recreationally in the late 60s, 68 or 69. I can’t remember when The Marble Index was recorded, but I read an article where John Cale said she either used while she was writing the songs and/or during the recordings. So pretty much, once she changed her image it wasn’t long after that she began using. She had previous history with drug use when she was a model, but it was normalized for models to take prescribed amphetamines to keep them thin. No judgements on her addiction though, she went through some shitty stuff.

im ltierally peeing my pants guys og ym god i love this video

before too much drugs

5:03

SUMMERSAND.

Wow, I didn't think any footage of "Disco 2" survived.

где можно найти переводы текстов на русский?

@peatbull3426

Жыл бұрын

I guess only in darkest rabbit hole.

Trop petite fille je ne l ai pas connu juste qu a travers de son fils ari et l histoire d Alain delon

I don't seek out 'difficult' or outsider/cult music. Her real records after that awful Lou Reed's idea of Nico, Chelsea Girls, just spoke to me, felt strangely familiar.

Why did she ask her to just pedal, i cannot hear what she says to her after asking that.

@thomaswhite8935

8 ай бұрын

So they could get some shots of it to edit in.

A JANITOR OF LUNACY and TYRANNY never is there to "bring hope to them and me" nor to e l e v a t e a goddess to a status of i m m o r t a l i t y...these kind of janitors are completely incompetent and useless when it comes to label immortals and/or put them in some kind of category box (or looney bin or jail. )