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You know what’s wild about music history? Some of the most influential rock albums ever made were basically ignored when they first came out. Radio stations wouldn’t touch them. Critics shrugged. Fans walked right past them in record stores. Yet years later, these same records became the blueprints that defined entire generations of music.
It’s not always about being first to the party. Sometimes the best albums need time to breathe, to find their audience, to reveal their true power.
The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Let’s be real, this is the patron saint of all cult albums. When The Velvet Underground dropped their debut in March 1967, it was a commercial flop. The album’s controversial content led to its almost instantaneous ban from various record stores, many radio stations refused to play it, and magazines refused to carry advertisements for it. The album first entered the Billboard album charts on May 13, 1967, at number 199 and left the charts on June 10, 1967, at number 195. Honestly, it’s hard to imagine a more disastrous commercial launch.
Here’s the kicker though. Musician Brian Eno famously stated that while The Velvet Underground & Nico initially only sold 30,000 copies, everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band. That’s not just a clever quote. By the 1980s and 1990s, the debut LP from the band that gave us Lou Reed and John Cale was, finally, being…
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Author : Matthias Binder
Publish date : 2025-12-29 17:41:00
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