The Velvet Underground & Nico initially sold poorly, but later became regarded as one of the most influential albums in rock and pop music. Described as "the original art-rock record",[6] it was a major influence on many subgenres of rock music and alternative music, including punk, garage, krautrock, post-punk, shoegaze, goth, and indie.[7] In 1982, the English musician Brian Eno said that while the album only sold approximately 30,000 copies in its first five years, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band".[8] In 2003, it ranked 13th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time",[9] and in 2006, it was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress.[10]
In 1997, The Velvet Underground & Nico was named the 22nd greatest album of all time in a "Music of the Millennium" poll conducted in the United Kingdom by HMV Group, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM.[71] In 2006, Q magazine readers voted it into 42nd place in the "2006 Q Magazine Readers' 100 Greatest Albums Ever" poll, while The Observer placed it at number 1 in a list of "50 Albums That Changed Music" in July of that year.[72] Also in 2006, the album was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best albums of all time.[73] In 2017, Pitchfork placed the album at number 1 on its list of "The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s".[74] It was voted number 13 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000).[75]
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Norman Dolph's original acetate recording of the Scepter Studios material contains several recordings that would make it onto the final album, though many are different mixes of those recordings and three are different takes entirely. The acetate was cut on April 25, 1966, shortly after the recording sessions. It resurfaced decades later when it was bought by collector Warren Hill of Montreal, Quebec, Canada in September 2002 at a flea market in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City for $0.75.[93] Hill put the album up for auction on eBay in November. On December 8, 2006, a winning bid for $155,401 was placed, but not honored.[94] The album was again placed for auction on eBay and was successfully sold on December 16, 2006, for $25,200.[95][96]
The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony were first announced during Microsoft's 2006 E3 press conference on 9 May 2006.[1] Peter Moore, then head of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division, described downloadable content as "epic episode packs", and not just an extra car or character. A press release during the conference said that the expansion packs, both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony would add "hours of entirely new gameplay" to the game,[2] with Jeronimo Barrera, Vice-President of Product Development for Rockstar Games, explaining that the episodes were experiments because they were not sure that there were enough users with access to online content on the Xbox 360.[3] Take-Two Interactive's chief financial officer, Lainie Goldstein, revealed that Microsoft was paying a total of $50 million for the first two episodes.[4] 2ff7e9595c
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