The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground & Nico is an album from The Velvet Underground, Nico being a Vocal collaborator. The material of the album was quite controversial and the sounds were experimental. The album seemed to be fueled by a "heroin" high that contributed to a lot of the decided upon sounds for the tracks.
Lou Reed and John Cale were part of The Velvet Undergrounds line-up. Lou Reed was the most influential writer for the album, writing most of the songs. John Cale was credited by the engineers as being the creative producer, although he never received credit as the producer on the album itself. Cale, however, reports that Tom Wilson was the producer of the album. Cale was involved in most of the musical arrangement decisions.
Andy Warhol was the credited producer of the album, however, he didn't have any creative influence in the project. He simply put up the money for the studio sessions.
The album was quite unique in it's content matter. There is a focus on drug use and abuse, sexuality, and a reference to a book written in the nineteenth century which featured accounts of sexual experimentation such as BDSM.
John Cale, credited with much of the sounds of the album, was revolutionary with this album. The album utilized a new tuning of the guitars known as Ostrich guitar tuning, which involves tuning all the strings to the same note. As well as this guitar tuning, the group would sometimes tune the guitars down an octave. This created a fuller sound. There was also use of viola's with other instruments strings which was an interesting and new technique.
I did not like this album or the songs at all. Upon finishing the eleventh song I found myself subconsciously reaching for a syringe, ready to inject my vain's with whatever the artists were on, just to try and grasp some sort of appreciation for the lack of melodic variation and flat notes throughout the vocals.

Reference pages
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v18444087ZF6xZy9c