The whirl of schoolboy tribulations are lifted only by cheaply recorded noise

Come sapete, Morrissey ha scelto le sue canzoni per la compilation Under The Influence. Andate a leggervi quello che ha scritto sulle note di copertina. Siccome non tutti lo faranno, qui sotto cerco di farvi venire voglia con le parole su Nico:

On the flipside of happy, the Nico net caught me early. Her voice equaled the sound of a body being thrown out of a window – entirely without hope, of this world, or the next, or the previous. Onstage, she moved like a big bleak creaking house, never once altering the direction of her eyes. I am in love. Her harmonium heaves and swells like crashing waves answering each other. If Nico could’ve laughed, she would’ve. But she couldn’t, so she didn’t.