Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.

And I'm Brian.

And what are we talking about today, Brian?

The Velvet Underground and Nico by The Velvet Underground and Nico.

And Nico. What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.

We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we cap it all off with a track-by-track review. Sounds good to me, man.

Track-by-track. We've been doing it now. It's going on four years. Let's do it. And we're not

going to do it alone, Brian. Not today, no. Who's joining us? Gentlemen, by the name of Mike Nourdesi,

a, I don't want to call him like an avant-garde musician, but he's definitely not

just like a rock and pop musician, you know, well-studied, capital M musician. He's going to tell

you all about his band El Nordso or maybe his old band Moth Guts when we introduce him in a couple

minutes.

Yeah, and he was someone who you and I didn't really know.

He was an acquaintance, friend of a friend.

Yeah, yeah.

Former guest of the podcast, Renee, Maskin, from our Dylan episode, kind of turned him on

to the podcast. And then he reached out to us and we were

like musician likes the Velvet Underground. Let's do it. Yeah, and it's great that we're finally

getting to the Velvet Underground. They're one of those important with a capital I. I've been wanting

to talk about the Velvets for like five years before we started this podcast

Like oh goodness so it's something that we needed to get to and I'm glad that we finally got someone to do it and he was an absolute gem of a guest like

When he was talking I was like is he a radio guy like I really I really felt like his he his, he just jumped right in. Like he was like,

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