Editing The Velvet Underground & Nico (section)

===Reappraisal===
{{Music ratings
| title      = Retrospective professional ratings
| rev1       = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score  = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |last=Deming |first=Mark |url={{AllMusic |class=album |id=the-velvet-underground-nico-mw0001955423 |pure_url=yes}} |title=''The Velvet Underground & Nico''&nbsp;– The Velvet Underground |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=October 31, 2004}}</ref>
| rev2       = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev2score  = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Black |first=Johnny |url=http://www.blender.com/reviews/review_689.html |title=The Velvet Underground: ''The Velvet Underground & Nico'' |magazine=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]] |location=New York |access-date=March 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040813173101/http://www.blender.com/reviews/review_689.html |archive-date=August 13, 2004 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev3       = ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
| rev3score  = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref name="Kot">{{cite news |last=Kot |first=Greg |author-link=Greg Kot |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-01-12-9201040209-story.html |title=Lou Reed's Recordings: 25 Years Of Path-Breaking Music |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=January 12, 1992 |access-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-date=February 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224105116/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-01-12-9201040209-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev4       = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev4score  = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin |chapter=Velvet Underground |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}</ref>
| rev5       = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev5score  = 10/10<ref>{{cite web |last=Raymer |first=Miles |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17129-the-velvet-underground-nico/ |title=The Velvet Underground: ''The Velvet Underground & Nico'' |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=November 20, 2012 |access-date=June 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602164223/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17129-the-velvet-underground-nico/ |archive-date=June 2, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev6       = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev6score  = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Velvet Underground: ''The Velvet Underground & Nico'' |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |location=London |issue=118 |date=July 1996 |page=150}}</ref>
| rev7       = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev7score  = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Fricke |first=David |author-link=David Fricke |url=http://rollingstone.com/recordings/review.asp?aid=42058&cf=402 |title=The Velvet Underground: ''The Velvet Underground & Nico'' / ''White Light/White Heat'' / ''The Velvet Underground'' / ''V.U.'' |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |location=New York |date=March 14, 1985 |access-date=March 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010907004042/http://rollingstone.com/recordings/review.asp?aid=42058&cf=402 |archive-date=September 7, 2001 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev8       = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev8score  = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name=RS2004>{{cite book |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor1-link=Nathan Brackett |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |editor2-link=Christian Hoard |chapter=The Velvet Underground |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA847 |access-date=November 22, 2011 |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/847 847–848] |archive-date=June 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610004547/https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA847 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev9       = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
| rev9score  = 10/10<ref>{{cite book |last=Weisbard |first=Eric |author-link=Eric Weisbard |editor1-last=Weisbard |editor1-first=Eric |editor2-last=Marks |editor2-first=Craig |chapter=Velvet Underground |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |title-link=Spin Alternative Record Guide |publisher=[[Vintage Books]] |year=1995 |isbn=0-679-75574-8 |pages=425–427}}</ref>
| rev10      = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev10score = A<ref name="Christgau">{{cite news |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6N9LAAAAIBAJ&pg=6134,4535773 |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide to 1967 |newspaper=[[The Village Voice]] |location=New York |date=December 20, 1976 |access-date=June 22, 2013 |page=69 |archive-date=February 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222001558/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6N9LAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RYsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6134,4535773 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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A decade after its release, ''The Velvet Underground & Nico'' began to attract wide praise from rock critics. Christgau wrote in his 1977 retrospective review for the ''Village Voice'' that the record had been difficult to understand in 1967, "which is probably why people are still learning from it. It sounds intermittently crude, thin, and pretentious at first, but it never stops getting better."<ref name=Christgau/> He later included it in his "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981).<ref>{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=0899190251|chapter=A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg70/basics.php|access-date=March 16, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com|title-link=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|archive-date=March 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190312052515/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg70/basics.php|url-status=live}}</ref>

In ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]'' (1998), [[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]] called it a "powerful collection" that "introduced Reed's decidedly urban infatuations, a fascination for [[street culture]] and amorality bordering on voyeurism."{{sfn|Larkin|1998}} In April 2003, ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' led their "Top Fifteen Most Influential Albums of All Time" list with the album.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Klosterman |first=Chuck |author-link1=Chuck Klosterman |author2=Milner, Greg |author3=Pappademas, Alex |date=April 2003 |volume=19 |issue=4 |page=84 |title=Top Fifteen Most Influential Albums of All Time (...{{nbsp}}not recorded by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elvis and the Rolling Stones) |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nCou4cnn-ZkC&pg=PA84 |access-date=November 27, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627180015/http://books.google.com/books?id=nCou4cnn-ZkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA84 |archive-date=June 27, 2014}}</ref> On November 12, 2000, [[National Public Radio|NPR]] included it in their "NPR 100" series of "the most important American musical works of the 20th century".<ref>{{cite web |title=NPR 100 |publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |url=https://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html |access-date=February 1, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091224063104/http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html |archive-date=December 24, 2009}}</ref> In 2003, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' placed it at number 13 on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/the-velvet-underground-and-nico-the-velvet-underground-52023/ |year=2012 |title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=September 23, 2019 |archive-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029231530/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/the-velvet-underground-and-nico-the-velvet-underground-52023/ |url-status=live}}</ref> calling it the "most prophetic rock album ever made".<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6597640/13_the_velvet_underground|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218001425/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6597640/13_the_velvet_underground|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-12-18|title=13) The Velvet Underground|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=2008-12-18 |access-date=2018-07-13}}</ref> It re-ranked at number 23 in a 2020 reboot of the list.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=2020-09-22|title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/|access-date=2021-10-09 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref> The album was selected as one of the 24 significant US albums of the 1960s in the book "The Perfect Collection" by Tom Hibbert (1982).

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]], [[Channel 4]], ''[[The Guardian]]'' and [[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/50266.stm|title=The music of the millennium|date=January 24, 1998|access-date=November 21, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617212743/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/50266.stm|archive-date=June 17, 2012}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Observer]] |date=July 15, 2006 |url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1821231,00.html |title=The 50 albums that changed music |access-date=July 18, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926193720/http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1821231,00.html |archive-date=September 26, 2006}}</ref> Also in 2006, the album was chosen by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine as one of the 100 best albums of all time.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=November 2, 2006 |first=Josh |last=Tyrangiel |title=''The Velvet Underground and Nico''&nbsp;– The ALL-TIME 100 Albums |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2006/11/02/the-all-time-100-albums/#the-velvet-underground-and-nico |access-date=May 16, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301183543/http://entertainment.time.com/2006/11/02/the-all-time-100-albums/#the-velvet-underground-and-nico |archive-date=March 1, 2014}}</ref> In 2017, ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' placed the album at number 1 on its list of "The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-1960s/?page=10 |title=The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s |date=August 22, 2017 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |access-date=September 3, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903033612/https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-1960s/?page=10 |archive-date=September 3, 2017}}</ref> It was voted number 13 in [[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]'s ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]'' 3rd Edition (2000).<ref>{{cite book|title=All Time Top 1000 Albums|editor-first=Colin|editor-last=Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2000|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=40|title-link=All Time Top 1000 Albums}}</ref>