Nico - All Saints Night From A Polish Motorway

[@jarekkrol6868]

Funny, I was on that 'motorway' (no true motorways in Poland at that time, never mind) with her and the band the day before All Saints, piloting them (badly) from Wrocław to Warsaw. Glad they got the feel of it...

[@SadracChinchilla]

Really, man? Ha ha.

[@hamfood9658]

Oh really?? Does this song capture that feeling of riding it? I'm getting the impression of heavy industry, or futuristic railings, and all that... love the song, and would love to visit Poland one day! Love from New York :)

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

Krol = King

[@jarekkrol6868]

@@SadracChinchilla Really, yes. I was 22, hired by a music journal friend to act as pilot-interpreter. One draw on what was seriously potent spliff and instead of Warsaw, I woke up in the centre of Łódź, ha ha! Because of their inexperienced pilot the band was late for their Waw gig. There you go.

[@jarekkrol6868]

@@hamfood9658 Er, 80's Poland was a poor, drab, crisis-ridden place. Add to this the grim weather typical of that season ('summer is _gone_ and winter will soon be _on_ big time) and you're in a black-and-white country, which warrants the (post)industrial associations. I love the sadness and sobriety of All Saints in PL, though. So yes, this number pretty much reflects the mood. If you visit PL, it'll be 35 years later later, and in Technicolour. Unless you decide to visit it at the turn of October... :\

[@denisostermeyer449]

That screeeaam at the end! Straight from the flaming pit of hell.....I love you Nico. And the crowd at the end politely clapping after such an awesome display of beauty and horror! Jolly good show yes? Cheerio!

[@matthewbeumer3168]

The darkest of the great female voices mother to Patti Smith and Siouxsie Sioux and the children that followed them . I simply cannot describe Nico she's just too deep!

[@toshumiko]

so atmospheric , Scary and cathartic. This live album is by far her best!

[@stevenmorris2234]

toshumiko I know right. I couldn't agree more. I love it as well! Nico's music is so fascinating. Her music is a work of art. Absolutely magnificent piece of work.

[@recorr]

i think the same, despite the fact I hate the 80's

[@juankgonzalez6230]

@@recorr The 80s had some gems here and there. David Sylvian and everyone who worked with him, Discipline-era King Crimson, Talk Talk, Bill Evans' last albums... not too shabby

[@karinjeffrey7981]

I had the honour of seeing Nico in Toronto.

[@corteo]

Nico was still exiled in her special seat in the bus, ashtray overflowing, wrapped up in patchwork sheepskin jacket, silent and withdrawn. The fog rolled by. We'd wipe the condensation from the windows, but there was nothing to see and nowhere to stop and eat, just grey fading into black. Then lights started to appear in the blackness, figures, more lights. We'd drive on. The gathering of lights increased, we could begin to distinguish people, faces illuminated by candlelight, gravestones. We reasoned, as it was November 2, that it must be All Saint's Night. In Poland, perhaps, the dead have more significance than the living. We drove on through dark and empty villages, to find the outskirts, the graveyards alight with humanity. It continued for a couple of hours, and even when the friends of the dead had dispersed the candles were left burning on the graves. Then it was black night again. Suddenly Nico leapt from her seat. "Look! It's Jim!" She peered into the rolling god. "I can see him..." 'Jim's here, in the back,' said Toby. 'Aren't you, Jim?' I reassured Nico I was there. "No-o-o. No-o-o... not you, Jim.' Nico continued staring into the night. 'Jim Morrison... I can see him... there... loook!' She pointed out the empty fog. We all strained to see. 'Where?' asked Toby. 'Can't see fuck,' said Raincoat. We carried on trying to discern the lead singer of the Doors out there in the nothingness. "Hang on," said Wadada, squinting through his bifocals. "I think I might have clocked a visage..." Sure enough, it was the Lizard King himself, a-writhin' around in his black leathers, sucking off the mike, dancing us all into an early grave. Like him, we all had died and been sent to Poland for our purple sins. Excerpt from "Songs They Never Play on the Radio. Nico: The Last Bohemian" by James Young.

[@martenselabs3212]

I'm glad to see Young appreciated.

[@bradshrinkelstein904]

That is such a brilliant book. James Young is a great writer. Great musician as well.

[@timleopardxolo]

Might be the greatest rock biography of all time. Witty, warm, desperately sad, yet laugh-out-loud funny.

[@davidchrome]

The Great Queen of Darkness. Shamanic, ethereal, gothic and psychedelic. I love Her.

[@lisamacdougall8977]

love her too

[@christopherburd9495]

@@lisamacdougall8977 Tragic, though

[@user-yz9kz6vt9y]

The only "dark" thing about her are the traumatic events of her life.

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

real wife

[@recorr]

for those who don't know and think nothing happens in here, please listen to the last third ( from 6'00) and please, stop thinking that life has any meaning

[@misslemon6032]

fabulous

[@esotericsolitaire]

If you are alone, in a scary forest, play this. The Fae will respect your privacy.

[@cescorosa61]

Sounds magnificent

[@Arckitekt]

Interesting album was entirely recorded at one concert in Rotterdam, Netherlands

[@Warholful]

Great!! very perfect song! legend! i miss you.. Nico. :((((

[@chrisolson1710]

BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN: her very best live album!

[@johnnykunst]

It really is. I remember getting it on 'cassette tape' in the late 80s and feeling so connected.

[@janzenrollo8923]

One of my personal favourite Christa Päffgen tracks. So heavy and looong drones. Shame she died so young. Bet tons of young producers would have embraced her now. You do of course know the remix version of Reich der Traume? It's insane! RIP Icon.

[@emersonarturo8809]

I dont. Please share!

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

a lot producers deserve credits to...

[@ReasonableForseeability]

@@emersonarturo8809 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWG0dqGNlrWeZqM

[@sleepersrecords4673]

pure magic

[@rch6650]

WONDERFUL

[@billbeckner7563]

Such a beautiful cityscape Nico was, but ravaged and wartorn; damaged by the famine of fame; ravaged by a longing for acceptance; run ragged by the slavery of excesses. See her for who she was, not what she became. Long live Christa Päffgen.

[@gregorpaciorek5208]

Kocham.

[@rolfisdreamworld489]

the godess of underground

[@user-yz9kz6vt9y]

I'm tired of people comparing her to a deity. G-d is a spirit, not a human. Nico was a brilliant artist, but she was human.

[@rolfisdreamworld489]

@@user-yz9kz6vt9y well, sorry, the old Teutons saw the partner as God.

[@thomaskossnar356]

This music kind of describes my BiPolar life. Highs lows ups and downs with a few mysteries thrown in.

[@jeanmarcblanc2903]

Nico, l'antichambre de la mort: le toscin de la mort, les fantômes qui nous frôlent en hurlant, une chanteuse qui au milieu du scénario sait nous guider par l'écoute.

[@sybillenova1465]

Days away from my birthday on ALL SAINTS and a cease fire in the Middle East or nuclear war,this extraordinary composition and my friend NICO 's voice gives me a lot of strength and validation of my existence..which started with the ombilical cord around my neck and a black and blue body that could only be saved by my physician father beating me up.Starting the entrance into this dimension with a TRACHT PRÜGEL from your own father might be a symbol..a magical CIA mystery tour through the militaty industrial petrochemical psychiatric and occult complex of the 20th and 21st century...hopefully finishing this soon by ascending into a GOLDEN AGE.... WE'VE GOT THE GOLD !.Can't wait to see NICO again..saw her last in winter 2018 at a shopping mall in Pac.Palisades CA.across the TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN LOTUS..sofar known as SRF LAKE SHRINE...

[@stevenmorris2234]

Imagine if Jim Morrison and Nico both did songs together. If only Jim Morrison didn't die so damn young. Damn what a missed opportunity. Think if both make a few studio albums before both of there passing. I still think there the perfect couple. The Doors of Jim Morrison did The End song and Nico covered The End Song by The Doors brilliantly.

[@corteo]

The origin of this song is detailed by James Young on his book "Songs they never play on the radio" I have posted the excerpt on this same thread.

[@TerrariumFirma]

jim morrison was an poser compared to her. She had real talent.

[@bradshrinkelstein904]

@@TerrariumFirmaYou are trolling? Jim a poser? It was Morrison who inspired Nico to write songs. And he had so much talent

[@TerrariumFirma]

​@@bradshrinkelstein904 She probably thought "if this neanderthal can do it, anyone can". The Doors had a couple of good songs but a lot of rubbish and their good songs were very corny. Nico's songs were mostly masterpieces and totally unique.

[@bradshrinkelstein904]

@@TerrariumFirma She admired Jim Morrison. Morrison was a great front man, singer, writer.

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

I need 10 hours version, thing like driving

[@paulthissen-hommerson4588]

The first song is one of my favorites,Nico was a real STAR!

[@satyros2]

thank you

[@kukai888]

totalmente!

[@standziobek7108]

When I was on a polish motorway everybody was looking at the pro's on the hard shoulder bloody hundreds of them only in Poland 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

[@stevenmorris2234]

This song is so scary it's weird that this song wasn't in any of her albums just the last live album of hers.

[@stevenmorris2234]

Well my mistake. Nico's last concert live album is actually Fata Morgana which was recorded June 6 1988.

[@satyros2]

THANJK YIU!!!

[@nphung]

thank youuuuuu

[@Arckitekt]

Its a heroin withdrawal fixer nightmare

[@bettysweet967]

love her christa paffgen

[@juankgonzalez6230]

6:54 holy shit (7:48 too, what a woman)

[@lindafoxx1659]

I'm going yo have to smoke on this

[@lindafoxx1659]

She would have questioned trump

[@lindafoxx1659]

As a human, not a pussy grabber

[@lindafoxx1659]

Thank you nico

[@lindafoxx1659]

Watch for the man from the iron cuturtins

[@stevesurryhne5628]

I cannot but mourn the fact that Nico was not induced, or seduced, by some producer to add Brecht & Weill to her repetoire--Imagine hearing her doing Pirate Jenny or Mack The Knife--In German!--And Lou's song Candy Says came too late, but he probably wouldn't have let her sing it, though I think it would have been perfect for her--I saw her live but once, at the SF Fillmore with the VU in '66--Her droning dirge haunts me, I cannot but mourn.

[@sybillenova1465]

The title was not MOTORWAY but MORTUARY.... .

[@aeolus_aoe]

source?

[@james96517]

really cool, she without much but in touch

[@RalphBrandenburger]

Did Lisa Gerard heard that?

[@MauriceMagicMovies]

Why is the double album released on cd with only three sides of the album?

[@prodzeiu]

interesting

[@lauraserrano7920]

Lou Reed la JODIÓ, se acabó la belbet

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

888th likes

[@stevenbaker7696]

It is a shame that this is just the one track. This was actually recorded live in Amsterdam? See James Young's book,'songs they never play on the radio'. (bloomsbury). The song was just an improvisation (just!) But this double vinyl album has never been re-issued. Is there a rights issue with uploading the whole of it or...?

[@philfletcher3434]

Death wish 'music.' More morbid than 'Janitor of lunacy.'

[@doctorcrankyflaps1724]

Throbbing Gristle?

[@stevenmorris2234]

Why is that it wasn't on any of her albums but the live one right before she died.

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

It was difficult for her to find a record contract, and it's kinda understandable, it doesn't have comercial values, but artistic. That's why I appreciate Cale, and all the people who help her on her carrer

[@sybillenova1465]

All saints night is my birthday.Nico and I were/are friends.

[@isabellacouto5917]

Love only her vocals..the music is so DEPRESSING