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NICO is an Enhanced CD companion to the home video LETTERS FROM A PORCUPINE, and is playable on either a CD-ROM drive or a standard CD player. A portion of the proceeds from both NICO and LETTERS FROM A PORCUPINE go to benefit MAP (the Musicians Assistance Program).
Rogers Stevens (acoustic & electric guitars, Hammond B-3 organ, congas, shakers, background vocals); Brad Smith (flute, acoustic bass, bass, dumbek, congas); Glen Graham (Mellotron, drums, hi-hat, congas, dumbek, percussion).
Named for the late Shannon Hoon's infant daughter, NICO is a collection of outtakes, previously-unreleased originals and a pair of covers. Blind Melon was regularly pegged as a happy-go-lucky, hippie throwback act, but this collection exposes a band that bristled with creativity. Among the discoveries here that show Blind Melon to be more than a back-up band for the Bee Girl are "Glitch," a hypnotic percussive song that evokes the Master Musicians Of Jajouka.
Blind Melon's creative spark was surely a restless one. "Letters From A Porcupine" is a musical message left by singer Hoon on guitarist Christopher Thorn's answering machine. An impromptu session in Hoon's hotel room toward the end of a 19-month tour produced "Life Ain't So Shitty." The band's version of John Lennon's protest song "John Sinclair" shows off a major influence; a Steppenwolf cover ("The Pusher") provides some eerie foreshadowing.
Live Recording
Blind Melon: Shannon Hoon (vocals, acoustic guitar); Christopher Thorn (acoustic & lap steel guitars, guitar, banjo, Mellotron, bell, tambourine);
Producers include: Blind Melon, Mike Napolitano, Mike Kelsey, Andy Wallace.
Engineers include: Blind Melon, John Burton.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Nico Music | List Price | $13.98 (You save $1.49) | | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Alternative, Rock/Pop, Enhanced CD | | Label | Capitol / EMI | | Orig Year | 1996 | | All Time Sales Rank |  14354  | | CD Universe Part number | 1108346 | | Catalog number | 37451 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Nov 12, 1996 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Personnel | Shannon Hoon - vocals, acoustic guitar
Christopher Thorn - acoustic & lap steel guitars, guitar, banjo, Mellotron, bell, tambourine ;
| | Additional Info | Enhanced CD |
Nico Music Review Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews good for any occasion
i think this album, along with ALL of the Blind Melon albums is awesome. Shannon Hoon is truely a talented musician with an amazing, soothing, loud voice. Blind Melon's sound is one I personally could listen to over and over, day in and day out. Blind Melon never get's old. For any mood, Blind Melon reaches you.
Submitted by jammin7713 (Royal Oak, MI, USA)
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Amazing Album
This album is one of the best albums of all time. It shows the amazing diversity and creativity of Blind Melon, especially Shannon Hoon. I can listen to it over and over and not get tired of it.
Submitted by a reviewer (NY, NY)
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If you are fan of Blind Melon and you got short with the only two albums, this one will give you more reasons for being a fan.
The CD-ROM part, even thou is quite all (1996), have a great deal of information wicht it will make you drop a tear or two.
A great post-mortum give for Shannon Hoon
Submitted by mariano_moragues (Lima - Perú) 
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 funky, but good
weird at first, but over time you start to like it. buy this cd.
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Unreal
Best Blind Melon album easy, Soup may be one of the greatest songs of all time. These guys were better than anyone ever gave them credit for.
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Purchase Nico CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Mad Season Above CD (1995)
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The black and white lithographs by Layne Staley that dot the cover and liner notes of ABOVE are a subtle hint of what lies in wait on this disc. Gray shades of music ebb along, seared by an occasional lead instrument. Besides designing the artwork, Staley sings, while Pearl Jam's Mike McCready provides six-string back-up alongside bass player John Baker Saunders and Screaming Trees drummer/multi-instrumentalist Barrett Martin.
ABOVE aches with the pain of living in a world streaked by deception, betrayal and disgust. Lumbering rhythms occasionally rumble into Sabbathville ("X-Ray Mind" ...
| | Blind Melon Soup CD (1995)
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All songs written by Blind Melon except "Car Seat (God's Presents)" (Blind Melon/Blanche Bridge).
From the onset, Blind Melon eluded simple musical categorization. They weren't grunge moaners, or alternative posers, or nouveau hippies--just five guys who took a classic FM sound and molded it to their own requirements. So when "No Rain" began climbing the charts, it was hard not to cheer on their progress through the sea of plaid-shirt mediocrity. On SOUP, Blind Melon throw the last of their caution to the wind, weaving a quilt of familiar classic-rock colors out of the kind of threads that hadn't been seen in these parts since the AOR heyday of the mid-'70s.
Opening (and closing) the album to the strains of a New Orleans brass band is an announcement that, as far as instrumentation goes, all bets are off. In this, SOUP evokes such '70s progressives as Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull--expanding on the heavy blues boogie with unexpected touches. "Toes Across the Floor" switches from a spacey, Pink Floyd-esque mysterioso verse to an up-tempo, raga-ish chorus that's packed with a flute, some maracas and Shannon Hoon leading a faux traditional Hawaiian chorus, among other things. "Dumptruck" veers schizophrenically ...
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Recording information: Kling Klang Studio.
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