I've heard her VU songs for years, saw Nico Icon, but it was only last month I decided to get The Marble Index. My feeling: it sounds strange at first and probably will remain offputting to many people, but after a few listens it reveals itself to be a great and classic album. It is music that sounds out of time, medieval, gothic, sung in Nico's one-of-a-kind deep melancholy voice, with John Cale's spare, sympathetic backgrounds. Nico will always be a fringe character in rock and roll history, weird, fascinating, unknowable, a heroin-addicted beauty who ravaged her looks and health, and this album shows she should be taken seriously as an artist. "Midnight winds are landing at the end of time"...yes, they were for her.