"Clash Music" names the Velvet Underground's debut March 1967 album "The Velvet Underground & Nico" "the original art-rock record". Bannister writes of the Velvet Underground: "no other band exerted the same grip on the minds of 1970s/1980s art/alternative rock artists, writers and audiences." Their influence would recur from the 1970s onwards to various worldwide indie scenes, and in 2006, "The Velvet Underground & Nico" was inducted into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry, who commented: "For decades has cast a huge shadow over nearly every sub-variety of avant-garde rock, from 70s art-rock to no-wave, new-wave, and punk." However, when the Velvet Underground first appeared in the mid 1960s, they faced rejection and were commonly dismissed as a "fag" band. In 1982, musician Brian Eno famously stated that while "The Velvet Underground & Nico" initially sold just 30,000 copies, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band."