Reviews
"...As grim, determined and tough-minded as the Velvet's original work....a nostalgia-free return to old glories that recaptures and expands on the tension and beauty that made the Velvet Underground so monumental....long may they ruin..." - Rating: A, 4 Stars - Excellent - "...It's bizarre to hear a VU album with raucous cheering anywhere near it, but the Cale-Tucker axis is exemplary and every song gets at least two new twists....it's the full-scale quinquagenarian bar-band blow-out...", Highly Recommended - "...LIVE MCMXCIII stands with BEFORE THE FLOOD as one of the most unhinged, bracing testaments ever committed to tape...it's clear Reed knew this album was beyond a dare...", "...this is confirmation our ears did not deceive us and the eyes did not lie. The Velvets really were THAT good, a visitation of flesh, blood and poised noise that transcended the accumulated weight of myth and over-expectation....", 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Who cares if Lou Reed's phrasing can't match the methedrine rush on WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT...the musical charge is capable of bristling nerve ends and scorching synapses at every surge....LIVE MCMXCIII reaffirms the Velvet Underground's place in history...", "...if, 25 years later, they finally have the chance to grab the adulation and cash the Velvet Underground deserve, who am I to argue?...energetic, rough at the edges and with a catalog of golden oldies waiting to be exhumed..."
