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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together
2. Venus in Furs
3. Guess I'm Falling in Love
4. After Hours
5. All Tomorrow's Parties
6. Some Kinda Love
7. I'll Be Your Mirror
8. Beginning to See the Light
9. Gift, The
10. I Heard Her Call My Name
11. Femme Fatale
DISC 2:
1. Hey Mr. Rain
2. Sweet Jane
3. Velvet Nursery Rhyme
4. White Light/White Heat
5. I'm Sticking With You
6. Black Angel's Death Song
7. Rock 'N' Roll
8. I Can't Stand It
9. I'm Waiting For the Man
10. Heroin
11. Pale Blue Eyes
12. Coyote
| Details | | Producer: | Mike Rathke | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Live | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The Velvet Underground: Lou Reed (guitar, vocals); Sterling Morrison (guitar, bass); John Cale (bass, keyboards, viola, vocals); Maureen Tucker (drums, vocals).
Recorded live at L'Olympia Theater, Paris, France on June 15-17, 1993.
All songs written by Lou Reed except "The Gift" (L. Reed/J. Cale/M. Tucker/S. Morrison.
The Velvet Underground: Lou Reed (guitar, vocals); Sterling Morrison (guitar, bass); John Cale (bass, keyboards, viola, vocals); Maureen Tucker (drums, vocals).
Recorded live at L'Olympia Theater in Paris, France between June 15-17, 1993.
This limited edition version of LIVE MCMXCIII contains one track not found on the standard release and comes packaged in black vinyl.
When after years of acrimony, infighting and critical disdain, The Velvet Underground finally decided to call it quits in 1970, the last thing anyone expected was to hear from them again. When the Velvets announced plans for a reunion tour of Europe opening for U2, expectations of a U.S. tour rose to a fever pitch. Tragically, the Velvets broke up once again before reaching the States, and shortly afterwards guitarist Sterling Morrison succumbed to cancer, leaving the clamoring fans with only LIVE MCMXCIII to console themselves.
However, LIVE MCMXCIII can proudly take its place with the best of the Velvet's recorded output. It contains not only brilliantly extended versions of Velvet's classics like "Femme Fatale," "Pale Blue Eyes" and "Heroin," but also its share of ultra-obscure numbers such as the bombastic "Hey Mr. Rain" and drummer Moe Tucker's sweetly innocent warbling on "Afterhours" and "I'm Sticking With You." Morrison, one of the most underrated guitarists in rock, holds his own during increasingly rambunctious guitar duels with Reed. The Velvet Underground reunion may never have reached America, but as live albums go, LIVE MCMXCIII stands as a fitting tribute to both Morrison and the legacy of the Velvet Underground.
Industry Reviews
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...
Q (12/01/1993)
...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....
Melody Maker (11/06/1993)
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...
Rolling Stone (11/25/1993)
...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...
Musician (01/01/1994)
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]...
Spin (01/01/1994)
...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
Entertainment Weekly (10/29/1993)
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