C/D: Lou Reed, John Cale, & Nico

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How is it that I had never even heard of this until today? Anyway, I've been researching it, and the concensus seems to be: potentially great songs hindered by crappy recording and non-existent re-mastering. True?

Also, does anyone know if the 2004 Italian import "boasts" better sound quality? Or is there some other superior version?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 20 March 2005 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. Apparently, some label called "Get Back" is releasing volumes one and two of the Bataclan performance. I wonder if they're re-mastered...

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 20 March 2005 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"Get Back" is a very very well-known reissue label, though I know them mostly for their vinyl reissues of much of the ESP disc catalog. They will probably sound decent, but I haven't heard the original so I can't be much help.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 20 March 2005 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't heard this in about a year, since before the album saw its official release (I'm not sure what the sound quality is like on the official version, but it's not so easy to polish a turd).

Simply put, fans of the artists will enjoy the album, and non-fans won't. It's certainly not essential. I find the No One Is There/Frozen Warnings/Janitor of Lunacy section a bit boring, but I have trouble getting into Nico's solo stuff.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 20 March 2005 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually just got around to this only last summer. I don't know anything about different versions. I thought it was pretty good. Better than the one with Eno & Kevin Ayers anyway. The John Cale really impressed me and I've never been particularly drawn to him before.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 20 March 2005 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I got the seven-inch double-EP version, back in the late 80s, when I was colleI was at a peak of enthusiasm for collecting all three artists, but still found this disappointng. Not so much the sound quality, but the performances: really slow and depressed, ditto the comments between songs.(Nico apologized for her voice:"I'm so-ree. I don't smoke cigarettes.")I mainly remember her and Lou; Cale might've been okay. I suppose it might be worth downloading (for free), but there's better stuff to be found (think that's the last time they all three got together, though).

― don, Sunday, 20 March 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

are there any other live albums or any recordings that sound like the Lou songs here? the stripped down arrangements are just incredible

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 14:54 (sixteen years ago)

not really, though there's a bootleg circa 1970 of him playing a bunch of songs solo acoustic. Perfect Night from the late 90s is a live album that is kinda like his version of "unplugged" but it's not all that great. it's ok.

― tylerw, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:06 (sixteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

Classic.

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 03:27 (three years ago)

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C/D: Lou Reed, John Cale, & Nico - Le Bataclan '72