It's pretty good. You can hear some rust around the edges (especially from Nico, who misses some cues and has a coughing fit towards the end of Janitor of Lunacy). I find her part to be the weakest of the three, because her songs just seem to drag, but the VU songs she sings are right on.
Cale's section is good, most surprisingly so for me since I'm not familiar with much of his post Velvets output. I wouldn't call this essential by any means, but it's a pretty nice disk to have.
Hearing some of the songs without the clouds of noise (particularly Black Angels Death Song, which is actually a prettier and scarier song than the album version, and All Tomorrow's Parties) is the biggest treat, I'd say.
Apparently, it's a limited edition version (having two extra practice songs - Pale Blue Eyes and Candy Says, both of which pretty much sound like practice versions, complete with them giving instructions to each other on how to play them), and supposedly the last two won't be on future versions. Don't know if that's true or not, though. I would recommend it, but wouldn't give it to someone not familiar with the VU.
Originally posted by Skeeter:
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