Complete Matrix Tapes by The Velvet Underground (CD, 2015)

Polydor

0602547549013

7052238957

1960s

16464 Sec

2015

CD

Compilation, Live Recording

Pop, Alternative, Rock

Album, Box Set

Experimental Rock, Ethereal

The Velvet Underground

Complete Matrix Tapes

4

Universal Music

42

United States

Refurbished live tapes of the fabled proto-punks provide excellent and most listenable evidence of their strength on-stage.

"The conventional wisdom is that the Velvet Underground were at their best on stage, and the high points of THE COMPLETE MATRIX TAPES bear that out.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's the Velvets less as confrontational freak show, more as a hot-jamming late-Sixties rock band, captured in the middle of a residency at the Matrix..."

Stereo