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4
By Unmedicated Eddie
An excellent live album, but certainly not from 1973. "Dirty Blvd." was written in the late '80s, and you can clearly hear Antony Hegarty (who was two years old in 1973) on several of the tracks.
iTunes Has Got Their Info Wrong!!
4
By Matt-NYC
To clarify what some other customers have pointed out, there are a couple of glaring errors in iTunes' product details for this album.
First off, the name of the album should be "ANIMAL SERENADE." For some reason, iTunes only lists it as "Animal."
Secondly, and more importantly, the iTunes "Album Review" is for the WRONG ALBUM! They accidentally included the review for Lou's 1973 bootleg album, "The Phantom Animal."
This album is actually a live recording from one of his 2003 shows in support of The Raven. It was recorded in Los Angeles & released in 2004.
The album itself is great. Lou sounds fantastic with a scaled down backing band (yes, that includes Antony Hegarty from Antony & the Johnsons). They cover a lot of Velvet Undergound material too, which is nice.
But I didn't want to get into an in-depth review-- I mainly wanted to clarify the incorrect album details supplied by iTunes.
To correct the erroneous attribution of this recording . . .
4
By Stan in Spokane
This is actually an abridged version of the "Animal Serenade" live album Lou recorded at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles on June 24, 2003. That's why material from "The Raven" is included along with material from decades earlier. You used to be able to find the full, cranky performance of "Sweet Jane" from this concert on iTunes from which the track "Advice" on this version is an excerpt, but that appears to have been removed now.
Antony???
5
By maisong
Candy Darling is performed by Antony and the Johnson's on this album, not Lou Reed. Is this a mistake? Either way it is a gorgeous version and I have not been able to find it elsewhere.
iTunes Review is Wrong on Dates
5
By the G-man
This is album is not from a 1972 recording. A number of the songs are from the late 80s and beyond: Smalltown, Ecstasy,Dirty Blvd,Set the Twilight Reeling, just to name a few. Its still great Lou Reed but not a great review.
About as good as Lou can get live nowadays....
5
By Van
lou will obviously never be as good as he was in The Velvet Underground. But the "new" lou is an acquired taste, and the cello really pours the sugar onto lou's voice.
