Berlin: Live At St. Ann's Warehouse [Live]
by Lou Reed
  • Record Label: Matador
  • Release Date: Nov 4, 2008
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7.5

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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 9 out of 15
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  1. AllMusic
    70
    Berlin was a work of tremendous ambition that didn't quite live up to its own high standards, and this live recording seems to trade a roughly equal number of new flaws for those of the original album, but this performance sounds like a legitimate attempt by Reed to revisit his past without being shackled to it, and on that level it's a brave and compelling experiment that (often) works.
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  2. Drowned In Sound
    70
    Berlin: Live At St Anne's Warehouse is basically one of the most creepily eloquent records of Lou Reed's career, tarted up in the sort of bombastic style that ironically may see it received better in the classic rockin' days of 1973.
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  3. musicOMH.com
    100
    This mature, nuanced performance of Berlin communicates the human tragedy of the story, leaving behind the chilliness of the studio and using the medium of the stage to its full dramatic advantage.
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