"Originally released as 1992's Live, these once murky recordings have been remastered and restored brilliantly in a vital reissue accompanied by a brief, but revealing, interview with Lightman, conducted by Bell biographer Rich Tupica ... And the band, as a whole, seems more flexible and willing to trespass on new territory in this engaging set, drawing songs from the first two Big Star albums without going too far afield on Stephens' snappy drumming, Chilton's slippery, yet substantive and charismatic six-string magic and Lightman's more malleable approach to the bass. As a snapshot of a band at a crossroads in its career, Live on WLIR is an archivist's dream".