"Brian Eno famously quipped that everyone who bought The Velvet Underground & Nico started a band, but The Velvet Underground's stunning simplicity and unflinching honesty presented an even more accessible model of DIY aspiration, free of Warholian conceptualism and Cale's classically schooled chaos. The album remains both an open invitation and a dare-to face Reed's hard truths or, better yet, to reveal your own".