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Give Richard Butler and his re-formed Psychedelic Furs credit for knowing what’s expected of them. This energetic, note-perfect, live greatest-hits collection (recorded in the cozy confines of Hollywood’s House of Blues on the band’s 2001 reunion tour) trades on the same tastefully retro, Velvet Underground-meets-Roxy Music sensibility that the Furs displayed in their first 1980 to ’91 incarnation–no trip-hop beats, samples, or techno loops for these guys. And if this is a band out of time, it’s one whose hazy sense of the dramatic remains surprisingly robust. Though their later, more pop-oriented American radio staples "Pretty in Pink" and "President Gas" still pulse with ’80s rock energy–as does the single new studio track, "Alive (For Once in My Lifetime)," included here–the band still seems to have a special place in its heart for the dark and dreamy songs that initially defined them, as represented by "India," the hypnotic "Sister Europe," and the chaotic splendor of "Dumb Waiters." –Jerry McCulley