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  • Audio CD (31 Mar 1997)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Double CD, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Rhino
  • ASIN: B0000033WC
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,102 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Who Loves The Sun
2. Sweet Jane
3. Rock 'n' Roll
4. Cool It Down
5. New Age
6. Head Held High
7. Lonesome Cowboy Bill
8. I Found A Reason
9. Train Round The Bend
10. Oh Sweet Nuthin'
11. Ride Into The Sun
12. Ocean
13. I'm Sticking With You
14. I Love You
15. Rock 'n' Roll (2)
16. Head Held High (2)
17. Who Loves The Sun (2)
18. Sweet Jane (2)
19. Rock 'n' Roll
20. Cool It Down (2)
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Product Description

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LOADED was a fitting end for the mighty Velvet Underground.Lou Reed had penned an album seemingly loaded with hits, but by now, four LPs into the Velvets' career, a sad few record buyers appreciated the band. After recording the album, Reed called it quits and crawled to his parents' home in the suburbs--the ultimate anti-rock statement.
Resignation permeates the album. Reed's voice is noticeably ragged, and bassist Doug Yule ended up recording many of the vocals for thefinal mix. Drummer Moe Tucker was pregnant, and Yule's brother Billy sat in on drums for most of the LOADED sessions, further alienating Reed from the already disintegrating band.
This was no longer the art-rock Velvet Underground, but a far more accessible version, relying on Reed's songwritingover the band's overall musicality. Accordingly, the songs are either retreats into the faux innocence of parental ideals ("Head Held High"), or autobiographical pieces of teenagerebellion ("Sweet Jane"). "Rock & Roll", for instance, reads like text-book angst, where everything your parents do is,well, "it ain't happening at all".
The album appropriately sounds like Reed's final bit of energy for the band. There's the saddened tone of "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'", in which the heroes walk with their "head[s] down", and "New Age", in which they mingle with "over the hill" movie stars. LOADED closed a chapter in Lou Reed's chronicles, and solidified the Velvet Underground's significant niche in rock history.

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5.0 out of 5 stars 1997's deluxe reissue/remodel, 12 Oct 2002
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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As with the other three official Velvet Underground albums (The Velvet Underground&Nico, White Light/White Heat and The Velvet Underground)this is an obligatory purchase. The original ten-track album from 1970 is included, in both original form and demo/alternate versions. Sweet Jane, Rock & Roll and New Age are restored to their full-length versions.

Vocals are generally traded between Lou Reed and Doug Yule, the latter great on Who Loves the Sun?. The best songs here- taking it that Sweet Jane and Rock&Roll are classics already- are New Age , Oh Sweet Nuthin and I Found a Reason (sampled by Massive Attack on Risingson). The album is more hippy and even country (as in Gram Parsons/Mike Nesmith/Gene Clark) than the previous album.

Bonus tracks on disc one include Ride into the Sun (as covered by Throwing Muses), I Love You (found on Lou's debut) and a stunning version of Ocean- one of the Velvets finest moments. And for those looking for the definitive version of I'm Sticking with You (mostly sung by Moe Tucker)as used in whatever advert- this is it (and not the VU version which sounds too sparse). The bonus tracks on disc two include inferior takes of I Love You and Ocean (featuring John Cale), an early version of Satellite of Love (Transformer) and demos of Oh Jim (here Oh Gin) and Sad Song - which became part of Lou's finest 70's solo album, Berlin.

This 'fully loaded edition' is a definitive album anyway, as great and as different as the previous Velvets albums; at this price it is extremely good value- extending on the previous 10 track Atlantic version. Rhino as ever make the finest reissues; the liner notes are luxurious. Personally I think this is worth buying for the version of Ocean on Disc one, which is one of the finest songs ever recorded. One of the key albums of the last thirty or so years in this ultimate edition.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The most 'listenable' of the velvets releases, smooth & neat, 25 Mar 2000
I have listened to the velvets for years and keep coming back to this album mainly because it is their most smoothly produced and 'listenable' offering. If you find the harsh, metallic sound of their early releases to uncomfortable or the self indulgance of 'Sister Ray' just too much this may be the album for you, though Lou and J. Cale may not agree.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Better version, 2 Nov 2001
By Paul S. Whiston "Diga" (Lunacuem) - See all my reviews
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This editions features bonus tracks recorded for the lp but unreleased and a great 2nd version of the album proper which, despite the annoying out of time cow bell version of "sweet jane", and the less aesteic version of "I found a reason" which suffers for the lack of multi-vocals... is much more Lou Reed and much better an LP for it... I love the Ocean as a song which I heard first as Lou's solo, here is more haunting, tho the Cale Keyboard version is nowhere near as good.. but in all this is a very good record, not matching past heights though, the beautiful torturous guitars on classics like European Son and Sister Ray are missed here...
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