Loaded (The Velvet Underground album)

Occupation

  • Vocals, guitar, piano: Lou Reed
  • E- bass, guitar, organ, drums, vocals: Doug Yule
  • Guitar, singing: Sterling Morrison
  • Additional musicians: Adrian Barber, Tommy Casta Nero, Billy Yule

Loaded is the fourth album by the band The Velvet Underground. The album was in 1970, one month after the departure of Lou Reed, at Cotillion Records, a sub-label of Atlantic Records published.

  • 2.2.1 Loaded: Fully Edition
  • 2.2.2 Peel Slowly and See - 5 CD Box Set
  • 2.2.3 Fully Loaded Edition - 2 CD Edition

Background

After it had not come to publish a fourth album with MGM, the Velvets switched to Atlantic Records. Loaded at the time was the most commercially successful release of the group and took aim from the unpretentious compilation of tracks on the wide audience taste of radio stations from. The title of the album should be an allusion to a geladenenes with successes Album ( loaded with hits), but the album was catchy and despite strong songs no longer the character of the former Velvet Underground sounds. Doug Yule resulted in a later interview, the changes in the sound on the circumstance back to that in the recording only a part of the band was consistently involved: Maureen Tucker had become pregnant and was replaced in the recordings by Billy Yule, the brother of Doug Yule. Lou Reed left the band before the completion of the plate. Almost half of the tracks had to be mixed and completed without him. Reed distanced himself after his departure from the album, and complained that they had released the song without his consent.

Loaded contains some of the most well-known title of the Velvets: Sweet Jane and Rock 'n Roll made ​​it into the charts of radio stations, and included later in Lou Reed's solo career to his standard repertoire. 2003 the album was certified space 110 in the list of the 500 greatest albums of all times of the Rolling Stone.

Title list

Initial publication

Loaded

Cotillion SD 9034, September 1970

Page 1

Page 2

On the remastered CD versions of some titles lengths do not match with the original recording. The different times of the CD version are indicated in parentheses.

All songs were written and arranged by The Velvet Underground by Lou Reed.

Remastered versions

Loaded: Fully Edition

Warner Special Products 9-27613-2, May 1987

Peel Slowly and See - 5 CD Box Set

5 CDs, Chronicles / Polydor / Polygram 31452 7887-2, USA, September 1995

A compilation of Loaded can be found on the fifth CD of the collection Peel Slowly and See. The CD contains extended versions of Sweet Jane and New Age as well as some demos, outtakes and live recordings.

Fully Loaded Edition - 2 CD Edition

2 CDs, Rhino Records R2 72563, USA, 1997

Remastered version with numerous alternate takes, demo songs and outtakes. Two demo takes of I'm Sticking with You contain vocals by Maureen Tucker and a guest contribution by former band member John Cale on Ocean.

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