Loaded (album)

Loaded
Studio album by The Velvet Underground
Publication (s)	November 15, 1970
admission	April 1970 - August 1970
Label (s)	Cotillion Records
Format (s)	LP , CD , MC
Genre (s)	Pop-rock , rock 'n' roll
Title (number)	10
running time	40:35
occupation	Lou Reed - vocals , guitar , piano , harmonica Doug Yule - bass , guitar , organ , drums , percussion , vocals Sterling Morrison - guitar , vocals Adrian Barber - percussion Tommy Castanero - percussion Billy Yule - percussion
production	Geoff Haslam, Shel Kagan, Lou Reed , Doug Yule , Sterling Morrison
Studio (s)	Atlantic Recording Studios, New York City
chronology The Velvet Underground (album) (1969) Loaded Live at Max's Kansas City (1972)

Loaded is the fourth studio album by the American rock band The Velvet Underground and was released in November 1970, one month after Lou Reed left , on Cotillion Records, a sub-label of Atlantic Records .

background

After MGM failed to release a fourth album, the Velvets switched to Atlantic Records. Loaded was the group's most commercially successful release at the time and aimed from the unpretentious composition of the titles to the broad public taste of the radio stations. The album's title was an allusion to one with successes charged Album ( loaded with hits to be), yet despite catchy and powerful songs, the album did not have the character of the former Velvet Underground Sounds. In a later interview, Doug Yule attributed the changes in the sound to the fact that only part of the band was involved in the recording : Maureen Tucker had become pregnant and was replaced during the recording by Billy Yule, the brother of Doug Yule . Lou Reed left the band before the record was finished. Almost half of the tracks had to be mixed and finished without him. Reed distanced himself from the album after leaving and complained that the songs had been released without his consent.

Loaded features some of the Velvets' best-known tracks: Sweet Jane and Rock & Roll made it to the radio station charts and were later part of his standard repertoire in Lou Reed's solo career.

reception

source	rating
Allmusic

The music magazine Rolling Stone voted Loaded 110th of the 500 best albums of all time and Sweet Jane ranked 342th of the 500 best songs of all time . In the selection of the 500 best albums of the New Musical Express reached Loaded space 271. Pitchfork leads Loaded in 14th place of the 100 best albums of the 1970s, Sweet Jane at number 27 and Rock & Roll at number 77 of the 200 best songs of the decade. The magazine Time took rock and roll on to the selection of the 100 best songs.

Track list

Initial release

Loaded

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

page A

1. Who Loves the Sun - 2:50
2. Sweet Jane - 3:55 (3:15)
3. Rock & Roll - 4:47
4. Cool It Down - 3:05
5. New Age - 5:20 (4:49)

Side B

1. Head Held High - 2:52
2. Lonesome Cowboy Bill - 2:48
3. I Found a Reason - 4:15
4. Train Round the Bend - 3:20
5. Oh! Sweet Nuthin ' - 7:23

On the remastered CD versions, some track lengths do not match the original recording. The different times of the CD version are given in brackets.

Remastered versions

Loaded: Fully Edition

Warner Special Products 9-27613-2, July 1987

Peel Slowly and See - 5 CD Box Set

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

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

Fully Loaded Edition - 2 CD Edition

2 CDs, Rhino Records R2 72563, USA, 1997

Remastered version with numerous alternative recordings, demo songs and outtakes. Two demo takes of I'm Sticking with You feature vocal parts from Maureen Tucker and a guest performance by former band member John Cale on Ocean .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ to be seen on the DVD "Under Review"
2. ↑ Review by Mark Deming on Allmusic (accessed November 21, 2019)
3. ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time on Rolling Stone (accessed October 23, 2019)
4. ↑ 500 Greatest Songs of All Time on Rolling Stone (accessed November 21, 2019)
5. ↑ The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time on New Musical Express (accessed October 23, 2019)
6. ↑ The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s on Pitchfork (accessed October 23, 2019)
7. ↑ The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s on Pitchfork (accessed November 21, 2019)
8. ↑ The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s on Pitchfork (accessed November 21, 2019)
9. ↑ Rock & Roll: 100 Greatest Popular Songs on Time (accessed November 21, 2019)