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Loaded (Fully Loaded Edition) (CD)

By: The Velvet Underground (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Loaded (Fully Loaded Edition) (CD) Album By The Velvet Underground (Artist...
1   Who Loves The Sun
2   Sweet Jane - (full-length version)
3   Rock & Roll - (full-length version)
4   Cool It Down
5   New Age - (long version)
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 - (demo)
12   Ocean - (outtake)
13   I'm Sticking With You - (outtake)
14   I Love You - (demo)
15   Rock & Roll - (alternate mix)
16   Head Held High - (alternate mix)
 
DISC 2 for Loaded (Fully Loaded Edition) (CD) Album By The Velvet Underground (Artist...
1   Who Loves The Sun - (alternate mix)
2   Sweet Jane - (early version)
3   Rock & Roll - (demo)
4   Cool It Down - (early version)
5   New Age - (full-length version)
6   Head Held High - (early version)
7   Lonesome Cowboy Bill - (early version)
8   I Found A Reason - (demo)
9   Train Round The Bend - (alternate mix)
10   Oh! Sweet Nuthin' - (early version)
11   Ocean - (demo)
12   I Love You - (outtake)
13   Satellite Of Love - (alternate demo)
14   Oh Gin - (demo)
15   Walk And Talk - (demo)
16   Sad Song - (demo)
17   Love Makes You Feel Ten Feet Tall - (demo)
 
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Entertainment Weekly (4/4/97, pp.81-82) - "...the rejiggered LOADED makes the original CD sound like it was mixed by monkeys. On the new disc, the guitars are as crisp and up front as the vocals..." - Rating: B+
Q (6/97, p.142) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...LOADED was Reed's celebration of his Bril Building-style pop apprenticeship (albeit shot through a warped, jaded filter)....Extra non-album outtakes, sleevenotes by David Fricke and a snazzy 3-D sleeve complete an exemplary package."

Title Note

LOADED (THE FULLY LOADED EDITION) is a greatly expanded version of the Velvet Underground's 1970 album LOADED. Disc 1 includes the original album along with outtakes, demos and alternate mixes. Disc 2 - the "Alternate Album" - repeats the sequence of songs from the original album using demos and alternate versions, and adds more demos and outtakes from the same sessions.

The Velvet Underground: Lou Reed (vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica); Doug Yule (vocals, guitar, piano, organ, bass, drums, percussion); Maureen "Moe" Tucker (vocals, percussion); Sterling Morrison (guitar).

Additional personnel: Tommy Castanaro, Bill Yule, Adrian Barber (percussion).

Producers: Geoffrey Haslam, Shel Kagan, The Velvet Underground, Adrian Barber.

Reissue producers: Bill Inglot, Patrick Milligan.

Principally recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York, New York in spring and summer 1970. Originally released on Cotillion (9034). INcludes liner notes by David Fricke.

The Velvet Underground: Lou Reed (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano); Maureen Tucker (vocals, percussion); Doug Yule (guitar, piano, organ, bass instrument, drums, background vocals); Sterling Morrison (guitar); John Cale (organ).

Additional personnel: Adrian Barber, Billy Yule, Tommy Castanaro (percussion).

Recording information: Atlantic Recording Studios, New York, New York (1969 - 1970).

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 the final 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 songwriting over 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 teenage rebellion ("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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