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| ARTIST: | The Velvet Underground |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Brothers |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Who Loves the Sun, Sweet Jane, Rock & Roll, Cool It Down, New Age, Head Held High, Lonesome Cowboy Bill, I Found a Reason, Train Round the Bend, Oh! Sweet Nuthin' |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 075992761321 |
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Customer Reviews of Loaded
Bad album, great edition Loaded is unquestionably the worst of all the Velvet Underground albums. As almost everyone here has pointed out, it contains three great tracks--"Sweet Jane," "Rock & Roll," and "Oh, Sweet Nuthin'." The rest of the album, however, is utterly destroyed by horrific production. You can hear brilliance looming in "I Found a Reason," a track which is wrecked by inane backing vocals and a God-awful spoken section in the middle. Same goes for "Train Comes Round the Bend" and "New Age." I won't get into the inclusion of stupid novelty numbers like "Lonesome Cowboy Bill" and "Who Loves the Sun," which are simply unforgiveable when songs like "Ocean" could have been included instead.
This being said, the Fully Loaded version of the album is truly necessary for any VU fan's library. The second disc features rough but effective demos of much of the material on the original album, forming the skeleton of what could have been a brilliant record. Especially great is the heartfelt Dylan-esque version of "I Found a Reason" and a strung-out, stripped-down take of "Head Held High."
The extras are great, too. Both versions of "Ocean" are excellent, the one on disc one being especially creepy with Reed's echoed vocals. There's a lot of interesting marginalia as well, maybe not up to speed with VU's best work, but cumulatively worth repeated listenings.
I would certainly never recommend that this be the first album a new fan listens to, but for those who need to get their fix of the greatest band of the last 40 years, this edition will more than suffice.
Loaded with Lou Reed's soon to be signature sound
"Loaded" is the least sounding Velvet Underground album. With the departure of John Cale, The Velvets lost their creative avant-garde force and Lou Reed took over making a solid album that would establish Lou Reed's sound for better or worst (depending on your opinion). While I can't say this is as good as the last three VU albums were, it definitely has its moments. Songs like "Who Loves The Sun" and "Oh Sweet Nuthin'" would make it on my list of favorite VU songs. "Sweet Jane" is probably Lou Reed's most classic song. "Rock And Roll" tells the tale of rock and roll in its finest glory. "Head Held High" shows a more powerful side of Lou Reed, vocally. "Lonesome Cowboy Bill" is a display of good country like The Byrds and Bob Dylan have done before. Overall this album is more solid and well produced than the first three albums but lacks the high energy and creative force that made The Velvet Underground different from the rest.
Could've been better.
After listening to their previous three records, I was glad to finally hear this album as part of the Peel Slowly box set. It certainly isn't inoffensive; now matter how commercial the Velvets ever got, that adjective is not something that would describe them. But it is somewhat neutered. Not because of new drummer Billy Yule, who is far better than Moe Tucker, by the way, but simply the album doesn't have enough strong songs and lackluster production.
I needn't restate what virtually every other reviewer has said: "Sweet Jane" and "Rock 'n Roll" are classics. 'Nuff said. "Cool it Down," "Lonesome Cowboy Bill," and "I Found a Reason" are very underrated tunes in the VU cannon. "New Age," "Who Loves the Sun," and "Oh!Sweet Nuthin'" are good, but rather overrated. "Train 'Round the Bend" and "Head Held High" are mediocre throwaways.
Overall, a listenable album with two stone cold classics ("Sweet Jane" sounds even better on the Peel Slowly box set in its full-length version) and a few other good tunes. But it's not a rock 'n roll classic.