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Sterling Morrison once said of Loaded, "It showed that we could have, all along, made truly commercial sounding records," but just as importantly, it proved they could do so without entirely abandoning their musical personality in the process. It's a pity that notion hadn't occurred to anyone a few years earlier.
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The Velvet Underground finally succumb to the mainstream, losing all sense of experimentation and making nothing but radio-friendly hits, and they somehow still manage to make something truly amazing.
When you think about a group like The Velvet Underground going completely mainstream, you might think that it's going to end up being a complete disaster. For a group who built themselves up as being some of the most experimental for their time, and even when they started going with a more ... read more
The Velvet Underground embrace the pop sensibilities that pervaded their music since their initial release, outputting an album that feels entirely influenced by the pop music of the decade before it but simultaneously looking forward to the rock sound that would come in the next decade. Lou Reed and company reveal themselves to be just as forward-thinking as they always were - Loaded is just a more pressing version of looking forward.
By this point, four albums in, there really was something ... read more
WALKING ON SUNSHINE, LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY.
The wiser, sobered up version of something like 'White Light / White Heat'. A genuinely joyous collection of sunshine tinged tracks that has a cohesion and flow that no VU record has benefitted from previously. This is my favorite album of theirs, without question. The listener never goes more than one song without hearing something fantastic. I don't think any tracks really stick out as particularly incredible, other than
'Sweet Jane', but the ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Who Loves the Sun 2:46 | 90 |
| 2 | Sweet Jane 4:06 | 89 |
| 3 | Rock & Roll 4:43 | 87 |
| 4 | Cool It Down 3:05 | 77 |
| 5 | New Age 5:10 | 85 |
| 6 | Head Held High 2:56 | 77 |
| 7 | Lonesome Cowboy Bill 2:43 | 74 |
| 8 | I Found a Reason 4:15 | 85 |
| 9 | Train Round the Bend 3:21 | 75 |
| 10 | Oh! Sweet Nuthin' 7:25 | 92 |
Total Length: 40 minutes
Year End Lists
| #11 | / | Paste |
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Added on: February 12, 2013