The Velvet Underground - Loaded

Loaded was a commercial effort aimed at radio play, another step away from the Warhol-influenced days. The album's title refers to Atlantic's request that the band produce an album "loaded with hits". Doug Yule said, "On Loaded there was a big push to produce a hit single, there was that mentality, which one of these is a single, how does it sound when we cut it down to 3.5 minutes, so that was a major topic for the group at that point. And I think that the third album to a great extent shows a lot of that in that a lot of those songs were designed as singles and if you listen to them you can hear the derivation, like this is sort of a Phil Spector-ish kind of song, or this is that type of person song."

Reed was critical of the album's final mix. He left the Velvet Underground on August 23, 1970 but Loaded wasn't released until three months later, in November. After its release, Reed discovered that the album had been re-edited and resequenced without his consent.

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1. Who Loves the Sun – 2:45

2. Sweet Jane – 3:18

3. Rock & Roll – 4:44

4. Cool It Down – 3:06

5. New Age – 4:39

6. Head Held High – 2:58

7. Lonesome Cowboy Bill – 2:45

8. I Found a Reason – 4:17

9. Train Round the Bend – 3:22

10. Oh! Sweet Nuthin' – 7:29

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The Velvet Underground - White Light, White Heat

White Light/White Heat is the second studio album by American rock band The Velvet Underground, released in 1968. It was the band's last with violist and founding member John Cale. In 2003, the album was ranked #293 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

After the disappointing sales of the Velvet Underground's first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, the band's relationship with Andy Warhol deteriorated. They toured throughout most of 1967. Many of their live performances featured noisy improvisations that would become key elements on White Light/White Heat.[1] The band eventually fired Warhol and parted ways with Nico;[2] and ultimately went on to record their second album with Tom Wilson credited as producer.

The album was recorded in just two days, and with a noticeably different style than The Velvet Underground & Nico. John Cale described White Light/White Heat as "a very rabid record...The first one had some gentility, some beauty. The second one was consciously anti-beauty." Sterling Morrison said, "We were all pulling in the same direction. We may have been dragging each other off a cliff, but we were all definitely going in the same direction. In the White Light/White Heat era, our lives were chaos. That's what's reflected in the record."

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1. White Light/White Heat 2:47

2. The Gift (Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale, Maureen Tucker) 8:18

3. Lady Godiva's Operation 4:56

4. Here She Comes Now (Reed, Morrison, Cale) 2:04

5. I Heard Her Call My Name 4:38

6. Sister Ray (Reed, Morrison, Cale, Tucker) 17:28

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The Velvet Underground - Squeeze

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The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut album by American rock band The Velvet Underground and vocal collaborator Nico. It was originally released in March 1967 by Verve Records. Recorded in 1966 during Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitablemultimedia event tour, The Velvet Underground & Nico would gain notoriety for its experimentalist performance sensibilities, as well as the focus on controversial subject matter expressed in many of its songs including drug abuse, prostitution, sadism and masochismand sexual deviancy.

Though a commercial and critical failure upon release, the record has since become one of the most influential and critically acclaimed rock albums in history, appearing at number thirteen on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time[4] as well as being added to the 2006 National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress.

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1. Sunday Morning (Reed, Cale) 2:54

2. I'm Waiting for the Man 4:39

3. Femme Fatale 2:38

4. Venus in Furs 5:12

5. Run Run Run 4:22

6. All Tomorrow's Parties 6:00

7. Heroin 7:12

8. There She Goes Again 2:41

9. I'll Be Your Mirror 2:14

10. The Black Angel's Death Song (Reed, Cale) 3:11

11. European Son (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker) 7:46

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The Velvet Underground - VU

The Velvet Underground's, VU was intended to be the band's 4th release, between Velvet Underground (third album) and Loaded, but because MGM records was purging their less profitable acts, the band was released from their contract. The band had previously recorded 14 songs that were possibly intended for their second album on MGM, but instead the tracks were shelved and weren't rediscovered until Verve/MGM was re-releasing their first three albums and the unreleased "lost" tracks were found. These tracks were remixed and cleaned up for release as VU along with some John Cale-era songs. The result is the missing link between Velvet Underground and Loaded which explored the band's evolution to a more pop-rock sound from their art-rock, experimental sound especially on their first two albums. Personally, overall my favourite Velvet Underground record is VU, it's loaded with some truly great songs that might have changed the perception of the band in 1969, as it might have had commercial potential, so it's too bad it took so long for these tracks to become available in their more or less original form.

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The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground 1969

The Velvet Underground is the third album by American rock group The Velvet Underground. It was their first record to feature Doug Yule, John Cale's replacement. It was recorded in 1968 at TTG Studios in Hollywood, California. The album's sound – consisting largely of ballads and straightforward rock songs – marked a notable shift in style from the group's previous recordings. In 2003, the album was ranked number 314 on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.

Lou Reed, the group's main songwriter, said of the album: "I really didn’t think we should make another White Light/White Heat. I thought it would be a terrible mistake, and I really believed that. I thought we had to demonstrate the other side of us. Otherwise, we would become this one-dimensional thing, and that had to be avoided at all costs."[1] Maureen Tucker said, "I was pleased with the direction we were going and with the new calmness in the group, and thinking about a good future, hoping people would smarten up and some record company would take us on and do us justice."

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1. Candy Says 4:04

2. What Goes On 4:55

3. Some Kinda Love 4:03

4. Pale Blue Eyes 5:41

5. Jesus 3:24

6. Beginning to See the Light 4:41

7. I'm Set Free 4:08

8. That's the Story of My Life 1:59

9. The Murder Mystery 8:55

10. After Hours 2:07 

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What rockstar died today

Lou Reed died today at a home he shared in Long Island, New York at the age of 71. His death occurred following complications from a liver transplant he had earlier this year.

There are simply no words to speak about the sorrow at the death of Lou Reed. He has been on this earth for all of my everyday life and now he is gone. He will continually be pressed to my heart and soul. Thank God for all those, akin to Lou, who shift within their own rules, otherwise envision precisely how featureless the world would be. His musical legacy will survive longer than time itself. In tribute and to keep his music alive I have posted up some Velvet Underground albums.

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