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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