Loaded: best VU album, rite guys?

there's just no way to respond to something like that

yeah I mean I love the Dead and all but

Loaded is a roots move not unlike Workingman's Dead or American Beauty.

But you can have both. "Over the bridge we go...It's a New Age!"

well this is from a guy who thought it was a good idea to record "I don't want to miss a thing" so

Loaded is a roots move not unlike Workingman's Dead or American Beauty.

really interesting take!

I mean we're not talking about creedence clearwater revival here.

good thing we aren't, aero hates them

xp

what???

aero that hurts my feelings

haha sorry man it's the truth

I mean I don't HATE em hate em like the Cranberries or whatever but they're v. boring to me

i listened to white light/white heat THIS MORNING

sup

it's causing my internal teenage self to shake his damn head when I admit that I'd probably take the Dead over the Velvets at this point in my life

lol @ u

loaded and the 1st album are my faves. don't really listen to the other 2 anymore. or haven't in a long time. years.

The Godz, Cromagnon

Some of the bonus jams on the CCR reissues of a few years ago actually have VU appeal, like remastered VU Live In '69 appeal--Fogarty could get into some one-chord/no-chord gnarl.

Fogerty, even.

"Ramble Tamble" is their "What Goes On."

creedence rules. so goth. fuck a nick cave.

If it has VU appeal, it would be Fogarty

Loaded vs. American Beauty

Fogpoparty!

revoke aero's citizenship asap imo

I can't understand not liking CCR it's like u hate america

lol am0n

I could imagine "Who Loves The Sun," "Lonesome Cowboy Bill," and maybe "Train Comin' Round The Bend" on American Beauty.

I mean jesus man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2K80kVwEOw

The Dead should invite Doug Yule to tour--lives in the Northwest, plays, records and maybe builds folkie instruments, according to "Fricke's Picks."

anyway I dunno bands like the who and the beatles messed around with noise but VU just got into it up to their elbows, it's the difference between "I dropped acid once in college, it was weird" and "I am an orange don't juice me lucifer"

like maybe if the who had an entire album side that sounded like the last 20 seconds of their smothers brothers appearance

idk I love certain CCR songs and all, but I put on Cosmos Factory and any song that wasnt Ramble Tamble and Up Around the Bend kinda made my eyes glaze over.

That being said, Ramble Tamble & Up Around the Bend justifies the existence of any band (along with Green River, Fortunate Son, and Bad Moon Rising)

xposts to whomever

I only brought up aero's CCR hate so that everyone else would feel more comfortable dismissing his weird-o opinions

total Velvets jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_y-CHghv3w

loaded is totally the best CCR album

Check those CCR reissues, from mid-/late-00s. As for the Who making musical noise, Ever heard "The Ox", on The Who Sings My Generation? (American title, sorry). That was, what, '65, '66? Also, some of the live stuff in The Kids Are Alright doc.

xp lolol

Michael Yonkers might have the VU beat in that noise dept.

i went through this period of time where i didn't like the album "velvet underground" but now i'm digging it all over again

the mellowness rules

Michael Yonkers might have the VU beat in that noise dept.

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this album is so tite y'all

http://learningcurverecords.myshopify.com/products/cold-town-soft-zodic-lp-cd

this rare white light/white heat outtake smokes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WApBW55-4l0

I was thinking of dragging Loaded out of the dust, but this thread has got me hankering for CCR instead

Were the records that hard to find in the U.S. until their CD releases in the eighties?

cassettes were widely available by 1986. have no idea about earlier.

the records were hard to find in the U.S. until their CD vinyl rereleases in the eighties

oh ok! I didn't know those records saw a tape release.

When I discovered them in '93 it was a perfect moment. Three covers out at once: Bryan Ferry ("All Tomorrow's Parties"), Duran Duran ("Femme Fatale"), Billy Idol ("Heroin"). Plus, um, they'd just reunited. So I bought Words and Music of Lou Reed, the only comp extant. I didn't buy the studio albums until the remasters came out in '96 or '97.

my brother bought me a cassette of the first album as a Hannukah present in '86

First heard them in the Doors movie. After getting all the Doors albums, I was upset that one Doors song "Heroin" wasn't on any of them.

I remember reading a big writeup in rolling stone by fricke? when they got reissued

Yep, VU and VU & Nico got 5 stars ("the great lost Velvet Underground album is no longer lost; it is simply great"), and WL/WH and the 3rd record each got 4 stars. I bought VU the week it came out on the basis of that review, not having heard them at all. Completely loved it from the first listen.

I would probably like CCR better if I didn't hate the way Fogerty sings, it's just such a drag to me. Can't front on how good their records sound or the vibe they get instrumentally but then Foges starts to croon and it's like yo dude get you some prune juice, it'll be cool

he's a soul shouter

yeah normally I'd be with you on the prune juice but fogerty pulls it off imo, the deep reverb on his voice on some of the CCR recordings sounds so great

but hating the way a lead singer sounds can irreversibly sour a band for me too so I feel ya (o hai the doors)