Loaded is the fourth studio album by American rock band the Velvet Underground, released in November 1970 by Atlantic Records' subsidiary label Cotillion. It was the final album recorded featuring founding member and main songwriter Lou Reed, who left shortly before its release. Loaded was ranked 110 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

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After The Velvet Underground cut three albums for the jazz-oriented Verve label that earned them lots of notoriety but negligible sales, the group signed with industry powerhouse Atlantic Records in 1970; label head Ahmet Ertegun supposedly asked Lou Reed to avoid sex and drugs in his songs, and instead focus on making an album "loaded with hits. Loaded was the result, and with appropriate irony it turned out to be the first VU album that made any noticeable impact on commercial radio - and also their swan song, with Reed leaving the group shortly before its release.

Whispers of the Velvet.

Jevi y Velvet Records unen fuerzas para generar una comunidad amante del sonido de alta fidelidad, la música .

The Guardian music critics’ favourite albums of the year. The artist formerly known as Antony and the Johnsons made her name with nimble piano torch songs, but for her first album as Anohni, she emerged as a velvet-voiced harbinger of doom, her anguish at drone warfare, climate change, Guantánamo, the Obama administration and humanity at large set to an exuberant electronic soundtrack. It is a testament to the power of their original vision that the music here still sounds so fresh.

Music isn't just about the music. Sure, the sounds are certainly the most essential element, but you can't ignore the role of cover art in making a brilliant album From the fold-out gatefolds of the vinyl era to pull-out liner notes in CD jewel cases to the small icon on a digital player, cover art has changed over the years, but it still defines how we. look at a particular album