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From: jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: The Velvet Underground and Nico
Message-ID: <247@epicen.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 21:11:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: epicen.247
Posted: Wed Oct 16 21:11:11 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:41:35 EDT
References: <10436@ucbvax.ARPA> <11600002@uiucdcsp> <877@udenva.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Summary: "Loaded" album unfairly trashed in "VU" liner notes

In article <877@udenva.UUCP> showard@udenva.UUCP (showard) writes:
>...  There are actually more than three VU albums, if you count 
>live albums and the recently released "VU"--made from discovered tapes for 
>what the band's fans called "The Great Lost Velvet Underground Album."  All
>information is from the liner notes on VU--which is an excellent album, by
>the way.

There are more than three even if you don't count the live albums or VU. Though
I think "VU" is terrific, MGM/Verve did a really obnoxious thing in trying
to imply that "Loaded" wasn't a significant album (the last VU studio album,
it was with Another Record Company). The liner notes say that by the time
Loaded was released, Lou Reed had left the band. They don't say that Lou
Reed gave the best vocal performance of his career on Loaded, and left
the band after recording and mixing was complete. "Loaded" was also the most
commercially successful Velvets album (though not wildly successful).

Anyone who likes "VU" should run, not walk, and buy "Loaded". It's not up to
the company to sell records for others, but to actually deceive people
(like they apparently have done to showard@udenva) is immoral.
-- 
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