The Velvet Underground’s ‘Loaded’ set for nine LP vinyl reissue
nme.comThe Velvet Underground‘s ‘Loaded’ has been announced.‘Loaded (Fully Re-loaded Edition)’ is a new vinyl box set that includes nearly all of the music from its expansive 2015 CD reissue but comes with nine LPs boasting stereo, mono and “full-length” mixes of the original album.Demos, studio outtakes and live recordings also feature in the box set and several tracks will be available on vinyl for the first time.The £250 box set is available to pre-order here exclusively via Dig!
ahead of its March 24 release. It’s limited to just 1,970 copies.‘Loaded (Fully Re-loaded Edition)’comes in a deluxe, foil-wrapped slipcase containing the vinyl, a poster of the album’s cover art, and an illustrated booklet with liner notes by Lenny Kaye that appeared in ‘Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition’.In addition to the nine LPs, the set also comes with four 7″s that reproduce the official singles and B-sides released from ‘Loaded’.The songs ‘Rock & Roll’ and ‘Who Loves The Sun’ both come in the generic record sleeves used at the time by Cotillion, the band’s label.
The former is being reissued for the first time ever because the original release was cancelled in 1970, while the latter is being reissued for the first time since 1970.
The other two singles come in picture sleeves originally released in Europe: ‘Head Held High’ in France and ‘Sweet Jane’ in Germany.‘Loaded (Fully Re-loaded Edition’ opens with three different versions of the original studio album: remastered stereo and mono mixes, plus a “full-length” version featuring extended takes of ‘Sweet Jane’, ‘Rock & Roll’ and ‘New Age’.Early versions of ‘Oh!
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