Velvet Underground, The ‎– Loaded

The version of Sweet Jane is the edited one. It's time is about 3:15, not 3:55 (album sleeve is incorrect)

This album is a piece of rot, I really wish I didn't hate it so much, but I do. I guess at the time the VU didn't realise just how amazing their work really was, or maybe they did but knew most of the world still wasn't ready for them. In any case, their third album and the missing fourth album are both pretty accessible and somewhat poppy sounding without their degrading themselves to the degree that you hear in Loaded. I swear, this album is just embarrassing, I can't even listen to it for more than 5 minutes at a time. I'm not one of those people, however, who just misjudge an album because the critics do (if I were and did, I would hate Lou Reed's 80's catalogue, which I certainly don't...for the most part), I've tried hard to enjoy this album, I've listened through it many times with painful intensity, hoping to get that 'moment' where the whole thing just works in my ears, but all I get is an earful of horribly aged cheese.

The only release of this pile I care about is the Fully Loaded Edition, which has some extra recordings of actually good VU material, why that stuff couldn't take place of what's on the record itself is still beyond me.