Vinyl Minded With the Velvet Underground and the Stooges

The Velvet Underground Loaded (Rhino/Cotillion) When Rhino drops the latest of their High Fidelity re-releases, you know you're in for a treat and these latest offerings are two bonafide classics--genuinely vital slabs of proto-punk brilliance. First up is Loaded, originally recorded in 1970 and the Velvet Underground's fourth album. Most fans consider it to be the Velvets' final true album; only 1973's Squeeze followed it and, by then, only Doug Yule was left in the band. No original members. Loaded, however, is glorious. The hippy-dippy joy of "Who Loves the Sun" is swiftly followed by the cooler-than-cool "Sweet Jane." "Rock […] The post Vinyl Minded With the Velvet Underground and the Stooges first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.