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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4_loaded.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Jeannie said when she was just about five years old there was nothing going on at all."'']]
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4	->''Something's got a hold on me''\
5	''And I don't know what''\
6	''Something's got a hold on me''\
7	''And I don't know what''\
8	''It's the beginning of a new age''\
9	''It's the beginning of a new age''\
10	''It's a new age''
11	-->--"New Age"
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13	''Loaded'' is the fourth studio album by Music/TheVelvetUnderground, released in 1970 through Creator/AtlanticRecords sister label Cotillion Records. It is their last studio album with Music/LouReed (who left the band shortly before release) and Sterling Morrison, as well as their first without Maureen Tucker (who was still very much an official member, but couldn't appear on this album due to her pregnancy). The band -- ultimately ending up as [[IAmTheBand Doug Yule and a bunch of session musicians]] -- would release one final studio album called ''Music/{{Squeeze\|1973}}'', which for better or worse is usually [[CanonDiscontinuity written out of the band's history]]. Even here though, Yule's presence had increased significantly, to the point where this album is considered to be a largely Reed and Yule album.
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15	Much like its predecessor, ''Music/{{The Velvet Underground\|Album}}'' from the previous year, "Loaded" is a LighterAndSofter collection of songs, which even managed to crack the hit parade - if you hear any of the Velvet Underground's songs on the radio, it's likely to be one of the first three from this album. Sadly, the band was already dissolving during recording, and the studio distilled an album out of the finished recordings. Music/LouReed would later claim that the original versions of "Sweet Jane", "Rock and Roll" and "New Age" were corrupted, though Yule says this is incorrect. In any case, extended versions of these songs were later released on reissues of the album.
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17	Anyone looking for the now-defunct lads' magazine that set new standards in British publishing should go to ''Magazine/{{Loaded}}''.
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19	----
20	!! Tracklist:
21	[[AC: Side One]]
22	# "Who Loves the Sun" (2:45)
23	# "Sweet Jane" (4:06)
24	# "Rock & Roll" (4:44)
25	# "Cool It Down" (3:06)
26	# "New Age" (5:11)
27
28	[[AC: Side Two]]
29	[numlist:6]
30	# "Head Held High" (2:58)
31	# "Lonesome Cowboy Bill" (2:45)
32	# "I Found a Reason" (4:17)
33	# "Train Round the Bend" (3:22)
34	# "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" (7:29)
35	[/numlist]
36
37	----
38	!!Principal Members:
39
40	* Sterling Morrison - guitar, vocals
41	* Music/LouReed - lead vocals, guitar, piano
42	* Doug Yule - bass, backing and lead vocals, keyboard, guitar, drums, percussion
43
44	----
45	!! '''''Some people like to go out dancing, and other people, like us, they gotta trope''''':
46	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''H'''ead '''H'''eld '''H'''igh"
47	* AntiLoveSong: "Cool It Down"
48	--> ''Hey baby, if you want it so fast''
49	--> ''Don't you know that it ain't gonna last''
50	--> ''Of course you know''
51	--> ''It makes no difference to me''
52	* BreakupSong: "Who Loves the Sun", where the protagonist doesn't care about the sun, wind, or rain "since you broke my heart".
53	* BrokenRecord: "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'"
54	--> ''Oh sweet nothin', she ain't got nothin' at all''.
55	* CoolCar: "Sweet Jane"
56	--> ''Ridin' in a Stutz Bearcat, Jim...''
57	* CoverVersion: The Cowboy Junkies' version of "Sweet Jane", recorded in 1988, was notable for using the "heavenly wine and roses" bridge, before the original version was issued on CD nearly a decade later.
58	* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: "Rock and Roll"
59	--> ''Then, one fine mornin', she puts on a New York station''
60	--> ''You know, she couldn't believe what she heard at all''
61	--> ''She started shakin' to that fine, fine music''
62	--> ''You know, her life was saved by rock'n'roll''
63	--> ''Despite all the imputations''
64	--> ''You know, you could just go out''
65	--> ''And dance to a rock 'n' roll station''
66	--> ''And it was all right, hey baby''
67	--> ''You know, it was all right''
68	* DistaffCounterpart and AuthorAvatar: Reed cheerfully admitted that despite ostensibly being about a woman named Jenny, "Rock & Roll" was really about himself.
69	-->'''Lou Reed:''' Before I heard rock and roll, I had no idea there was life on this planet.
70	* EpicRocking: "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'"
71	* EpiphanyTherapy: "I Found a Reason"
72	--> ''I found a reason to keep living''
73	--> ''Oh and the reason, dear, is you''
74	* TheFutureWillBeBetter: "New Age"
75	--> ''It's the beginning of a new age''.
76	* GenreSavvy: "Sweet Jane"
77	--> ''You know that women never really faint''
78	--> ''And that villains always blink their eyes''
79	--> ''That children are the only ones who blush''
80	--> ''And that life is just to die''
81	* HeavyMeta: "Rock & Roll", a rock 'n' roll song about how rock saved somebody's life.
82	* IAmTheBand: Between Moe Tucker being absent, and Sterling Morrison only sporadically available, it was pretty much up to Lou and Doug to put the album together.
83	-->'''Doug Yule:''' It sort of devolved down to the Lou and Yule recreational recording.
84	* IncrediblyLamePun: The album cover, which was made without knowledge of the other band members is an incredibly corny pun on the band's name. It shows a picture of a stairway to a subway station.
85	* InTheStyleOf: "Lonesome Cowboy Bill" is performed in a country & western style.
86	* InvincibleClassicCar: The Stutz Bearcat in "Sweet Jane".
87	* LighterAndSofter: This album is in a similar vein to ''Music/{{The Velvet Underground\|Album}}''.
88	* LongestSongGoesLast: "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" (7:29).
89	* MeaningfulName: The album title was meant as a TakeThat to the producers who wanted "an album loaded with hits". Funny enough, the album did manage to get into the hit parade, but by then the band had already disbanded.
90	* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'", a song praising nothing.
91	* NonAppearingTitle: The title doesn't appear in any of the lyrics.
92	* OneManSong: "Lonesome Cowboy Bill"
93	* OneWomanSong: "Sweet Jane"
94	* PepTalkSong: "Head Held High"
95	--> ''And now I'm older, they say I'm so much bolder''
96	--> ''Got your head up high''
97	* PerishingAltRockVoice: Both more and less than usual; Lou Reed tries his best to sing more soulfully than on previous albums, but blew his voice out in the process, which meant Doug Yule had to sing lead on some songs that he wasn't prepared for.
98	* SillyLoveSongs: "I Found a Reason" is as close as anything in the VU catalogue will ever get.
99	* ThePowerOfLove: "Sweet Jane", "I Found a Reason"
100	* ThePowerOfRock: "Rock & Roll"
101	--> ''You know, her life was saved by rock 'n' roll''.
102	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "Rock & Roll" was written by Lou Reed to express his love for rock 'n' roll. The line "You know my parents are gonna be the death of us all" refers to the fact that his parents enrolled him into electroshock therapy when he was a teenager.
103	* ShoutOut:
104	** "Sweet Jane" name-drops "The March of the Wooden Soldiers".
105	** "New Age"
106	-->''And when you kissed Creator/RobertMitchum\
107	Gee, but I thought you'd never catch him''
108	*** As originally written, it refers to Music/FrankSinatra instead.
109	* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Maureen "Moe" Tucker is credited as playing on the album, despite the fact that she was totally absent due to her pregnancy.
110	* SpokenWordInMusic: "I Found a Reason" has a spoken monologue by Reed.
111	* TakeThat: "Sweet Jane" takes a stab at Music/FrankZappa and the Mothers of Invention.
112	--> ''And there's even some evil mothers''
113	--> ''Well, they're gonna tell you that everything is just dirt.''
114	* TrainSong: "Train Round the Bend", in which a city boy leaves the country by train, because he's been there too long.
115	* UpdatedRerelease: The 1997 "Fully Loaded Edition" restored the original edits of the songs "Sweet Jane" (including the "heavenly wine and roses" break), "Rock and Roll", and "New Age" cut from the initial version.
116	* WhiteDwarfStarlet: "New Age" is about a romance between a "fat blonde actress" and [[MayflyDecemberRomance much younger fan]].

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