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Originally Posted by batreleaser
i like loaded and self titled a lot, there is a lot of beautiful songs on both of them, but i feel like that theyre more like reed solo alblums than velvet underground alblums. ive always thought of as the velvet underground as the songwriting collaboration of john cale and lou reed, granted maureen tucker was a great drummer. but john and lou made the VU what it was.
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Yeah, other than 'The Murder Mystery', 'After Hours' and 'The Story of My Life' (written before Cale left the group, and the only number on the LP credited to him), the self-titled album sounds like the beginning of Reed's solo career.
What I've always gotten a kick out of is just how similar
Loaded and
Squeeze are--right down to the cover art! This can be baffling, for Reed has always maintained (and sued to prove it) that
Loaded is 90% his material; while most folk regard
Squeeze as a VU album in name only, Doug Yule being the only Velvet on it. As far as I'm concerned, one can analyse and assess this in one of three ways: 1)Yule (and possibly the others) contributed far more to
Loaded than Reed has ever let on; 2)Reed (or more likely the others) contributed far more to
Squeeze than the public has ever realised (or wants to admit); or 3)Reed had a far bigger impact on Yule as a songwriter than has previously been chronicled.