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or even ambient found-sounds (on "Farolim de Felgueiras and throughout the album") — are ingrained characteristics

elegantly illustrating the holy trinity of slacker vices: cigarettes

and getting into a more dancey arena

including the second The Dark

Velvet Underground, The - Loaded (Atlantic 75 Series, Analogue Productions, 180 Gram, 45 RPM, 2LP) Freya or even ambient found-sounds (onAfter The Velvet Underground cut three albums for the jazz oriented Verve label that earned them lots of notoriety but negligible sales, the group signed with industry powerhouse Atlantic Records in 1970. Label head Ahmet Ertegun supposedly asked Lou Reed to avoid sex and drugs in his songs, and instead focus on making an album "loaded with hits." Loaded was the result. It was the group's swan song, with Reed leaving the group shortly before its