The Velvet Underground's Loaded gets the six-disc reissue treatment

The Velvet Underground … This would be the last time Lou Reed smiled for 23 years. Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature/Everett Collection / Rex Feature

The last few years have seen the Velvet Underground’s career comprehensively overhauled, with a series of album rereleases featuring scores of bonus discs containing unreleased live recordings and demos. Now the process has reached the group’s final album with Lou Reed, Loaded, which is to emerge in a six-disc edition on 30 October.

Loaded was already given an overhaul in 2004 with the 2CD set Fully Loaded, which featured alternate, unreleased versions of every song on the album, but the new one goes much, much further. As well as studio outtakes, single versions, demos and alternate mixes, the new edition contains two live albums, the first a version of Live at Max’s Kansas City, the album compiled from tapes the Andy Warhol associate Brigid Polk had made of Lou Reed’s last shows with the band. Curiously, this version is contracted from the 2CD edition of the album released in 2004.

The second album captures the group live at Second Fret in Philadelphia in May 1970, a show that has been much bootlegged. The group played at Second Fret three times that year, and many bootlegs pick from the three shows. This release captures the whole 11-song set.

The full tracklisting for the set is:

Disc One: Loaded Remastered

1. Who Loves The Sun
2. Sweet Jane – Full Length Version
3. Rock & Roll – Full Length Version
4. Cool It Down
5. New Age
6. Head Held High
7. Lonesome Cowboy Bill
8. I Found A Reason
9. Train Round The Bend
10. Oh! Sweet Nuthin’

Session Outtakes:

11. I’m Sticking With You – New Remix
12. Ocean
13. Love You
14. Ride Into The Sun

Disc Two: Loaded Remastered: Promotional Mono Version

1. Who Loves The Sun
2. Sweet Jane – Full Length Version
3. Rock & Roll – Full Length Version
4. Cool It Down
5. New Age
6. Head Held High
7. Lonesome Cowboy Bill
8. I Found A Reason
9. Train Round The Bend
10. Oh! Sweet Nuthin’
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Singles and B-Sides

11. Who Loves The Sun
12. Oh! Sweet Nuthin’
13. Rock & Roll *
14. Lonesome Cowboy Bill *

Disc Three: Demos, Early Versions and Alternate Mixes

Demos
1. Rock & Roll – Demo
2. Sad Song – Demo
3. Satellite Of Love – Demo
4. Walk And Talk – Demo
5. Oh Gin – Demo
6. Ocean – Demo
7. I Love You – Demo
8. Love Makes You Feel Ten Feet Tall – Demo Remix
9. I Found A Reason – Demo

Early Versions
10. Cool It Down – Early Version, Remix
11. Sweet Jane – Early Version, Remix
12. Lonesome Cowboy Bill – Early Version, Remix
13. Head Held High – Early Version, Remix
14. Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ – Early Version, Remix

Alternate Mixes
15. Who Loves The Sun – Alternate Mix
16. Sweet Jane – Alternate Mix
17. Cool It Down – Alternate Mix
18. onesome Cowboy Bill – Alternate Mix
19. Train Round The Bend – Alternate Mix
20. Head Held High – Alternate Mix
21. Rock & Roll – Alternate Mix

Disc Four: Live At Max’s Kansas City Remastered

1. I’m Waiting For The Man
2. White Light/White Heat
3. I’m Set Free
4. Sweet Jane
5. Lonesome Cowboy Bill
6. New Age
7. Beginning To See The Light
8. I’ll Be Your Mirror
9. Pale Blue Eyes
10. Candy Says
11. Sunday Morning
12. After Hours
13. Femme Fatale
14. Some Kinda Love
15. Lonesome Cowboy Bil” – Version 2

Disc Five: Live At Second Fret, Philadelphia, 1970*

1. I’m Waiting For The Man
2. What Goes On
3. Cool It Down
4. Sweet Jane
5. Rock & Roll
6. Some Kinda Love
7. New Age
8. Candy Says
9. Head Held High
10. Train Round The Bend
11. Oh! Sweet Nuthin’

*previously unreleased

Disc Six: Audio DVD

96/24 Hi-Resolution Surround Sound Remix
96/24 Hi-Resolution Stereo Downmix
96/24 Hi-Resolution Original Stereo Mix