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It was the final album recorded featuring founding member and main songwriter Lou Reed, who left shortly before its release. Other founding members Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker would leave in 1971. For this reason, it is often considered by fans to be the “last” Velvet Underground album.
It has retrospectively gained positive reception; Loaded was ranked number 242 in 2020, on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.