Loaded is the fourth studio album by American rock band The Velvet Underground, released in November 1970 by Atlantic Records subsidiary label Cotillion. It was the final album recorded featuring founding member and main songwriter Lou Reed, who left shortly before its release and considered by fans to be the “last” Velvet Underground album. Loaded was a commercial effort aimed at radio play, and the album title refers to Atlantic request that the band produce an album “loaded with hits”, with a double meaning about the word “loaded”, that can also mean “full of drugs” or “really high on drugs”.