"I Found A Reason" is a tune written by Lou Reed and is taken of the fourth studio album "Loaded", by American rock band THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, released in November 1970 by Atlantic Records' subsidiary label Cotillion.
"Loaded" was a commercial effort aimed at radio play, and the album's title refers to Atlantic's 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". Singer/bassist Doug Yule said, "On Loaded there was a big push to produce a hit single, there was that mentality, which one of these is a single, how does it sound when we cut it down to 3.5 minutes, so that was a major topic for the group at that point. And I think that the third album to a great extent shows a lot of that in that a lot of those songs were designed as singles and if you listen to them you can hear the derivation, like this is sort of a Phil Spector-ish kind of song, or this is that type of person song."
Reed was critical of the album's final mix. He left THE VELVET UNDERGROUND on August 23, 1970, but "Loaded" was not released until three months later, in November. After its release, Reed maintained in interviews that it had been re-edited and resequenced without his consent.
Today's cover version of "I Found A Reason" is made by CAT POWER, the stage name and eponymous band of American singer-songwriter Chan Marshall, the tune is taken of the fifth album "The Covers Record", released in 2000 on Matador Records.
Several songs on the album have been used in films, where today's pick "I Found a Reason" was used in (Saving Face, Dandelion andV for Vendetta). Enjoy this beautiful cover!
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