Growing Up In Public
by Lou Reed
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Lou Reed bestography
Growing Up In Public is ranked 19th best out of 37 albums by Lou Reed on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Lou Reed is Transformer which is ranked number 144 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,314.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Growing Up In Public track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Growing Up In Public rankings
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| ! | 03/17/2026 17:06 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,253 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 20:43 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
| ! | 10/27/2025 19:48 | TroutMaskGreg | 1,802 | 69/100 |
| ! | 09/08/2024 02:30 | dhbarrett | 8,604 | 65/100 |
| ! | 03/28/2024 17:06 | JamesMowbray | 5,574 | 69/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 66.7/100, a mean average of 65.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 65.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.9.
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Oh dear Lou, love lots of your stuff, but this is well off the mark. The Power of Positive Drinking is the standout song for me; How Do You Speak to an Angel, Growing Up in Public and Think It Over all have some charm and are good. As for the rest....
Brandon8 11/07/2017 04:47 | #200888
This sounds like Lou was off his rocker on this album but this time not necessarily in a good way. This is not easy to get into but I chuckled at some of the lyrics and bravado.
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