Growing Up In Public (studio album)
by Lou Reed

Growing Up In Public by Lou Reed
Year: 1980
Overall rank: 15,539th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
67/100 (from 63 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (216th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,119th)
Award Best albums of all time (15,539th)

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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 140 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,992.

Lou Reed album bestography « Higher ranked (14,678th)
Rock And Roll Heart
This album (15,539th)
Growing Up In Public
Lower ranked (17,036th) »
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(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

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
67/100 (from 63 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 66.6/100, a mean average of 64.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 65.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.

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From 03/13/2018 13:09
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....
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From 11/07/2017 04:47
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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