Set The Twilight Reeling
by Lou Reed

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Set The Twilight Reeling by Lou Reed
Year: 1996
Overall rank: 10,750th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 62 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (202nd)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (1,707th)
Award Best albums of all time (10,750th)

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Lou Reed bestography

Set The Twilight Reeling is ranked 13th best out of 38 albums by Lou Reed on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Lou Reed is Transformer which is ranked number 145 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,271.

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Set The Twilight Reeling rankings summary
Overall rank: 10,750th | 1990s rank: 1,707th | 1996 rank: 202nd  Overall chart history
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From dihansse 04/26/2024 20:39 in My discoveries per year
“And two albums of 1996: One I already own/know: Fairly rocking album and to me also a bit underrated because it features some very good songs of which the title track is the best. This album moves up from the 69th to the 37th rank of the year. And an album from my wishlist: After a number of…”
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From 11/07/2017 04:59 | #200890
This was a transitional record into the latter part of Lou’s career. This is definitely lighter fare after Magic and Loss but maybe a bit too much sugar and egg cream in this one. I do like NYC Man.
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From 08/16/2017 07:04 | #196108
Really a rather under-rated album IMO
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