Mistrial
by Lou Reed

Mistrial by Lou Reed
Year: 1986
Overall rank: 24,823rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
66/100 (from 42 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1986 (329th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (3,167th)
Award Best albums of all time (24,823rd)

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Lou Reed bestography

Mistrial is ranked 25th best out of 37 albums by Lou Reed on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Lou Reed is Transformer which is ranked number 143 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,626.

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Mistrial rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 24,823rd | 1980s rank: 3,167th | 1986 rank: 329th

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Mistrial ratings

Average Rating: 
66/100 (from 42 votes)
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60/100
 
11/23/2025 14:59 JamesMowbray  Ratings distribution  5,35969/100
 
65/100
 
09/06/2025 16:05 daCritic  Ratings distribution  4,42973/100
 
80/100
 
08/27/2025 06:04 Olli  Ratings distribution  6,75563/100
 
65/100
 
08/08/2025 20:10 RemainInLight  Ratings distribution  3,20436/100
 
70/100
 
09/08/2024 02:27 dhbarrett  Ratings distribution  8,34865/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 66.4/100, a mean average of 65.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 65.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.6.

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From 11/07/2017 04:52 | #200889
Lou had to get the 80s crap out of his system on this release before he could write the classic New York.
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Best Albums of 1986
1. The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths
2. Master Of Puppets by Metallica
3. Graceland by Paul Simon
4. So by Peter Gabriel
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