Magic And Loss (studio album) by Lou Reed

Magic And Loss by Lou Reed
Year: 1992
Overall rank: 4,086th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 108 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1992 (72nd)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (690th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,086th)
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Lou Reed bestography

Magic And Loss is ranked 8th best out of 37 albums by Lou Reed on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Lou Reed is Transformer which is ranked number 138 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 10,450.

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Magic And Loss track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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74/100 (from 108 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 17% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.1/100, a mean average of 72.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.

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90/100
From 03/30/2021 11:14
Lou Reed is a brilliant storyteller. With his graphic depiction of what happens to the characters, you are immediately drawn in. You feel anger, sadness, disgust, helplessness and also dark humour as if you are living it. Lou is simply amazing. The music supports the tale, as it did in Songs for Drella.
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From 02/11/2018 14:24
Poesia pura; un album dove se non si riesce ad entrare appieno nella sostanza, la forma può risultare ostica. Omaggio funebre a due amici scomparsi per cancro, triste per forza di cose ma non piagnucoloso, non arrendevole o sconfitto, portatore di un dolore non esibito ma raccontato con sobrietà e sentito sotto tutti i punti di vista: dalla parte di chi sa che dovrà andarsene e da quella di chi rimarrà. Dolore e rabbia, speranza e rassegnazione, pianti intimi ed anche risate amare. E, alla fine, la "magia" pur devastante che simili esperienze lasciano in chi rimane. Un disco che parla di morte e che sa di vita.
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From 01/10/2014 01:38
This album has breathtaking story telling but not something I can throw on without being in the right mood given the material. The only song that stands on its own is What’s Good. The rest must be listened to within the framework of the album.
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