Walk On The Wild Side: The Best Of Lou Reed
by Lou Reed
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Lou Reed bestography
Walk On The Wild Side: The Best Of Lou Reed is ranked 25th best out of 38 albums by Lou Reed on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Lou Reed is Transformer which is ranked number 146 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,222.
(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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Walk On The Wild Side: The Best Of Lou Reed track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Walk On The Wild Side: The Best Of Lou Reed rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |  TheDude85 | Top 48 Music Albums of 1977 | 2/48 | 5 |
| 2025 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 1977 | 81/100 | 1 |
| 2024 |  CharlieBarley | 701-800 Favourite Songs | 83/100 | - |
| 2023 | glynspsa | Top 100 Music Albums of 1977 | 67/100 | 2 |
| 2022 |  desh79 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1977 | 39/100 | 3 |
| 2022 | Pretender | 1972. Best Songs, sort of ranked. | 34/40 | - |
| 2020 | Ashmark | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 24/100 | 25 |
| 2019 | glynspsa | Compilations or Best Of Best Ofs | 68/100 | - |
| 2018 |  bobbyb5 | Best-ofs / Greatest Hits Albums | 39/100 | - |
| 2016 | vancevisuals | Top 100 Music Albums of 1977 | 22/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 11 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 40 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/20/2023 18:07 | Igtonumama | 10,784 | 63/100 |
| ! | 10/04/2022 12:28 | TonySayers61 | 25,888 | 64/100 |
| ! | 08/09/2022 18:51 | blueandthemoon | 2,880 | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.5/100, a mean average of 77.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.
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Lou Reed is a great beyond the Velvet Underground. New York is a really good album too, but this one has many of his best songs through the years. You can’t go wrong with this collection. Are you ready to walk on the wild side?
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