- rock
- 59 min
- 14 tracks
- Sire Records
Magic and Loss is the sixteenth solo studio album by American rock musician Lou Reed, released on January 14, 1992, by Sire Records. A concept album, it was Reed's highest-charting album on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at No. 6.
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Character-led, spare, grave and intimate.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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- AllMusic3/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune4/4 ★
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB−
- NME10/10
- Orlando Sentinel4/5 ★
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide3/5 ★
- Select5/5
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Tracks
- 1Dorita (The Spirit)1:07
- 2What’s Good (The Thesis)3:22
- 3Power and Glory (The Situation)4:24
- 4Magician (Internally)6:23
- 5Sword of Damocles (Externally)3:42
- 6Goodby Mass (In a Chapel Bodily Termination)4:26
- 7Cremation (Ashes to Ashes)2:54
- 8Dreamin’ (Escape)5:10
- 9No Chance (Regret)3:15
- 10Warrior King (Revenge)4:27
- 11Harry’s Circumcision (Reverie Gone Astray)5:29
- 12Gassed and Stoked (Loss)4:19
- 13Power and Glory, Part II (Magic Transformation)2:57
- 14Magic and Loss (The Summation)6:39
14 tracks, 59 minutes.
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