Lou Reed - Magic And Loss (1992)

This is an album about death – and how to live with it. It is an eyewitness account, documented in compelling song, of a losing battle with cancer, the mourning after and the little miracles that, for the mourner, mark the beginning of the healing process. It will probably bum you out the first couple of times through.
But it's worth your perseverance, because Magic and Loss is Lou Reed's most affecting, emotionally direct solo work since The Blue Mask, a stunning consummation of that album's naked guitar clamor, the hushed-chapel intimacy of the third Velvet Underground album and the barbed reportorial vitality of Reed's best songwriting. He offers no great moral revelations and no happy ever after, just big questions and some basic horse sense. "There's a bit of magic in everything," he sings at the very end of the record, "and then some loss to even things out."(Rolling Stones)

Track listing

All tracks written by Lou Reed

1. "Dorita - The Spirit" – 1:07
2. "What's Good - The Thesis" – 3:22
3. "Power and Glory - The Situation" – 4:23
4. "Magician - Internally" – 6:23
5. "Sword of Damocles - Externally" – 3:42
6. "Goodby Mass - In a Chapel Bodily Termination" – 4:25
7. "Cremation - Ashes to Ashes" – 2:54
8. "Dreamin - Escape" – 5:07
9. "No Chance - Regret" – 3:15
10. "Warrior King - Revenge" – 4:27
11. "Harry's Circumcision - Reverie Gone Astray" – 5:28
12. "Gassed and Stoked - Loss" – 4:18
13. "Power and Glory, Part II - Magic - Transformation" – 2:57
14. "Magic and Loss - The Summation" – 6:39

Personnel

* Lou Reed - vocals, acoustic & electric guitar
* Mike Rathke - guitar
* Rob Wasserman - bass
* Michael Blair - drums, percussion, background vocals
* Roger Moutenot - background vocals
* Little Jimmy Scott - background vocals

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