Magic and Loss

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Magic and Loss
Magic and Loss cover
Studio album by Lou Reed
Released January 14, 1992
Recorded April 1 - April 27, 1991
Genre Rock
Length 58:27
Label Sire Records
Producer(s) Lou Reed and Mike Rathke
Professional reviews
Lou Reed chronology
New York
(1989)
Magic and Loss
(1992)
Walk on the Wild Side & Other Hits
(1992)


Magic and Loss is a concept album by Lou Reed, released in 1992. It was his sixteenth album. It was informed by the illnesses and deaths of two close friends; songwriter Doc Pomus, who gave Reed his start in the music business, and Rotten Rita. A live performance filmed on March 18, 1992 at Pinewood studios in London was released on VHS and LD.

"What's Good (The Thesis)" was an early #1 hit on the newly created Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Dorita The Spirit" – 1:07
  2. "What's Good The Thesis" – 3:22
  3. "Power and GloryThe 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 LossThe Summation" – 6:39
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