Lou Reed & John CaleBest Lou Reed & John Cale Albums Ranked
8.3
Avg Score
6
Opinions
12
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 6 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Lou Reed & John Cale's catalog across 12 albums from 6 opinions, with an overall average of 8.3/10. The top-rated Lou Reed & John Cale album is Growing Up In Public (1979) with a 10.0/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Songs For Drella and Set the Twilight Reeling. The discography on Wavelength spans 1979 to 1996.
Set the Twilight Reeling
“After you’ve devoted an entire album to the ultimate concept — death and the mourning after — what do you do for an encore? If you’re from New York and you’re Lou Reed, you write about the kind of small pleasure that makes life amid the ruins worthwhile: the magic and luster of a good […]”
Magic and Loss
“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 […]”
Songs For Drella
“It’s a hip trinity — Lou Reed, rock’s surest urban poet, joins former Velvet Underground band mate and maestro musician John Cale to exhume and examine Andy Warhol. A skeletal minimusical, Songs for Drella eulogizes the silver-wigged dreamer as a Cinderella who rocketed out of dreary Pittsburgh into the cool void of pop art, underground […]”
New Sensations
“New Sensations is a long-overdue delight that’s all the more exciting for being completely unexpected. As someone who loved Lou Reed for his work with the Velvet Underground, and who has listened in deepening despair over the last thirteen years as Reed stumbled through one of the most self-indulgent and self-defeating solo careers in the […]”
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