Magic and Loss
by Lou Reed
- Type: Album
- Released: 14 January 1992
- Label: Sire
- Country: United States
- Length: 58:33
- Community rating: 3.64/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Prompted by the deaths of two close friends, 'Magic and Loss' is a deeply somber and existential concept album exploring the grieving process. Lou Reed utilizes sparse art-rock arrangements and his signature talk-singing delivery to craft an incredibly serious, poignant, and profoundly sad meditation on mortality.
Genres
Descriptors: ballad, death, conceptual, grief, existential, talk-singing
Tracklist
- Dorita (The Spirit) (1:07)
- What's Good (The Thesis) (3:21)
- Power and Glory (The Situation) (4:23)
- Magician (Internally) (6:23)
- Sword of Damocles (Externally) (3:42)
- Goodby Mass (In a Chapel Bodily Termination) (4:25)
- Cremation (Ashes to Ashes) (2:54)
- Dreamin' (Escape) (5:09)
- No Chance (Regret) (3:14)
- Warrior King (Revenge) (4:26)
- Harry's Circumcision (Reverie Gone Astray) (5:28)
- Gassed and Stoned (Loss) (4:18)
- Power and Glory Pat II (Magic Transformation) (2:57)
- Magic and Loss (Summation) (6:39)
Credits
- Lou Reed - primary artist, mixed by, producer, vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, words by, music by, backing vocals
- Mike Rathke - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, guitar synthesizer [casio guitar], mixed by, producer, music by [co-authored with]
- Spencer Drate - art direction, design
- Sylvia Reed - art direction, design
- Judith Salavetz - design [additional design]
- Rob Wasserman - electric upright bass [clevinger 6-string electric upright]
- Joe Warda - engineer [assistant]
- Shannon Carr - engineer [assistant]
- Roger Moutenot - engineer, recorded by, mixed by, backing vocals
- Bob Ludwig - mastered by
- Michael Blair - percussion, drums, backing vocals
- Louis Jammes - photography by [cover photo]
- Jimmy Scott - backing vocals [the legendary]