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Wikipedia wrote:Magic and Loss was voted the 16th best album of the year in The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll for 1992. Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, disapproved of the voters' support of an album he felt was a "failed concept" marred by Reed's uninteresting views on death.[19] Christgau gave it a "neither" grade in his own review, indicating an album that does not warrant repeated listening despite coherent craft and one or two highlights.[20] In a positive review, Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune said that the album shows "a great rocker at the peak of his powers: Striking tunes, gripping lyrics, honest emotion stripped of melodrama."[11]

C-poots wrote:I have been in a pretty deep Velvet Underground / Lou Reed tunnel as well. He has a strange magic where even the most depressing subject matter feels a little redemptive or something. Hope for the best emotional outcome one can have during time like this for you, Reuben.

reuben wrote:My cousin died at 47 last week. My uncle died today. This year I also lost my brother-in-law and another uncle, my boss died, my sister's father-in-law died and a few other people in and around my life also passed.

Anyway I went outside to take leaves and listened to Magic & Loss which was just the ticket for my mental state.

zappo wrote:Sorry to hear about your many losses, Reub.  Been going through the same thing, recently.  Stay strong.  Glad to hear that Lou is with you.

reuben wrote:Thanks Zappo. Same to you b

chrondog wrote:similarly, "If I Had a Heart" by Fever Ray has almost 24 million plays on Spotify because it's the intro song for History Channel's terrible show Vikings