Lou ReedBest Lou Reed Albums Ranked
7.0
Avg Score
57
Opinions
34
Albums
10
Reviewers
Summary from 57 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Lou Reed’s catalog across 34 albums from 57 opinions, with an overall average of 7.0/10. The top-rated Lou Reed album is The Blue Mask (1981) with a 9.6/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Transformer and Words & Music, May 1965. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1972 to 2022. Walk on the Wild Side ranks as the highest-rated Lou Reed song on Rate.fm with a 9.1/10 average.
Words & Music, May 1965
“This is the sound of Lou Reed and John Cale in a room, laying down demos for what would become some of the Velvet Underground’s best-known songs. Here, in splendid embryo, are I’m Waiting for the Man and Heroin, plus a dozen more original cuts; just vocals and acoustic guitar, with occasional harmonica on top. A recognisably nasal Reed introduces each song with variations on “music and lyrics, Lou”
The Blue Mask
“Lou Reed’s the Blue Mask is a great record, and its genius is at once so simple and unusual that the only appropriate reaction is wonder. Who expected anything like this from Reed at this late stage of the game? Even though the Velvet Underground, as critic Lester Bangs once remarked, "invented the Seventies," Reed […]”
The Blue Mask
“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Lou Reed’s 1982 solo album, a strangely alluring comeback that made good on the promise of a lasting rock’n’roll icon.”