Ecstasy is the eighteenth solo studio album by American musician Lou Reed, released in 2000. It is a concept album about Reed's personal experiences with marriage and relationships and is his final rock album that is not a collaboration. The cover photography is by Stefan Sagmeister, who instructed Reed to masturbate behind a curtain to express the feeling of unashamed ecstasy. Robert Christgau thought highly of the album, writing, "If his solo career produced a masterwork on the scale of whatever VU album you prefer, this de facto farewell is it." On an episode of Spectacle: Elvis Costello with... featuring Lou Reed and Julian Schnabel as the guests, Schnabel recites the entirety of "Rock Minuet", citing it as one of his favorite Reed songs. Ecstasy is the eighteenth solo studio album by American musician Lou Reed, released in 2000. It is a concept album about Reed's personal experiences with marriage and relationships and is his final rock album that is not a collaboration. The cover photography is by Stefan Sagmeister, who instructed Reed to masturbate behind a curtain to express the feeling of unashamed ecstasy. Robert Christgau thought highly of the album, writing, "If his solo career produced a masterwork on the scale of whatever VU album you prefer, this de facto farewell is it." On an episode of Spectacle: Elvis Costello with... featuring Lou Reed and Julian Schnabel as the guests, Schnabel recites the entirety of "Rock Minuet", citing it as one of his favorite Reed songs. false 2025-11-07 21:25:20 2015 2015-04-07 2015-04-07 78 Classic Rock Pop Rock 113007 2122019 f5f31ef3-11e3-454f-a4bb-9c3ea91fc401 9d1ebcfe-4c15-4d18-95d3-d919898638a1 001c2db4-68d0-34ba-80e0-992628859eba /config/metadata/library/53/532d21a2c357fe519658156b0d3acce5/folder.jpg Lou Reed Lou Reed 1 1 04:31 1 2 05:03 1 3 04:29 1 4 04:26 1 5 04:10 1 6 05:55 1 7 03:02 1 8 04:22 1 9 04:00 1 10 06:56 1 11 04:55 1 12 18:03 1 13 01:01 1 14 06:35