Ecstasy

by Lou Reed

Ecstasy cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 4 April 2000
  • Label: Reprise
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:17:24
  • Community rating: 3.53/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Velvet Underground founder delivered an intense, guitar-heavy conceptual album focusing heavily on the complexities of aging, marriage, and existential regret. 'Ecstasy' is a deeply personal, often uncomfortable rock record, highlighted by the polarizing, 18-minute avant-rock drone centerpiece 'Like a Possum'.

Genres

Descriptors: drugs, regret, literate, dark-humor, spoken-word, male-vocals, unpolished, rhythmic, literary

Tracklist

  1. Paranoia Key of E (4:28)
  2. Mystic Child (5:01)
  3. Mad (4:29)
  4. Ecstasy (4:25)
  5. Modern Dance (4:09)
  6. Tatters (5:55)
  7. Future Farmers of America (3:01)
  8. Turning Time Around (4:23)
  9. White Prism (4:00)
  10. Rock Minuet (6:56)
  11. Baton Rouge (4:54)
  12. Like a Possum (18:03)
  13. Rouge (1:01)
  14. Big Sky (6:32)

Credits

  • Fernando Saunders - backing vocals, bass, arranged by [background vocals arrangement]
  • Tony Smith - backing vocals, drums, percussion
  • Doug Wieselman - baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • Jane Scarpantoni - cello
  • Mike Rathke - guitar
  • Paul Shapiro - tenor saxophone
  • Steven Bernstein - trumpet, arranged by [horns]
  • Don Alias - percussion

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