Nearly every assessment of Lou Reed notes that his solo career ... The melancholy "Ecstasy," however, doesn't pop up until the album bearing its name is already three directionless tracks old.

Reed’s latest in an intermittent series of albums examining the toxic consequences of intimacy, “Ecstasy” is closer ... it’s clear the album’s title must be Reed’s idea of a perverse ...

"Ecstasy," the title track from Reed's final solo rock album, is perhaps the legends last great song. "Junior Dad" I won't lie. For the most part, "Lulu," Lou Reed's 2011 collaborative album with ...

late Lou Reed turns out to be smartly self aware and even a bit considerate: He dumps “Like a Possum” at track 12, at the tail end of 50+ minutes of his most agreeable songs in years. Ecstasy ...

Lou Reed made brilliant records for ... to choose from that and other great mid-to-late-career Reed albums—especially 2000’s Ecstasy, his final masterpiece—my deliberations often came ...

Sponsor Message There was music from this decade, including a stunning version of "Ecstasy," with Lou Reed's voice in fine ... on the Rock and Roll Animal album?) along with guitarist Michael ...

In his lifetime, the late Lou Reed charted 23 albums on ... “Lulu” was also Reed’s first charting album in more than a decade, following “Ecstasy” in 2000. It reached No. 183 on the ...

It also features “I Found a Reason” from the the Velvet Underground’s 1970 LP Loaded and “Turning Time Around” from Reed’s 2000 album Ecstasy. “Lou Reed is probably my favorite ...

Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and David Bowie (Lulu stands at the back), London, 1973. As he’d recount during the 1978 shows at New York’s Bottom Line (documented on the Take No Prisoners live album ...

Last month he released a fine new album, "Ecstasy," and on Tuesday he performed for more than two energetic hours. Reed is well aware of his status as eternal bohemia's elder statesman ...