Ecstasy

Ecstasy may refer to:

• Ecstasy (emotion), a trance or trance-like state in which a person transcends normal consciousness
• Religious ecstasy, a state of consciousness characterized by expanded spiritual awareness, visions or absolute euphoria
• Ecstasy (philosophy), a term used to mean "outside-of-itself".
• Ecstasy (drug), also known as MDMA (3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine), an entactogenic drug
• Carnival Ecstasy, a cruise ship

In the arts

• Ecstasy (film) (1933), a Czech film starring Hedy Lamarr and directed by Gustav Machaty
• Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, a collection of three novellas by Irvine Welsh
  • Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy (film) (2011), based on Irvine Welsh's third novella, The Undefeated
• Ecstasy (play), a 1979 play by Mike Leigh
• Ecstasy, a painting by Maxfield Parrish

In music

Bands

• The English band XTC is a play on Ecstasy.

Album titles

• Ecstasy (Ohio Players album),album by Ohio Players and Gabe McGinnis of Wheelersburg, Ohio
• Ecstasy (Avant album), an album by Avant
• Ecstasy (Lou Reed album), an album by Lou Reed containing the track "Ecstasy"
• Ecstasy (Steve Kuhn album), an album by jazz pianist Steve Kuhn
• Ecstasy (EP), an album by My Bloody Valentine, released in 1987

Songs

• "Ecstasy", a song by the Cleveland rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony from their album BTNHResurrection
• "Ecstasy", a song by Eric Burdon from his album Darkness Darkness
• "Ecstasy", a song by VAST from their album Turquoise & Crimson
• "Ecstasy", a song by Megadeth from the 1999 album Risk
• "Ecstasy", a song by Danity Kane from the 2008 album Welcome to the Dollhouse
• "ecstasy", a song by Swedish band jj on their 2009 album jj no. 2
• "Ecstasy", a song by D-Complex released for the music video game Dance Dance Revolution Extreme (North America)
• "Ecstasy", a song by Crooked Still from the 2005 album Shaken By a Low Sound
• "Ecstasy", a song by Dolores O'Riordan from the 2007 album Are You Listening?
• "Ecstasy", a song by Infected Mushroom
• "Ecstasy", a song by zZz
• "Ecstasy", a song by DJ Tiësto
• "Ecstasy" (ATB song), a 2004 song by ATB
• "Ecstasy" (Jody Watley song) a song by Jody Watley
• "The Ecstasy of Gold", a song from the film The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, also used by Metallica
• "Ecstasy", a song by Koda Kumi
• "Ecstasy", a song by Anna Tsuchiya
• "It's Working", a song by MGMT about ecstasy
• "Silver Ecstasy" a song on Time Travel (Never Shout Never album)

Other

• Extasy Records, a record label

See also

• XTC (disambiguation)