Enya C/D?

She's an effective muse though: Todd Edwards, Christgau's blurb in the turkey shoot last year.

there's almost as much vocal layering as guitar layering on some MBV tracks.

Watermark is the shit yo btw.

Christgau's writing on Enya is relatively classic bile.

sometimes just so good in the office. i remember one of my bosses at school, she was 40-something with a penchant for really soothing music at work, and said things like "you know, ramzi, we need things like this -- everything just gets so stressful!"

she was right.

For MBV, it really comes down to "Blown a Wish", which I don't think anyone can deny sounds a lot like Enya.

Christgau taking time out of his day to tell the world why Enya sucks, I dunno, I find that depressing.

i won't even read it. i'm a little hungover.

If the dude doesn't think she's eccentric, he doesn't know shit about her. I'd wager she's even weirder than Liz Frasier in real life.

theres a bangin version of sail away on pbs right now

classic though maybe unsalvageable - whoever got the light bulb to package her and turn her into an international megabusiness really deserves some sort of industry medal because she's pretty far from an obvious sure thing.

sure an' she gives me hives now like the rest of us, but this never fails. feckin' beautiful it is, and mournful as anything:

evening falls is the shit

Whenever I hear Orinoco Flow now it always brings back warm memories of eating chicken curry covered jacket potatoes in Bromsgrove's Spud-U-Like in 1988.

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7425/imageuploadimage.jpg

pot + enya = :)

or so i've heard...

That says a lot more about the bodaciousness of pot than about any potential classicossity of Enya

yeah, kinda, but the production is nuts. i need to find an audiophile webboard with heated enya debate.

enya is bodacious as hell

pot, enya and a big bed, and like a silky breeze

when enya makes love with one of her loyal minions, does enya listen to enya? i'll bet she does.

^ how to live

her songs are highly geographical & suggest she wld be good at guess the city

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thank god for Enya!

I like how you the most recent news item on her web site is congratulating an Irish race car drive on his win, and you can buy an Enya baseball cap on her web site but nothing else.

nix that first "you"

Passed up buying the album with Orinoco Flow on vinyl this weekend. Did I make a mistake? Think I want to go back and find it.

mammoth mistake tbh

orinoco no

flow back and get it

By coincidence I did buy the Enya album w/ O-Flo on it this weekend. Pretty much a charity shop 99p staple in the UK, not sure why I broke down and actually bought the thing this time round.

because it was the right thing to do

Got the Clannad album w/ Harry's Game at the same time, side one of that is the only thing I've listened to so far. Harry's Game is an all-time classic obv, but track two sounded good too and a bit John Martyn-ish iirc.

watermark is a classic imo

aka the album w/ o-flo

ahead of the kanye game

pinch of salt cos its from the aul fella but he reckons her long term partner was a shipmate of his for years up in donegal, got stressed/sick of her insisting that her music career was viable or it was putting too much strain on the relationship and broke it off after something like ten years- Orinoco flow was released within the year.

but idk, the aul fella, he's got a story about everyone.

nb in donegal/west coast its not rly a huge deal to live in a castle miles from anywhere. if you own eg a moderately successful cafe you might well live in a castle. but enya is p chill yes.

new album streaming at the nyt: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/08/05/arts/music/press-play.html

i'm still putting together my thoughts on it but i just sort of genuinely love hanging out in the environment of her records, so even when the songs aren't there the textures pull me in. there are some really really gorgeous songs on this new one though

lol I keep expecting Dexter Holland to jump in on "Echoes In Rain"

Needs more lyrics in Irish to mask their cheesiness, otherwise it seems like she keeps re-recording the soundtrack to Toys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W1Bj9AXYbU

With artists like Grimes, Frankie Cosmos, Nicki Minaj, Panda Bear, Rihanna + dozens of chillwave acts being openly influenced by Enya it's safe to say she's cool again? Seems like most of ILM has always had a soft spot for her music so good for you all. Youre ahead of the game.

Also had no idea she lives in a castle! That's fucking awesome and makes me very jealous. If I had the money and the talent I would have done the same. Spend my time chilling and sometimes making music in my castle. Is it true that she has more money than Adele? Didn't she had only like two hits? I was definitely not expecting to read she's insanely rich.

Enya's first Warner album, propelled her to worldwide fame, helped by its international top 10 hit single, "Orinoco Flow". This was followed by the multi-million selling albums Shepherd Moons (1991), The Memory of Trees (1995) and A Day Without Rain (2000). Sales of A Day Without Rain and its lead single, "Only Time", surged in the United States following its use in the media coverage of the 11 September 2001 attacks. Following Amarantine (2005) and And Winter Came... (2008), Enya took an extended break from music; she returned in 2012 and released Dark Sky Island (2015).

Enya is known for her private lifestyle and has yet to undergo a concert tour. She is Ireland's biggest selling solo artist[2] and second overall behind U2, with a discography that has sold 26.5 million certified albums in the United States[3] and an estimated 80 million worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.[4] A Day Without Rain (2000) remains the best selling new age album with an estimated 16 million copies sold worldwide.[5] Enya has won several awards throughout her career, including seven World Music Awards, four Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album,[6] an Ivor Novello Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for "May It Be", a song she wrote for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).

I dont think she's able to perform live at all. Lots of studio trickery going and overdubs in her voice. Every 'live' performance on youtube of her is playback. Some even goes to the trouble of getting a choir to simulate the overdubs.

I fell in love with Enya when "Anywhere Is" was on the radio in 1995, and subsequently acquired its parent album plus the previous two. But I haven't really paid attention to her post-1995 material, which ones of her later albums would people recommend?

I wonder how much of her $$$ is based on 'Boadicea' samples alone (not sure how it worked out monetarily in the end with the Fugees?).

She's so outside of any normal musician narrative, she kind of slips out of your mind. But yeah, albums sales of around 80 million.

which ones of her later albums would people recommend?

i mean, there are only like three albums after that. the only one i've never really gotten into is a day without rain. the new one is sooo good

She's so outside of any normal musician narrative, she kind of slips out of your mind. But yeah, albums sales of around 80 million.

― erry red flag (f. hazel), jueves 8 de diciembre de 2016 16:03 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The lifestyle is so enticing though it makes me wonder why more big musicians don't do the same sort of don't tour/stay at my big, beautiful mansion chilling and composing all year. I'd do it in a heartbeat. I guess not having a family helps as noone forces you to socialize.

Reading about the Rolling Stones renting a french mansion or Led Zep going to a cabin in the woods for weeks to work on music sounded cool enough but saying you bought a castle and live there all year making music sounds so perfect to me. It can work for any job too... with the proper tech even a big corporate owner can do online meetings and work from his mansion in the mountains or the beach or whatever. I don't understand how all the insanely rich people do this.

*Don't do this

Most of them don't make enough money to sustain castle-based lifestyles through record sales alone.

Jordan OTM. Like the Stones and Led Zep, Enya made her money in the pre-MP3 era. The occasional breakout megastar aside, the days of musicians selling enough records to buy a castle (or even a terraced house) are over and gone.

Well, her castle only cost US$2.5 million... I bet there are still a lot of successful musicians who spend that much on a house.

(or even a terraced house)

watch the recent numan documentary.
ade fenton = small terraced house
was quite shocked.

(of course gary has a recently built castle - and fair play to him etc )

2.5M is very decent for a castle and there's many mainstream musicians who can afford it, if not all. Even indie musicians like Grimes can do it (idk why I put her as an example but hey, she's an Enya fan) she's supposedly worth 4M.

But I wasn't specifically saying everyone of them should buy a castle. Just the idea of buying a big, beautiful house kind of near but not that near to a city and just stay there and work doing music at home or just chilling all day.

Famous people can rarely get out of their houses without being harrased by fans or paparazzi so why insist on buying $5M medium apartment on NYC when you can just buy a great mansion in Nassau for half that price and chill all summer in there. It's not like you have to get up to go to work every morning.

I thought it was "Orinoco Flow" that I liked, but no, that one is kind of annoying. It's "Caribbean Blue," that's the pretty one.

Never realized she was singing words until yesterday. I think I prefer listening to it as gobbledygook.

Google play music has a rathe rinnapropirate image for her

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Looks appropriate to me?

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Real treat and honor to be interviewed for this piece:

https://www.theringer.com/music/2018/10/19/17996942/enya-orinoco-flow-sail-away-30-years

worth it for "Enya-ssaince"

She joined her family’s neo-Celtic band, Clannad, when she was 19, where she first met manager and producer Nicky Ryan.

!!! woah I had no idea of that connection

I was listening to the Spotify playlist This is Enya the other day and a few earlier songs it occurred to me that it wasn't a million miles away from some Cocteau Twins stuff

Oh, not distant at all in many ways. I'm sure if I hadn't been an Enya fan in 1988 I wouldn't've fallen as hard for the Cocteaus as I did in late '89. Also makes perfect sense they were both featured vocalists on The Fellowship of the Ring, though not on the same track.

gosh forgot about the fellowship of the ring soundtrack

man, between enya and clannad that family has made a dollar and a cent in the ethereal celtic business

(Destroys racist statues while Enya plays in the background) pic.twitter.com/euZWN8Vsyk

— angy. BLM! (@uheeuhaha) June 11, 2020

This account.

I have been single my entire life of 38 years. No relationships of any kind. Music like this just takes me to another level where earthly pains are not felt. It makes me feel that one doesn't need a gf, only adventure and a purpose to live and fight on.

— Enya Comments (@EnyaComments) January 3, 2022

big mood, that.

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— candy walls 🍭 @ R1 MEGACON BIRMINGHAM (@candywallls) March 19, 2023

Enya - married to the New Age synth