Enya C/D?

That one's pretty good still.

I agree!

yeah, first three albums are great, Na Laetha Geal M'óige and Lothlórien especially. later stuff is blah. although May It Be from the Lord of the Rings movie was pretty solid.

i just heard 'only time' for the first time and its amazing~! enya owns fuiud

^^^

yah enya is kindof the best

^^^

I love that song.

i love anywhere is also

<3 Enya. Most recent album was a bit pants though, esp. that weird Beatles tribute.

x-post also good

I mean what, 'hey let's apply my winning formula to a pop song with McCartney flourishes' wtf x 238978933434789568923456239 xp

btw I don't really know why but only time ~moves~ me in a way that most other music doesn't. Like, if I'm in a certain mood I will start welling up upon hearing it.

also she looks like my aunt margaret

lol <3

ws tbh

Only Time is off her best and most consistent proper album btw. Short as, but very high quality right the way through.

Just got a vinyl copy of Watermark from a secret santa at the radio station I dj at. the perfect remedy for spending hours in front of a word processor. just put it on...cannot wait to weep when On Your Shore comes on. oh man.

enya rules

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!"

nicki minaj agrees! http://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/10191582400

Q: Is it true that you’re a big Enya fan?
A: Who doesn’t love Enya? Whenever I’m in a trying time, she is the calm in the middle of the storm. If I put her on, I’ll be in this crazy peaceful state. I love her style. And her harmonies are freaking genius.

http://www.hiphopsite.com/2010/04/19/nicki-minaj-interview-with-details/

Was just reminded of Enya by a tv commercial, then posted something on facebook like "now that we've all had 20 years to think about it, Enya was pretty stupid music right?" Came here expecting to find some people of a similar mind, but WTH? This thread is a love-in.

plus, she's a hermit. who lives in a castle. in the middle of nowhere. and she makes all her music herself in her castle.

^ how to live

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

http://www.sacredheritage.com/images/moon.jpghttp://www.denniscox.com/CH-HuangshanClouds.jpghttp://www.jillhodge.co.uk/galleryimages/sunny-tiree.jpg
http://looklex.com/e.o/ill/khartoum01.jpghttp://crocmusic.com/images/clips_small/842/857064e0947486c1cd3144a47c1af0ff.jpghttp://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/i/uk/tr/tg/lp/1a/500_1a99e54b25f029b96f26ceb74916005f.jpg
http://www.bumblehood.com/fms/thumbnails/w/300/O2vZiceCQxuNHJeXAimf1g_orinoco%20delta.jpghttp://www.newzeal.com/theme/bases/IT/ZucchelliBasepiccia.jpg

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