Enya C/D?

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.

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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.

o gosh good question

I bet she puts on her unreleased stuff, demos, rare Australian Cassingle shit

maybe

i just put some enya on i am feeling overwhelmed

She smells like Caribbean blue.

i really gotta replace my lost copy of watermark

omg i just listened to watermark

Enya is a hermit who lives in a castle in the middle of nowhere and she makes all her music herself in her castle????? That's fucking cool!!!

I like Enya. "Orinoco Flow." "Caribbean Blue." Nice soothing mellow study music. Nothing wrong with it at all. Fuck a Robert Christgau.

^^

Orinoco Flow makes me feel like I'm reliving my past life as an Atlantean king sailing in my pimped-out crystal-powered yacht

enya, man

I thought "Cursum Perficio" was the most awesome/evil-sounding slab of darkness at age 11.

My parents had five or so albums total (including holiday music) and listened to adult contemporary radio stations so I didn't have a lot to choose from, but still...

BROODY.

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

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