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?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 8 December 2016 11:22 (seven years ago) link
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?).
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 8 December 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
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), Thursday, 8 December 2016 16:03 (seven years ago) link
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
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 December 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
― 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.
― Moka, Thursday, 8 December 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Thursday, 8 December 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
*Don't do this
― Moka, Thursday, 8 December 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link
Most of them don't make enough money to sustain castle-based lifestyles through record sales alone.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 8 December 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Vast Halo, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
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.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
(or even a terraced house)
watch the recent numan documentary.ade fenton = small terraced housewas quite shocked.
(of course gary has a recently built castle - and fair play to him etc )
― mark e, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Friday, 9 December 2016 00:59 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Friday, 9 December 2016 01:05 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 December 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
Google play music has a rathe rinnapropirate image for her
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― Violet Jynx, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 14:44 (seven years ago) link
Looks appropriate to me?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link
I think there's an image missing
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 October 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
worth it for "Enya-ssaince"
― macropuente (map), Friday, 19 October 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
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
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 October 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 October 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
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
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 October 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
(Destroys racist statues while Enya plays in the background) pic.twitter.com/euZWN8Vsyk— angy. BLM! (@uheeuhaha) June 11, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 June 2020 09:04 (four years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 January 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
big mood, that.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Monday, 3 January 2022 21:29 (two years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/6XFPwQwYjY— candy walls 🍭 @ R1 MEGACON BIRMINGHAM (@candywallls) March 19, 2023
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 25 March 2023 13:23 (one year ago) link
Enya - married to the New Age synth
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 16:40 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdOFwuN8Nb0
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 19:32 (two days ago) link
Sweet vibes
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 20:59 (two days ago) link