Enigma "Sadeness Part 1"... the song that will never fucking die...

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I like that there was a hit that was about a man who wrote lines like "he fucks a cow, which gives birth to a monster, which he then fucks". But I don't like the song.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link

"Now everybody's funkin' but they don't know how, they wasn't down back when the bull funked the cow..."

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

love this song .

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"Work the Sadeness"

No.

Baaaad idea jeans.

― donut e- (donut), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

At the time, it seemed so state of the art and slick. Now, it just sounds hopelessly, haplessly dunked in a big bowl of cheeeeeeeese.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 July 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Alex in NYC and I in arms! Brothers! Comrades!

― donut e- (donut), Saturday, 9 July 2005 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link

NEWSFLASH: Enigma album #1 is still awesome. There is a track on there that is an ambient precursor to Underworld's "Dirty Epic".

In summation, FIE ON YOU, DONUT-E POOPYHEAD.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 9 July 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link

That’s not the beginning of the end
That’s the return to yourself
The return to innocence.

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Saturday, 9 July 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Love - devotion
Feeling - emotion

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Saturday, 9 July 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Don’t be afraid to be weak
Don’t be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Saturday, 9 July 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

ay yai yaaai ai ya etc

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Saturday, 9 July 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

We used to wail the Return To Innocence, er, wails in the street.

We were students.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Saturday, 9 July 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think I've actually heard "Sadeness Part 1" in at least 10 years.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 9 July 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link

There's a very great chance I lost my virginity while the first Enigma album was playing (it was either that or Nothing's Shocking by Jane's Addiction). I'm not proud of this, by the way.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 July 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

oh god! the sexual connection to this album seems disturbingly pervasive/universal. i had already heard it a couple of times in america but it seemed so cheesy i didn't really pay attention. the first time i really noticed it was my sophomore year in college-I was in Germany over the summer supposedly to study the language/culture at the Goerthe Institute. But I had come down with a massive head cold/infection the moment i landed and since I couldn't get drugs all i wanted to do smoke all day and get/stay drunk. Unfortunately nearly everyone was a pollyanna type and just wanted to go to class and then talk in German afterwards. grrr! (plus a couple of guys from Tunisia who wanted to spread islam and rape people??). I finally found Tatiana and (i can't remember the other girls name) - two really pretty Italian slacker students there to espace their families pretty much and "be on their own AS WOMEN" - whick i assumed meant party. Tatiana was all feminine and contemplative and breathy like all the time. It was like hangin out with Sophia Loren. And she was incredibly tall. I was like the snot-nosed dwarf who held her purse. One night I went to pick up Tatiana from her room so we could go out, just to find her lying there languidly on the bed - with that chanting and "Sah Dit Moi" going on in the background. I was like come ON TAtiana aren't you ready? "ohh Susanna i feel so sad all day and have masterbate mabye 10 time. i don't want do anthing only masturbate. do you understand?" then long breathy sigh -- anyway, it was actually mildly disturbing but moreover i had nothing to say to that so we just sat there listening to the feverish chanting and "sah dit moi" for like an eternity. and that song seems way less cheesy to me now!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 9 July 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

let me feel on yo botty susan why cuz its phat

― john bender, Saturday, 9 July 2005 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link

clearly John Benders been listening to the song.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 9 July 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

fortunately I lost my virginity to Aja by Steely Dan. Unfortunately it was lost by the end of "Black Cow".

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Sunday, 10 July 2005 00:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Dan can suck my Sadeness, as this is turning out to be a great thread thanks to everyone else but me. HA!

― donut e- (donut), Sunday, 10 July 2005 02:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Besides, it really WILL never die. I just viewed the Black Daisy DVD (a comedy duo from Seattle doing short skits a la Kids In The Hall except cruder and with more nekkidness) and they used that Enigma song.

In the song credits, instead of an official song credit, they say "that one famous Enigma song"

― donut e- (donut), Sunday, 10 July 2005 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I like Sadè a bit.

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Sunday, 10 July 2005 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link

the 360 degree mix of "Return to Innocence" is fucking awesome. Every time I listen to it I get shocked when the Enigma-isms start to infiltrate the badass drums and whatnot.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 10 July 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

*doot DOOT DAAAADUUUUUUUU*

― PappaWheelie 2 (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 15 June 2006 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I venture to say it's a fact that Michael Cretu nicked the gregorian-pop mélange off Bill Nelson's late-'80s material. Unfortunately, no one knows about Bill Nelson.

― Max Blazevic (kitaj), Thursday, 15 June 2006 09:08 (seventeen years ago) link

No, but Michael Cretu knows about the libel laws, so I'd be careful if I were you vis-a-vis "it's a fact."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 15 June 2006 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link

oh god, I did not. ok. IMHO I THINK FOR ME it's a fact (and for all those who have ears). hope I'm not libel-liable anymore.

I quite like "Sadeness"; but credits where are due.

― Max Blazevic (kitaj), Thursday, 15 June 2006 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahahaha what a great thread! Donut = king, even if he was TOTALLY WRONG about this song.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 June 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Half the atrocities of "Sadeness" is all the shitty spinoff tunes and artists it inspired!

"Only You" by Praise, anyone??

― JTS (JTS), Thursday, 15 June 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought that was the song that has a melancholy choir singing "who knows where the time goes, where the time goes blah blah blaaaaaaaaaaah" over some pachelbellish thing. what's that fucking song? i heard it in zeller's last night when i was buying a dehumidifier. it totally fit the moment.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 15 June 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

It IS a beautiful thread, yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 June 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

A taxi-driver last week in Pasadena put this song on and just turned the volume wayyyyy up and looked back and smiled at us. It was a pretty funny scene.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 June 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

i just got the 12" of this track. uh, i think i might be in love with this song.

― the table is the table, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 05:11 (sixteen years ago) link

i love this shit mostly due to its presence on my favorite CD ever, "pure moods"

― max, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 05:30 (sixteen years ago) link

I would do almost anything to hang out with Sophia Loren.

― Lostandfound, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 07:06 (sixteen years ago) link

I always liked this song but haven't heard it since about 5 years ago when my witchy ex-gf would play it, but then I never go to new age craft stores, incense booths, cosmetic accessory sections of department stores, or professional massage parlors.

― marmotwolof, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 07:17 (sixteen years ago) link

....I just spent ten minutes thinking to myself "yeah this song's ok but I like their other one better".

Only to do a last.fm check and realise I'm thinking of "Sweet Lullaby" by Deep Forest. Oh well!

― Trayce, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Cretu's 80s solo output is a lot better though. "The Invisible Man" is a great underrated album.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link

I am in awe of Susan Douglas.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link

a couple of guys from Tunisia who wanted to spread islam and rape people

― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link

There's a very great chance I lost my virginity while the first Enigma album was playing (it was either that or Nothing's Shocking by Jane's Addiction). I'm not proud of this, by the way.

-- Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, July 9, 2005 5:23 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link

I never could tell those two albums apart.

― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link

wow!!! this's a pretty monster thread!
i associate Engima's Sadness Pt 1 w/ my own father's 'mid-life crisis', so no positive ideas from it. in fact, it completely inspired me to hate 'new age' anything.

― edde, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Is a wondstrous thread alright.
Uncannily illuminating.
Like, I didn't even suspect there is a Cretu solo album called "The Invisible Man". And yet I, or perhaps just my innersad I, somewhow expected Geir to post that kind of post that he indeed did post there somewhere upthread.

― t**t, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link

i do like the album this song is on, it played a key role in my de2velopment into whatever it is i have become

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link

but then I never go to new age craft stores, incense booths, cosmetic accessory sections of department stores, or professional massage parlors.

Yeah, I was gonna say, pretty sure I haven't heard this in at least 10 or 12 years.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link

I am in awe of Susan Douglas.

Me too, but I had to fix the ending of her story.

― nickn, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link

Aw' nickn!

― t**t, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link

i put the extended trance mix up on my blog

― the table is the table, Thursday, 28 June 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link

"i don't want do anthing only masturbate. do you understand?"
"Oooh, yeah!"

*bum chicka bum chick wah wah*

― marmotwolof, Thursday, 28 June 2007 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link

this song rules if for no other reason than it inspired this thread.

I was seriously waiting for graphic descriptions of hot sapphic love action by the end of Susan Douglas's post.

Her post is yet another reason why I need to get out of America.

― Display Name, Friday, 29 June 2007 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link

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