Diminishing returns on Enigma records, but I think 3/4 of Cross of Changes is great
― Vinnie, Monday, 14 September 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z18HWWX6yYM
This is really weird and confounded me when I was 10!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 14 September 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
sade can i get your sister email why because she look intersting― NAthaniel, Friday, July 8, 2005 3:32 PM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― NAthaniel, Friday, July 8, 2005 3:32 PM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 14 September 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
OMG, The Voice and The Snake, like do you know how much joy that brought to a 20 y.o. goth who used to sit in the back pews of their mother's church and read Revelations during mass as a teenager.
― Greta Grebo (Branwell with an N), Monday, 14 September 2020 07:25 (three years ago) link
One of the two Enigma dudes had an entire massive number one hit career before Enigma. He is a very, very wealthy dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sULN3U1NjlI
― Three Word Username, Monday, 14 September 2020 08:01 (three years ago) link
Were there really "two Enigma dudes"? I thought Michael Cretu was always the main driving force behind the project, and according to Wikipedia Cornelius was only involved in Enigma from 1993 to 1996.
Cretu himself, of course, also had a fairly successful career before Enigma as a songwriter and keyboard player for the woman whom he'd eventually marry:
https://youtu.be/4jjzu1Z2RZc
― Tuomas, Monday, 14 September 2020 08:56 (three years ago) link
The whole point of Enigma for Cretu was keeping the performers and producers behind it obscured, enigmatic if you will. But Cornelius is one of the few participants he's admitted to, and his name is all over their publishing. Also Cornelius' wealth since the 90s far exceeds what German-language pop stars generally have.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 14 September 2020 09:20 (three years ago) link
I always find it amazing, like the ways in which Euro pop and UK pop intersect, and don't?
Like, I also hang out on a messageboard for a German-language band where at least half the users are German, Austrian, etc. and many, many times, they'll mention someone who is massive, huge, like Cliff Richard-level, even their grandparents know who they are, well-known in German-language markets, but I either think of them as an obscure one-hit-wonder, or I've literally never heard of them.
I'm used to the way that US / UK ideas of who/what was "massive" does not always translate. But it is genuinely eye-opening, discovering how little exposure we get to continental pop, beyond the occasional "summer holiday jam" that somehow makes it across.
― Greta Grebo (Branwell with an N), Monday, 14 September 2020 12:02 (three years ago) link
Is Peter Schilling a big deal in the German-language market? "Major Tom (Coming Home)" is so cool, I've always wondered why he never made the international charts again.
― Soz (Not Soz) (Vast Halo), Monday, 14 September 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
a Dutch TV programme did an interview with Schilling recently on his big hit and how it impacted his life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoJZvD39M_A
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 September 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
His German page on Wikipedia suggests he has about a dozen more albums and multiple other singles (and says that he suffered "burnout" after his international success) so it would seem that he was far more well-known at home.
(I always love when I go to Wiki and the English page is like 3 sentences and the German page has like 20 subsections of information.)
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― Greta Grebo (Branwell with an N), Monday, 14 September 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
some of the above is addressed in the interview I linked
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 September 2020 13:44 (three years ago) link
Out of curiosity, was there ever a "Sadness Part 2"?― I Named Veal (nordicskilla), Friday, July 8, 2005 9:36 PM (fifteen years ago)
― I Named Veal (nordicskilla), Friday, July 8, 2005 9:36 PM (fifteen years ago)
Question got answered in 2016:
https://youtu.be/HHdylh210Ho
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:54 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHdylh210Ho
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:58 (three years ago) link
I was listening to an apple radio "lisa gerrard & similar artists" station and the intro to the album was one of the tracks, which kinda highlights how auto-generated "stations" are inevitably gonna fuck up (the first track on MCMXD being a spoken "relax and listen to this album" thing, very of its day)
the specific nostalgia of the techno-dance-electronic music of this era is incredibly rich and also beyond that the record was always a very cool pop record
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 10 April 2023 12:17 (eleven months ago) link
now playing: the rest of MCMXC in a dark hotel where I've been living for a week
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 10 April 2023 12:18 (eleven months ago) link
I recently became aware of the Sarah MacLachlan collected dance remixes album, which is not quite that specific nostalgia (in either time or affect), but also not a million miles away. Someone more knowledgeable than me could probably trace some throughlines.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Monday, 10 April 2023 12:31 (eleven months ago) link
The Sarah McLachlan/Delirium track is the exact vibe of the first Enigma album imo, if many years later
― Vinnie, Monday, 10 April 2023 12:36 (eleven months ago) link
Oh wow you're so right! I think I had only ever heard the epic trance remix of that one, but the original hits
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Monday, 10 April 2023 12:43 (eleven months ago) link
A fine approach. And it is a good album. I stand by my old AMG review from the late 90s. (I think that and the Enya reviews I did flummoxed a few folks back then but time has further justified my thoughts.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 April 2023 16:05 (eleven months ago) link
Joan Crawford Loves Chachi, dancing nude like Silence of the Lambs' Buffalo Bill.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 April 2023 16:32 (eleven months ago) link
One of my favorite memories is closing all the shades and playing this album in the dark while my friends and I laid on the carpet of my parents’ family room. No drugs were involved.
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 10 April 2023 23:59 (eleven months ago) link
Right before Delerium went the full McLachlan there was a song on Semantic Spaces, "Flatlands," that was uhhh a bit more than just "inspired by" that Sadeness sound. Love it, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PABYxXkCJUg
― Devilock, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 02:47 (eleven months ago) link
Probably the origin of my love of pan flute/pan pipes in techno
― omar little, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 16:49 (eleven months ago) link