― Vinnie, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― greg buttface, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jez, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― bob snoom, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 14 November 2003 03:02 (twenty years ago) link
there's almost as much vocal layering as guitar layering on some MBV tracks.
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 14 November 2003 03:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 14 November 2003 03:07 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 14 November 2003 03:07 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Friday, 14 November 2003 03:18 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 14 November 2003 03:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
Watermark is the shit yo btw.
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Amarga (Amarga), Saturday, 15 November 2003 00:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 15 November 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 15 November 2003 00:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 15 November 2003 00:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 8 January 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 30 January 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Christgau's writing on Enya is relatively classic bile.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 30 January 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 30 January 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 26 February 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Mark, Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i won't even read it. i'm a little hungover.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 26 February 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― f. hazel, Friday, 27 February 2009 06:02 (fifteen years ago) link
theres a bangin version of sail away on pbs right now
― and what, Monday, 2 March 2009 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link
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:
― butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Monday, 2 March 2009 03:33 (fifteen years ago) link
evening falls is the shit
― w/ sax (electricsound), Monday, 2 March 2009 03:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― DavidM, Monday, 2 March 2009 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7425/imageuploadimage.jpg
― Suggestbandium (libcrypt), Monday, 2 March 2009 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link
pot + enya = :)
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
or so i've heard...
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
That says a lot more about the bodaciousness of pot than about any potential classicossity of Enya
― I got RIPPED in 4 weeks (Z S), Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, kinda, but the production is nuts. i need to find an audiophile webboard with heated enya debate.
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 October 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
enya is bodacious as hell
― surm, Sunday, 18 October 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
pot, enya and a big bed, and like a silky breeze
― surm, Sunday, 18 October 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
when enya makes love with one of her loyal minions, does enya listen to enya? i'll bet she does.
― scott seward, Sunday, 18 October 2009 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
o gosh good question
― surm, Sunday, 18 October 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I bet she puts on her unreleased stuff, demos, rare Australian Cassingle shit
― I got RIPPED in 4 weeks (Z S), Sunday, 18 October 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe
― surm, Monday, 19 October 2009 02:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i just put some enya on i am feeling overwhelmed
She smells like Caribbean blue.
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 October 2009 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i really gotta replace my lost copy of watermark
― get up and use(rna)me (electricsound), Monday, 19 October 2009 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
omg i just listened to watermark
― surm, Monday, 19 October 2009 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 19 October 2009 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
^^
― surm, Monday, 19 October 2009 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Orinoco Flow makes me feel like I'm reliving my past life as an Atlantean king sailing in my pimped-out crystal-powered yacht
― la última intimidad (latebloomer), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 07:32 (fourteen years ago) link
watermark is a classic imo
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 31 January 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
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
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
lol I keep expecting Dexter Holland to jump in on "Echoes In Rain"
― welltris (crüt), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
Needs more lyrics in Irish to mask their cheesiness, otherwise it seems like she keeps re-recording the soundtrack to Toys
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 27 November 2015 06:55 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W1Bj9AXYbU
― That's when I fired off my 2 Tweets to Dr. Phil (crüt), Thursday, 8 December 2016 07:09 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Thursday, 8 December 2016 09:25 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Thursday, 8 December 2016 09:31 (seven years ago) link
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).
― niels, Thursday, 8 December 2016 10:15 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Thursday, 8 December 2016 11:10 (seven years ago) link
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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http://i.imgur.com/LUrVZyT.jpg
― 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