― 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
enya, man
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought "Cursum Perficio" was the most awesome/evil-sounding slab of darkness at age 11.
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
That one's pretty good still.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I agree!
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Sunday, 3 October 2010 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i just heard 'only time' for the first time and its amazing~! enya owns fuiud
― Pussy v. Sperguson (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 18 December 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^
― baubles to the wall (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 December 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
yah enya is kindof the best
― plax (ico), Monday, 20 December 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I love that song.
― ENBB, Monday, 20 December 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i love anywhere is also
― plax (ico), Monday, 20 December 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 Enya. Most recent album was a bit pants though, esp. that weird Beatles tribute.
― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Monday, 20 December 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post also good
― ENBB, Monday, 20 December 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean what, 'hey let's apply my winning formula to a pop song with McCartney flourishes' wtf x 238978933434789568923456239 xp
― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Monday, 20 December 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― ENBB, Monday, 20 December 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
also she looks like my aunt margaret
― plax (ico), Monday, 20 December 2010 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
lol <3
― ENBB, Monday, 20 December 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
ws tbh
Only Time is off her best and most consistent proper album btw. Short as, but very high quality right the way through.
― Defecate on Myspace (Schlafsack), Monday, 20 December 2010 02:36 (thirteen 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 (one week ago) link
Sweet vibes
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 20:59 (one week ago) link