Post your ENYA favourites

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Of course, Enya's main rain songs ️
(of those not yet mentioned in this thread)

Echoes in Rain


It's In The Rain 🌧


Wondering what the next one will be?

 

[disneyteletubby]

A Day Without Rain non-single highlights (part 1):

The title track


Isobella, the elusive b-side spirit child


Deora Ar Mo Chroí (Tears On My Heart)

I quite liked this remix too, a bit like Moya/Chicane's Saltwater


Fallen Embers, the one Enya found very emotional from just reading the lyrics


Lazy Days of course

 

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A Day Without Rain non-single highlights

I somehow didn't even mention the ones that weren't a single that I listen to most

One By One is one Enya song that I could say one-hundred things about, but would end up mentioning famous people or concepts that have nothing to do with the song, haha.


I wish the 'da-de-da-de' bridge was longer

This one called Pilgrim is beautiful

Apparently inspired by Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi, it shows how we are all pilgrims in our journey through life.
(More in this article)

I kind of imagine a similar album (not cover) to A Day Without Rain regarding the upcoming Enya album. Happy-sounding on the whole but some kind of loss, fruitlessness etc. running through.

 

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Storms in Africa (I) the Irish version is a better composition, sweeter singing

Spoiler: My lyric video upload

Storms In Africa (II) in English has the video

People say Enya's music makes them sleep, well, this one should wake you up!

 

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Enya really should record another instrumental for the new album.

In a comment on this upload, someone mentioned that An Ghaoth Ón Ghrian and Oriel Window are the most ear-striking solo piano compositions by Enya; I'd agree.

These pieces both have intriguing changes in time signature, and those trills.

I just really like it, and listen to it frequently. Kind of like a staple food in music form.

An Ghaoth Ón Ghrian (The Solar Wind) is the earliest released piece by Enya, on a cassette compilation (Touch Travel T4) released 40 years ago:

(Miss Clare Remembers was the other piece, which she re-recorded for Watermark.
Solar Wind is better though, perhaps saved for 'the future'. )
I uploaded this EQ-adjusted version a couple of years ago



An instrumental along these lines, or another great piano bridge like for Echoes In Rain would be very welcome for the new Enya album

 

[disneyteletubby]

It features Enya's earliest two songs with lyrics – fond of this interview, even if I only understand little bits of what Eithne is saying.

Spoiler: Also a pencil drawing I did of Enya! ♡

I chose a random 80s appearance to draw but like me being a fan for 3 years so far, this was Enya about 3 years before Orinoco Flow (Sail Away).

This maybe took a few hours to do, across 3 separate days in February 2024. No fancy utensils nor guidelines, just a HB pencil, small piece of paper, an eraser, my hands and observation. 👁 ️

 

[disneyteletubby]

I rather like this one, Solace, that hardly anyone talks about from Dark Sky Island

Spoiler: Bonus 🌛🏞🎶

🕊

 

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Triad from The Celts (1986, like Boadicea) but I prefer the colour scheme of the cover photo chosen for the 2001 pseudo-Italian film in Japanese's soundtrack.


The opening of Triad (St. Patrick) is my favourite of all Enya song openings, even acapella/vocals only


St Patrick and Oisín are best - Cú Chulainn is okay as an instrumental, but I prefer Seaside Ditty which sounded like this:

 

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Ah how did I forget to mention On My Way Home?


There seems to be 3 versions; this is the 5 minute 'remix' one apparently:


The version I prefer listening to (if not watching the music video is the 1997 single version:


One of my favourites of Enya’s music video costumes too, and the lantern setting

(I'll be on my way home this afternoon too )

 

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Long Long Journey


I rather like this one; only recently started listening to it more often.

Spoiler: Sounds interesting in high pitch too

With a bit more built-up instrumentals, this could've been a single!

 

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The Loxian Gates


I've listened to this one more in the last few months, though more for appreciation of how it sounds, than it being in Loxian.

More about the song compiled here, that I didn't really read until now

A lyric video

The way Enya's 'oh-oh' vocals work with the rhythm is actually quite fascinating.

Spoiler: The lyrics (translated)

Through the gates of night
there is wisdom is waiting to be found…

That first place of night
was an island in the colour of stars.
Spring;
green grew and the flowers blossomed.

…a lost time, for in the distance…

Summer;
the sun and the sand,
Autumn;
the shape of yellow leaves falling.

…a lost time, far in the distance…

Winter;
the sky sang snow.
Written into the night;
a world of stars.

…a lost time, for in the distance…

Now, is the season of water;
the island, the cities, the darkness.
Through time this became our world,
but our quest is not yet over.

Now, is the season of the moon;
soft breezes whispering,
night and day.
But our quest is not yet over.

are about the four seasons on this Loxian planet, plus two extra season, of the water, and the moon.

 

[disneyteletubby]

Sometimes I think of revisiting this thread and adding another favourite or two, and was almost going to say these two again after listening back to back.

Enya really should record another instrumental for the new album.

In a comment on this upload, someone mentioned that An Ghaoth Ón Ghrian and Oriel Window are the most ear-striking solo piano compositions by Enya; I'd agree.

These pieces both have intriguing changes in time signature, and those trills.

I just really like it, and listen to it frequently. Kind of like a staple food in music form.

An Ghaoth Ón Ghrian (The Solar Wind) is the earliest released piece by Enya, on a cassette compilation (Touch Travel T4) released 40 years ago:

(Miss Clare Remembers was the other piece, which she re-recorded for Watermark.
Solar Wind is better though, perhaps saved for 'the future'. )
I uploaded this EQ-adjusted version a couple of years ago

An instrumental along these lines, or another great piano bridge like for Echoes In Rain would be very welcome for the new Enya album

 

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Wait a minute, Anywhere Is hasn't yet been mentioned..!




It seems to pinch elements of various songs before it, the music video references too, and at the same time as all of that, it is inherently a great Enya song.