Music: Enya and More. Add Your Favorites

[Texas Star]

Time for a new music thread. I'll open with some favorites, and you add what you like. I suspect we'll see a wide variety. This may be more fun than a bear thread!


[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Ya7GmKMZ4[/ame]

Enya, in Caribbean Blue, live

 

[Texas Star]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0np-5xbkus[/ame]

Clannad: I Will Find You, Love Theme from, The Last of the Mohicans, one of my favorite movies and one of the most powerful films I've seen. I think James Fennimore Cooper would have liked what the director did with his book, despite a few changes. Really, I think those were for the better.

 

[Texas Star]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P47yvI7SWM[/ame]

The Pacific, TV mini-series, music by Hans Zimmer, a favorite composer

 

[Texas Star]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93wGaGFUnTs[/ame]

The Last of the Mohicans, as you may not have seen it performed. This guy can really work a deep-toned flute.

 

[Texas Star]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHskPsdlIQM[/ame]

The more traditional version...

But can you believe this is a HIGH SCHOOL orchestra! They're very good, indeed.

 

[Texas Star]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhbanyLRmSw[/ame]



"Red, Red, Wine", performed by UB-40. Wait for an orchestral intro, then the song begins, their most famous. Every time I hear this on the radio, it goes though my mind for hours, and not just because I like wine.

 

[BearBio]

I like Clannad and Enya's traditional Irish tunes.

Try Enya's "Siuil a ruin". It's an early tune lamenting the "Flight of the Wild Geese" after the Stuart Rebellion wherein Catholic men were banished from Ireland (short version). It's a young girl lamenting the flight of her lover to France to fight against England.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKTG1lzEW7o[/ame]

An amorphous group, Celtic women do many similar tunes, Irish and non-Irish.

 

[Dennis The B]

Enya - Such a pure soprano! And so easy on the eyes, too.

I can spend an entire evening listening to her.

 

[Texas Star]

I learned last night that Enya is the younger sister of Moya Brennan and that Clannad includes two of their brothers, two uncles and it looks like maybe some of their grown kids.

Enya used to be part of Clannad, then went out on her own.

 

[Dennis The B]

Clannad: I Will Find You, Love Theme from, The Last of the Mohicans, one of my favorite movies and one of the most powerful films I've seen. I think James Fennimore Cooper would have liked what the director did with his book.

The screenplay was taken from the 1936 movie of the same name. And there are several changes to the original novel, which some folks like, and some folks don't.

The novel leaves Natty Bumpo alone with Chingnachgook, allowing Alice and Major Heyward to survive and return to England.

However, Michael Mann does a tremendous job with keeping the mood of the period. One of my favorite movies of all time.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

Sweet Georgia Brown

We play this, but not quite this good.

Sweet Georgia Brown - Wynton Marsalis Quintet Featuring Mark O'Connor and Frank Vignola - YouTube

 

[Texas Star]

Does anyone here like the late Bob Marley? I never gave his music a try until last night when I heard a French reporter ask Candice Swanepoel what her favorite song is. She replied, "No Woman, No Cry.''

I admire Candice on several levels, and she's a thoughtful, insightful person who hears a lot of music at work and who knows Taylor Swift, a very close friend of her own pal, Behati Prinsloo, whose husband is Maroon 5's frontman, Adam Levine. And Candice's fiance is Brazilian and she spends a lot of time down there, exposed to the very talented Brazilian artists.

So, I gave, "No Woman, No Cry" a try. I like it, and it may even grow on me. But I couldn't find a version that I liked enough for this thread. In most videos, his voice was too faint for the best listening. Maybe I'll find a better version.

I think Marley died about 1983 (?) but he still has a lot of fans. Are there any here? Which of his other songs should I give a try?

 

[Texas Star]

I like Clannad and Enya's traditional Irish tunes.

Try Enya's "Siuil a ruin". It's an early tune lamenting the "Flight of the Wild Geese" after the Stuart Rebellion wherein Catholic men were banished from Ireland (short version). It's a young girl lamenting the flight of her lover to France to fight against England.
Enya - Siuil A Run - YouTube

An amorphous group, Celtic women do many similar tunes, Irish and non-Irish.

Hey, thanks. I liked this. And I appreciate the history lesson about those wild geese.

 

[BAM-BAM]

Snowy winter Sunday afternoon........ a fire,good book and new age go together with a nice single malt!!!!!

Or "Last of the Mohicans" sound track...maybe a little Aaron Copland's " Ode to the common man".


Try listening to the sound track of the "Last of the Mohicans" while driving down the Shenandoah Parkway with the sunroof open in mid September!!!

 

[BearBio]

Hey, thanks. I liked this. And I appreciate the history lesson about those wild geese.

Men who fought in Scotland under the Stuarts were under death sentences. They were smuggled out of Ireland under manifests reading "Wild Geese". Most went to Spain or France and earned a fierce reputation as mercenaries. Hence the use of the term "Wild Geese" as a slang term for mercenaries.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

How bout a little Wildwood Flower.
She's giving the guy to her right a Guitar lesson?

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XE80Ed59uCY[/ame]

 

[two-bit cowboy]

Some great stuff Texas Star. Thanks.

In the late '90s I was stationed in Phoenix. The only good thing about the assignment was the new age radio station in town. It introduced me to Enya and all the rest. Kitaro became one of my favorites, then he came to town for a live performance. I was mesmerized through the evening and bought the live cd of that show on my way out.

"Silk Road" is stunning on the studio cd, but the live version is simply captivating.

 

[Marshwheeling]

So, I gave, "No Woman, No Cry" a try. I like it, and it may even grow on me. But I couldn't find a version that I liked enough for this thread. In most videos, his voice was too faint for the best listening. Maybe I'll find a better version.

I think Marley died about 1983 (?) but he still has a lot of fans. Are there any here? Which of his other songs should I give a try?

Try Redemption Song, possibly his most-covered song. Joe Strummer, Eddie Vedder, Johnny Cash.

 

[Texas Star]

There are things about Marley that bothered me, but which I can't discuss here. But if his music is okay, I'll give it a trial listen.

 

[AZretired]

How about real music? Linda Ronstadt, CHICAGO, BTO, the Eagles !!