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Whistle Stopper - Amarantine
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List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $6.98
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Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093624947424
Label: Reprise / Wea
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Reprise / Wea
Release Date: 2005-11-22
Studio: Reprise / Wea
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Another Enya cd, another disappointment.
Comment: Her first three changed the music landscape with their innovation and brilliance.
The following three including this one???
Dull, lifeless, unmemorable.
Enya has been making the same cd for over ten years without adding anything new to the mix.
It would be different if they were all as good as the first three but they're not.
Enya needs to go back to her debut and get some inspiration from that.
Either that or try a new genre.
Heavy Metal maybe lol ???
Wouldn't that turn the music world upside down!!!
Enya teams up with Dimmu Borgir, face paint and black leather spikes galore.
Oh, I can only imagine the horror of her easy listening audience.
Comon Enya, if you can't match the brilliance of the first three, then at least go down in a blaze of glory.
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Summary: Amarantine by Enya
Comment: All songs in the CD are perfect!! you can listen when you would like to relax, or play in your invitations.. If you are Enya lover,I strongly suggest this album...
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Summary: Beautiful Serenity
Comment: I was excited to finally be able to buy this CD and I wan't disappointed. I first heard it on the radio and started to look for it. Now I'm able to listen to it and the other songs with it. It is something I could put in my CD player and listen to while I sleep during the day (I'm night shift at a hospital). You may not be able to sing along with most of the music, but it is calming in my opinion.
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Summary: Boring, boring, really, really boring!
Comment: This album should not belong on music shelves. It should be in the prescription section of your local drug store under "Sleep Aids". This Cd should be used for prescription only. Playing this Cd for lots of people will have entire states sent to sleep with ominous results. WWE superstars will black out in the ring, Mixed Martial Artists will crash out in the middle of UFC events, TNA commentators will fall asleep right in the middle of broadcasting, and Boxers, and their trainers will be knocked out before they even know what happened. Why would anyone want to buy this album? Who in their right mind would even want to listen to it? This music is for losers who don't know what real music is. If you want to know what real music is, then listen to some workout music. For example, try the music from the WWE, not this Enya crap. I'll make sure that Jonathon Taylor pays for betraying the WWE by getting this album and giving it five stars when it absolutely deserves a zero.
As spoken,
Vincent Kennedy McMahon
P.S, if you think that you, Jonathon are going to get away with this, then you better think again, because you've got no chance, no chance....in hell!
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Summary: A beautiful voice, a beautiful woman.
Comment: I think this is a wonderful album. I only own two Enya CDs at the moment, but I am slowly falling in love with her and her art. It's nice to know that there are still people out there who are writing decent music that you can slip into like a comfy robe and that doesn't knock you over the head. Easily my favorite track on the disc is "Amid the Falling Snow" -- there's a sweet, joyous delicacy to it that I just can't put my finger on. Pretty much all of the songs, however, are quite memorable. Some of them are lovely and sad; sometimes they sparkle with a hint of positivity and unattainable happiness, while others have a more haunting depth to them. Another standout on this album is "It's in the Rain" -- when I first saw the video of this song on YouTube, I knew I had to buy the entire thing.
I have to admit, I have a harder time getting into Enya's more energetic, "tribal" songs. An example of this kind of effort on this particular album is "The River Sings." These sound very unusual to me -- still, if you allow it some time to sink in and contrast it with the other tracks, it does become possible to appreciate it as well for what it is. "Sumiregusa" is also another excellent highlight on this disc -- as you listen to it, you can tell she's trying to reach out to *something*, yet sadly it just seems to be slightly out of her grasp (that's my interpretation, anyways). "Drifting" is probably the most plain and restrained composition on the list, but heartbreaking love songs such as "Amarantine," "If I Could Be Where You Are," and "A Moment Lost" definitely make up for that. In addition, "Long Long Journey" sounds utterly triumphant.
I really only needed to give this CD a spin two or three times before I truly became swept away by its mysterious and poetic beauty. I discovered melodies and lyrics throughout that are, put simply, not of this earth. In short, I think anyone who is fond of the "New Age" genre will find it difficult not to enjoy this marvelous release from Enya (her style is certainly hard to pigeon hole, but I think in many ways it's fair to use that label to describe what she does).
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Editorial Reviews:
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From the first blanket of choral voices awash in reverb, Amarantine is instantly recognizable as a product of Enya, the Irish chanteuse who has created a genre unto herself. Although it's been five years since her last CD, on Amarantine it's as if time stood still. The triumvirate of Enya, lyricist Roma Ryan, and producer Nicky Ryan work the formula they perfected on Watermark, layering her voice in lush choirs pushed along by pizzicato synth strings, swooning orchestral pads, and harpsichord arpeggios. On tracks like "Less Than a Pearl" and "Drifting," Enya flirts with a timeless sound born in gothic chants and hymns. The former is one of three songs that she sings in Roma Ryan's fictitious language of Loxian. It seems to free her, especially on "The River Sings," a veritable rave-up where she gets the tribal choir going in the style of Scottish mouth music. But to get there you have to slog through slo-mo ballads that manage to be dirge-like and singsong at the same time, like the Carpenters on Quaaludes. The relatively restrained arrangement of "It's in the Rain" almost attains a folk-like simplicity that Enya hasn't experienced since she sang with her siblings in Clannad a quarter-century ago. Amarantine sounds like it was born in cloistered solitude, self-referentially echoing Enya albums past. --John Diliberto More Enya 
The Celts | 
Watermark | 
Shepherd Moons | 
The Memory of Trees | 
A Day Without Rain | 
Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya |
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