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It turns out Enya's hit single "Orinoco Flow", which before today I knew as "that one where she's like 'sail away, sail away, sail away'", was released in 1988. I don't think I even heard it until sometime in the early 2000s. I'm thinking back to the music of my childhood, and it was basically all generic radio stuff. I'm kind of annoyed that we didn't hear much for good music for a long time. It's weird thinking that I could have grown up with music like that playing.
Anyway, I now have Enya's two earliest albums. I didn't realize Shepherd Moons was her third, so I might go pick that up just to have it. That was the album we ended up downloading in the early 2000s, and was probably just about my first introduction to Enya. Come to think of it, even those were released (and subsequently became very popular) in the early 90s. She mustn't have become very popular in North America until her music was put into the movie of The Lord of the Rings. (Though her Wikipedia page says she got platinums all over the place for those early albums.)
Apparently she's one of the best-selling music artists of all time, and yet I'd only even heard of one album and a couple songs until I happened to find some of her stuff at the thrift store last year. This is why I don't like listening to the radio. They usually just put on what they like, which ends up being junk. I liked the local French channel because they'd put on really weird stuff that didn't fit any kind of theme.
Anyway, I now have Enya's two earliest albums. I didn't realize Shepherd Moons was her third, so I might go pick that up just to have it. That was the album we ended up downloading in the early 2000s, and was probably just about my first introduction to Enya. Come to think of it, even those were released (and subsequently became very popular) in the early 90s. She mustn't have become very popular in North America until her music was put into the movie of The Lord of the Rings. (Though her Wikipedia page says she got platinums all over the place for those early albums.)
Apparently she's one of the best-selling music artists of all time, and yet I'd only even heard of one album and a couple songs until I happened to find some of her stuff at the thrift store last year. This is why I don't like listening to the radio. They usually just put on what they like, which ends up being junk. I liked the local French channel because they'd put on really weird stuff that didn't fit any kind of theme.