The album resonated with fans around the globe, who snatched it up to play at home while aligning their crystals and drawing up horoscopes, or just as the soundtrack to a dinner party. "Cursum Perficio" (sung in Latin, like all good pop hits) has a binding spell woven into its grooves "Miss Clare Remembers" is a sentimental, dexterous piano ballad and "Evening Falls." is a soporific, detailed dreamscape. While "Orinoco Flow," with its daydream encouragement to "sail away, sail away, sail away," was the chart-topper, it's not the only memorable track on the album. 24 in the U.S., spending 17 weeks on the Billboard charts. When Enya released "Orinoco Flow," the lead single from Watermark, it ousted Robin Beck's "First Time," a hair metal slow jam, as the No.
Its success is even more surprising when you think about what other albums topped the charts in 1988, like George Michael's Faith and Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction. It's a weird album, filled with world beats played out on synthesizers with Enya's crisp enunciation giving it a nearly choral feel. While Watermark has its roots in traditional Irish music with Celtic rhythms and melodies that flow as easily as a Riverdance routine, its music truly doesn't fit into any established genre. When Watermark was released in 1988, rock critic Robert Christgau gave the album a D+, saying that the album "makes hay of pop's old reliable women-are-angels scam." It's a fair assessment, but he says that like it's a bad thing - when in fact, it's why the album should be included in a canon of the greatest albums made by women. In an occurrence that could have ended the career of a less confident artist, her follow-up, Watermark, was critically panned. It's an impressive feat made even more impressive by the fact that her self-titled debut album was scarcely remarked upon by the global press. And in the past 16 years, Enya has spent 283 weeks - about five and a half years - in the No.
Her fans kept her 1991 album Shepherd Moons on the Billboard 200 chart for 238 weeks. Turning The Tables A New Canon: In Pop Music, Women Belong At The Center Of The Storyĭespite her lack of interest in the trappings of fame (save for the castle she bought herself), Enya truly is famous.
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