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 - Beautiful SerenityI 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. Rating:  - Boring, boring, really, really boring!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! Rating: - This is my first Enya Cd and I love it.I have to say that I have read all the reviews, including the one star reviews that say that "Amarantine" is just another Enya Cd. I bet those music purests who gave this Cd one star are so stuck on what Enya is for them. Who cares? Anyway, this is my first Enya Cd. Every time I listen to this Cd, I feel a sense of deep peace. Every song on this Cd is pleasant to listen to, especially "Amarantine", "It's In The Rain", and "Long Long Journey". When I heard the song samples on this album, I knew I was going to love this album, and I do. I first heard of Enya when I heard her back in my childhood when I started hearing her music on the radio, but I never got around to buying her music until last week when I bought this album. This Cd is worthy of repeated listening. Highly recommended. Rating: - A beautiful voice, a beautiful woman.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). Rating: - Celtic MusicThis album is quite beautiful and slightly different from her other albums. In this album, there are one or two songs that she doesn't use a lot of synthesizers or whatever around her voice. It's In the Rain is one of the songs, that I can just hear her voice naturally. And it's wonderful. She has such an interesting range.
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