Enya - Only Time

Although the song was already in the Top 30 on September 11 - mostly (if not entirely) from airplay of the original version - many radio stations did not start playing the song until after it was used extensively during TV coverage. These stations tended to play the remix. (It's possible the remix didn't even come out until shortly after Sep. 11.)

The remix was issued in the U.S. on a 7-inch single, but I don't believe either version was released in the U.S. on a commercial CD single or cassette single. A CD single containing both versions was released in Canada.

The remix runs (3:13). All database appearances run (3:35-3:37); so it appears these are all the original version.

mstgator wrote: I own Reprise CD single 9 42420-2 with the following track listing (the insert calls it a Maxi-Single, but with only three tracks I beg to differ): 1) Only Time (Remix) (listed 3:13) 2) Oiche Chiun (Silent Night) (Non-Album Track) (listed 3:45) 3) Willows On The Water (Non-Album Track) (listed 3:02)

Unless there were multiple US Maxi-singles, I'm pretty sure I used to own this one. While the remix was similar to the radio remix, it was not identical, which is why I got rid of the CD. I never got around to picking up the promo with the radio remix I was accustomed to hearing.

mstgator wrote:     I own Reprise CD single 9 42420-2 with the following track listing (the insert calls it a Maxi-Single, but with only three tracks I beg to differ): 1) Only Time (Remix) (listed 3:13) 2) Oiche Chiun (Silent Night) (Non-Album Track) (listed 3:45) 3) Willows On The Water (Non-Album Track) (listed 3:02) Actual times are within a second of the listed times. Whitburn shows the same catalog number and track listing, although I don't know exactly when the CD single was released during the chart run (I do know I purchased my copy sometime after 9/11).

Thanks for the info. I went back and checked the Hot 100 charts (I previously hadn't checked beyond the week the song peaked), and the first week this CD-single was shown as being available was for the chart dated December 8, 2001 (which makes sense, since the second track is a Christmas song).

On the chart dated September 15, 2001 (which came out on September 7), the song sat at #30. It peaked at #10 in November.

The Canadian CD-single (WEA 2 43105) has the same three tracks as the US single but adds the original version as a fourth track.

995wlol wrote: While the remix was similar to the radio remix, it was not identical, which is why I got rid of the CD. I never got around to picking up the promo with the radio remix I was accustomed to hearing.

So there was a third version, a "radio remix," different from both the "remix" and the original album version?

Guys, here is my original promo CD single info:

-Enya-"Only Time" (PRO-CD-100504)
1-Non-described version (listed & actual 3:37)

I also own the commercial CD single that includes the (Remix) as Cut 1, and I can confirm it is not the same as the "mystery remix" version some remember hearing in 2001. We did also get in to the station a 1-track CD-R, with "Enya-Only Time" sloppily handwritten in red Sharpie on the disc's top half, and "Two Tribes Remix" handwritten on the bottom half of it. I believe this is the version many of you are remembering. I will shoot this version out to this thread's originator, AaronK, for his analysis/confirmation.

Pat, your recent updates for this song are incomplete. As currently determined, there are 3 different versions for "Only Time":

1) My initial promo CD single (PRO-CD-100504). This promo CD single includes the song's "album version." This single release is not currently referred to in your db.


2) The commercial CD "Remix" single version, for which your current db info is correct.


3) The second, CD-R promo CD single we got in to the station. On this disc, it is stated to be the "Two Tribes Remix". Aaron has recently compared this CD-R mix to a version appearing on a "Promo Only", V/A disc he owns, that was titled by Promo Only as the "Pop Radio Remix". After listening to both versions, Aaron has determined that both my "Two Tribes Remix" and his "Pop Radio Remix" are indeed one and the same. Bottom line: the db currently includes no mention at all of the "Two Tribes Remix" description; only the "Pop Radio Mix" title is listed in the db. I would suggest that you note that this popular, later, airplay-getting mix was known as BOTH the "Two Tribes Remix" (my promo CD-R single) AND the "Pop Radio Remix" (Aaron's V/A disc). Thanks, Pat!