Enigma - Sadeness - Part 1
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Topic: Enigma - Sadeness - Part 1
Posted By: MMathews
Subject: Enigma - Sadeness - Part 1
Date Posted: 14 March 2016 at 12:30pm
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Can anyone provide the actual single run time? I'm told
the pop annual lists it as 4:04 but CD issues run about 4:14 - 4:15... MM |
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Posted By: Smokin' TomGary
Date Posted: 14 March 2016 at 3:05pm
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Stock CD 7567-96395-2 has 5 cuts, 4 are Sadeness.
1. Sadeness Part 1 (Violent U.S. Mix) 5:03 listed; 5:05 actual 2. Sadeness Part 1 (Meditation Mix) 3:01 listed; 2:59 actual 3. Sadeness Part 1 (Extended Trance Mix) 5:04 listed; 4:58 actual 4. Sadeness Part 1 (Radio Edit) 4:17 listed; 4:14 actual Promo CD PRCD-032 Sadeness Part 1 (Radio Edit) 4:17 listed; 4:14 actual Artist's name is Enigma. |
Posted By: MMathews
Date Posted: 15 March 2016 at 12:29am
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Thank you Smokin' !
And I fixed my typo in the subject line. Was typing in a rush... MM |
Posted By: mjb50
Date Posted: 22 November 2022 at 10:01pm
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I am always a bit perplexed by the "part I" in the title.
On the album, the original versions are like this: [track 2:] Principles of Lust: A. Sadeness, B. Find Love, C. Sadeness (Reprise) [track 3:] Callas Went Away [track 4:] Mea Culpa The first two singles released were called "Sadeness part I" and "Mea Culpa part II". But it's not like there's other parts of each song. It's more just like "Sadeness is part 1, and Mea Culpa is part 2". It would be correct to say "Sadeness" is part 1 of the album's "Principles of Lust" suite. The Radio Edit is almost identical to the album version, just fading out instead of segueing into the next part, and having a slightly different unsegued intro. But "Mea Culpa" certainly isn't part 2 of anything, unless they mean it's the 2nd of the album's singles. Meanwhile, the third single, "Principles of Lust", has no part number, and it is just "Find Love" under a new name. OK, I realize it's not supposed to make sense. Apparently, the "part I" / "part II" is just continuing the pseudo-medieval/classical aesthetic. But my brain wants it to have a purpose! I also want to think of the songs as just "Sadeness" and "Mea Culpa". Anyway, just musing. |
Posted By: AdvprosD
Date Posted: 23 November 2022 at 8:38pm
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O/T, it's really odd how this became a hit for this couple. I first heard it and was thinking this was a song headed nowhere. I didn't like the background whisper singing of Sandra. (I also,
didn't know it was her until a lot later), as I mostly disregarded the track as pretentious and quite useless. However, I really did like her work with Hubert Kah. I guess it was Michael Cretu that I didn't care for music-wise. To this day, I still turn it off when given the opportunity. IMHO, a song with a face only appreciated on radio. I also heard it once or twice on Casey's Top-40. Not much anywhere else besides radio. ------------- <Dave> Someone please tell I-Heart Radio that St. Louis is not known as The Loo! |
Posted By: mjb50
Date Posted: 24 November 2022 at 4:56am
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Heh. Pretention certainly results in split opinions—you either love it or hate it (Björk comes to mind)—but it sure gets your attention, doesn't it? I mean, despite being heavily based on Soul II Soul's "Keep On Movin'" beats, Enigma had a fresh sound. And it's just pop, not really high art, right?
Well, it was fresh as long as you weren't too familiar with Sandra & Cretu's previous Euro synth-dance-pop work, which I wasn't, at the time. I did always think the shakuhachi-flute keyboard riffs were a bad choice (it's basically a preset that came with certain Korg digital keyboards), but still, I was excited about "sleaze", ambient house, and Balearic Beat; I thought it was cool that these downtempo vibes from the dance world were making inroads into pop. I was also still a teenager and just excited about anything new and different in pop, no matter how ridiculous ("Bring Me Edelweiss", anyone?). |
Posted By: AdvprosD
Date Posted: 24 November 2022 at 12:53pm
Bringing Björk into the conversation works! However, I did find her tendency to growl while singing kind-of weird. Maybe that's why I didn't fit in well with the Gen-X music alternatives. ------------- <Dave> Someone please tell I-Heart Radio that St. Louis is not known as The Loo! |
mjb50 wrote:Posted By: LunarLaugh
Date Posted: 26 November 2022 at 12:31pm
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Two words: Pure Moods. ------------- https://thelunarlaugh.bandcamp.com/ - Listen to The Lunar Laugh! |