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Question: Three influential ladies :: Total Votes:21 Poll choices Votes Statistics Madonna - Confessions of the dance floor 3  [14.29%] Kate Bush - Aerial 11  [52.38%] Enya - Amarantine 7  [33.33%] Guests cannot vote

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The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Nov. 19 2005, 16:48 These three 80s hit makers each have very induvidual styles, all three are making a comeback! Which album interests you most?   -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 19 2005, 17:26 I already bought Kate B. - spectacular. I'm looking forward to Enya 'cause I have everything by her & I love her music, I won't buy Madonna's disc because it's segued, something I really hate. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Nov. 19 2005, 17:54 Hmm... this was'nt easy to choice. But i think Madonna. Im not a huge fan of her but If you look at her last album, its sucks!! But this! This is dance and good feeling! I have allready dance to her album. I have tasted the album and will absolute buy it. Ray of light is one of my favorite album ever. I dont know why, but its special. I love Madonna when she do things like that. Now we got this new album. Im not sad for this   The way she do the dance songs. She is Madonna! One thing is what i know! She makes me feel like to dance and dance. After danced after one song i must dance to the other one to. Im a huge fan of good really, good dance music! She gives me what i want. Thank you Madonna! Enya is my second choice. I love her music too, but this album "Confessions of the dance floor" this was a suprise! And i love suprises!! Enya have always give me good stuff but not Madonna. I thought Madonna was all gone from my taste. -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

captain cavern Group: Members Posts: 267 Joined: Oct. 2003 Posted: Nov. 19 2005, 18:30 I vote for Kate... Real artist My second choice is for Enya... Real artist... For me, as they say at Allmusic.com, "...However, one of Madonna's greatest achievements is how she manipulated the media and the public with her music, her videos, her publicity, and her sexuality..."... Madonna is a joke... Back to top

Harmono Group: Members Posts: 759 Joined: May 2005 Posted: Nov. 19 2005, 18:51 Yesterday I heard Kate Bush(Aerial) for the first time in my life! These were only short clips I found from the net but they sound real good, the first song in particular was cool. Today my cousin played some older material for me and I liked that too. My cousin had bought the new Madonna album too, I didnt hear it but he said that all the songs sound too much alike and I dont like Madonna anyways, except her bum. This vote goes for Kate Bush Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Nov. 19 2005, 18:57 Enya and Kate Bush? I like more than 80% of their work. It is hard to choose between them. Madonna? I probably like just 8 (eight, not eighty, not eight percent) of her songs. Dismissing that choice is easy. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Ian Too Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: Aug. 2005 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 05:15 For me it has to be Kate. She is a true original who - unlike Enya - produces distinctive albums. Madonna is of course, the consummate performer; but she could never, ever, produce work of such depth and sublty as Kate or simple beauty of Enya. Kate can match Enya for beauty, but Enya can't match Kate for originality. She does what she does very well, but it is too limited in scope. -------------- (-: Ian :-) Currently reading: What Remains to be Discovered by John Maddox Also doing far too much decorating than is good for one Back to top

The Big BellEnd Group: Members Posts: 971 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 07:10 Enya for me is lazy and repetetive, not mystical or elusive but clever staying out of the way long enough that people will say wow a new album, only to hear more of the same. -------------- I, ON THE OTHER HAND. AM A VICTIM OF YOUR CARNIVOUROUS LUNAR ACTIVITY. Back to top

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 07:34 Quote (The Big BellEnd @ Nov. 20 2005, 12:10) Enya is clever staying out of the way long enough that people will say wow a new album, only to hear more of the same. Well, that's a theory! I may buy Aerial and Amarantine, I'll leave Madonna's new album for my Dad to buy   Enya may always be similar, but I love it   Have only heard the very odd song by Kate Bush so far, so cannot judge her   -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 11:20 Quote (The Bell(end) @ Nov. 19 2005, 16:48) These three 80s hit makers each have very induvidual styles, all three are making a comeback! Which album interests you most?   I don't agree about Madonna having a very individual style. She's adapted to every trend there's been over the years. She's *the* arch populist - quite the opposite of having a very individual style. She's just a brand name. The only remarkable thing about here is her painfully mediocre singing voice. As you see I don't like Madonna a lot ;-) I will have a sneak-peak on the new Kate Bush album on the net to see if it's worth buying. I love most of her old record actually. Hounds of love is a 5+ album! Lars T -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 14:12 Kate's is the only one I'm likely to buy, though I do like Madonna once in a while. Back to top

The Big BellEnd Group: Members Posts: 971 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 16:45 it's no theory. -------------- I, ON THE OTHER HAND. AM A VICTIM OF YOUR CARNIVOUROUS LUNAR ACTIVITY. Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 17:37 I bought Kates new album the other day and I like it but found it a little self indulgent meaning it's good to have your own unique style but you still need to follow certain rules with song writing as you do with Poetry and some of these songs have little structure or pattern to them but I am not going to judge yet on only 2 listens, certainly sounded better the second time. One big beef though, the lyrics to Mrs Bartolozzi, what crud. "I took my laundry basket and put all the linen in it, and everything could fit in it, all our dirty clothes that hadn't gone into the wash and all your shirts and jeans and things and put them in the new washing machine, washing machine, washing machine. Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy, get that dirty shirty clean, slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy, make those cuffs and collars gleam".  I stopped buying Tori Amos cds about 10 years ago because she went too weird. I have one 'best of Enya' cd, love 'Sail Away' but find the rest boring and repetitive, and I have Madonnas Immaculate Collection and 'Music' which I found but quite like. Check out Sias 'Colour the small one', brilliant album and Sarah McLachlan, two great artists, also Katie Noonan from the band 'George'. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 19:35 I'll eventually get Kate's and Enya's, but I've never listened to Madonna--couldn't even name more than one song that she did. -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

Bill Bobaggins Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: June 2005 Posted: Nov. 20 2005, 21:13 Kate Bush - Aerial.  I have already purchased it.  Haven't had time to listen however.   I liked Enya's first two albums - haven't bought anything since. And although I do not own anything by Madonna, I do like some of her stuff.  Borderline is my favorite. -------------- Speak friend and enter. Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Nov. 22 2005, 22:50 BTW, have you ever noticed how similar the words "Ommadawn" and "Madonna" are?   Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: Nov. 23 2005, 22:18 Quote (Holger @ Nov. 22 2005, 21:50) BTW, have you ever noticed how similar the words "Ommadawn" and "Madonna" are?   Errr.....no!   Actually, I'll expand on that. Back in the early, clueless 80's (for me) I found that album and my Appaloosa mare the same week. Coincidentally, her name was "Rio's Dawn." I had no idea what "Ommadawn" meant, but "omma" can mean eye, and "dawn" is, well, "dawn," so I used to think of it as "eye of the dawn." My appy mare had the most gorgeous eyes--looked like she had on permanent black eyeliner. Also during that time, I was in to Mike, Yes, Rush, Marillion, IQ....anybody but Madonna--Madonna who? Whose name was (in my mind) somehow associated with Mary the Mother. Which didn't make a lot of sense.   But yeah...I suppose if you say the names aloud..they <hmm> bare a certain eerie similarity.   -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Nov. 24 2005, 05:30 Quote (Inkanta @ Nov. 24 2005, 04:18) I had no idea what "Ommadawn" meant, but "omma" can mean eye, and "dawn" is, well, "dawn," so I used to think of it as "eye of the dawn." Someone once told me he'd always interpreted it as "the final dawn", i.e. Armageddon. I found that a pretty interesting idea. (Sorry for going, or staying, off-topic.) Back to top

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