Charisma Records albums (Music Guide)

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Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 77. Chapters: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, MCMXC a.D., Quark, Strangeness and Charm, Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings, So, Abacab, A Trick of the Tail, ...And Then There Were Three..., Nursery Cryme, Duke, Alphabeat, Wind & Wuthering, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Selling England by the Pound, Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album, Foxtrot, Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!, The Cross of Changes, Intergalactic Touring Band, Peter Gabriel, Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music, Still Got the Blues, Serious Fun, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, Duck Rock, Magician's Hat, Five Bridges, Genesis, 25 Years On, Pawn Hearts, Elegy, PXR5, Trespass, Story of I, A Curious Feeling, Music Inspired by Watership Down, Another Monty Python Record, Fans, Ein deutsches album, The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other, Little Ship, Spilt Milk, Dingly Dell, Attic Thoughts, Up, Please Don't Touch, Bellybutton, Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night, Commercial Album, H to He, Who Am the Only One, The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief, The House on the Hill, Bone Against Steel, History, Voyage of the Acolyte, Fool's Mate, The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage, Spectral Mornings, Highly Strung, Nadir's Big Chance, The Secret Value of Daydreaming, Nicely Out of Tune, Smallcreep's Day, The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome, Unorthodox Behaviour, Valotte, Monty Python's Previous Record, Present, Defector, Do They Hurt?, Fog on the Tyne, A Rare Conundrum, 1984, Felona e Sorona, Bonafide, In Camera, Product, PH7, Cured, After Hours, Lunch, Moroccan Roll, Godbluff, Twelfth Night XII, Over, Refugee, Cost of Living, World Record, Masques, L.A. Turnaround, The Future Now, The Fugitive, Still Life, Pipedream, Friend's Friend's Friend, Avocet, Santa Barbara Honeymoon, Thank You, Blues for Greeny, Xitintoday, Sweet Sixteen, Desire, Stuck Together with God's Glue. Excerpt: MCMXC a.D. ("1990" in Roman numerals followed by an abbreviation of "Anno Domini") is a concept album created by the musical project Enigma, spearheaded by Michael Cretu. Released at the end of 1990, it was Enigma's debut album. The project's popularity soon soared beyond Cretu's expectations after the album's launch, and it reached #1 in 41 countries. Four singles were excerpted from this album: "Sadeness (Part I)", "Principles of Lust", "Mea Culpa (Part II)" and "The Rivers of Belief". "Sadeness" and MCMXC a.D. itself hit #1 in the UK singles and albums charts respectively on its UK debut in January 1991. On the U.S. market "Sadeness (Part I)" reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and MCMXC a.D. went to #6 on the Billboard 200 and remained in the charts for a total of 282 weeks. MCMXC a.D. was one of the first albums to be recorded on a hard disk after Cretu's upgrade to the A.R.T. Studios. The main theme in MCMXC a.D. could be interpreted as the struggle that one faces in life, between religion and sexuality. The main song of the album ("Sadeness (Part I)") questions the personal beliefs of the Marquis de Sade, who had an affection towards torture as pleasure. Other themes that appear on the album were based on Christian beliefs, and the end of the world from the Book of Revelation. MCMXC a.D. starts with the mellow sounds of a foghorn, later on to be known as the "Enigma horn" and the voice of Louisa Stanley, who at the time was an executive at Virgin Records speaking in "The Voice of Enigma". The Gregorian chan...