I love them Arthur...

I wish I could find more easily accessible.

I lean toward the 'spiritual condition' of Europe in my own understanding of their popularity... in a Post Christian society... the emptiness much be gnawing away at them... and then they hear something with some deep history and meaning from the past...

and...like Andrei Reau it strikes a chord in the longing heart.

Glad you like them Foxy.

When I do my "History of the world" in Music.. I'll use some of them for sure.

They've been floating around the charts forever. Ever since Enigma came out with MCMXC a.D. in 1990. What's that?, 18 years...

Congrats for catching up so quick, Polycarp. lol.

Cool. Do they cover "Smack My Bitch Up"? How about "Jesus Built My Hotrod"? "Antichrist Superstar"? Anything at all by Korn?

No Sancho, but I hear they do a great cover of "The Power of Lard".

Gregorian chants? I've had several CDs in my collection for decades. I like them because they provide a peaceful ambience conducive to doing other stuff. "Spiritual"? I don't think so.

The melodies and they way they are sung are quite beautiful, but very few people understand the Latin in which the chants are sung - including me.

Porky: << I lean toward the 'spiritual condition' of Europe in my own understanding of their popularity... in a Post Christian society... the emptiness much be gnawing away at them... and then they hear something with some deep history and meaning from the past... >>

Try again, old chap. It's popular for all the same reasons that all 'ambient' music is - it provides a nice background and, in the case of your latest musical discovery, is well-marketed - as Bugsy said.

Fraccy... as Jesus said

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."

The only way a person can 'love' godlessness is when their brain chemistry has not been 'born again'.... yes..I know that the 'world' can have a certain charm...but having lived on both 'highways' I know which one reaches down to the deepest depths of our being and meets us there. (it's not the godless one)

I looked up Dandy Warhols and noted the atmosphere etc... seems to me like a manifestation of Peggy Lee's chorus

"Is that all there is, is that all there is
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is....."

But I don't know how long people can go in this life carrying the idea that it is meaningless and absurd...that idea leaves you with your body and senses...that's it. It makes relationships utterly meaningless...because there is nothing to bind 2 people together except mutual despair....oh what fun :)

Today..I've been asked to speak at my aunt's funeral and share a Bible verse.
I've been reflecting on the concept 'funeral'. It's that moment when we are all levelled out. No rich..no poor.. just the living and the dead. Someone we all love is gone... but is it 'goodbye'(and lets break out the booze) or.. "until we meet again"?

Jesus said "I am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in me shall live, even though he dies"

So.. a funeral can be doom gloom and despair...OR.. Joy, celebration and Praise, to Him who offers us eternal life.

The Monks chants connect us with those eternal truths.