Ageless…
5
By Pick My Boogers Please!
This album sounds like it could’ve been cut today, not 1991. Whereas Parallel Dreams has a neat 80’s charm to some of its sounds, this one has never aged a day. Cymbeline might confuse the average person with its Shakespearean lyrics, but it is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. The Old Ways is epic with sufficient buildup and climax, and although McKennitt’s version of Greensleeves is dedicated to Tom Waits (that bizarre madman, whom I love on Primus’s Tommy the Cat and Coattails of a Dead Man) it too is good. A new age/Celtic classic, as with most of her work.