I'm not sure how it was out so early over there, but; I can't really say anything wonderful about the CD that has not already been said. IT IS GREAT! I remember having the cassette of the original album when it was first released(1992), that was my junior year in high school. Now about those bonus tracks, it is noteworthy that one of them is in the movie `Sliver'(1993). In the scene when Sharon Stone gets off the elevator after her date with William Baldwin, and they have an "encounter" up against a pillar in his apartment. I think the track even begins with the faint sound of a ding from an elevator door. As with most songs that catch my attention in movies, this one was not on the soundtrack but I was very excited to come across it on this special edition album. GOOD STUFF!!!!

I think ENIGMA is the best. Not only that. The M C M X C a. D. is the best CD of it. The music Sadeness is so great. Once you put it it will make you listen like over and over again. I mean who could not like ENIGMA and Sadeness? And I give it a five starts because its a great music to listen and dance and relax.
The best and the number music of the world !!!

I've always looked at "MCMXC" which is Roman Numerals for 1990, to be the most unique and most magical of the entire Enigma catelog to date. I doubt Cretu may ever come up with anything that has the feel, nor am I looking for another "MCMXC" anyway but this is without a doubt their most popular and critically acclaimed album.

By the time 1990 rolled over into 1991, a very strange and unusual dance song that combined Gothic Gregorian Chants with an electronic techno beat with a dark New Age melody came in, I was absolutely mezmerized by the song. It would be many years before I would find out that it was the group Enigma nad the song "Sadeness" that took me by storm when I was just a kid at the time of it's release to radio. I bought a copy of this album on November 28, 1999 and finally acquired this great song. But that's not all there is to say.

The album version on here is a much grander and more epic track than the radio edit. The version on here is nearly twelve minutes long! It's actually a three-part trilogy track. The first part is the familiar single that's been popular for over 14 years as of 2005. The first part stops and the chime effects brilliantly merge into a creepy melody. The second part of the track is called "Find Love" which is perhaps my favorite part of the song. "Find Love" is arguably my favorite part of the entire track. The Dark Blue Gothic feel of the first part gives way to something like a grayish reddish mood with a new melody and a lighter jazzier and a soultry female whisper. "Find Love" goes into a state of limbo for about 30 seconds before it goes into the third part of the track which returns the journey the dark blue sounds of "Sadeness". At first it has a piano part which is really beautiful but then it reverts back to the original version and closes out this epic on a grand note. I would even go far enough to categorize this is a Prog-New Age track.

That's not to say that it overshadows the rest of this album either. "Callas Went Away" is a beautiful somber track which uses the drum loop from Mike and THe Mechanics 1985 track "Par Avion" and becomes a beautiful and soul-touching classic.