― Hydrochloric Shaved Weirds (Bimble...), Saturday, 9 July 2005 04:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Real Eno bias on the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/anyquestions.shtml
― LRJP! (LRJP!), Saturday, 9 July 2005 11:18 (eighteen years ago) link
I also agree that Eno has transformed projects he's worked on into solo records ("Achtung Baby," "Laid," etc. - certainly "Zooropa," "Passengers," "Wah Wah"). Wasn't the famously the start of the rift between he and Byrne, over songwriting credits and the feeling that Eno was just using the Talking Heads as his backing band? Anyway, to hear a great example of Eno is the song he co-wrote with Bryan Ferry that closes the latter's last record.
Anyway, the new album is indeed very homecooked, and I suspect much of it is drawn from his vast archives of unreleased material - the previously (though not widely) released "Under" certainly is, and I read an interview with Eno where he said it was writing lyrics that proved the hold-up. But most of it is very pretty, even if it's ultimately pretty unexceptional. Which is to say, every time I've heard it I've found it very moving, but I never put it on. It is on my iPod, though. Intriguing contradictions it imposes on my listening habits.
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 9 July 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Saturday, 9 July 2005 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 9 July 2005 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 9 July 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
how so? a few people on here seem to really dislike Drawn From Life, but its definitely one of my favorites. I'd be interested to hear what you think is better about the new one - maybe it will help me appreciate it better ^_^
― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Saturday, 9 July 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 10 July 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hydrochloric Shaved Weirds (Bimble...), Saturday, 16 July 2005 06:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― steve hise, Saturday, 16 July 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link
And then, suddenly the rug of comfort is pulled out from under one's feet with track eleven - "Bonebomb" - a stunning slap in the face to bring us back to the unutterable "nowness" of life in 2005. In the current climate it is too shocking to listen to repeatedly, but must be heard once. Perhaps all the more startling as the backing track could well be Mike Oldfield.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 25 July 2005 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link
someday, we'll put it all behindwe'll say, it was just another timewe'll say, it was just another day on earth
eno's reputation for absurdity and tactful understatement suggests that regarding 9/11 as some epochal day we should base everything on isn't his MESSAGE, but you never know, he's in his 50s now and has seen some things
― burlap, Monday, 25 July 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lukas (lukas), Saturday, 1 October 2005 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Saturday, 1 October 2005 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lukas (lukas), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Replace the pejorative "recycles" with "uses" and I'll agree with you. So what if it sounds similar to other stuff he's done, though? The overall impact is very different, unsettling in a more subtle way. Everything sounds more fragile, and more definitely situated in relation to a big uncertain world outside the album itself.
― Lukas (lukas), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
It's engaging but just in a different way. Haven't decided whether this or Drawn from Life is better. I do have some quibbles though - 'This' sounds like a Wrong Way Up outtake and doesn't really fit with the rest of the record. And he should really stop designing his own packaging.
Final verdict: I'm just grateful it wasn't another Drop.
― Brakhage (brakhage), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
seconding naive teen idol about how nobody is mentioning the beauty of "and then so clear." sounds so great when you turn it up... really warm bass and then the double-tracking of the vocals... one with vocoder, the other plain, is simply amazing.
i also keep listening to "bone bomb" over and over.
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 23 January 2006 06:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 13 July 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 13 July 2006 00:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 July 2006 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 July 2006 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFAH2cnNlMk
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 01:55 (ten years ago) link
so many people shrugged their shoulders at this but i love it almost as much as the first four "vocal" albums
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 04:07 (ten years ago) link
Me too!
― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 07:52 (ten years ago) link