POLL: Best Track on Eno & Cale's "Wrong Way Up"

This is sooooo weird as I've been listening to this record on loop in my car.

NTI, can you post a couple of those interviews?

Here's one: http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/sos90b.html

In his "A year with swollen appendices" book, there's a line where he says he had just licensed "Spinning away" to be used in a British TV ad (Burtons, iirc) for £50,000. Nice.

Cale's side of the story of making Wrong Way Up is pretty grippingly written up, I recall, in What's Welsh For Zen:)

NTI, can you post a couple of those interviews?

Here's one: http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/sos90b.html

Cale's side of the story of making Wrong Way Up is pretty grippingly written up, I recall, in What's Welsh For Zen:)

It's interesting that the two of them were so inspired by "The Soul of Carmen Miranda" -- until recently, it was never a favorite of mine and generally representative to me of Cale's kind of monotone melodic style of the period (which continues to some extent on WWU). I like the sounds in it tho -- particularly the squiggly scratchy sound that stretches into infinity.

Just heard Sugar Ray's cover of "Spinning Away", surprisingly faithful. Anyone have the back story on this?

Yeah that always seemed odd to me. The only thing I can imagine is that whoever did the soundtrack citation was trying to match a popular act with a personal fave.

You walk towards the station.
I'll walk towards the bus

otm

I'd heard about the language-book lyrics for Cordoba - looked for the source today:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=g8KlL80sQ-sC&q=%22according+to+his+father+he+is+very+ill%22&dq=%22according+to+his+father+he+is+very+ill%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGkK6jv-DJAhVEbRQKHbiECeMQ6AEIHzAA

that's awesome

Actually more likely this one in the same series, given the dates:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=R43FKpfjAEAC&dq=%22according%20to%20his%20father%20he%20is%20very%20ill%22&source=gbs_book_other_versions

gah those are my favorite types of language instruction books too -- tons of drills, sentences that are written for their sounds, super old school methodology that's pretty useful when you're at the beginning stages of learning a language

Love Spinning Away so much, but a friend sort of pooped it up a bit for me by noting the simple chord progression is pretty much "Hey Soul Sister."

ilxor Tom D. just pointed out that "Spinning Away" is merely a rewrite of "The Big Ship"...

but I'd like to chime in that "Spinning Away" unfortunately replaces the original's heavily distorted synths & Frippotronics with late 80s flourishes like gated drums & world music cliches.

Spinning away is beautiful

yeah c'mon it's like top ten Eno

but I'd like to chime in that "Spinning Away" unfortunately replaces the original's heavily distorted synths & Frippotronics with late 80s flourishes like gated drums & world music cliches.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli),

Your imagination unfortunately was replaced by heavily distorted farts

Trying to imagine if Julien Baker* (or hell even Cale**) covered it on solo piano...

*a la her cover of "Accident Prone"
**a la his cover of "Frozen Warnings"

I love this album. Footsteps and been there are the 2 tracks I’m not so hot on, though I enjoy them - love all the rest

Eno did a lazy lugubrious cover of “ring of fire” in the style of “the river” around this time, I love it just for giving me more of that vibe

brb gonna listen to the oh-oh-ohs from "Empty Frame" again.

Had I been around I might have voted for that one itp

Listened to it today! Particularly love "Cordoba".

ilxor Tom D. just pointed out that "Spinning Away" is merely a rewrite of "The Big Ship"...

that's a cool observation, I think this tune fits in with those two as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xycTSIC0aCA

(not Eno though)

Spinning Away is absolutely classic of course (even the Sugar Ray cover is good!!) but I'm still bothered by the drum loop sounding like a 96kbps MP3

It's a fairly standard chord sequence, probably been used lots of time. Eno only uses straightforward chord sequences, Cale often does too.

I wish I could vote on this to show Been There Done That some love

I'm finally home (!) and am here to tell you that:

"The Big Ship"
C - F - Am - F - C - G/B - Am - F
I | IV | vi | IV | I | V* | vi | IV *inversion

"Spinning Away"
A - E - F#m - D
I | V | vi | IV

so a slight difference, but in Tom D's defense, the reedy/overdriven DX-7 preset sounds remarkably similar in both tracks.

My big takeaways: "The Big Ship" uses the same chords as "No Woman No Cry" & "Spinning Away" uses the same chords as "Three Little Birds".

Is Eno a closet rasta?

Hasn't he just been working with Lee Perry?

I'm finally home (!) and am here to tell you that:

"The Big Ship"
C - F - Am - F - C - G/B - Am - F
I | IV | vi | IV | I | V* | vi | IV *inversion

"Spinning Away"
A - E - F#m - D
I | V | vi | IV

so a slight difference, but in Tom D's defense, the reedy/overdriven DX-7 preset sounds remarkably similar in both tracks.

bumping this thread for the "Spinning Away" chord progression soundalike... my wife's native ringtone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW6gUttBqpM