My neighbors must wonder what's up when they walk by my apartment door and hear me playing music with English lyrics.
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 23 July 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link
It is the only 70's eno record I do not care for. I just felt the production was not quite up to snuff, he polished it too much. Everything Eno did no that record he did better on previous albums. I found it funny that I did not care for the record, and unbeknownst to me Eno actually echoed my complaints when he discussed that record in interviews in the late 70's.
It isn't a horrible record, it is just that he has a lot of material from that period of time and your money is better spent elsewhere in the back catalogue. And while I am thinking about it, you should probably pick up Cluster and Eno because that it good stuff.
Also, has anyone ever heard that the live The 801 bootleg from 76?
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave q, Saturday, 24 July 2004 03:42 (nineteen years ago) link
"I'm terribly attracted to women with ocular damage."
Classic.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 24 July 2004 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link
that's an official live album, is it not? i bought it a few months ago, it's great! the sound of the live recording is amazing. some terrific renditions of songs from another green world and taking tiger mountain (by strategy).
― willem (willem), Saturday, 24 July 2004 10:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 24 July 2004 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Saturday, 24 July 2004 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Saturday, 24 July 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Saturday, 24 July 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Fripp / Eno : The Equatorial Stars
― (Jon L), Saturday, 24 July 2004 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― (Jon L), Saturday, 24 July 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link
I've downloaded Taking Tiger Mountain, Warm Jets, and Another Green World. The first two are still keeping me at a distance. Another Green World came through without a track order, so I listened to it at first in alphabetical order, without knowing that it wasn't the correct version. I LOVED it; a wonderful album. Then I discovered that it was mixed up and resorted the songs; I HATED it! blech. Starting with Sky Saw, St Elmos Fire at the start... it didn't work for me.
I'm really happy with my version, though. Try it; I'd love to know what people who know the real version think of the reorder:
Another Green WorldBecalmedEverything Merges With the NightGolden HoursI'll Come RunningIn Dark TreesLittle FishesOver Fire IslandSky SawSombre ReptilesSpirits DriftingSt. Elmo's FireThe Big ShipZawinul/Lava
― derrick (derrick), Monday, 9 August 2004 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 9 August 2004 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 9 August 2004 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link
man like simon reynolds linked to this. it's v funny. i don't think the people in it are rockists.
― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Who Are You... The Nerve... I Wanna Get Out, I Wanna Get Out (Dada), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 09:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 09:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Also Reynolds in utterly misunderstanding a simple concept shockah. What exactly do you suppose a Lester Bangs puff piece is the hallmark of?
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 09:46 (seventeen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rqbzgSp0pow
― am0n, Thursday, 12 June 2008 06:07 (fifteen years ago) link
classic
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2003/0120/cover/view_eno.html
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 12 June 2008 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link
love that TIME article by Eno, read it when it came out & it still holds up well :)
― stephen, Thursday, 12 June 2008 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I just told someone recently a good bio on Eno would be really interesting. Well, here it is!
On Some Faraway Beach: The Life And Times of Brian Eno - David Sheppard
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 20 June 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Always Returning is so fucking beautiful. Almost as godlike as Half Man Half Biscuit's 'Eno Collaboration'
― Fer Ark, Saturday, 21 June 2008 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I got the book in the mail last night. It's UK only, but got it from a seller via Amazon for domestic rates! It's a beautiful hardcover, over 450 pages. Here's a passage from the first chapter:
"...I was encouraged by Colin Newman, lead singer of the veteran post-punk band Wire and an acquaintance and long-term adherent of Eno's, whose pithy views on all things Brian resonated like a Greek chorus as I wrote the book. Possibly fearing I was another fixated, sanctimonious Enophile, Newman gave me some salutary words of advice: 'I think we need to reclaim Eno from the Eno nerds. There's a lot of nasty train-spotting involved with the Eno fanbase. Brian needs to have his place, sure, but he's not a saint, nor is he a professor. He's a bunch of things, one of which -- and I say this in the most friendly and supportive way -- is an incredibly adept bullshitter. He's a brilliant opportunist.'"
Well put. And along with Lee Perry, he's been involved with nearly 25% of my all-time favorite albums from the 70s.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 27 June 2008 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm less than 1/4 through and enjoying it thoroughly.
This review is a decent encapsulation.
http://www.fastnbulbous.com/eno_on.jpg
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 3 July 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
“the bottom is the large brain”
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuckin' A.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Friday, 22 August 2008 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/magazine/04funny_humor.html?_r=1
― Your original display name will be displayed in brackets (Display Name), Sunday, 8 February 2009 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Has anyone seen or heard an Eno solo live show recently? Seems like he's been doing more speaking engagements than anything else. He's playing next month in LA.
― society for cutting up (tricky), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
FFS it seems like it's a lecture after all. $100 to hear the man speak.
cut the guy a break, it's not like he's been doing any high-profile, high-paying producing gigs of late ... ;)
― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
they did Apollo live over For All Mankind in the Science Museum IMAX theatre recently and the first i heard about it was the review...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/22/brian-eno-apollo-review
― koogs, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Has anyone seen or heard an Eno solo live show recently?
Not solo-solo, but he did a three-set directed improv show with The Necks, Karl Hyde, Jon Hopkins, Leo Abrahams and Tomato at the Sydney Opera House a few months ago. (Plus about three lectures, the 77 Million Paintings installation, and turning the sails into lava lamps for two weeks.)
― miss pamela and the gtfo's (sic), Thursday, 27 August 2009 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
eno thing on bbc 4 tonight.
― Crackle Box, Sunday, 24 January 2010 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
So i only realised tonight why 4:40 onwards of this sounds so familiar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUIZvAe3RBg
its because:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E76Oatpjn4
only made the connection because Jackson just went the whole hog and used Big Ship in the lovely bones.
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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fun anecdote. Just listening to "Thursday Afternoon" now - stunning! I really should pick up and READ that Eno book.
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Eno book is definitely worth a read, though obviously it gets a little less interesting once the 70s are over.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
The biography? It's quite good.
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, I got "On Some Faraway Beach" in the summer just gone, when going through Ambiengt I to IV and Apollo. Didnt get past a couple of chapters 'cos I'd try and read whilst listening to his music.
More often than not, I'd end up just sitting there, staring out of the window at traffic and listening...
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
He'd appreciate it!
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
ha!! actually, I'd also surf ILX often too... ILX - the ambient web....
― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
decided today The Plateaux Of Mirror is the best hangover listen ever. just the right balance of tragic, comfort and quiet.
― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
tragic hangover
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Haven’t heard it yet but the live record with Holger Czukay and J. Peter Schwalm is out now.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 31 May 2024 03:26 (three days ago) link
Brain One, that’s the best thing since scalded brie.
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 1 June 2024 02:52 (two days ago) link
the live record is really cool
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 2 June 2024 19:29 (yesterday) link