ICYMI, he's got his own twitter account now
On May 4, I will release Music For Installations, a massive box set of all the new, rare, or unreleased music I’ve written for various art installations from 1986 on. I plan to be tweeting about it.— Brian Eno (@BrianEnoMusic) April 15, 2018
― Jeff W, Sunday, 15 April 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
is it legit? dunno.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 15 April 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
https://twitter.com/BrianEnoMusic/status/985579839821352960
Yeah I'm ENO who fucking cares— Brian Eno (@BrianEnoMusic) April 4, 2018
seems legit to me
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 April 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
haha not legit (though the box set is real)
― tylerw, Sunday, 15 April 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
lol, that first tweet i posted (https://twitter.com/BrianEnoMusic/status/985579839821352960) was posted 4 minutes ago, and has already been deleted. it said something like "i'll do soundcloud reposts for $50 a pop"
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 April 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
i wonder if someone DM'd them and told them that was illegal or something. i'm not sure if it is illegal to impersonate someone else and then offer to repost soundcloud songs for $50 a pop, but it would be a really interesting trial
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 April 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
haha yeah, that might go beyond a "parody account" defense. fake twitter accounts are pretty irritating — i've been seeing people reposting the Bill Murray one with something about Syria, saying "Bill is the best" etc. Obviously a small thing to complain about, but still ...
― tylerw, Sunday, 15 April 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
it's a contemporary example of the hyperreal
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 April 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
i have 0 tolerance for fake accountslike Brian Eno would say "who fucking cares"?!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 15 April 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
man, i love brian eno, and i love Reflection, but goddammit brian eno you have to lower the price down from $30.99.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
has anyone else read "A Year With Swollen Appendices"? I'm into late April and... it does not really paint a very flattering picture of the artist, imo.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
which maybe is to his credit, like a warts-and-all approach? I dunno, I'm finding it disillusioning.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
like he's already yelled at his kids and made them cry like three times
I bought the 2004 remaster of B&AS -- damn, so many instruments I hadn't heard before. Phil Collins is insane on "No One's Receiving."
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
― sleeve,
I love the in-the-studio moments with Bowie and U2. I even enjoy the drinking-at-Bono's-chateau sections. In my early teaching days, I used his lecture on culture a couple times.
yeah I did really like the "Outside" parts, it's the personal stuff that grates
lots of great quotes and tossed-off ideas, for sure, and I love reading about his working methods and music theories
― sleeve, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
also those 2004 remasters are fantastic, agreed
kids are annoying sometimes idk
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
No CD version of the box set, huh?
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link
like he's already yelled at his kids and made them cry like three timesshow me a parent who hasn't!
i read on some faraway beach and my worst impression was that he was an insufferable perv and probably a bit precious about his ideasnothing severely offputting, or not enough to bother me
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
that's closer to what grates on me, also just yr basic "first world problems" eyerolls
I should withhold further judgement until I finish it...
― sleeve, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
i give him a 1970s pass for crazy behaviorit's a merciful world if we are not all judged by how pervy we were at our worst!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
Stay Pervy I say!
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
26th August:Pissed into an empty bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss', so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 11:14 (six years ago) link
It's a weird book for sure. His obsession with photoshopping female arses is a detail that sticks in my memory.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 12:51 (six years ago) link
Worst part of Year With Swollen Appendices is him bitching about Graceland, tries to allege that Simon invaded his personal cultural space, ie, the white guy bringing African music to the masses... Pretty sure he uses the phrase “my personal garden” to refer to African music commercially released in the West.
Was ages ago that I read it but I remember my biggest lol being him complaining about a massive surplus of wibbly instrumental ambient CDs flooding the market, saying in response, I want words! I want messages! What kind of music offers that? Rap? Hmm, no not that...
― sciatica, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
omg wowthat's petty & grossi think bitching in general is nagl
he needs to get a filter for his thoughts to filter these things out before he commits them to writing
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
If you're not prepared to show us your warts, don't publish a diary.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 17:25 (six years ago) link
yeah that's fair, I was just surprised that so much relatively unflattering stuff got left in
― sleeve, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
LOL, yes I remember that bit. I always remember his Top Tip on how not to forget to save stuff you're working on on a computer, which was put a book on your head and every time it falls off, save. I've never done it though, but I'm not convinced Eno has either.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
has he mentioned the book since or has he kind of disowned it?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link
I'd be surprised if he disowned it tbhHeh xp everyone remembers the piss-drinking bit if nothing else, it is one of the top Brian Eno piss anecdotes (there are a few because eno is a piss guy)
― scotti pruitti (wins), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
I haven't read it in years but I don't remember him coming out of it too bad.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
It’s mostly fine, lots of oh I could spend New Years Eve with Bono in Sarajevo but I’m just not feeling it, would love to shag his wife though, maybe next year? kinda stuff. He reveals he’s never been paid any royalties for Are We Not Men? Somewhere on ILM sexyDancer I think called him a “flouncing housewife” with basically no responsibilities and who’s never held to account and that seems accurate to me.
Also worth noting he writes a lot about the War Child charity which turned out to be a total scam a couple years later. He also gets rolled with some kind of elaborate gym membership after a lady trainer praises him. He published a diary too late imo, he’s mostly just a clueless rich asshole at this point, more than 20 years ago now...
― sciatica, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
Somewhere on ILM sexyDancer I think called him a “flouncing housewife” with basically no responsibilities and who’s never held to account and that seems accurate to me.
this sounds pretty sexist to me; to me he sounds like petulant (and gross) adolescent who hasn't realized that his every thought does not need to be seen/heard
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
yeah sorry, search isn’t turning up the post I was thinking of so I’m probably misremembering, apologies to sexyDancer, your simile is much more accurate for sure
― sciatica, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
it's fine i just don't like the feminization of his behavior, which seems textbook brat to me. that is the word to comes to my mind at least.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
sexydancer doesn't post anymore does he?
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
Was War Child “a total scam”? Or was there some corruption in later years? Not sure why this would be a knock regardless as this article suggests the latter and that Pavarotti and Eno both resigned as a result: https://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2017/apr/10/whistleblower-war-child-need-anonymity-corruptionAnyway, I loved Swollen Appendices BTW – for many of the reasons many seem to be criticizing it. The warts, the admitted ass-love, the dilettante-ism, the risotto recipes and doting dad stuff (doesn’t he take baths with his young daughters?). This was a pretty active time for him as well (Passengers, Wobble, Outside, early James sessions for Whiplash).
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 19 April 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
My favouritest part of the Eno diary when I was a teenager was when he railed against Saul from James and his inability to stick with a single good idea
I don't know why I liked that so much! I think I just wanted to be in James, instead of Saul
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 19 April 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
I was fascinated by the descriptions of the way Bowie worked on "Outside"
― sleeve, Friday, 20 April 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
So, the Music For Installations box...
Gorgeous throughout (unsurprisingly), quite varied in tone and intent (surprisingly), included book more or less distills Eno's whole worldview into a lovingly written record of his experiments with light and sound... anybody else enjoying?
― Davey D, Thursday, 24 May 2018 04:58 (six years ago) link
Your fellow davey has listened a few times. V much enjoyed
― davey, Thursday, 24 May 2018 06:25 (six years ago) link
Dumb plexiglass thing down to £182 from Amazon Italy for a short while (still £330 in the UK apparently)
https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B07B627BXH/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=superdeluxe0d-21&linkId=576ac644ae89733e362c180a400f6ab8
― MaresNest, Friday, 6 July 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
meanwhile i am listening to it on Spotify for, like, pennies per hour
― davey, Friday, 6 July 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
damn at first i thought it was a link to some big plexiglass thing that turns your room into the No Pussyfooting cover
― brimstead, Friday, 6 July 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
I've been a huge Brian Eno fan since I was maybe 16 or so, high school, so closing in on 30 years now. I've listened to all of his stuff, tons of times. I love everything. I'm a completist. I have books, videos, apps, Oblique Strategies cards. And yet - confession - tonight was the first time I put on "Music for Airports" and, as best I can remember, truly enjoyed every last second. Utterly entrancing. Just sitting in the living room with my daughter, reading books, and it just ... clicked. I never disliked the album before, and once even watched Bang on a Can do it, but it always just sort of eluded me. Which is oddly apropos! But tonight - totally magical. Weird.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 August 2018 02:11 (five years ago) link
I played MFA for Chris Dahlen when we were maybe 16 and he just started tooling on it after about 5 minutes. Pretty sure he likes it now too.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 23 August 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link
It's a very special and unique thing, still.
― sleeve, Thursday, 23 August 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link
xpost (What is Chris up to? We went to college together!)
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 August 2018 04:21 (five years ago) link