So, have at it.
― James Morris (HorrayJames), Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Jonathan Z., Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Phoebe Dinsmore, Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago) link
i remember the ambient stuff being way better than i expected, too, though i haven't heard it in a while.
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
Didn't care for 'heroes' from the one listen I gave it a couple of years ago.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago) link
And I'm a sucker for the Wall of Eno vocals he adds to everything he works on. For a somewhat limited singer, he harmonizes with himself really well, from his one man band "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to more recent stuff like "Someday" (that beautiful James song from the very underrated "Laid").
Anyone ever hear the NPR piece on "Once in a Lifetime," which details just what Eno brought to the track? He basically added the call and response chorus, worthy of the co-write credit. Eno also gets co-writer credit on "Heroes."
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 January 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago) link
1. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (the only solo Eno album I am enthusiastic about in its entirety), as well as individual tracks on some of his other albums (especially Before and After Science).
2. His touch as producer on what are often the best albums of the bands he's worked with: Remain in Light, Bowie, Devo (I forgot this--using allmusic as a cheat-sheet now), etc.
3. Collaborations with: Fripp (although I would say say that Fripp carries most of the weight there--but still, I think Eno's presence counts), Jon Hassel, etc.
Etc. because I have to go.
3.
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 January 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 January 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 January 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 22 January 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
― fcussen (Burger), Thursday, 22 January 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago) link
Of course, the man and the vast majority of his music, and his influence, is classic. Couldn't live without "Taking tiger mountain" or "Music for airports" amongst others. Those two boxed sets are two of the best investments I've ever made.
― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 22 January 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
― fcussen (Burger), Thursday, 22 January 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 22 January 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 22 January 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
Plus the Obscure Music series, which has some good titles.
― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 22 January 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
― fcussen (Burger), Thursday, 22 January 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link
Its just so coool. Weird pop and ambienty bits floated against each other in the nicest way, and my four year old loves to sing "I'll come running" which has got to get him some points somewhere.
― hector (hector), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago) link
then, suddenly, like a switch being thrown...
when 'wrong way up' came out an interview disc was distributed to radio, where he's sounding and dull, then at the end he begins talking about the recent birth of his daughter and how unimportant the theoretical side of music had become to him, and how now he just wanted to relax and play tunes. which makes me happy for eno the man, but keeping up with the last decade of releases has been a punishing experience.
'spinning away' from 'wrong way up', still excellent though
― (Jon L), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 22 January 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago) link
― (Jon L), Thursday, 22 January 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link
"Uh-oh!"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 January 2004 02:44 (twenty years ago) link
"Ding ding!"
― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 23 January 2004 08:41 (twenty years ago) link
― anode (anode), Friday, 23 January 2004 12:27 (twenty years ago) link
*I can't remember if I bought a copy or received it as a gift, but probably the latter. I used to get my older brother to buy me "weird"** records for my birthday and Christmas.
**I think he thought it was weird anyway (judging by his response to what I listened to on the radio), but I think he was a little amused to watch me growing up and getting into punk and new wave, and new bands he hadn't heard of, or other stuff that seemed esoteric to him. I think he may have bought me this album, the first Psychedelic Furs album, and Fripp's Let the Power Fall, and some a John Coltrane collection, all at my request. Now I'm getting all sentimental about my older brother. I miss being close to my family, and it's all Brian Eno's fault--well, not exactly.
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 01:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 01:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Possibly the fact that I often couldn't make out the lyrics or didn't know what he was talking about contributed to my liking the songs. "With Burgundy, Tizer and Rye/Twelve sheets of foolscap: don't ask me why." I'm still largely in the dark about these lines, for example. I think I only found out what foolscap is in the last few years and I've already forgotten the details.
I kind of like the lyrics to "True Wheel." I am looking at a lyrics page now, and I find myself saying, oh, is that how it goes? I really am not even hearing what he's saying a lot of the time.
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 03:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 03:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 03:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 04:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― sherm, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
music for airports = nice but forgettable, put aside after a couple of listens.
apollo = stunningly beautiful, one of my most played albums in recent times.
with this in mind, what next?
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
try no pussyfooting, with fripp.
― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.furious.com/perfect/bangseno.html
― erv (Abe Froman), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
a musical genius, the godfather of Ambient, the mastermind of warm synthesis, although the cause of a lot of shit (ie damp snares in 80s music from Low) still one of the true heads!
A let me emphasize his Ambient series - i don't understand why anyone hasn't yet. On Land, man! and lets not mention the second side of Day of Radiance with Laraaji (the first side i admit being...well). Most of my feelings on Before and After Science, Another Green World have meen mentioned.
And on a last note, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is fucking ingenius record :)
― Rob McD (Rob McD), Thursday, 22 July 2004 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Thursday, 22 July 2004 08:24 (nineteen years ago) link
seriously, listen to the title track from Taking Tiger Mountain or the first track on Warm Jets and get back to me, you will be a convert y0.
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Thursday, 22 July 2004 08:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link
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
One of the first experiments along these lines was Discreet Music. The first track is a generative drone composed for King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp to noodle over, followed by a suite of three experimental versions of “Canon in D Major.” If you need a Brian Eno album to study to, this is it.
Using "noodle" here rather than "solo" or "improvise" is really pissing me off, possibly more than it merits (or possibly not).
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 19:59 (four months ago) link
no such thing as a JCS3 synthesizer
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 22:58 (four months ago) link
On the "JCS3" tip...
an immaculate cover of his old collaborator Nico, “I’m Set Free,”
I'm Set Free is from the decidedly Nico-free self-titled VU album. Sloppy things happening in this article!
― Davey D, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 00:44 (four months ago) link
*self-titled third VU album
― Davey D, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 00:45 (four months ago) link
it’s Brian emo, not eno. Big misspell and it happens throughout
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 01:37 (four months ago) link
Lol
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 01:38 (four months ago) link
that write-up was a boring excuse to go over his entire story for the 100th time.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 01:44 (four months ago) link
also, was Nico really one of Eno's old collaborators? Not really. they did that 1974 concert and he did some sounds on the End.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 01:46 (four months ago) link
also, the artists on that June 74 album all play with different bands, not together iirc
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 02:29 (four months ago) link
The intro to eno stuff was boring for those of us who know the story - maybe not so much though for the ringer audience. I was more interested in the write up of his recent shows.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 02:33 (four months ago) link
eno’s slippery relationship to live performance is definitely interesting to me. not mentioned in that article are the Pure Scenius shows that happened in Sydney and the UK & which were an interesting if not always successful attempt to put some of his systems thinking and penchant for conceptual conceits into the live arena.
the sydney show was 3 two hour concerts featuring Karl Hyde, The Necks, Jon Hopkins, Leo Abrahams and Eno himself sending directions to different musicians at different times and occasionally playing keyboard and doing spoken word. some bits were definitely better than others but it was a cool thing to see and did feel true to his practice overall.
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 02:49 (four months ago) link
not to pile on (because good for the Ringer for featuring Eno) but . . . U.K. music magazine Trouser Press????????
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 03:12 (four months ago) link
It’s the Suffolk. (Population, 5000) which made me roll my eyes. Only 755,000 short.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 08:10 (four months ago) link
yea was gonna say for a town of 5000 I've heard an awful lot about it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:22 (four months ago) link
We revive this thread a day after I downloaded the '93 box set.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:23 (four months ago) link
Box set has some essential rarities but an otherwise erratic track list. Most/much of each album, but, mysteriously, not all.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:30 (four months ago) link
I DL'ed for the My Squelchy Life material, none of which is essential.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:32 (four months ago) link
My Squelchy Life was officially released with the reissue of Nerve Net, iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:43 (four months ago) link
Under is one of my favorite Eno tracks.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:47 (four months ago) link
"The Harness" is great too
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 16:59 (four months ago) link
yeah I recommend just getting My Squelchy Life, it's a very good album and good companion to Nerve Net even with the duplicated stuff.
That Sydney show sounds amazing; will have to look for some recordings of that
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 17:08 (four months ago) link
box set is the easy place to get Seven Deadly Finns though
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 17:14 (four months ago) link
And Lion Sleeps Tonight. But not his cover of Ring of Fire. Is that on the Wrong Way Up reissue? I think the only Eno vocal rarity I've never heard, afaict, is a cover of White Light/White Heat.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 17:17 (four months ago) link
I didn't know he did either of those (ring of fire/white light), off to slsk.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 18:26 (four months ago) link
Yeah ring of fire is on wrong way up reissue, it’s sort of in the style of the river from that album
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 18:34 (four months ago) link
I think that VU cover may have been recorded for charity, with one copy made. Eno said whoever bought it can release it, but so far nada.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 18:59 (four months ago) link
yeah i can't find it online anywhere
I only got the Wrong Way Up reissue on vinyl so this was a nice surprise.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 20:48 (four months ago) link
I was delighted when a local dealer/friend bpught a collection including a pristine "Seven Deadly Finns" single, no pic sleeve but he sold it to me for like ten bucks. the b-side "Later On" is an edit of "No Pussyfooting" that afaik has never been reissued.
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 21:08 (four months ago) link
“Seven Deadly Finns” never fails to crack me up.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 22:06 (four months ago) link
I might have misread, but I could have sworn I just saw that the Eno documentary is generative, and shuffles or reorders itself every time you watch it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 January 2024 15:19 (three months ago) link
which one?
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 19 January 2024 16:23 (three months ago) link
New doc, just premiered at Sundance.https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/eno-review-brian-eno-sundance-1235876569/
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 January 2024 16:46 (three months ago) link
I had a really tough day, just a fucking flailing everything-is-20x-as-hard-as-it-needs-to-be-because-my-brain-is-wired-wrong day. Eventually I stopped trying to do anything productive because everything I tried to do devolved into fiasco, and sitting with Mrs HD talking after, we listened first to Apollo and then to Discreet Music, and it was just so thoroughly healing, exactly what I needed.
― lethbridge-pfunkboy (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 21 January 2024 06:47 (three months ago) link
<3
― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 21 January 2024 16:33 (three months ago) link
I listen to the 1-hour An ending (ascent) in loop whenever I'm anxious, it helps me so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alo3KFRfLvE
― fpsa, Sunday, 21 January 2024 17:24 (three months ago) link
best bit from the article: https://www.theringer.com/music/2023/12/26/24014289/brian-eno-tour-career-retrospective
Eno has a cold that won’t quit.
you think he has it bad, you should see frank sinatra!
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 21 January 2024 18:19 (three months ago) link
I just wish there was a Nico version of I’m Set Free.
― lethbridge-pfunkboy (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 19:17 (three months ago) link
Was listening to the Kinks this morning, and it suddenly clicked that "Lazy Old Sun" reminded me of something that could have been on "Here Come the Warm Jets"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnXjxtfKFDM
Six-degrees-ing it a little, there are some other Kinks connections. Eno et al. covered "You Really Got Me" with 808:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-S6d_JJOPo
And then, allegedly, Lou Reed once called "Lazy Old Sun" his favorite Kinks song, which is another loose connection to Eno (as VU acolyte).
The song also reminds of stuff like the Tall Dwarfs, too, who themselves sometimes remind me of early Eno.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 20:21 (three months ago) link
Lazy Old Sun is seriously druggy. I totally get the Dwarfs/Eno thing. Slippery vocal?
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Friday, 16 February 2024 08:47 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9D2BJ5tv8o
― sawdust lagoon, Saturday, 16 March 2024 19:01 (one month ago) link
The reminiscing in twilight years reminds me a bit of Bowie's Where Are We Now
― sawdust lagoon, Saturday, 16 March 2024 19:03 (one month ago) link
Lovely. I wish that nerd would sing more.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 March 2024 19:06 (one month ago) link
love it, I too wish he hadn't taken so much time off from doing vocal records
Eno says he doesn't think he can sing that well but I dunno, he's better than a number of his contemporaries I feel
― frogbs, Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:23 (one month ago) link
aaaaaaah how can I get this in FLAC/lossless??
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 16 March 2024 21:29 (one month ago) link
It's included in the doc soundtrack, which is out in April
― sawdust lagoon, Saturday, 16 March 2024 22:59 (one month ago) link
Eno doing the modest music for a Patriotic Millionaires video with super wealthy people imploring policymakers to tax the super rich: https://x.com/patrioticmills/status/1780717878796292150?s=46&t=4DK5sD-8gsSKFExcsnEJqg
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 18 April 2024 12:05 (three weeks ago) link
saw the Eno documentary last night in SF, I highly recommend catching it if there are many more of these generative screenings with the director in attendance. There will be non-generative, but different versions, screening later on this summer in SF at the Roxy and I assume elsewhere. Bonus: Daniel Lanois sitting a few rows ahead of me looking like a biker pirate (he's also doing an ambient show tonight at Grace Cathedral)
https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/eno-review-brian-eno-sundance-1235876569/
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 11 May 2024 17:36 (four days ago) link
was walking down the street yesterday and somebody was jamming to "needles in the camels eye"
people usually listen to hipster shit but that song's catchy enough that i felt compelled to say "eno, cool" to him
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 11 May 2024 17:39 (four days ago) link
Roxy and I assume elsewhere
This is good work.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 11 May 2024 21:47 (four days ago) link
i try
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 11 May 2024 22:11 (four days ago) link