― 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
― 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.
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 (two 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 (one week ago) link