Brian Eno - C or D?

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He says he digs your album then before you know it he's running up to put his grubby synth arpeggios and vocals all over the next one. Guy is a menace.

Would love some of the live stuff with the Winkies with decent sound.
The Derby set is interesting but a bit distant. I think the circulating version is a couple of generations from source so I guess there's unlikely to be any improvement unless an original is found.
Was it part of a longer tour? Wonder if there is any chance of anything else turning up.

Iirc they only played a couple of gigs, same with 801.

What I did not know is that apparently the Winkies released a studio album post-Eno!

Would love some of the live stuff with the Winkies with decent sound.
a while back a guy got in touch saying his friend had a much better-sounding tape of the Derby show, but that he had never digitized it or something. was a few years ago though.

that's a really good quietus piece - it's so much more than just a list of albums.

― Karl Malone, Friday, April 15, 2016 9:15 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah I agree, v interesting

xp dying over here, FIND HIM TYLER ;)

I've got an 801 live album that's pretty good

Yeah, that was cool.

New album, btw, is increasingly crazy and weird and original. Not what I expected.

New album is his best in years and years I think.

Oh, I agree. It's the first thing he's done in decades that approaches a new form, at least at times. It's like he finally applied all his generative ambient programs to singing. Even the way it's sequenced is strange and wonderful. I hope there is more where this came from.

where are you hearing it? I saw the preview of the one song but don't see the album up on spotify or apple music.

only "the ship" is available on spotify but it's awesome

Xpost it leaked a couple of weeks ago

yeah it's a wonderful record. I like both the eno/hyde albums as well. feels a bit like a rebirth for him

Reading the interviews with him acknowledging that his voice has changed as he's gotten older, combined with this being a rare foray into vocals at all (in any form), plus Bowie dying (a few years down from Lou Reed) and the album ending with a version of "I'm Set Free" (that he recorded 12 years ago), gives the whole album a ghostly vibe, especially the haunting track with the generative voice (speaking with a Flemish accent, which is the accent of his mother) delivering the random word scramble lyrics like a robot reading poetry.

Ignore the Kanye bait and focus on the other stuff in Whiney's interview: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/brian-eno-on-kanye-west-david-bowie-and-his-immersive-lp-the-ship-20160414

got to give the people what they want

there's a good idea for a piece in the history of incrementally revised / remixed software-esque editions of the 'same' album, there is absolutely no need for anyone with a mind to credit Kanye with that kind of innovation in an Eno interview. John Coltrane's 'Ascension', Grateful Dead 'Anthem of the Sun', 'Music For Films', Ground Zero's 'Revolutionary Pekinese Opera v1.28'

looking forward to the new album

yes, why didn't i mention ground zero's revolutionary pekinese opera v1.28 instead of the most famous contemporary pop musician on the planet in a rolling stone article, what a fucking bonehead move that was!

ha! that is of course not what I was suggesting of course

I totally get why Kanye's name is creeping into interviews with avant musicians, especially in this case where it's one who's been doing this for decades

good interview btw

thanks, MP! :D

Yeah, it's a good one. Eno is easy to talk to. Very engaged.

only "the ship" is available on spotify but it's awesome

It's lovely, one of Lou's best songs.

Eno has amassed an awful lot of cultural credibility and "I'm Set Free" is a nice song, and the line "I'm set free to find a new illusion" is vaguely profound, but this is about as exciting as Jad Fair doing a Shaggs cover or whatever. So Eno won't sing for like a billion years, and then he decides that VU karaoke is the best way to channel his talents?

I thought he recorded it 12 years ago?

Sorry, one billion - 12 years.

That's better.

So Eno won't sing for like a billion years, and then he decides that VU karaoke is the best way to channel his talents?
i know what you're saying, but still -- this cover is really nice.

i thought there were vocals all over the album. he can't throw in a cover of a song from his favorite album?

I've been listening to covers of "I'm Set Free" and am pretty sure that none of them are bad. Like, if you can't successfully cover I'm Set Free there should be an agency that takes away your hands and vocal chords, because you aren't qualified to perform music. Failure to adequately perform I'm Set Free is up there with inability to sing Happy Birthday.

So?

I've never heard a cover of "I'm Set Free" tbh.

only other one i can think of off hand is yo la tengo's ... which is also good! it's a great song, true.

I mean, I'm not saying I don't like the Eno version. Don't want to be Scrooge about a perfectly decent song...

There is singing all over the new album almost in the most literal sense, but rarely conventional singing a la "I'm Set Free," which was indeed recorded eons ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9IL_bOwjZU

I mean, anyone who wants to argue that Eno's version is better than the above is welcome to have a go.

what if i told you that i know of a song (not I'm Set Free) that is even better than that children's chorus video? that would obliterate the quality of their singing right? THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE GOOD SONG

we're moving toward a world where there is only one good song. the good song prompts millions of cover versions, all of which vie to be the only good song. but every once in a while a new, different good song appears and disrupts the entire asymptotic system. the maps are redrawn and the old good song is thrown back into the gigantic heap of mediocrity that provides balance and order

It used to be Hallelujah.

if lou has a "hallelujah" it's "perfect day."

anyhoo, checking out the ship finally, and yessss this is great.

the one good song is still L'Homme Arme, fuck all these tryhard comelatelys.

Nah, it's Everywhere With Helicopter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igvtCo4KoIg

Actually, fuck Brian Eno. I'm off to buy the new Shine Children's Chorus album.

just finished this one and yeah, I've never quite heard anything like this. it's really good.

Eno has amassed an awful lot of cultural credibility and "I'm Set Free" is a nice song, and the line "I'm set free to find a new illusion" is vaguely profound, but this is about as exciting as Jad Fair doing a Shaggs cover or whatever. So Eno won't sing for like a billion years, and then he decides that VU karaoke is the best way to channel his talents?

eno stopped not singing in like 1990, this is his third vocal album in 3 years