Brian Eno - C or D?

"Coldplay enthusiast"

6 down, "He played on your favourite Robert Calvert solo albums"

"Urinated into a wine bottle because they couldn't be bothered to get up from the sofa where they were watching TV"

"Had sex with 6 women in one night then was hospitalised with a collapsed lung"

"Person in possession of a vestigal organ that may be somewhat enlarged"

Cryptic crossword, "It only takes one brain to make ambient music"

“hot to trot for ocular disorders”

wait, all of these things are true about roger eno too?

Cryptic crossword, "It only takes one brain to make ambient music"

https://www.theringer.com/music/2023/12/26/24014289/brian-eno-tour-career-retrospective

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).

no such thing as a JCS3 synthesizer

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!

*self-titled third VU album

it’s Brian emo, not eno. Big misspell and it happens throughout

Lol

that write-up was a boring excuse to go over his entire story for the 100th time.

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.

also, the artists on that June 74 album all play with different bands, not together iirc

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.

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.

not to pile on (because good for the Ringer for featuring Eno) but . . . U.K. music magazine Trouser Press????????

It’s the Suffolk. (Population, 5000) which made me roll my eyes. Only 755,000 short.

yea was gonna say for a town of 5000 I've heard an awful lot about it

We revive this thread a day after I downloaded the '93 box set.

Box set has some essential rarities but an otherwise erratic track list. Most/much of each album, but, mysteriously, not all.

I DL'ed for the My Squelchy Life material, none of which is essential.

My Squelchy Life was officially released with the reissue of Nerve Net, iirc.

Under is one of my favorite Eno tracks.

"The Harness" is great too

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

box set is the easy place to get Seven Deadly Finns though

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.

I didn't know he did either of those (ring of fire/white light), off to slsk.

Yeah ring of fire is on wrong way up reissue, it’s sort of in the style of the river from that album

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.

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 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.

“Seven Deadly Finns” never fails to crack me up.

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.

which one?

New doc, just premiered at Sundance.

https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/eno-review-brian-eno-sundance-1235876569/

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.

<3

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

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!

I just wish there was a Nico version of I’m Set Free.

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.

Lazy Old Sun is seriously druggy. I totally get the Dwarfs/Eno thing. Slippery vocal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9D2BJ5tv8o