Brian Eno - C or D?

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So, have at it.

― James Morris (HorrayJames), Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

Classic because he was the 70s avant-garde. Classic for Another Green World and Before And After Science, classic for his collaboration in Bowie's Berlin trilogy, classic for his record label which released the likes of Gavin Bryars, classic for so many things.

― Jonathan Z., Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

here come the warm jets is the best pop album made by anyone (as of today).

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

yesterday i opened up the copy of here come the warm jets i had out of the library to find that in addition to the actual cd was a cdr copy of it. which was nice.

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

Love 'another green world' and 'before and after science' (the last track on the latter was the last thing I heard that made me all warm and fuzzy inside). Like the ambient stuff.

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

Absolutely classic. Love his music (95% of it), love his productions (not just Talking Heads but also U2 and, damn it, James!), love his collaborations (with Bowie, John Cale, Harold Budd, Daniel Lanois...). Lately his ambient work has been a little bland but it's no less theory-based than some of the stuff in the '70s. His work with self-generating music may be more interesting than the results, but who knows what application it may have in a few years?

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

Classic....if only for "Backwater" and "Needle in the Camel's Eye".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 January 2004 15:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

Classic. It's hard for me to get interested enough in the question to argue the point, because I kind of take it for granted. That doesn't mean everything he has touched has turned to gold, but here are some reasons I rate him highly:

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.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 January 2004 15:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

4. Even some of his theoretical musings are worthwhile, especially that talk on using the recording studio as an instrument.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 January 2004 15:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

Didn't he admit to drinking his own urine recently? The man's not well.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 January 2004 15:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

Classic, of course! "Julie with..." and "By This River" remain two of the prettiest songs I've ever heard.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 22 January 2004 15:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

Takign Tiger Mountain, Another Green World, Before and After Science, the synth climax on Virginia Plain, Remain in Light, Low, On Land and providing most of the redeeming features to make U2 a thousand times more bearable than every other vague anthem-monger are enough to qualify him as utter classic no matter how over-rated Warm Jets and Airports are and how crappy his solo output has been for about 20 years.

― fcussen (Burger), Thursday, 22 January 2004 15:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

He drank his own urine in the "A year with swollen index" (or whatever) book from 1995, he'd watched a film, had a bottle of wine and couldn't be bothered to move to take a leak, so peed in the empty wine bottle, then wondered what it tasted like. As you do. I seem to remember this was related to his tale of finding a way to piss in Duchamp's toilet, or something like that.

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

That Passengers album ain't so bad either. Of its time 'n' all but still...

― fcussen (Burger), Thursday, 22 January 2004 16:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

Been enjoying the hell out of Eno/Cale Wrong Way Up recently. It's a little dated in that 80s-ish "Let's Incorporate African Pop into Western Pop" kind of way, but all the simple songs get to me.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 22 January 2004 16:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

Classic.
"The Big Ship" from Another Green World puts me in a trance. Don't drive to it.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 22 January 2004 17:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

Plus there's all that stuff I enjoyed a lot at one time, even if I'm not into it now, like My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

Plus the Obscure Music series, which has some good titles.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 22 January 2004 17:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

I think one of the reasons i like him so much is that I am a child of Napster and the incessant dilettantism and boundary-pushing is something I can realte to.

― fcussen (Burger), Thursday, 22 January 2004 17:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

Classic. Here Comes The Warm Jets is the REAL Alien rock. Fuck Ziggy.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:11 (9 years ago) Permalink

If for nothing else "Another Green World"

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

1972-1985 inclusive, everything he touched. including the interviews, many of which are up on enoweb, but I'd buy a book that compiled them.

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 (9 years ago) Permalink

Unbelievable songwriter--I was in a one-off Eno cover band a couple of months ago, and we could not BELIEVE how much mileage he got out of incredibly simple structures. I mean, "The True Wheel"--that song has _four chords_ in it, and it sounds like the lushest deepest most complicated thing ever. "Third Uncle" has one.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 22 January 2004 20:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

already embarrassed about my grumbly post. if I ever say anything about the 90's output, it's only because the 72-85 stretch is so bafflingly inspired. if I ever lost my record collection I'd be buying most of these back first.

― (Jon L), Thursday, 22 January 2004 20:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

I mean, "The True Wheel"--that song has _four chords_ in it, and it sounds like the lushest deepest most complicated thing ever.

"Uh-oh!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 January 2004 02:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

Strange, I've just sung through "The true wheel" in my head and can only count three... oh, just got to the end part where the fourth chord comes in. Sorry. My God, what a song!

"Ding ding!"

― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 23 January 2004 08:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

Anyone that even cosiders sayind "dud" is loco. Amazing, influential, smartest man in music, etc. I want him to be my dad.

― anode (anode), Friday, 23 January 2004 12:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

One thing I don't think I've said about Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy is that I got a copy* around the time that I had just about lost my belief in Christian doctrine, so it took on kind of a heavy symbolic weight of the scarey, uncertain, world of religious disbelief. (Obviously I hadn't only listened to Christian music up until then. That's not the point.) I want to exmphasize, this is a symbolic purpose I was giving it: I don't think it has much to do with the album itself (although it is kind of interesting in light of some things I've read by him essential outlining an anti-fundamentalism--of whatever source--stance). Just the cover itself took on a certain weight, and I wasn't totally happy about it. It didn't look like an especially happy world (and I've never been unambivalently attracted to hipster jadedness, if I've ever been attracted by it at all), but it seemed somewhat inevitable that I would be joining it. Graphically, it was: the cover of Taking Tiger Mountain vs. the dull blue cover of Cornelius Van Til's Defense of the Faith (given to me by my brother-in-law). I think I was more visually oriented then. Anyway, book covers or album covers could easily become suffused with an emotional coloring.

*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 (8 years ago) Permalink

Inspired by o. nate, sort of.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 01:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

Classic!

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 02:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

that was a great post, rockist. thanks.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 02:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

xpost Interesting story rockist. Still, Taking Tiger is Brian Eno at his worst/most/annoying (lyrically) to me. What about the lyrics hit home for you?

― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 02:38 (8 years ago) Permalink

It wasn't the lyrics, it was more the entire package (literally). I don't have a functional copy of the album right now, so I haven't heard it for a while.

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 (8 years ago) Permalink

The lyrics are not the first thing I noticed about TTM(BS) either. I mean some of the lines (e.g., "burning airlines give you so much more") kind of stick in my mind, but I think that's more a function of being wedded to a good melody. I was in a bar where this guy I know works and he was playing songs from his iPod over the stereo. At one point I asked him, Is this the Thinking Fellers? And he said, no it's Brian Eno. Then later another song came on, and I asked him if it was the Swell Maps. Again it was Eno. It turns out both songs were on TTM(BS). That's when I knew I needed to hear the rest of the album.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 03:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

wow, yeah, hearing eno (after soo much indie stuff) really is amazing (and it seems like he just pulled half of it out of his ass) xpost

― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 03:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

Classic, for all his instrumental music from the start to the end, and for 'A year With Swollen Appendices' (in my opinion anyway)

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 03:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm curious: is there anyone reading this thread who's never listened to Eno? Anyone been inspired to after all the hosannas here?

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 04:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

I really haven't heard enough !!

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 04:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

I find "Put A Straw Under Baby" hilarious (as a fallen catholic). Taking Tiger Mountain is the only of his solo/pop records I like. for his ambient work - Music For Airports, Discreet Music, and the Fripp/Eno ones are great.

― sherm, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 15:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

i have two eno records.

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 (8 years ago) Permalink

I had only heard some of his ambient stuff up until a few months ago! (not couting roxy music!)

― artdamages (artdamages), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

x-post

try no pussyfooting, with fripp.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

I rate his first 4 rock LPs classic. "Tiger Mountain" contains some of the best words I know. "Before and After Science" is very strong, esp. the "rhythm" side. As for the later stuff, I like "Nerve Net" and his collab with Cale "One Way Up." Not such a big fan of a lot of his ambient music, fine as it is. I'd put "Green World" and his Jon Hassell collab from '80 at the top of the list myself. Reading his diary I do get the impression he's a pretentious little guy, but he's done a lot so I suppose he earned it.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

Classic, for most of the reasons already stated. If you're interested, there is an excellent, but long, article by Lester Bangs on Eno. You can read it here:

http://www.furious.com/perfect/bangseno.html

― erv (Abe Froman), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 21:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

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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 (8 years ago) Permalink

1st three solo albums are indespencable, punch your mom in the throat and steal money from her purse to buy these records, you need them. solo album #4 before and after sicence was an over considered creative disaster and not worth your hard earned record money, this record was why he stopped making rock records. after this you need anything he did with Harold Budd, you need Low by David Bowie, Oh Jesus Christ do you need Low by David Bowie, rob a bank get Low by David Bowie, pilfer from the sunday collection plate, knock over an old lady, buy a copy of Low by David Bowie, assasinate George W for Al Queda bounty money, decapitate a government contractor... whatever you need to do, get a copy of Low by David Bowie, you need Ambient 4: On Land, and Apollo, AM2 Plateau of Mirrors. Buy copies of Brian Eno and the vertical color of sound by Eric Tamm, and A Year With Swollen Appendices by Brian Eno, as these books will make your life infinitely more mysterious and interesting and delicious. Do what you need to do, I cannot force your hand, but seriously get the books, you will thank me later.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Thursday, 22 July 2004 08:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

christ, I drink a bunch of alcohol and then a bunch of coffee, and all of a sudden I cannot spell.

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 (8 years ago) Permalink

You know what else I think? I think Kate Bush's The Dreaming bears a strange resemblance to Taking Tiger Mountain, thematically (all the secret agent drama, the Asian references). The lyrics aren't goofy the same way as Eno's, and the albums certainly don't sound the same, but the imaginary scenarios seem a bit similar (even if Eno's are more indeterminate).

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

I think I like The Dreaming again. I like almost everything at the moment. My brain may be overheated.

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 (8 years ago) Permalink

I don't understand how anyone could be so hostile toward before and after science. I don't much like the first couple songs but c'mon, the second side is beautiful. julie with? by this river? these are undeniable!

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

absolutely, anthony. the second side of before + after science is the music i'd like to hear in my dreams.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

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He's going to be on the Colbert Report tomorrow night.

― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

Getting ready to listen to the Sound Opinions ep with him on it, I'm wondering just how audible DeRo's orgasms will be.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

there was a pretty good interview w/ eno in the last issue of tape op. the guy is a quote machine!

― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 20:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

Never realized until this moment that the backing vocals on some Talking Heads records (particularly "Once In A Lifetime") are mostly Eno. Only took me 25 years to figure that one out.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 20:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah he's pretty prominent as a vocalist on remain in light

― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

I still love Strange Overtones.

― Turangalila, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 21:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

That Tape Op intvw IS good! One of my fave Eno intvws period because they get to talking about the process of making music and little is said of cybernetics, systems, etc.

― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 21:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm wondering just how audible DeRo's orgasms will be.

Trevor Horn's sampling them for a future recording.

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 21:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah for a "not very good" vocalist I do dig Eno's vocalizing quite a bit

― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 22:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

in particular the line "the biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface buhhhhhhh" always makes me smile

― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 22:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

or I AM THE SEA OF PERMUTATION

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 22:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

didn't he admit that his lyrics are mostly nonsense and that his words are chosen based almost solely on how they sound?

"Now we're on the telephone, making final arrangements, ding ding!"

― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 22:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

I have huge gaps in my musical knowledge, and eno is one of them, like I haven't really closely listened to anything he's produced or any of his solo albums, but for the past month I've been digging in and the dude is a beast

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 22:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

I've never listened to the beach boy's''' smile either, until last wk, don't know what's blown my mind more

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 22:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

sounds like you're having a good week

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 23:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol, i'd say so!

― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 23:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

He's good on the Sound Opinions ep, and I want to say Greg takes the lead on a lot of the interview.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 23:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

BTW, I've loved this guy for decades, but something special clicked when I heard some in depth radio bit on the best songs ever or some such list, and it focused on "Once in a Lifetime." Specifically, what state it was in when Byrne brought it to the studio, and then what Eno added to make it what it is (and earn him the co-write credit). The entire call and response chorus was his idea! Byrne wanted to keep it static, like the verses for the duration of the entire song.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 23:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

I still love Strange Overtones.

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― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 23:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

Best song of his this century

― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 23:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oliver Stone agrees.

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 23:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's definitely one of the strangest, craziest songs ever to become a rock radio staple.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 23:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

Also, David Byrne's voice sounds so lovely in it. You'd think his voice wouldn't become so nicely high-pitched with age.

― Turangalila, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 23:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh oops, i meant "once in a lifetime" is "one of the strangest, craziest songs ever to become a rock radio staple."
not strange overtones. which is great, but not a rock radio staple by any stretch.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 23:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

no matter how much I listen to Remain in Light this is always what i'll associate the song with:

― frogbs, Thursday, 10 November 2011 06:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

Just a reminder, re: Strange Overtones, that Byrne sings pretty much the entirety of Take Me to the River at the top of his register, too.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 November 2011 12:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

Also, because it often falls between the cracks:

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 November 2011 12:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

Getting ready to listen to the Sound Opinions ep with him on it, I'm wondering just how audible DeRo's orgasms will be.

Really enjoyed this -- now have to get the Tape Op issue. Interviews w him actually talking about recording are usually really good!

― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 10 November 2011 14:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

Sad this is out of print

― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 03:07 (8 months ago) Permalink

Listening now, the problem I have with a lot of those installation pieces he released as a listening experience was that he uses recordings from so many earlier records. For instance, think this is the third time I've heard "Ikebukuro" from The Shutov Assembly.

― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:20 (8 months ago) Permalink

Really liking his new ambient record 'Lux' -- I'm surprised by how much I like it.

― geeta, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:23 (8 months ago) Permalink

Everyone seems to be talking about it as a return to form. Not having heard it, Geeta, why do you think?

― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:26 (8 months ago) Permalink

That sounds very promising. I've been stuck in bed recovering from surgery and enjoying playing around with the new 'Scape" iPad app - seems like a lot of possibility there.

― toby, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:18 (8 months ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

I'd never heard Phil Manzanera's "Diamond Head" until tonight and, HEY, Eno's singing on "Big Day" and "Miss Shapiro"! And, my, they're excellent tracks from his prime vocal period. Are there any other guest vocal appearances worth mentioning?

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 03:19 (4 months ago) Permalink

it's not really a guest appearance since they were a band, but I love that 801 live album and the vocals on rongwrong

― Garth Brooks In ... The Life of (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 03:21 (4 months ago) Permalink

"The Belldog?" His other stuff with Cluster?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 03:26 (4 months ago) Permalink

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 03:27 (4 months ago) Permalink

"Belldog"/Cluster OTM, also see "Broken Head" and "Tzima N'Arki" from the same record

there's always the 801 Live album as well, and Robert Wyatt's "Heaps Of Sheeps"

― sleeve, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 03:31 (4 months ago) Permalink

gah sorry Sufjan... at any rate, Eno is NOT on the 801 studio album iirc.

"Ms. Shapiro" is so awesome.

― sleeve, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 03:33 (4 months ago) Permalink

You mean Wyatt's "Shleep"? I don't see a listing for Brian's vocals on it.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 03:46 (4 months ago) Permalink

According to wikipedia, Brian Eno has a vocals credit on "A Change Is Gonna Come" on The Neville Brothers' "Yellow Moon"

― Garth Brooks In ... The Life of (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:03 (4 months ago) Permalink

must just be the atmospheric oooohs and aaaaahs

― Garth Brooks In ... The Life of (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:07 (4 months ago) Permalink

Eno's credited with 'vocal chorus' on Heaps Of Shleeps. Listening to it, it could only be him - incredibly distinctive, utterly un-Americanised, undisguisedly well-to-do English singing voice. He's turned up in some capacity on both subsequent Wyatt albums, but the only other time he sings, I think, is on Forest, from Cuckooland.

I love those modern Wyatt albums. I have a feeling Manzanera does quite a lot to make them possible, with studio time and things. If I had a studio, I'd let Robert Wyatt use it whenever he wanted too.

― wump, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 15:20 (4 months ago) Permalink

A couple other vocal tours de force to pluck out of mostly intrumental albums:

'Luneberg Heath'
'The Roil, the Choke'

― here is no telephone (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 15:52 (4 months ago) Permalink

Eno sings significant backup on almost everything he's ever produced, and certainly many guest appearances. But not many lead vox on albums by others.

My fave, oft-posted random Eno appearance in here:

There's an alternate Eno mix with, um, more Eno. But this could fit right on "Another Green World."

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:01 (4 months ago) Permalink

This is pretty cool, though I don't know if any of the vox are Eno's:

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:05 (4 months ago) Permalink

A favorite of these Eno vocal backups is Sikter's "Time and Space" which sounds like some godawful Primus song until the skipping, jittering Enossified chorus. How he ended up on this is beyond me:

― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:03 (4 months ago) Permalink

Wow, I've never heard or heard of that. That's terrible.

Eno was involved a lot with the War Child charity, and with U2 did a lot of work in the Balkans, so maybe it was that.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:42 (4 months ago) Permalink

Eno also produced this/these guys:

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:44 (4 months ago) Permalink

I was one of the many who had and sold the Zvuki Mu CD.

― here is no telephone (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 17:04 (4 months ago) Permalink

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