― phil turnbull (philT), Thursday, 24 June 2004 05:45 (nineteen years ago) link
argh. though I am curious about this one, and anxiously await your review.
― (Jon L), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― phil turnbull (philT), Friday, 25 June 2004 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link
1st sounds quite lovely. 2nd is a bit funky.
― phil turnbull (philT), Monday, 28 June 2004 06:15 (nineteen years ago) link
first impressions: definitely worth the years of waiting but it's not world shattering by any means.
lots of lovely deep bass, reverbed soundscape stuff from eno (i'm sure he can do this in his sleep) with quite laid back quitar from fripp.
obviously there's nothing as exciting as the 1st minute of the solo from 'swastika girls' and there's nothing remotely as pretty or structured as the 1st 4 tracks on "evening star" but they still sound like they could play forever and get interesting results (notwithstanding 'healthy colours').
i suppose it lies mostly in the realms of eno's more fiddly ambient like "on land" or "apollo" mixed with a goodly portion of "index of metals"
at only 48 mins long, it's one to play a few times at least...
― phil turnbull (philT), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 07:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― harshaw (jube), Sunday, 8 August 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Dug this out post Eno poll – I fairly savaged it in Stylus when it came out but it sounds much better to my ears a decade on. Perhaps I am finally accepting the sound of late-period Eno, but I admire how he took the general template of Fripp's Soundscapes work and brought out the pointillism in his playing. Good for a walk in the summer dusk.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 12:25 (nine years ago) link
Also, in some places (ie, "Ankaa") this feels like the cousin of David Sylvian's work with Holger Czukay.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 12:27 (nine years ago) link
I was really disappointed at the time and never really listened since. Maybe I should try to find it and pull it out again.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 12:32 (nine years ago) link
As was I. But once I got over the fact that this wasn't going to be Evening Star Part II it sounded a lot better to me.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
It's a good record that suffers from impossible expectations based on its creators. Certain records are only possible at certain times- No Pussyfooting is one.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
Oddly, I've always has trouble with No Pussyfooting. I'm not going to suggest TES is the more groundbreaking release or anything ... but Fripp's pedal point rhapsodizing doesn't really do it for me, as much as I love him. I much prefer Let the Power Fall when I want to hear the pre-Soundscapes/analog versions of this stuff.
Despite the fact that TES is every bit as modal, there's something really...nice and peaceful about his playing on this. Eno seems to really bring it out in him.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
I don't have any problems at all with No Pussyfooting, but RF's output between the end of his sabbatical and Discipline is way underrated.
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link