Some of Them Are Polled (ILM Artist Poll #55 - Brian Eno - RESULTS)

^^^ love this track: Orbison floating over that melody.

Those RS guides led me to so much good stuff in that 79-84 period, but wrongly warned me away from great records as well.
- it's not rocker science (WilliamC)

some of the biggest jokes had to be the 2-stars for Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and whatever it was they did to the Black Sabbath albums (mostly one-stars?)

Beautiful job on the album cover graphics, WilliamC.

his collaboration with Elvis Costello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnDZe6QLWfc&sns=em

Good morning and afternoon!

Part 1 - Tracks
Eno as leader, co-leader or group member

#51 - 70 Points - 3 Votes - one 1st-place vote
Fripp & Eno - "Swastika Girls" - from (No Pussyfooting), 1973

I was the #1 vote here -- Fripp's metal tone in the soloing kills me dead as a hammer every time.

#50 - 72 Points - 6 Votes
Brian Eno - "Spirits Drifting" - from Another Green World, 1975

No videos?

OK, but no embeds.

"Spirits Drifting"
http://youtu.be/QY5q2i41Hx4

I like this but never remember it for some reason.

#49 - 73 Points - 3 Votes
Roxy Music - "Editions of You" - from For Your Pleasure, 1973

http://youtu.be/FDXnbuUKEaA
Musikladen, Germany - 30.05.1973

Great footage of Eno in that video, btw.

I think I'll go #21 to #51 today and do the top 20 tomorrow.

#48 - 81 Points - 4 Votes - one 1st-place vote
Brian Eno - "China My China," from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), 1974

The official video! With Judy Nylon and Polly Eltes
http://youtu.be/76qPMv1tCfI

ok tbrr i have never watched a roxy music performance in my life because i forgot that i could do that now -- how incredible were they? why are bands so boring looking now?! i think this is a sign that i need to go on a glam binge.

I want those Andy Mackay bubble-wrap pants.

#47 - 82 Points - 4 Votes
Brian Eno - "Blank Frank," from Here Come the Warm Jets, 1973

http://youtu.be/juAmEb_r1NA

I'm out, someone post the eno "don't play yourself for a fool" gif

#46 - 82 Points - 5 Votes
Roxy Music - "If There Is Something" - from Roxy Music, 1972

http://youtu.be/Ay4v7mhEh54

I didn't have room on my ballot for "China My China," but the instrumental break for massed guitars and typewriters on is still one of my favorite moments on TTM.

"Blank Frank" seems much too low, but I'm a sucker for recontextualizing the Bo Diddley beat.

I passed on both of those, but "China My China" was a late cut. I tried to make room for a wider range of things than I usually do in polls.

#45 - 84 Points -4 Votes
Roxy Music - "Pyjamarama" - 1973 single

http://youtu.be/as4PwypDC8A

way too low for blank frank, the messenger of your doom and your destruction!
he has scared me on a number of occasions.

Everything about Blank Frank is amazing. Think my favourite moment is the guitar exploding at the 55 second mark. It is one of those songs that's just full of amazing moments though.

These Roxy Music songs are all way too low, but I guess some people didn't want to vote for their stuff in an Eno poll. I gave points to all three of their songs that have placed so far.

#44 - 88 Points - 5 Votes
Roxy Music - "Re-make/Re-model" - from Roxy Music, 1972

From the same German show as "Editions of You" above:
http://youtu.be/CMBeqNfYEYY

#43 - 92 Points - 5 Votes
Roxy Music - "Virginia Plain" - from Roxy Music, 1972

Top of the Pops, 1972: http://youtu.be/OEalg62F8Zg
Musikladen, 1972: http://youtu.be/jDULlMa8Hxc

"Blank Frank" seems much too low, but I'm a sucker for recontextualizing the Bo Diddley beat.

having clapped "blank frank"'s bo diddley beat live as part of a clapping choir, i can report it's really hard to stay with it when the beat turns around every other verse, and also really fun.

and yes way too low. but i didn't vote, so there.

#42 - 93 Points - 4 Votes - one 1st-place vote
Fripp & Eno - "Evening Star" - from Evening Star, 1975

http://youtu.be/REkbY-eEuus

on my one (half-tab) acid trip c.'82 someone put Evening Star on at dusk and sure enough there was an evening star! actually it was real bright so probably a planet. earlier we sat in a pagoda listening to Day Of Radiance…

so many people have listened to Eno's music while asleep I wonder if it has an additional subconscious resonance (burned into memory?) for them/us.

"Evening Star" was in the top half of my ballot. I love that style of soloing from Fripp.

#41 - 95 Points - 8 Votes
Brian Eno - "Driving Me Backwards" - from Here Come the Warm Jets, 1973

http://youtu.be/ptHhqtyX1IQ

#40 - 95 Points - 8 Votes
Brian Eno - "Through Hollow Lands (for Harold Budd)" - from Before and After Science, 1977

http://youtu.be/KWKB12jc7gw

lunch break

Driving Me Backwards is one of only two songs I didn't vote for from Warm Jets.

Puzzled that "China My China" is so low (it was my #1). I don't know how to gauge how problematic/of-its-time the orientalism is, but regardless the way that big reverbed guitar (Manzanera's, I think?) comes in with the post-typewriter key change and repeats that bent note figure before scuttering off into dissipated feedback takes the song into the stratosphere, a place where two sonic worlds join as one — it's one of the most joyous things I've ever experienced in recorded music.

Roxy in this poll is like Stevie Wonder in the Motown poll - too low and yet shouldn't be any higher if that makes any sense.

Re: of-its-time orientalism, I was looking at the cover of Tin Drum recently and thinking, wow that would get monstered on Tumblr now.

#39 - 98 Points - 5 Votes
Eno/Moebius/Roedelius - "The Belldog" - from After the Heat, 1978

http://youtu.be/LEaOUoKI-T8

Omg I just now realized that in my haste i completely forgot to vote for anything from cluster + eno

Shameful!

#38 - 107 Points - 6 Votes
Roxy Music - "Ladytron" - from Roxy Music, 1972

Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972: http://youtu.be/LEaOUoKI-T8

Didn't put Belldog on my ballot but it's definitely a classic.

Here's an early run at it by Roedelius before Eno came to town:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhdQs3eth4M&sns=em

#37 - 110 Points - 5 Votes
Brian Eno/David Byrne - "Regiment" - from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, 1981

http://youtu.be/FhHwjsoVG4Q

My favorite Bush of Ghosts track on side 1. There's a story about how Fripp helped "arrange" this (perhaps around the keyboard solo which sounds very Fripp-ish) but I don't recall it.

Yeah, I listened to this album at the gym this morning and I think "Regiment" holds up best over the years. But it's solid throughout.

#36 - 122 Points - 10 Votes
Fripp & Eno - "The Heavenly Music Corporation" - from (No Pussyfooting), 1973

http://youtu.be/elTuRy7OhgQ

:)

Wow, despite being a massive fan of both and their work together, I'm oddly cool to the Fripp and Eno stuff. Still, thought this would've placed much higher.

Crüt, have you ever played this on your show?