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

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?

#35 - 129 Points - 10 Votes
Brian Eno - "Some of Them Are Old" - from Here Come the Warm Jets, 1973

http://youtu.be/CRg5fsWCWo4

#34 - 131 Points - 10 Votes
Brian Eno - "The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch" - from Here Come the Warm Jets, 1973

http://youtu.be/MzuQODlrqTM

BTW, felt a little bad about it but actually had to work to get stuff from HCtWJ on my ballot. And I like the record!

I just checked my ballot and exactly half of the spots went to the 70s song quartet of albums. Which seems about right to me.

#33 - 154 Points - 9 Votes
Brian Eno - "Another Green World" - from Another Green World, 1975

http://youtu.be/36B225lLvY4

Adore this.

It's beautiful, but it seems way too slight to be this high in the results.

#32 - 155 Points - 8 Votes - one 1st-place vote
Brian Eno - "The Fat Lady of Limbourg" - from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), 1974

http://youtu.be/bHTgHussKDM

China My China and Fat Lady not making my Top list surprised me - on another day they might easily beat other tracks

There needs to be a movie based on "Fat Lady"'s lyrics.

It's beautiful, but it seems way too slight to be this high in the results.

A) it's very emblematic of what he accomplished with that record, and

B) it's the title track of his most famous work.

All of which is to say, I think placing in the thirties makes sense.

#31 - 161 Points - 10 Votes
Brian Eno - "In Dark Trees" - from Another Green World, 1975

http://youtu.be/j4VgKbe-juA

xpost You say that now, but wait til stuff like "The Big Ship" doesn't make it.

No way. I bet it's in the twenties or higher.

#30 - 164 Points - 9 Votes - one 1st-place vote
Brian Eno/David Byrne - "The Jezebel Spirit" - from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, 1981

Pretty cool vid combining the music with clips from the 1928 Fall of the House of Usher: http://youtu.be/hoG2rAkAQvI

This is the last track to have # of votes in the single digits.

Used to love Jezebel ... but it's kind of dinky in retrospect.

Also, the original with Katherine Kuhlman, which her estate refused to license because, presumably, it made her sound creepy as hell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFt7KPCUQo0&sns=em

Jezebel got some DJ/dancefloor action - probably good for Halloween parties too!

Is that the one that sounds like Regulate by Warren G?