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

I love the impossible to figure out Phil Collins drums in this.

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

I wonder who picked it as #1.... :P

15 year old me asking record shop staff to put on AGW + "Sky Saw" blasts out = :-O moment for all concerned

I love how on "Sky Saw" and "Kurt's Rejoinder" the basses seem to TALK to each other; it's like eavesdropping on inanimate objects.

I didn't vote in this but now I wish I did. Cindy Tells Me feels very low.

Cindy Tells Me is great.

So many great tracks I didn't vote for.

#18 - 222 Points - 13 Votes
Brian Eno - "Taking Tiger Mountain" - from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), 1974

Fan video using footage from Picnic at Hanging Rock: http://youtu.be/OJoxPdLJg48

I was the #1 vote for Discreet Music.

we climbed and we climbed
oh how we climbed

I voted 'Cindy Tells Me' pretty high. I just realised I forgot about 'Blank Frank' in my "vote for every song off HCTWJ" ballot. Huh. It's not actually anywhere near one of my favourites, though it's always better when I listen to it than when I remember it - my memory cuts out all the cool weird bits that come in throughout.

#17 - 230 Points - 12 Votes
Brian Eno, with Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno - "An Ending (Ascent)", from Apollo: Atmostpheres and Soundtracks (1983)

http://youtu.be/It4WxQ6dnn0

Needs more boldface!

#17 - 230 Points - 12 Votes
Brian Eno, with Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno - "An Ending (Ascent)", from Apollo: Atmostpheres and Soundtracks (1983)

http://youtu.be/It4WxQ6dnn0

This is lovely. Didn't actually know Apollo before.

All I knew from it was "Deep Blue Day" (Trainspotting sdtk) until a couple of years ago. This is about as nakedly emotional as music gets for me, but somehow not cloying.

Great start to the top 20. Taking Tiger Mountain is so beautiful and such a perfect end to that album.

whoa, emil.y!! "An Ending" is one of his best!

oh! that reminds me -- i hope everyone has watched "for all mankind"? i just remembered that it's saved on my dvr (lol) and that i could just have it on in the background!

#16 - 234 Points - 12 Votes
Brian Eno & John Cale - "Spinning Away" - from Wrong Way Up, 1990

http://youtu.be/RpMhgFXAOIw

that's such an incredible album

I kinda wasted the ballot spot I held in reserve for that album, without giving the whole thing a proper re-listen.

#15 - 242 Points - 13 Votes
Brian Eno - "1/1" - from Ambient 1: Music for Airports, 1978

http://youtu.be/CWu4ieBqGFg

I knew I'd found a home when ILM said it loved Wrong Way Up as much as I.

Sugar Ray's cover is quite good!

I had Spinning Away really high – maybe too high, but I didn't want all of side 2 from BaAS to occupy the entirety of my first five picks.

When I played it the other day in my car, my 6 year-old daughter said it was so-so. She volunteered that she didn't like the beat but thought the singing was really good. Already a music critic.

#14 - 243 Points - 12 Votes
Brian Eno - "Golden Hours" - from Another Green World, 1975

video of, of all things, assembled clips from Psycho: http://youtu.be/K86xVtI_c6U
just the album cover: http://youtu.be/Sxyg3sP03Cs
the 801 Live version: http://youtu.be/zu6GO0e9pBo

I think this is my favorite AGW song, because of Fripp's pointillist solo.

Despite my love for both Brian Eno and John Cale I don't know the collaborative album either. I have a feeling I might have heard a track or two, maybe? But I didn't get a chance to listen over to it, so no votes from me.

And crut, I dunno if this is weird, but I actually barely voted for any ambient Eno at all. I love the pop stuff so much, and then I put in a bunch of votes for some electronic and 'avant' stuff, but not really any ambient works.

#13 - 245 Points - 18 Votes
Brian Eno - "Everything Merges With the Night" - from Another Green World, 1975

http://youtu.be/4dmx4pRUpnk

I love that this and "Golden Hours" are right next to each other, 2 points apart, with "Merges"'s long sustained notes as counterpoint to the "Golden Hours" solo.

Big jump from 12 votes to 18, though.

#12 - 264 Points - 17 Votes
Brian Eno - "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More" - from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), 1974

http://youtu.be/48PPQ3Kq-j8

The overwhelming % of results from those four key solo albums makes his career look less impressive than it is.

That song is so catchy

Note how Andy Summers cops pal Fripp's Golden Hours solo for Mother.

Voted for these last three songs. When listening to Another Green World before voting I did find it so hard to separate the songs and pick highlights. Golden Hours and Everything Merges are two that made it but really I could voted for the last five songs on there. Those are the songs that make that album such a classic for me.

I'm assuming lots of other people are as enamoured of wistful psychedelic Eno as I am, else I'm going to be sorely disappointed with this Top 10.

DL, I was thinking the same thing.

#11 - 270 Points - 12 Votes - one 1st-place vote
Brian Eno - "Third Uncle" - from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), 1974

Album version: http://youtu.be/yai4bier1oM
801 Live version: http://youtu.be/dkul5z9Rs3g

This is a quart in a pint pot scenario, you can't fit the number of great songs not placed in the poll so far into the Top 10

My contribution will be listing the songs I would have voted for should they not make the list.

my contribution will be as a "non-voter"

Ambient voter.

generative opinion-box

#10 - 295 Points - 15 Votes
Brian Eno - "On Some Faraway Beach" - From Here Come the Warm Jets, 1973

http://youtu.be/6-i5sGppXFU

one of the things i love most about this song is its ability to evoke memories both real and imagined -- one time it started playing right as i entered a USPS and i felt like it was a sign of my imminent demise
nothing happened, but wow what an evocative song!
a single syllable

Had I remembered to vote, that might well have been my #1.

Count ... 4-6 ringers that should be on their way, but getting nervous!

#9 - 352 Points - 15 Votes - one 1st-place vote
Brian Eno - "Here Come the Warm Jets," from Here Come the Warm Jets, 1973

http://youtu.be/iP-RFsuv-8Q

that is my #1!!

it's the mothership

the warm jets...number one...

my potty sense of humor...