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

#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...

#8 - 397 Points - 19 Votes - two 1st-place votes
Brian Eno - "Needles in the Camel's Eye - from Here Come the Warm Jets, 1973

http://youtu.be/k0c20cjbmD4

"Warm Jets" is probably my favorite intersection between Eno's aggressive and beatific modes; very high on my ballot.

Great way to start an album! And a career! I don't think it even made my top 10, curse me.

I think I could have voted for all but a handful of songs on those four 70s albums, but "Warm Jets" didn't make the cut.

Last one before a lunch break.

#7 - 410 Points - 18 Votes - three 1st-place votes
Brian Eno - "By This River" - from Before and After Science, 1977

http://youtu.be/SrZYP8SzlN8

omg i totally lied about #1 -- it's not. i realized this as soon as i hopped in the shower and was like
but
what about

my comment about the mothership stands though

another thing i love about warm jets is that it is an ending and a beginning at the same time
like new day rising

(xxp) I only added this to my poll at the last minute, I was working from memory and had totally forgotten about it! (Despite Trayce's excellent cover version).

I had 'Here Come the Warm Jets' as number one on my ballot too, how come there's only one #1 in the results?

This poll has inspired a week of near constant Eno listening for me. Albums wise I think 'Taking Tiger Mountain' is underrated. It's my fave after 'Another Green World'.

Six slots left - and there's at least 10 things that were on my ballot that haven't shown up yet that I assumed were locks for a top 50.

I must say I'm surprised at how well the first two albums are doing here. Taking Tiger Mountain in particular I just find mostly irritating TBH.

Also surprised that ppl seem to have cooled on Bush of Ghosts so much, though I can appreciate that it won't seem as radical now as it did at the time.

Funnily enough I find Bush of Ghosts mostly irritating

Has "Spider and I" placed?

I like 'By This River' but I'm really surprised to see it crack the top 30, let alone the top 10

Sorry Internet Alan!! I was wrong! I moved it to #3 even though it's my favorite ;)

#6 - 412 Points - 16 Votes - one 1st-place vote
Brian Eno - "Spider & I" - from Before and After Science, 1977

http://youtu.be/5Yc5j60LSNo

Spider & I was my number two. Such a beautiful song. The "We sleep in the morning" bit followed by that little wonky bass is one of my favourite musical moments ever. So sad.

#5 - 420 Points - 18 Votes
Brian Eno - "Julie With..." - from Before and After Science, 1977

http://youtu.be/VIeWfDOnfi4

This one showed up on so many ballots -- and seemingly all at #6 -- during a stretch when I was looking at each one as it came in that I thought it would win the whole thing. Probably skewed by wishful thinking and the fact that it was my #2. But the lack of 1st-place votes knocked it down.

This is the last song that doesn't have any 1st-place votes.

Spider and Julie are both so similar, but somehow it doesn't turn the whole album into slow/wistful/sadville.

By This River is my #1 and by a mile. It's one of the most beautiful songs I know by anyone.