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

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.

#4 - 452 Points - 21 Votes - four 1st-place votes
Brian Eno - "Baby's On Fire" - from Here Come the Warm Jets, 1973

Album version: http://youtu.be/g5fezBnvkiU
Live with the Winkies: http://youtu.be/vbSneDSZQTw

I was sure that'd be number one! It was mine, in the end. I think I like different songs off HCTWJ best at different points in time, but it kind of felt like the platonic ideal of the 'pop' period when I was compiling my ballot.

I know two of the top three but i'm not sure about the third.

Before the voting, it would have been my pick to win too.

#3 - 453 Points - 19 Votes - three 1st-place votes
Brian Eno - "The Big Ship" - from Another Green World, 1975

Album version: http://youtu.be/lCCJc_V8_MQ
DOTS extended edit: http://youtu.be/HOvVaBsl1F4 (I don't know the story behind this extended version, just presenting it w/out

w/out comment

YA DANCER

ahhh yeah i forgot about that one!!

i was worried it may have been something that was consistently staggering to me but slight to others.

"Baby's On Fire"'s four 1st-place votes were the most any track got.

agree -- i voted it #1 too for basically the same reason
another super-evocative song too. it really conjures its own special mood that few other songs manage to conjure effectively.

oops that was to emil.y