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

#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

"Baby's On Fire" one of the few songs on my shortlist of least favorite Eno tracks. If it had one I would have quiet rioted.

I always had an idea what the top two would be when this poll was announced. Unless I got it very wrong it seems like I guessed right. Not sure which way round it will be but to me it doesn't really matter as their both perfect.

#2 - 548 Points - 21 Votes - two 1st-place votes
Brian Eno - "The True Wheel" - from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), 1974

http://youtu.be/-bPbToMJmCI

ding ding!

Row Row Row

ok the #1 better be what I think it is. If so it's v v deserving.

One of the 10 Moby mixes of Ali Click?

Fractal Zoom, rather.

#1 - 567 Points - 24 Votes - two 1st-place votes
Brian Eno - "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" - single, 1975

http://youtu.be/d5RYptkzbjY

The Windows 95 sound was robbed!!!

Wait, I think I messed something up.

#1 - 567 Points - 24 Votes - two 1st-place votes
Brian Eno - "St. Elmo's Fire" - from Another Green World, 1975

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6n9s1e8EXs

That's a keeper.

Maybe my favourite Fripp solo! It was my #2.

Great #1

Otherwise, I am totally baffled by these results.

Rare live version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSsanVx6Tjg

Yeah it's all about the solo.

It wasn't my number one but it's still a great result.

lol

(xp re Parr)

Now, see, "Baby's On Fire" is all about the solo. "St. Elmo's Fire" is all about everything - lyrics, arrangement, singing ... just gorgeous.

I wonder how many/if any other people actually bothered to vote for any Scratch Orchestra stuff in the end.

great #1 and #2

Thank you to everyone who voted! I thought there were 27 ballots, but I guess there were 28. At least there are 28 #1 votes in the spreadsheet.

Honestly, every time I see one of my kids perform horribly off-key in anything, I think of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpJ6anurfuw

The Windows 95 sound was robbed!!!

― one way street, Friday, July 11, 2014 8:16 PM (4 minutes ago)

This either had to be my #1 or my #30, it just seemed odd putting it anywhere else on the ballot. #30 it was.

"Baby's On Fire" is all about the solo.

For me it's all about the super-deep "bommmm" bit juxtaposed with the sneery whine. But then I'm not a big solo fan.

Voted high for both 'True Wheel' and 'St. Elmo's Fire' so I'm happy anyway.

http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/201003/19/07/f0210407_20522030.jpg

I like the lyrics of Baby's on Fire at least as much as the solo. This kind of experience is necessary for her learning.

emil.y, there was one other vote for Paragraph 7.

Here are the full results -- all three parts in one file, note the 3 sheets down at the bottom.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11U7pvEwvNkSzpqwrJlBOpJTSIAJUS7uaG8l3X53pq6Q/edit?usp=sharing

'St Elmo's Fire' is all about everything but the entrance of the solo is an all-time moment of anything ever, Fripp just saying "spit ions in the ether? Sure, easy".

Catching up...

Forgot "Everything Merges With the Night" – forgot to include this. My second favorite vocal song on AGW after "St. Elmo's Fire." It just embodies that pic on the back sleeve with him sitting in some flat somewhere.

"On Some Faraway Beach" has always been compromised by a piano part that reminds me of Bob Seger's "Still the Same."

"Needles in the Camel's Eye" was my solitary vote from Warm Jets. he never bettered the VU-meets-glam template he set here.

"By This River" – another one that could've been my #1 but just a hair behind "...Julie With" and "Spider & I" which probably says more about my feelings for Side 2 of BaAS than anything. Also, another Roedelius solo song stretched out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9o-aCXqCg&sns=em

Big thanks to WilliamC for running this.

Here's my tracks ballot. My #2 and #3 are miniature masterpieces IMHO and deserved better.

01. The Jezebel Spirit (Byrne & Eno)
02. Energy Fools The Magician
03. Over Fire Island
04. Regiment (Byrne & Eno)
05. St Elmo's Fire
06. Baby's On Fire
07. Qu'ran (Byrne & Eno)
08. Moonlight In Glory (Byrne & Eno)
09. Backwater
10. 1/1
11. Golden Hours
12. What Actually Happened?
13. Dead Finks Don't Talk
14. Fever (Eno & The Winkies)
15. Zawinul/Lava
16. Discreet Music
17. Broken Head (Eno Moebius Roedelius)
18. Kurt's Rejoinder
19. R.A.F. (Eno & Snatch)
20. Sky Saw
21. King's Lead Hat
22. Julie With...
23. Help Me Somebody (Byrne & Eno)
24. Spinning Away (Eno & Cale)
25. No One Receiving
26. My Squelchy Life
27. Mea Culpa (Byrne & Eno)
28. The Heavenly Music Corporation (Fripp & Eno)
29. The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch
30. America Is Waiting (Byrne & Eno)

I really enjoyed this poll (although I still need to look more closely at Eno after the 80s). My tracks ballot:

1. the big ship
2. here come the warm jets
3. st elmo's fire
4. dead finks don't talk
5. spider and i
6. blank frank
7. third uncle
8. in every dream house a heartache (roxy music)
9. by this river
10. pyjamarama (roxy music)
11. burning airlines give you so much more
12. luftschloss (eno moebius roedelius)
13. strong flashes of light
14. cindy tells me
15. everything merges with the night
16. needles in the camel's eye
17. if there is something (roxy music)
18. baby's on fire
19. dunwich beach, autumn 1960
20. the true wheel
21. sky saw
22. 1/1
23. kurt's rejoinder
24. an ending (ascent)
25. taking tiger mountain
26. re-make/re-model (roxy music)
27. for your pleasure (roxy music)
28. america is waiting (david byrne and brian eno)
29. ladytron (roxy music)
30. regiment (david byrne and brian eno)

yay that's the winner I wanted.

One of my all time 5 fave gtr solos, but the whole package is brilliant.

"The True Wheel" inspired at least two band names: 801 and A Certain Ratio. Also, possibly, The Modern Lovers. Has to be some kind of record.

I love this Manzanera solo more than most things – this kept creeping up my ballot until it finally landed at #5.