Brian Eno - C or D?

"Uh-oh!"

"Ding ding!"

*I can't remember if I bought a copy or received it as a gift, but probably the latter. I used to get my older brother to buy me "weird"** records for my birthday and Christmas.

**I think he thought it was weird anyway (judging by his response to what I listened to on the radio), but I think he was a little amused to watch me growing up and getting into punk and new wave, and new bands he hadn't heard of, or other stuff that seemed esoteric to him. I think he may have bought me this album, the first Psychedelic Furs album, and Fripp's Let the Power Fall, and some a John Coltrane collection, all at my request. Now I'm getting all sentimental about my older brother. I miss being close to my family, and it's all Brian Eno's fault--well, not exactly.

Possibly the fact that I often couldn't make out the lyrics or didn't know what he was talking about contributed to my liking the songs. "With Burgundy, Tizer and Rye/Twelve sheets of foolscap: don't ask me why." I'm still largely in the dark about these lines, for example. I think I only found out what foolscap is in the last few years and I've already forgotten the details.

I kind of like the lyrics to "True Wheel." I am looking at a lyrics page now, and I find myself saying, oh, is that how it goes? I really am not even hearing what he's saying a lot of the time.

music for airports = nice but forgettable, put aside after a couple of listens.

apollo = stunningly beautiful, one of my most played albums in recent times.

with this in mind, what next?

try no pussyfooting, with fripp.

http://www.furious.com/perfect/bangseno.html

a musical genius, the godfather of Ambient, the mastermind of warm synthesis, although the cause of a lot of shit (ie damp snares in 80s music from Low) still one of the true heads!

A let me emphasize his Ambient series - i don't understand why anyone hasn't yet. On Land, man! and lets not mention the second side of Day of Radiance with Laraaji (the first side i admit being...well). Most of my feelings on Before and After Science, Another Green World have meen mentioned.

And on a last note, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is fucking ingenius record :)

seriously, listen to the title track from Taking Tiger Mountain or the first track on Warm Jets and get back to me, you will be a convert y0.

My neighbors must wonder what's up when they walk by my apartment door and hear me playing music with English lyrics.

It is the only 70's eno record I do not care for. I just felt the production was not quite up to snuff, he polished it too much. Everything Eno did no that record he did better on previous albums. I found it funny that I did not care for the record, and unbeknownst to me Eno actually echoed my complaints when he discussed that record in interviews in the late 70's.

It isn't a horrible record, it is just that he has a lot of material from that period of time and your money is better spent elsewhere in the back catalogue. And while I am thinking about it, you should probably pick up Cluster and Eno because that it good stuff.

Also, has anyone ever heard that the live The 801 bootleg from 76?

"I'm terribly attracted to women with ocular damage."

Classic.

that's an official live album, is it not? i bought it a few months ago, it's great! the sound of the live recording is amazing. some terrific renditions of songs from another green world and taking tiger mountain (by strategy).

Fripp / Eno : The Equatorial Stars

I've downloaded Taking Tiger Mountain, Warm Jets, and Another Green World. The first two are still keeping me at a distance. Another Green World came through without a track order, so I listened to it at first in alphabetical order, without knowing that it wasn't the correct version. I LOVED it; a wonderful album. Then I discovered that it was mixed up and resorted the songs; I HATED it! blech. Starting with Sky Saw, St Elmos Fire at the start... it didn't work for me.

I'm really happy with my version, though. Try it; I'd love to know what people who know the real version think of the reorder:

Another Green World
Becalmed
Everything Merges With the Night
Golden Hours
I'll Come Running
In Dark Trees
Little Fishes
Over Fire Island
Sky Saw
Sombre Reptiles
Spirits Drifting
St. Elmo's Fire
The Big Ship
Zawinul/Lava

man like simon reynolds linked to this. it's v funny. i don't think the people in it are rockists.

Also Reynolds in utterly misunderstanding a simple concept shockah. What exactly do you suppose a Lester Bangs puff piece is the hallmark of?

lol wtf

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1243885900655720

screenshot?

It's a "reel," so not sure how to embed it ...

Damn it, I quit Facebook and now I am missing out on Eno content.

I could describe it
It's a video of Roger Eno in bed, asleep, while Serge Gainsbourg plays in the background. He rolls over to a stuffed frog on the pillow next to him, gives it a kiss, then the frog turns into Brian. Roger opens his eyes, sees his smiling brother, then yelps in shock. Beneath the clip it says "tomorrow? #wsd?"

"wtf" is right

It's on insta too

https://www.instagram.com/p/DVy0b_oCAoN/?hl=en

Not on Insta either, but that’s ok. Does Roger have hair or are they a couple of cueballs?

It's there when I clickthrough ...

Roger not only has hair, he has a big beard.

They should take a promo photo of Brian’s head under Roger’s chin so his beard looks like Brian’s hair.

i do wonder what they're teasing. another live gig? I still haven't watched the Athens one all the way through

Today is World Sleep Day. Link in bio to listen to “Tributary” by Roger Eno, and “Afterlife” by Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno.
#worldsleepday

My 11 year old has gone to sleep listening to Thursday Afternoon practically her entire life.

Seems like most of Eno's solo music from the 70s is missing from Spotify.

Good.

they're off apple music as well so it's likely some label licensing shift

Everything seems to be intact on Tidal UK.

Also Tidal in the US.

Not on Qobuz, afaict.

Hmmm, correction, Here Come the Warm Jets and Before and After Science are missing.

...and now they're back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZM4fST2ts8

https://i.redd.it/5w8nib65crxg1.jpeg

I may have mentioned it elsewhere, but a while back I decided to fill out my ambient collection, so I bought Thursday Afternoon and Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirrors on good old-fashioned compact disc. There are few things more nostalgic than pulse code modulation. Every time I play Thursday Afternoon I like to imagine that I'm a mid-80s hipster living in a converted warehouse in New York. Tinkering with my new Apple Macintosh.

However Ambient 4 and Fourth World seem to have gone out of print. On Amazon.co.uk, at least, 4 is only available second-hand (for £29.99), ditto Fourth.

Discogs.com suggests that the last time 4 was issued was back in 2009, which is... several years ago. It's seventeen years ago. Presumably someone at Virgin Records is thinking "shall we reissue it again", and then Dark Kermit says "but it's 2026 and people don't buy compact discs any more". And I'm not sure if it's a contractual thing but Fourth appears to no longer be on Virgin. Apollo seems to only be available as a two-disc extended edition and it's very expensive.

I think the lesson is that if you want to buy something, wait until the hype dies down, but not so long than it becomes unavailable.

Seems like On Land at least is available at more modest prices on Ebay, if not Discogs as well?

There was an expanded Apollo?!?

https://www.discogs.com/release/13929004-Brian-Eno-With-Daniel-Lanois-Roger-Eno-Apollo-Atmospheres-Soundtracks-Extended-Edition

There was an expanded Apollo?!?