Brian Eno - C or D?

Everyone seems to be talking about it as a return to form. Not having heard it, Geeta, why do you think?

That sounds very promising. I've been stuck in bed recovering from surgery and enjoying playing around with the new 'Scape" iPad app - seems like a lot of possibility there.

I'd never heard Phil Manzanera's "Diamond Head" until tonight and, HEY, Eno's singing on "Big Day" and "Miss Shapiro"! And, my, they're excellent tracks from his prime vocal period. Are there any other guest vocal appearances worth mentioning?

it's not really a guest appearance since they were a band, but I love that 801 live album and the vocals on rongwrong

"The Belldog?" His other stuff with Cluster?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEaOUoKI-T8

"Belldog"/Cluster OTM, also see "Broken Head" and "Tzima N'Arki" from the same record

there's always the 801 Live album as well, and Robert Wyatt's "Heaps Of Sheeps"

gah sorry Sufjan... at any rate, Eno is NOT on the 801 studio album iirc.

"Ms. Shapiro" is so awesome.

You mean Wyatt's "Shleep"? I don't see a listing for Brian's vocals on it.

According to wikipedia, Brian Eno has a vocals credit on "A Change Is Gonna Come" on The Neville Brothers' "Yellow Moon"

must just be the atmospheric oooohs and aaaaahs

Eno's credited with 'vocal chorus' on Heaps Of Shleeps. Listening to it, it could only be him - incredibly distinctive, utterly un-Americanised, undisguisedly well-to-do English singing voice. He's turned up in some capacity on both subsequent Wyatt albums, but the only other time he sings, I think, is on Forest, from Cuckooland.

I love those modern Wyatt albums. I have a feeling Manzanera does quite a lot to make them possible, with studio time and things. If I had a studio, I'd let Robert Wyatt use it whenever he wanted too.

A couple other vocal tours de force to pluck out of mostly intrumental albums:

'Luneberg Heath'
'The Roil, the Choke'

Eno sings significant backup on almost everything he's ever produced, and certainly many guest appearances. But not many lead vox on albums by others.

My fave, oft-posted random Eno appearance in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr5EHyGBsgg

There's an alternate Eno mix with, um, more Eno. But this could fit right on "Another Green World."

This is pretty cool, though I don't know if any of the vox are Eno's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzEpiVbkC38

A favorite of these Eno vocal backups is Sikter's "Time and Space" which sounds like some godawful Primus song until the skipping, jittering Enossified chorus. How he ended up on this is beyond me:

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

Wow, I've never heard or heard of that. That's terrible.

Eno was involved a lot with the War Child charity, and with U2 did a lot of work in the Balkans, so maybe it was that.

Eno also produced this/these guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6OhF8hoQNk

I was one of the many who had and sold the Zvuki Mu CD.

Pastiche and tribute rolled into a single package:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQusC8QhEvc

Whenever I see Judy Nylon referenced I always think of this total Eno obscurity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeCqgsKs8EY

Beardo!

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What is that thing he is playing? On Later it looked like has had a kaos pad for his left hand and that weird thing you can see in the photo up there for his right, looks like a trackball only he wasn't touching it

Looks like an Alesis Air FX to me.

90s reissues ahoy, plenty of bonus material too:

http://brian-eno.net/reissues/

awesome, great to see the My Squelchy Life material finally available

oh great more reissues I desperately want!

http://cdn4.gurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/broke-8.gif

PR note says "You can pre-order each release now and get instant downloads."

Eh, not sure I need three discs of unreleased generative works and installation soundtracks from perhaps his dullest ambient era. Nice to get an official "My Squelchy Life," though.

I will say it again: "The Harness" is the best song he's written 25 years.

I would agree with that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21yu3RG80lU

http://www.theawl.com/2014/12/brian-eno-clark-mix

I sprung for the new edition of 'Shutov Assembly'. Nice packaging, booklet with interview & extra installation images. The 35 minute bonus material is a little on the slight side and in a somewhat different style than the parent disc (has a few rhythmic pieces closer to 'The Drop' or 'Curiosities') but I still found things to enjoy about it. My hopes were high, because there's that excellent Shutov-era promo/library music album called 'Textures' which has a lot of overlap with 'Shutov' tracks, but also has five or six tracks that don't appear anywhere else that I very much enjoy - http://www.discogs.com/Brian-Eno-Textures/release/1053039

almost sprang for 'Nerve Net' 2cd to get Squelchy but that would mean having to own a copy of 'Nerve Net'

I am genuinely surprised that you dislike that record so much, I played "Fractal Zoom" on the radio a few weeks ago and it sounded great

I'm listening to it again now on spotify. it really let me down when it came out. today, there are moments but I can't handle 'ali click' any better now than I could then. the 80's were a dark time for high end electronic music gear, but by the late 80's things were getting interesting again this was a record which just seemed to make every digital mistake you possibly could at the precise moment other people were starting to get back on track

those are admittedly just my ears

nah that's a fair point, I know you are sensitive to that stuff

nb: I love "Ali Click", especially the remixes

The things you say
You're unbelievable

http://blog.longnow.org/02014/02/28/enobooks/

there are about 5 books on that list I really want to read

and none I've actually read :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRiBrWY3NB4

my favorite song about the anxiety of influence

What's your second favorite?

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

this is more about the void that opened with dylan's "retreat" into eccentricity but there is some envy here, i feel

there are definitely others i am not thinking of. it would be an interesting playlist.

i always loved the story of david bowie playing Andy Warhol for A. Warhol at the Factory.

Bowie later played the song to Andy Warhol, who reportedly disliked it as he thought the lyrics made fun of his physical appearance. When the song had finished playing, Warhol and Bowie reportedly just stared at each other for a while until Warhol said "I like your shoes" and the pair then had a conversation about shoes.

lol ward

what about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw4w-kdu_34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nJu5OaN40o

I'll never be a Bowie, I'll never be an Eno, I'll only ever be a Gary Numan