Brian Eno - C or D?

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?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rqbzgSp0pow

classic

http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2003/0120/cover/view_eno.html

love that TIME article by Eno, read it when it came out & it still holds up well :)

I just told someone recently a good bio on Eno would be really interesting. Well, here it is!

On Some Faraway Beach: The Life And Times of Brian Eno - David Sheppard

Always Returning is so fucking beautiful.
Almost as godlike as Half Man Half Biscuit's 'Eno Collaboration'

I got the book in the mail last night. It's UK only, but got it from a seller via Amazon for domestic rates! It's a beautiful hardcover, over 450 pages. Here's a passage from the first chapter:

"...I was encouraged by Colin Newman, lead singer of the veteran post-punk band Wire and an acquaintance and long-term adherent of Eno's, whose pithy views on all things Brian resonated like a Greek chorus as I wrote the book. Possibly fearing I was another fixated, sanctimonious Enophile, Newman gave me some salutary words of advice: 'I think we need to reclaim Eno from the Eno nerds. There's a lot of nasty train-spotting involved with the Eno fanbase. Brian needs to have his place, sure, but he's not a saint, nor is he a professor. He's a bunch of things, one of which -- and I say this in the most friendly and supportive way -- is an incredibly adept bullshitter. He's a brilliant opportunist.'"

Well put. And along with Lee Perry, he's been involved with nearly 25% of my all-time favorite albums from the 70s.

I'm less than 1/4 through and enjoying it thoroughly.

This review is a decent encapsulation.

http://www.fastnbulbous.com/eno_on.jpg

“the bottom is the large brain”

Fuckin' A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/magazine/04funny_humor.html?_r=1

Has anyone seen or heard an Eno solo live show recently? Seems like he's been doing more speaking engagements than anything else. He's playing next month in LA.

FFS it seems like it's a lecture after all. $100 to hear the man speak.

cut the guy a break, it's not like he's been doing any high-profile, high-paying producing gigs of late ... ;)

they did Apollo live over For All Mankind in the Science Museum IMAX theatre recently and the first i heard about it was the review...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/22/brian-eno-apollo-review

Has anyone seen or heard an Eno solo live show recently?

Not solo-solo, but he did a three-set directed improv show with The Necks, Karl Hyde, Jon Hopkins, Leo Abrahams and Tomato at the Sydney Opera House a few months ago. (Plus about three lectures, the 77 Million Paintings installation, and turning the sails into lava lamps for two weeks.)

eno thing on bbc 4 tonight.

So i only realised tonight why 4:40 onwards of this sounds so familiar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUIZvAe3RBg

its because:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E76Oatpjn4

only made the connection because Jackson just went the whole hog and used Big Ship in the lovely bones.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/magazine/04funny_humor.html?_r=1

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fun anecdote. Just listening to "Thursday Afternoon" now - stunning! I really should pick up and READ that Eno book.

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?!?