Side 2 of BaAS is my favorite thing ever but I've never liked Here He Comes at all.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
#22 - 202 Points - 13 VotesBrian Eno - "Cindy Tells Me" - from Here Come the Warm Jets, 1973
http://youtu.be/XC9Rb8G03es
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
One more today and then the rest tomorrow.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link
#21 - 206 Points - 12 Votes - one 1st-place voteBrian Eno - "No One Receiving" - from Before and After Science, 1977
http://youtu.be/77G0xF45weg - not an official video I don't think, but a cool montage of freaky clips.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
I'm always happy when I'll Come Running starts but by the end of it I always find myself thinking I wish he'd stop repeating the title. Don't even think he does it that many times, but it seems to always bug me slightly for some reason.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
No One Receiving was the last song I cut from my list.
if 'The Big Ship' isn't top ten then I'll kill all of you.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
Roadtrip!
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
surprised no one voted for this in the U2 stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjT3eYVcvvs
― piscesx, Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
I've liked "I'll Come Running" a whole lot more since a friend pointed out that the lyric could be taken to mean: one day you'll come to visit and I'll come running to see you on your merry way again. an "I vant to be alone" song.
still I knew someone who hated it so much he'd immediately flip the album over and never get to hear innocent little follow-up track and side-closer "Another Green World". yes, I'm the one quoted in Geeta's book!
― Paul, Thursday, 10 July 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
Just wanted to say that I've been listening to B&AS as a result of this thread, and while it's not quite TTMBS, it's pretty fucking great :)
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link
"No One Receiving" my #1.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
even though it was my first Eno vocal album and contains my 2 fave Eno songs ever (Here and Julie), over time I've found Before And After Science less exciting and convincing than Tiger and Another, because it's not as well-integrated as the latter and not as solid as the former.
there IS a structure to it and side 2 is one of the best Eno sides as a whole, but I feel that Energy Fools The Magician would likely be a weak to average tune on a Brand X or Weather Report album and ultimately Through Hollow Lands can't hold a candle to Harold Budd. overall a really good album by anyone else's standards, but as Eno goes a grab-bag of greats and also-rans.
― Paul, Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
i wish there was some song that took that brief feeling and extended it for several minutesi think it's possible to make this happen with rather minimal effort, if and when you have the time!
also discreet music my #2
― La Lechera, Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
Philip K Dick LOVED Discreet Music
― Paul, Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:38 (ten years ago) link
also see P.K. Dick source of Heavenly Music Corporation
― Paul, Thursday, 10 July 2014 22:43 (ten years ago) link
I'll Come Running and Here He Comes seem low
― g simmel, Thursday, 10 July 2014 23:39 (ten years ago) link
even though it was my first Eno vocal album and contains my 2 fave Eno songs ever (Here and Julie), over time I've found Before And After Science less exciting and convincing than Tiger and Another, because it's not as well-integrated as the latter and not as solid as the former. there IS a structure to it and side 2 is one of the best Eno sides as a whole, but I feel that Energy Fools The Magician would likely be a weak to average tune on a Brand X or Weather Report album and ultimately Through Hollow Lands can't hold a candle to Harold Budd. overall a really good album by anyone else's standards, but as Eno goes a grab-bag of greats and also-rans.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 11 July 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link
Spotify playlist for those who are al inclined. Missing a few items that aren't in their catalogue. But if anyone wants to add in placeholders from their local library, I've made it collaborative:
http://open.spotify.com/user/124420673/playlist/5zbCYQZsZrtLHyH4MYnzZE
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 11 July 2014 02:01 (ten years ago) link
NTI, thanks for Spotifying that up!
Top 20 today, and a couple early before I go to the gym.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 13:01 (ten years ago) link
#20 - 210 Points - 13 VotesBrian Eno - "King's Lead Hat" - from Before and After Science, 1977
Another clip montage from the same source as the "No One Receiving" one above: http://youtu.be/Yp0k_o8gfQI
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 13:04 (ten years ago) link
Somehow didn't make but ballot but I love Fripp's solo in this.
I always thought the "ready Freddy" line was a reference to "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" but that song didn't come out until 1979.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 11 July 2014 13:08 (ten years ago) link
Crazy keyboard solo on this too.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 July 2014 13:10 (ten years ago) link
#19 - 211 Points - 14 VotesBrian Eno - "Sky Saw" - from Another Green World, 1975
http://youtu.be/KXDrTZMVINo
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 13:13 (ten years ago) link
Another one that didn't make my ballot somehow. Tho I will admit that Eno's Dadaist tendencies and flat delivery at this point in his career can sometimes put me off a bit("I'll Come Running" is another victim here).
Much prefer the Van Dyke Parks-esque whimsy and flow of couplets like this:
The killer cycles, humdrum, the killer hertz/The passage of my life is measured out in shirts
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 11 July 2014 13:21 (ten years ago) link
I love the impossible to figure out Phil Collins drums in this.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 July 2014 13:42 (ten years ago) link
"Evening Star" was in the top half of my ballot. I love that style of soloing from Fripp.
I wonder who picked it as #1.... :P
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 11 July 2014 13:46 (ten years ago) link
15 year old me asking record shop staff to put on AGW + "Sky Saw" blasts out = :-O moment for all concerned
― Jeff W, Friday, 11 July 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
I love how on "Sky Saw" and "Kurt's Rejoinder" the basses seem to TALK to each other; it's like eavesdropping on inanimate objects.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 July 2014 14:15 (ten years ago) link
I didn't vote in this but now I wish I did. Cindy Tells Me feels very low.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 11 July 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
Cindy Tells Me is great.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 11 July 2014 14:33 (ten years ago) link
So many great tracks I didn't vote for.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Friday, 11 July 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
#18 - 222 Points - 13 VotesBrian Eno - "Taking Tiger Mountain" - from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), 1974
Fan video using footage from Picnic at Hanging Rock: http://youtu.be/OJoxPdLJg48
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
I was the #1 vote for Discreet Music.
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 11 July 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
we climbed and we climbedoh how we climbed
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 July 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
I voted 'Cindy Tells Me' pretty high. I just realised I forgot about 'Blank Frank' in my "vote for every song off HCTWJ" ballot. Huh. It's not actually anywhere near one of my favourites, though it's always better when I listen to it than when I remember it - my memory cuts out all the cool weird bits that come in throughout.
― emil.y, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
#17 - 230 Points - 12 VotesBrian Eno, with Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno - "An Ending (Ascent)", from Apollo: Atmostpheres and Soundtracks (1983)
http://youtu.be/It4WxQ6dnn0
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
Needs more boldface!
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
This is lovely. Didn't actually know Apollo before.
― emil.y, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
All I knew from it was "Deep Blue Day" (Trainspotting sdtk) until a couple of years ago. This is about as nakedly emotional as music gets for me, but somehow not cloying.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
Great start to the top 20. Taking Tiger Mountain is so beautiful and such a perfect end to that album.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
whoa, emil.y!! "An Ending" is one of his best!
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 11 July 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
oh! that reminds me -- i hope everyone has watched "for all mankind"? i just remembered that it's saved on my dvr (lol) and that i could just have it on in the background!
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
#16 - 234 Points - 12 VotesBrian Eno & John Cale - "Spinning Away" - from Wrong Way Up, 1990
http://youtu.be/RpMhgFXAOIw
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
that's such an incredible album
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 11 July 2014 15:48 (ten years ago) link
I kinda wasted the ballot spot I held in reserve for that album, without giving the whole thing a proper re-listen.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
#15 - 242 Points - 13 VotesBrian Eno - "1/1" - from Ambient 1: Music for Airports, 1978
http://youtu.be/CWu4ieBqGFg
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
I knew I'd found a home when ILM said it loved Wrong Way Up as much as I.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
Sugar Ray's cover is quite good!
I had Spinning Away really high – maybe too high, but I didn't want all of side 2 from BaAS to occupy the entirety of my first five picks.
When I played it the other day in my car, my 6 year-old daughter said it was so-so. She volunteered that she didn't like the beat but thought the singing was really good. Already a music critic.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link