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
#14 - 243 Points - 12 VotesBrian Eno - "Golden Hours" - from Another Green World, 1975
video of, of all things, assembled clips from Psycho: http://youtu.be/K86xVtI_c6Ujust the album cover: http://youtu.be/Sxyg3sP03Csthe 801 Live version: http://youtu.be/zu6GO0e9pBo
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
I think this is my favorite AGW song, because of Fripp's pointillist solo.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Despite my love for both Brian Eno and John Cale I don't know the collaborative album either. I have a feeling I might have heard a track or two, maybe? But I didn't get a chance to listen over to it, so no votes from me.
And crut, I dunno if this is weird, but I actually barely voted for any ambient Eno at all. I love the pop stuff so much, and then I put in a bunch of votes for some electronic and 'avant' stuff, but not really any ambient works.
― emil.y, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
#13 - 245 Points - 18 VotesBrian Eno - "Everything Merges With the Night" - from Another Green World, 1975
http://youtu.be/4dmx4pRUpnk
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
I love that this and "Golden Hours" are right next to each other, 2 points apart, with "Merges"'s long sustained notes as counterpoint to the "Golden Hours" solo.
Big jump from 12 votes to 18, though.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
#12 - 264 Points - 17 VotesBrian Eno - "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More" - from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), 1974
http://youtu.be/48PPQ3Kq-j8
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
The overwhelming % of results from those four key solo albums makes his career look less impressive than it is.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
That song is so catchy
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Note how Andy Summers cops pal Fripp's Golden Hours solo for Mother.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Voted for these last three songs. When listening to Another Green World before voting I did find it so hard to separate the songs and pick highlights. Golden Hours and Everything Merges are two that made it but really I could voted for the last five songs on there. Those are the songs that make that album such a classic for me.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
I'm assuming lots of other people are as enamoured of wistful psychedelic Eno as I am, else I'm going to be sorely disappointed with this Top 10.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
DL, I was thinking the same thing.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link
#11 - 270 Points - 12 Votes - one 1st-place voteBrian Eno - "Third Uncle" - from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), 1974
Album version: http://youtu.be/yai4bier1oM801 Live version: http://youtu.be/dkul5z9Rs3g
This is a quart in a pint pot scenario, you can't fit the number of great songs not placed in the poll so far into the Top 10
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link
My contribution will be listing the songs I would have voted for should they not make the list.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
my contribution will be as a "non-voter"
― when there's no more room in heㄥㄥ the thread will walk the earth (wins), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
Ambient voter.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
generative opinion-box
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
#10 - 295 Points - 15 VotesBrian Eno - "On Some Faraway Beach" - From Here Come the Warm Jets, 1973
http://youtu.be/6-i5sGppXFU
one of the things i love most about this song is its ability to evoke memories both real and imagined -- one time it started playing right as i entered a USPS and i felt like it was a sign of my imminent demisenothing happened, but wow what an evocative song! a single syllable
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
Had I remembered to vote, that might well have been my #1.
― Rabona not glue (aldo), Friday, 11 July 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Count ... 4-6 ringers that should be on their way, but getting nervous!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 July 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
#9 - 352 Points - 15 Votes - one 1st-place voteBrian Eno - "Here Come the Warm Jets," from Here Come the Warm Jets, 1973
http://youtu.be/iP-RFsuv-8Q
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Friday, 11 July 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
that is my #1!!
it's the mothership
― La Lechera, Friday, 11 July 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
the warm jets...number one...
my potty sense of humor...
― Euler, Friday, 11 July 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link