Milton, thanks for repping the ambient side with me! I wished I'd made room for "Chemistry", probably my fave (not my face or have) Percy Jones ever and a great opening for that album.
― Paul, Monday, 14 July 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
i'd like to see some lists of memorable rarities!
― La Lechera, Monday, 14 July 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
also no one mentioned "for all mankind" again -- i did watch it again the other day and was reminded that it's really great if you like a collage of old footage/audio related to space travel and the music of brian enoand i do
― La Lechera, Monday, 14 July 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
SONGS
1. No One Receiving2. Spider & I3. Baby's On Fire4. I"ll Come Running5. One Word6. This7. Re-Make/Re-Model8. Empty Frame9. Another Green World10. Burning Airlines...11. King's Lead Hat12. Backwater13. Becalmed14. Chance Meeting14. Back From Judy's Jungle15. Editions of You16. The True Wheel17. Cindy Tells Me18. Sky Saw19. Your Blue Room20. St. Elmo's Fire21. Through Hollow Lands22. The River (Eno-Cale)23. Taking Tiger MOuntain24. Weightless25. DBF26. Life is Long27. Spinning Away28. No Control29. Needles in the Camel's Eye30. Discreet Music
ALBUMS
1. Here Come The Warm Jets2. Another Green World3. Wrong Way UP4. Discreet Music5. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)6. Apollo7. More Songs About Building sand Food8. Outside9. Laid10. Zooropa11. Achtung Baby12. No Pussyfooting
COLLABORATIONS
1. Gun2. Listening Wind3. Say Something4. Lemon5. The Fly6. Heroes7. The Unforgettable Fire8. Artists Only9. Viva La Vida10. Sometimes11. Boys Keep Swinging12. Art Decade13. Barracuda14. African Nite Flight15. The Great Curve
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 July 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link
For a guy who thought 30 was too much, that's an excellent ballot, Alfred.
Will be thinking of rarities more later today. Already listened to Curiosities II on my morning commute.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 14 July 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
thanks, NTI!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 July 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
a lot of good rarities posted on the noms thread. I meant to convert all the odd eno youtubes ppl posted to mp3s if I had a spare afternoon...
― Neil Sekada (Jon Lewis), Monday, 14 July 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
I listened to a lot of previously unheard (by me) Eno for the poll, and I think my favorite has been Music for White Cube - http://whitecube.com/exhibitions/brian_eno_music_for_white_cube_duke_street_1997/
Eno has recorded himself two or three hundred times singing a single falsetto note held for as long as possible. In each instance he has tried, unsucessfully of course, to attain the same pitch. In this way the fallible human voice becomes the raw material for a sophisticated infallible software programme. This programme (called KOAN) allows Eno to impose about 150 possible instructions on the recorded notes in order to generate unique combinations of harmony, rhythm, tempo, vibrato and pitch. The resulting compositions have then been selected and recorded on CD.
Music for White Cube consisted of four CD stations which each played a unique CD cut with eight distinct tracks. Each CD station randomly selected and simultaneously played these tracks constantly producing unique combinations so that visitors never heard the same piece of music repeated. Like the generative system from which it derives, this symphony continually remakes itself in time.
― it's not rocker science (WilliamC), Monday, 14 July 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
Did we talk about lucky leif and the longships?
― Neil Sekada (Jon Lewis), Monday, 14 July 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
I love "Against The Sky" on The Pearl but wasn't sure whether to include it in original or "An Echo Of Night" form.
"The Lost Day"* has always been my jam from On Land, but I listened in greater detail than usual to the album rather than as background or falling asleep music and the (subtle!) tunes of a few other tracks became more apparent, so I'll be listening for them. partly because of the addition of Hassell (4/1) or Material (4/2), I feel like the side closers work a little against the mood of the first 3 on each side which are more of a piece, but it's pretty perfect as is.
*also like Eno's lost day concept: the things that didn't come to be. which could be read as the road not taken, in contrast to Another Green World aka the ultimately fertile other road (or art process) taken. but in "the lost day" I think Eno was nostalgic for better(?) futures that failed to materialize: other green potentials (or even things we didn't get to do).
wasn't surprised that Karl Hyde and Eno started working together cos the chords in "Born Slippy" reminded me of "Always Returning".
― Paul, Monday, 14 July 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
Choice rarity, inexplicably amended to recent editions of "Wrong Way Up."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEQBDyTjF7U
Another incredible song, inexplicably on Cale's Eno-produced Dylan Thomas tribute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQCbepdIe3o
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 July 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
Eno (and some Eno cohort, like Percy Jones and Phil Collins) is on this. I believe Eno plays "The Wolf:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4iP5YAePYU
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 July 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
And come to think of it, no one really rates the Ultravox album he produced, right? An early misfire (though not a bad record).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 July 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
Found this, too:
http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2012/12/album-du-jour-9-eno-lost-70s-pop-album.html
(Sorry for all the piecemeal posts)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 July 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
The first Ultravox! album is sheer fucking genius
― i'm elf-ein lusophonic (imago), Monday, 14 July 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
multi-xp: hilarious! I was just about to post the William Bell cover - what do people think of it? I remember Eno saying he loved the tune, but I felt he'd gone too far into decorative resignation by stripping the soul/yearning out. not a million miles away from what Ferry did in recasting songs (though without the comedy of Hard Rain).speaking of which, doesn't Eno's singing on "Spinning Away" sound very Ferry c.Avalon?my highest Roxy vote was for "Beauty Queen" which is so much more Ferry than Eno (and allegedly was drowned out live by Eno fans), but it's my fave Roxy Eno-era or otherwise.
"The Soul Of Carmen Miranda" may be the best late-Cale song. shoulda remembered to pick that for Eno involvement.
― Paul, Monday, 14 July 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
Ten quick ones:
More Dust – Eno/Schwalm – Hawaiian guitar beauty, this made my actual ballot)What Actually Happened? – Nerve Net gem, all dirty drums and Eno processed vox speaking about a "recovering rapist." The Harness – My Squelchy Life cut, probably the best vocal track he's done since WWU. Could've been on the four classic albums. Also on my actual ballot. Grey Promenade – Roger Eno. Milton had this on his and it narrowly missed mine. The treatment on the piano is to die for.Stars – The closer on Apollo, this is just a slowed down Under Stars but it's amazing. Also on my ballot!Wire Shock – Another Nerve Net cut. Probably his best post TH rhythm track. Brass section at the end is outstanding.Still Return – Budd/Eno, closer of The Pearl, and really just another slowed down cut (the opener, Late October). Aubade – Harmonia '76. Gorgeous closer, with Eno and/or Roedelius doing organ textures, Rother playing a stately melody and Dieter processing the drum box. Some days, this is my favorite track from the album, and one of the three (amazing) cuts that only made it to the reissue. The Shade – Eno/Moebius/Roedelius, the combination of the Roedelius piano, lonely synth melody and harmonized Another Green World guitars make this probably my favorite Eno cut w Cluster (Harmonia '76 has a nice demo of this called "When Shade Was Born"). Tension Block – a menacing groove from MFF III w Lanois.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 14 July 2014 22:38 (ten years ago) link
Still Return:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH0zEgYviJ8
― Paul, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 03:00 (ten years ago) link
so I relistened to Before And After Science in full and found that side 1 held up better than I remembered - the grab-bag effect helps the album still feel fresh, full of ideas/directions - you can hear early seeds of Remain In Light on "No One Receiving" and "Kurt's Rejoinder". also it's a great yin/yang album (e.g. madcap vs serenity). and I was a bit unkind upthread to "Through Hollow Lands" - side 2 really is a supreme Eno side.should be higher on my albums list.
― Paul, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 03:06 (ten years ago) link
guys "The Big Ship" just hurt my heart really bad. how can I sit here working on excel files for a housewares company when the fkn big ship is playing? Gahhh.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 17 July 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
Eno - 8m1 (The Lovely Bones)
Pulled down all Eno's stuff from this the other day ... and have been kind of obsessed with this track. It's not very involved – some guitar, ride cymbal and shimmer. And it doesn't really break any new ground. But it is emotional and haunting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFyWZPKk01c&sns=em
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
bumpin this bc i bought the only eno book available on my kindle (on some faraway beach) because i wanted to be able to highlight stuff and actually find it againand i have some thoughts/questions
for starters, what a fortunate man he has been! stumbled into the right place at the right time in his life, allowed so much creative freedom (and all sorts of other freedoms). i'm only at the part where he starts working on the warm jets, so there are a lot of things i'm looking forward to reading aboutalso the writing is a little corny but whatever it was the only one available and it seemed ok
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 11 August 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
one of my favorite parts was when he went to see aguirre the thought of young eno sitting and watching that movie makes me want to squeal
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 11 August 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
haha I downloaded that book too! But first I am reading the other one, the one by Eric Tamm, which is available as a PDF online for free with the author's blessing. I can't remember if Kindles will render PDF or not?
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Monday, 11 August 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
ugh they do but it's a step i have yet to take with more than one thingi should embrace technology for eno
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 11 August 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
I didn't find the writing corny at all. Good book. Alas it wasn't available on Kindle in the States.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 11 August 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
i should embrace technology for eno
The way Eno embraces technology, you should download it onto a DX7.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 01:25 (ten years ago) link
why was this picture not posted beforehttp://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/23700000/Brian-Eno-brian-eno-23792357-500-373.jpg
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
I posted that!
― Atp Fin (wins), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
>:-(
oh woopsi was feeling low and i went looking for pictures of eno's costumes and found that onehe looks like a cute vacation boyfriend!
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
Or this:
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h130/asynchro_nous/jellinghaus_dx-progr.jpg
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 14 August 2014 02:19 (ten years ago) link
Just as sexy
i'm totally loving this booki'm reading it really slowly so i'm just on the part in 1975 when he gets better from his car accident and starts working with televisiontoday i looked up what he was doing in august of 1975 and he was finishing up the recording of AGWdoes anyone know the order in which the songs were recorded for that album? next year will be its 40th bday!
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Thursday, 21 August 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
an old favourite - has it really been almost 30 years?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMJZwd1AN7A
― Paul, Sunday, 2 November 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
since it won't let you watch the link except on YouTube here's more details:
1985 episode of Nature called Lost World Of The Medusa - set in Palau and primarily about Jellyfish Lake. soundtrack includes Eno and Eno/Budd tracks - what a surprise/delight back then watching my fave show and hearing some of my fave music.
― Paul, Sunday, 2 November 2014 03:17 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l7oFUXcmKU
― Paul, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
I updated my poll contributions.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 March 2017 02:04 (seven years ago) link