Brian Eno - C or D?

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.

Eno book is definitely worth a read, though obviously it gets a little less interesting once the 70s are over.

The biography? It's quite good.

yeah, I got "On Some Faraway Beach" in the summer just gone, when going through Ambiengt I to IV and Apollo. Didnt get past a couple of chapters 'cos I'd try and read whilst listening to his music.

More often than not, I'd end up just sitting there, staring out of the window at traffic and listening...

He'd appreciate it!

ha!! actually, I'd also surf ILX often too... ILX - the ambient web....

decided today The Plateaux Of Mirror is the best hangover listen ever. just the right balance of tragic, comfort and quiet.

tragic hangover

I need to get the Budd collaborations. I'm very fond of Apollo soundtrack as a late night reading album.

harold budd's reverbed piano on "the plateaux of mirror" gives this cottony, fluffy feel absinth is supposed to induce

That NYT column's a hoot. Why the hell would they let you access "Thursday Afternoon" on a jukebox, unless they charged you $10 to play it?

did anyone else like that thing he did with paul simon? granted it's not the best album either of them has ever made or anything, but i thought it was quite decent, not to mention sorta unexpected and not really sounding like anything either of them has ever done before (it's kinda mildly glitchy with lots of chopped up guitars and stuff)

also music for airports is great, you just have to put it on in the background in another room while it's raining, like it's meant to be listened to

i thought that the paul simon album *sounded* great, but that the songs weren't really up to paul's standards for the most part. it's a cool idea to pair the two of them -- i almost wouldn't mind if they gave it another go!
it'll be interesting when/if eno's recordings with herbie hancock emerge!