The Ultimate Brian Eno Compilation

Rare live performance of that rare "Dune" track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyiJHNB-P5U

Here's another Rachid Taha doing "Casbah," with Eno and Mick Jones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qmyiR9iNyM

I love youtube.

This isn't so hot, but I'd never heard it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay42Z68ScUs

Josh, that Edikanfo record is the one. In my defence it was around 5 years ago and when I couldn't find the vinyl I swiftly suppressed the idea that it'd be some lost gem that basically threw a tonne of delay and some great drum sounds on the Ghana soundz comps.

It's been eons since I heard of anything unfamiliar from Eno, but I just learned that around the time of the Eno/Cale record he did a cover of "Ring of Fire!" You can get it here: http://www.moredarkthanshark.org/download.html

Rare live performance of that rare "Dune" track:

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new album coming up on Warp:

http://warp.net/records/brian-eno/new-album-lux-announced

Enjoying this a lot so far:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/appsblog/2012/sep/26/brian-eno-scape-ipad-apps

Eno looking Eno, Byrne looking unrecognizably old:

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/files/2013/05/08/img-kitchen4_162433446939.jpg

Byrne pic is bizarre, like his face has been shopped in from a different photo

This is kind of a fun idea for a comp – tho I think there's probably a much better case to be made than this. Personally, I quibble a bit with the track selection – I would have included a bonus track or two from the Remain in Light sessions where Eno croons over the polyrhythms. There's not quite enough of what he did with Phil Collins and Percy Jones in the 70s ("Over Fire Island," people!) and Lanois in the early 80s here. And, there's a bunch more 90s stuff—solo, on No. 1 Outside/Wah Wah/Passengers and remixes beyond the Grid—that helps flesh out how much the guy has always loved a good groove.

That said, it's a decent start:

More Volts: The Funky Eno

An hour long trip through the funked-up side of Brian Eno's output since the 70’s. Expect David Bryne, nonsense verse, Talking Heads, The Grid and a whole lot of slap bass.

Tracklist
Brian Eno - I Fall Up (Virgin)
Brian Eno & Snatch - R.A.F. - (Opal/Virgin)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Regiment (Virgin)
The Grid - Heartbeat (Brian Eno Squelchy mix) (Virgin)
Brian Eno - More Volts (Editions EG)
Brian Eno - Ali Click (Opal)
Brian Eno - Untitled (Opal/Virgin)
Brian Eno - No One Receiving (Virgin)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - America Is Waiting (Virgin)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Defiant (Virgin)
Brian Eno - Strong Flashes (Virgin)
Brian Eno - What Actually Happened? (Opal)
Talking Heads - I, Zimbra (Sire / Warner Brothers)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - The Jezebel Spirit (Virgin)
Brian Eno - Fractal Zoom (Opal)
Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless (Sire/Warner Brothers)
Brian Eno - Kurt's Rejoinder (Virgin)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Help Me Somebody (Virgin)

https://soundcloud.com/strictly/more-volts-the-funky-eno

Probably something with Karl Hyde could go on here.

was thinking that too - "Lilac" would eat up lots of the running time but it's funky as hell (I'd add "Daddy's Car" too just cuz I love it)

Totally forgot about the Hyde stuff! Totally agree. Perhaps it's a segmented by era/style thing:

Funky Alien: AGW, RAF, Lanois-beat stuff from the Music for Films trough, Hyde

It's Nearly Africa: Talking Heads, Bush of Ghosts, etc.

You're Unbelievable: Nerve Net, James/U2, 90s remixes, We Prick You-type stuff

Whoops meant to put Hyde w Africa.

Here are a few quick YouTube playlists I put together after lunch. These are the links to collaborate in case anyone wants to add to them:

Funky Alien:

Brian Eno - No One Receiving
Brian Eno "Over Fire Island"
Brian Eno - Untitled
Brian Eno-Kurt's Rejoinder (2004 Digital Remaster)
Brian Eno-Chemin de Fer
Brian Eno-Don't Look Back
Brian Eno Tension Block
Brian Eno-A Measured Room
Brian Eno-Task Force
Brian Eno - M386
Brian Eno - Strong Flashes of Light (1983)
Brian Eno - Mist/Rhythm

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2qtUh9Qr2VcT5Z_28z5x8QzyT5EkKbRO&jct=ydHcX5KzPpQ-BEJrl4QFNphUZreWog

It's Nearly African:

Brian Eno featuring Snatch "R.A.F"(Red Army Faction)
Brian Eno - More Volts
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Defiant
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Very, Very Hungry (HQ)
Talking Heads Unison (HQ)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Qu'Ran
Talking Heads Double Groove (HQ)
Brian Eno and David Byrne -- Number 8 Mix
Talking Heads - Right Start (HQ)
Eno • Hyde - Lilac
Eno • Hyde - DBF

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2qtUh9Qr2VcRE6iqWpHwS1UbeVzdmvCH&jct=ZuNE-OkSJuvVR-xW-ZFjLt_Mh9dgFQ

Listening to "The Ship" title track is putting me in an Eno frame of mind and have been going back to the box sets, where I first heard most of his work.

Anyone willing to give a go at making a playlist of his best bits since the 1992 box sets? I only know odds and ends from a few of those albums.

I'd guess it's kind of tough, since he only released one vocal album ("Another Day on Earth") since the boxed sets, and almost all of the other myriad things he did release were more or less strictly ambient/installation work, with the exception of the Karl Hyde discs, the other Eno/Byrne disc, guest spots, production work and the odd comp or two.

A couple of my fave things he was involved with were this Depeche Mode remix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzEpiVbkC38

And this Walkabouts songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr5EHyGBsgg

My own compilation of his productions + collaborations

Eno actually gets a co-write credit on both "Heroes" and "Once in a Lifetime," which I've always found interesting. Eno rarely gets formal co-write credit, but in those cases it conspicuously happens to be two of the respective artists' best songs, if not their best. There was an NPR bit years ago about "Once in a Lifetime," and it's revealed that Eno wrote the chorus! Byrne originally wanted the whole song to be the A part, over and over. As for "Heroes," I've always wondered why Bowie shared credit with Eno or what the latter's specific contributions were.

that's a great list of productions and collaborations. lots of lesser known stuff in that, or stuff that doesn't immeidatley jump out at you as an Eno thing but then later you're like, "oh yeah".

I quite like his mix of Jane Siberry's "Temple"

This isn't so hot, but I'd never heard it:

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