So so so so good. Am enjoying humming the Bat Out Of Hell solo under Mother Whale Eyeless' bridge though. The record's making me a bit sad, in the way that all cosmic art does
― durianlychee (imago), Saturday, 9 November 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
title-track is the saddest song. actually crying right now. fuck
― imago, Sunday, 10 November 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
keep it together man
― imago, Sunday, 10 November 2013 23:15 (ten years ago) link
it's just kinda ridiculous how at the end of an album with 9 tracks of unrelenting joy he just blasts you with the saddest fucking thing you've ever heard
― imago, Sunday, 10 November 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
i'm a mess
this might be one of the greatest albums ever made
I've always found it quite uplifting...
― Number None, Sunday, 10 November 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
imago is a true man
― nostormo, Sunday, 10 November 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
i find not uplifting nor sad. just beautiful.
― nostormo, Sunday, 10 November 2013 23:22 (ten years ago) link
I find the effect more, well, affecting on the second side of "Before and After Science." "Spider & I" ...
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 November 2013 00:51 (ten years ago) link
x2
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:24 (ten years ago) link
ending the album with that track is incredible. a stroke of incredibility.
mother whale eyeless is the underrated gem on this album though.
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link
treesh i feel we have similar sincerities if unsimilar insincerities
― imago, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:34 (ten years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago,
this song slays me
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:38 (ten years ago) link
<3 to you from america, imago. i'm sorry you're having a hard time.
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:38 (ten years ago) link
cheers fella. it's getting better every day ^_^
let's see who can finish their book first k
― imago, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link
spider & i was lovely but ttm (the song) is fucken cosmic. can't even begin
― imago, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 00:40 (ten years ago) link
The title track is so great EXCEPT for when that guitar line does that annoying chromatic descending melody rather than the part where it blends magnificently into the piano melody.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 02:13 (ten years ago) link
no way
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 03:22 (ten years ago) link
I've been enjoying the living hell out of Mother Whale Eyeless lately. I never gave it much of a chance because of all the other great songs on this album but it's so great. This whole album has pleasantly odd/never boring lyrics.
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Saturday, 4 January 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link
There's a pie shop in the sky
― jmm, Saturday, 4 January 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
Ha I just listened to mother whale yesterday. It's my favorite on the record. When the boppy organ barges in my happiness is unstoppable.
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 4 January 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link
Try listening to Mother Sky --> Mother Whale Eyeless. It's my new recipe for exuberance.
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Saturday, 4 January 2014 17:56 (ten years ago) link
no i might break something
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 4 January 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
Back in Judy's Jungle and True Wheel for me
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 4 January 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
she clutches the trayand then we talk just like a kitchen soufflénothing ventured, nothing gained
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 10 October 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
When my colleagues from Shenzhen were here last month we took them walking around Chelsea and when we went into the hipster artist flea market mother whale eyeless was playing
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Friday, 10 October 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
that's awesome. did it add to everyone's enjoyment of the flea market?
i have been listening to this album on repeat in my car for at least a week and i have a new appreciation for 'the great pretender' and also decided that 'third uncle' was so named because of its relationship to mother sky. it sounds kinda like robot mother sky on speed.
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 10 October 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
Is it kitchen soufflé or kitchen-sink play?
― JoeStork, Friday, 10 October 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
i have no idea -- that's why i posted itit totally sounds like kitchen soufflé to me and i enjoy the lol wut eno-ness of it
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 10 October 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
I've never managed to catch half the words in that song and I've listened to it a billion times
― lool at the herrlich (wins), Friday, 10 October 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
i have listened to it a billion times too and only just now heard kitchen souffléi love how he uses the sound of words rather than their meaning and STILL manages to write songs that kinda make enough senseit's a technique that is close to my <3
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 10 October 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
just relistened to this, I loove the part where it goes "and this is the sound that they heard..." on "Back in Judy's Jungle"
are there any other albums remotely like this one?
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Friday, 10 October 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
There are moments in the first 4 Kevin ayers that sound akin. Also search "A Stitch in Time" off one of Anthony Moore's solo records, very very tiger mtn
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Friday, 10 October 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
were I to vote now it would probably be for BIJJ
but there is not one track here that is anything other than excellent
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 10 October 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
argh who am I kidding, title track
idk
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 10 October 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
pulled this out tonight for the first time in years. i'm usually an AGW guy. i'd forgotten just how awesome this disc is. pretty sure i voted for the fat lady of limbourg in the poll. tonight, maybe mother whale eyeless or china my china.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 06:01 (seven years ago) link
Now we're on the telephoneMaking final arrangementsding ding
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 14:37 (seven years ago) link
"Taking Tiger Mountain" – 5:33 3
this is sick and wrong!
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
I still listen to this all the time, but this thread revival has inspired me to listen to it again.
― Aristotle error-admitting beer (_Rudipherous_), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 15:21 (seven years ago) link
Everything getting a vote except "Put a Straw Under Baby" = OTM
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
mother whale eyeless still takes it for me. maybe the most roxy-sounding thing on here. nothing beats the switchup 2 minutes in ("In my town, there is a raincoat under a tree..."), which i've raved about elsewhere on ilx i think. one of eno's career best moments imo
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
it really blows my mind that this is from 1974 - same year as like Relayer, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Rock Bottom, etc. etc...just sounds like it's from a totally different world
― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
put a straw under baby is great and deserves at least a few votes
― na (NA), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link
yes, if only for the Robert Wyatt backing vocals
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 16:02 (seven years ago) link
So was it ever unveiled who Randi and The Pyramids are? (credited w/ (backing) vocals on 'The True Wheel' ["we are the 801!"]? I know he named her/the lot after a girl he was seeing back then and says he dreamt up the name, but who is the woman singing that?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 12 November 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
Multitracked Polly Eltes?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 November 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
Could be! We know she's on Mother Whale Eyeless, but I've never come across any source attributing the True Wheel vocal to her?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 12 November 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
― frogbs, Tuesday, November 1, 2016 11:41 AM (two years ago)
Spot on! Feel like this album is its own genre.
― Wally P. Doyle, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
eno was a massive jerk for abandoning that genre tbrr
― imago, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link