Some of Them Are Polled (ILM Artist Poll #55 - Brian Eno - RESULTS)

emil.y, there was one other vote for Paragraph 7.

Here are the full results -- all three parts in one file, note the 3 sheets down at the bottom.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11U7pvEwvNkSzpqwrJlBOpJTSIAJUS7uaG8l3X53pq6Q/edit?usp=sharing

'St Elmo's Fire' is all about everything but the entrance of the solo is an all-time moment of anything ever, Fripp just saying "spit ions in the ether? Sure, easy".

Catching up...

Forgot "Everything Merges With the Night" – forgot to include this. My second favorite vocal song on AGW after "St. Elmo's Fire." It just embodies that pic on the back sleeve with him sitting in some flat somewhere.

"On Some Faraway Beach" has always been compromised by a piano part that reminds me of Bob Seger's "Still the Same."

"Needles in the Camel's Eye" was my solitary vote from Warm Jets. he never bettered the VU-meets-glam template he set here.

"By This River" – another one that could've been my #1 but just a hair behind "...Julie With" and "Spider & I" which probably says more about my feelings for Side 2 of BaAS than anything. Also, another Roedelius solo song stretched out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9o-aCXqCg&sns=em

Big thanks to WilliamC for running this.

Here's my tracks ballot. My #2 and #3 are miniature masterpieces IMHO and deserved better.

01. The Jezebel Spirit (Byrne & Eno)
02. Energy Fools The Magician
03. Over Fire Island
04. Regiment (Byrne & Eno)
05. St Elmo's Fire
06. Baby's On Fire
07. Qu'ran (Byrne & Eno)
08. Moonlight In Glory (Byrne & Eno)
09. Backwater
10. 1/1
11. Golden Hours
12. What Actually Happened?
13. Dead Finks Don't Talk
14. Fever (Eno & The Winkies)
15. Zawinul/Lava
16. Discreet Music
17. Broken Head (Eno Moebius Roedelius)
18. Kurt's Rejoinder
19. R.A.F. (Eno & Snatch)
20. Sky Saw
21. King's Lead Hat
22. Julie With...
23. Help Me Somebody (Byrne & Eno)
24. Spinning Away (Eno & Cale)
25. No One Receiving
26. My Squelchy Life
27. Mea Culpa (Byrne & Eno)
28. The Heavenly Music Corporation (Fripp & Eno)
29. The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch
30. America Is Waiting (Byrne & Eno)

I really enjoyed this poll (although I still need to look more closely at Eno after the 80s). My tracks ballot:

1. the big ship
2. here come the warm jets
3. st elmo's fire
4. dead finks don't talk
5. spider and i
6. blank frank
7. third uncle
8. in every dream house a heartache (roxy music)
9. by this river
10. pyjamarama (roxy music)
11. burning airlines give you so much more
12. luftschloss (eno moebius roedelius)
13. strong flashes of light
14. cindy tells me
15. everything merges with the night
16. needles in the camel's eye
17. if there is something (roxy music)
18. baby's on fire
19. dunwich beach, autumn 1960
20. the true wheel
21. sky saw
22. 1/1
23. kurt's rejoinder
24. an ending (ascent)
25. taking tiger mountain
26. re-make/re-model (roxy music)
27. for your pleasure (roxy music)
28. america is waiting (david byrne and brian eno)
29. ladytron (roxy music)
30. regiment (david byrne and brian eno)

yay that's the winner I wanted.

One of my all time 5 fave gtr solos, but the whole package is brilliant.

"The True Wheel" inspired at least two band names: 801 and A Certain Ratio. Also, possibly, The Modern Lovers. Has to be some kind of record.

I love this Manzanera solo more than most things – this kept creeping up my ballot until it finally landed at #5.

had i been in condition to vote I would've given the palm to either St. Elmo's or Mother Whale.

True Wheel is a deserving #2

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Thanks for all your hard work WilliamC. This was a great poll.

xpost You say that now, but wait til stuff like "The Big Ship" doesn't make it.

No way. I bet it's in the twenties or higher.

if 'The Big Ship' isn't top ten then I'll kill all of you.

Thank god.

Hahaha, I thought about dropping spoilers or red herrings at that.

My ballot

1. Swastika Girls
2. Julie With…
3. Golden Hours
4. 1/1
5. An Ending (Ascent)
6. The Fat Lady of Limbourg
7. The Heavenly Music Corporation
8. I’ll Come Running
9. Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
10. French Catalogues
11. Some of Them Are Old
12. DBF
13. Mountain of Needles
14. Evening Star
15. Thursday Afternoon
16. No One Receiving
17. Baby’s On Fire
18. By This River
19. St. Elmo’s Fire
20. Everything Merges With the Night
21. Needles in the Camel’s Eye
22. Tal Coat
23. Shadow
24. Discreet Music
25. Sky Saw
26. In Dark Trees
27. Chemistry (4th World, w/Hassell)
28. On Some Faraway Beach
29. Daddy’s Car
30. Been There Done That

Productions:

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! - Devo
Remain in Light - Talking Heads -
Power Spot - Jon Hassell -
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Eno/Byrne -
Music for Airports
Apollo - Eno/Lanois/Eno -
Here Come the Warm Jets
Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
Another Green World
Before and After Science
No Pussyfooting
Evening Star
The Joshua Tree
The Equatorial Stars
Fear of Music

On the Side:
Gloria Gloom (Matching Mole)
Warszawa - David Bowie
Breaking Glass - David Bowie
Sons of the Silent Age -David Bowie
Gun - John Cale
“Heroes” - David Bowie
V-2 Schneider
Sense of Doubt - David Bowie
Solaire - Jon Hassell
DJ - David Bowie
Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie
Lemon - U2
Memories Can’t Wait - Talking Heads -
Heaps of Sheeps
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Genesis)

I love the number one.

It's Eno's green world, bitches. We only visit.

Fabulous work, WilliamC.

My Squelchy Tracks Ballot:

Spider & I
Spinning Away - Eno-Cale
Julie With
By This River
The True Wheel
St. Elmo's Fire
Through Hollow Lands
The Big Ship
The Harness
Burning Airlines Gives You So Much More
Another Green World
Discreet Music
Dunwich Beach, Autumn 1960
Delta Rain Dream - Hassell/Eno
2/2
Stars
Prophecy Theme
Needles in the Camel's Eye
How Many Worlds
Welcome - Harmonia '76
One Word - Eno/Cale
Mountain of Needles - Eno-Byrne
An Ending (Ascent)
White Mustang - w Daniel Lanois
Deep Blue Day
One Fine Day – Byrne/Eno
Empty Frame - Eno/Cale
And Then So Clear
Under
More Dust - Eno/Schwalm

yeah thanks WmC! this poll somehow managed to put me in a good mood!

Well alright then! Plus the weekend!

my ballot is not very interesting bc i forgot to vote for a bunch of stuff
but the poll was still really enjoyable

My tracks ballot:

Evening Star
St. Elmo’s Fire
Sky Saw
Baby’s on Fire
The Big Ship
Needles in the Camel’s Eye
Swastika Girls
Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
The Heavenly Music Corporation
Cindy Tells Me
1/1
Evensong
Another Green World
Aubade
By this River
Here Come the Warm Jets
In Dark Trees
1/2
Ladytron (Old Grey Whistle Test)
Becalmed
Virginia Plain
Driving Me Backwards
Golden Hours
The Fat Lady of Limbourg
Third Uncle
Thursday Afternoon
If There Is Something
In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Dead Finks Don’t Talk
Everything Merges With the Night

Cool results! I had 'St. Elmo's Fire' at #1 but never expected it to win.

Thanks WilliamC.

I enjoyed doing the poll! I hope everybody was ok with the lowkey no-bombast rollout. They can't all be big parties, and basically the data collection is worthwhile in and of itself, imo.

I didn't vote for any Roxy. They are among my favorite bands but I just couldn't in good conscience credit Eno with their early success, esp. since he didn't write any of those songs.

does everybody hate 'always returning'? it's the prettiest.

Mine

By This River
Golden Hours
Here Come The Warm Jets
Fullness Of Wind: Three Variations On The Canon In D Major By Johann Pachelbel
St Elmo's Fire
Needles In The Camel's Eye
Baby's On Fire
Spinning Away
On Some Faraway Beach
An Ending (Ascent)
Miss Sarajevo
Regiment
The True Wheel
Spider and I
King's Lead Hat
Driving Me Backwards
Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
Stars
Everything Merges With the Night
2/1
Weightless
Marseilles
1/1
Some Of Them Are Old
I'll Come Running
A Clearing
The Heavenly Music Corporation
Wind On Water
The Jezebel Spirit
Not Yet Remembered
Taking Tiger Mountain

Only TWO of you voted for Back In Judy's Jungle?!?!??!

Not interested in criticism from non-voters.

I didn't think I knew enough Eno to vote, but that wd've maybe been my number 1 (either that or the title-track)

Speaking of "The Big Ship," Eno pretty much owns that sort of wistful chord progression, doesn't he? Kind of his own variation on the doo wop progression. He comes back to it a lot in various projects, and explores a similar sort of ideas in "Spinning Away," or even the beginning of "Where the Streets Have No Name," say.

the big ship is the one we're all on, no?

What's the best widely available and affordable descriptive Eno book?

Descriptive?

Like I want lots of description, I dunno? Facts, local color, things of their time, correspondence, things I wouldn't otherwise know unless I read this book.

Speaking of "The Big Ship," Eno pretty much owns that sort of wistful chord progression, doesn't he? Kind of his own variation on the doo wop progression. He comes back to it a lot in various projects, and explores a similar sort of ideas in "Spinning Away," or even the beginning of "Where the Streets Have No Name," say.
Indeed, as in "An Ending (Ascent)," too.

I would like an Eno book that goes into lots of detail about studio sessions and different approaches and techniques used.

Best for those may be I want to say the Eric tamm book, or maybe More Dark Than Shark? Or Geeta's book, for that one album. a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff, the making of stuff, has come out in bits and spurts over the years, usually anecdotally.

Yeah, just pulled it out and the Tamm book is the most detailed about the actual process. Very technical/musicological at times.

Still, it's disappointing in terms of really saying much about his actual working methods.

For all his theorizing on Japanese gardens and such, honestly, I would be far more interested in a master class on how he processes sounds or programs his DX-7.

What's the difference?!

Apparently Eno and Jacques lu Cont are like the only two people in history to master programming the dx7.

Tracks

1) Here Come the Warm Jets
2) The True Wheel
3) The Big Ship
4) On Some Faraway Beach
5) Taking Tiger Mountain
6) Baby's On Fire
7) An Ending (Ascent)
8) Third Uncle
9) Spider and I
10) Needles in the Camels Eye
11) In Dark Trees
12) Discreet Music
13) Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache
14) Music for Airports 1/1
15) Roxy Music - The Bogus Man
16) Eno Harmonia - Almost
17) Somber Reptiles
18) Sky Saw
19) Under Stars
20) Kings Lead Hat
21) Music for Airports 1/2
22) Roxy - If There is Something
23) Eno Byrne - The Jezebel Spirit
24) Mother Whale Eyeless
25) Becalmed
26) Here He Comes
27) Everything Merges With The Night
28) Eno Byrne - America is Waiting
29) Fat Lady of Limbourg
30) Julie With

Productions

1) Another Green World
2) Taking Tiger Mountain
3) Here Come the Warm Jets
4) Before and After Science
5) Discreet Music
6) My Life in the Bush Of Ghosts
7) Music for Airports
8) Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
9) Apollo
10) 801 (live)
11) Thursday Afternoon
12) Ambient 4 - On Land
13) No Pussyfooting
14) The Pearl
15) Another Day on Earth

Work as other than lead artist

1) Born Under Punches - Talking Heads
2) Breaking Glass - Bowie
3) Crossyeded and Painless - Talking Heads
4) Heroes - Bowie
5) I Zimbra - Talking Heads
6) Suede - Eno's Introducing the Band
7) You know More Than I know - John Cale
8) Sing - Slowdive
9) Sound and Vision - Bowie
10) Exit - U2
11) Mongaloid - Devo
12) With or Without You - u2
13) Beauty and the Beast - Bowie
14) Always Crashing in the Same Car - Bowie
15) Stay Hungry - Talking Heads

I only realized now that Elmo's Fire never even made my list! Bit of an oversight but it's honestly not one of my all time favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vuf5taoy4Q

oh since nobody did

http://media.tumblr.com/8472cbbea6af9ad1ee80975114e92dac/tumblr_inline_mojj5eZNF81qz4rgp.gif

You know, I've not ever heard Brian Eno give a bad interview. I interviewed him once, briefly, and even that was endlessly fascinating. But really, the guy just seems like he's always thinking and engaged and able to get his ideas across in a spontaneous, funny, smart way. Like, this random interview:

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/16575/1/brian-eno-bodybuilding-and-brazen-tunes

It's full of great stuff!

DD: Is there something ironic about putting on a piece as still as 77 Million Paintings in somewhere so unstill?
Brian Eno: Well, when I lived in New York I made my quietest music. The record On Land (1982) I made here. And one of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in. Do you know what I mean? You try to make up for the deficiencies of the place that you're in, because New York is a hellish place to live. It's so noisy and always broken and always being mended and abrasive and disturbing. So one of the things you want is to find a little place where, 'Swooh', you can breathe out for a minute.

[DD: Is it also a reaction to the increasing smallness of music?

Brian Eno: Yeah, I think it is. It's sort of a reaction against headphones, which I don't like. I don't like having the music pressed on to my head. I like feeling I'm walking around inside it.

This, alone, is intriguing and inspiring enough to fuel several different strains of creative activity, should one choose to embrace any of its ideas.

Spider & I was my number two. Such a beautiful song. The "We sleep in the morning" bit followed by that little wonky bass is one of my favourite musical moments ever. So sad.

It is basically a Syd Barrett song. The best Syd never wrote. My ballot:

1. The Big Ship (Eno)
2. Spider and I (Eno)
3. Here Come the Warm Jets (Eno)
4. Taking Tiger Mountain (Eno)
5. Julie With (Eno)
6. Becalmed (Eno)
7. The Belldog (Eno, Moebius, Roedelius)
8. The True Wheel (Eno)
9. Third Uncle (Eno)
10. Discreet Music (Eno)
11. The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch (Eno)
12. By This River (Eno)
13. Needles in the Camel’s Eye (Eno)
14. Burning Airlines Give You So Much More (Eno)
15. 1/1 (Eno)
16. Backwater (Eno)
17. On Some Faraway Beach (Eno)
18. Slow Water (Eno)
19. Baby’s On Fire (Eno)
20. Evening Star (Fripp/Eno)
21. Spinning Away (Cale/Eno)
22. Wehrmut (Cluster & Eno)
23. Another Green World (Eno)
24. Here He Comes (Eno)
25. Mother Whale Eyeless (Eno)
26. Deep Blue Day (Eno)
27. Everything Merges With the Night (Eno)
28. Back in Judy’s Jungle (Eno)
29. St. Elmo’s Fire (Eno)
30. An Ending (Eno)

Was going to vote but I don't know enough Eno. But True Wheel would have been my #1

My Top 30 Eno tracks:
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#1. Here He Comes
02. An Arc Of Doves (Budd/Eno)
03. The Plateaux Of Mirror (Budd/Eno)
04. Delta Rain Dream (Hassell/Eno)
05. Among Fields Of Crystal (Budd/Eno)
06. Julie With
07. The True Wheel
08. Beauty Queen (Roxy Music)
09. The Big Ship
10. The Lost Day
11. Ba-Benzélé (Hassell/Eno)
12. Above Chiangmai (Budd/Eno)
13. Mother Whale Eyeless
14. St Elmo's Fire
15. The Belldog (Eno/Moebius/Roedelius)
16. Do The Strand (Roxy Music)
17. Everything Merges With The Night
18. Driving Me Backwards
19. Taking Tiger Mountain
20. Not Yet Remembered (Budd/Eno)
21. Still Return (Budd/Eno)
22. For Your Pleasure (Roxy Music)
23. The Pearl (Budd/Eno)
24. Virginia Plain (Roxy Music)
25. Ikebukuro
26. I'll Come Running To Tie Your Shoes
27. Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
28. Slow Water
29. The Carrier (Eno/Byrne)
30. Charm (Over "Burundi Cloud") (Hassell/Eno)

Top 15 Productions:
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#1. Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror - Budd/Eno
02. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
03. Another Green World
04. Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics - Hassell/Eno
05. Ambient 4: On Land
06. The Pearl - Budd/Eno
07. Before and After Science
08. Remain In Light - Talking Heads
09. Fear Of Music - Talking Heads
10. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Eno/Byrne
11. Voices - Roger Eno
12. Apollo - Eno/Lanois/R.Eno
13. After the Heat - Eno/Moebius/Roedelius
14. More Songs About… - Talking Heads
15. Power Spot - Jon Hassell

Top 15 tracks other than lead artist:
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#1. Roger Eno - Reflections On I.K.B.
02. David Bowie - NeuKoln
03. Laraaji - Meditation #2
04. David Bowie - Moss Garden
05. David Bowie - V2 Schneider
06. David Bowie - Always Crashing In The Same Car
07. Talking Heads - Seen And Not Seen
08. Talking Heads - The Great Curve
09. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
10. Jon Hassell - Air
11. Harold Budd - The Real Dream Of Sails
12. David Bowie - Art Decade
13. David Bowie - Warsawa
14. David Bowie - Blackout
15. David Bowie - Look Back In Anger

Listening to the four pop albums again in prepping for this poll, I am heartened by how well this music continues to age.

Tracks:

1 By This River
2 The True Wheel
3 Spider And I
4 Here He Comes
5 The Big Ship
6 Julie With…
7 Mother Whale Eyeless
8 Everything Merges With The Night
9 One Word (with John Cale)
10 Sky Saw
11 On Some Faraway Beach
12 I'll Come Running
13 No One Receiving
14 Cindy Tells Me
15 Another Green World
16 China My China
17 Backwater
18 Deep Blue Day
19 Taking Tiger Mountain
20 How Many Worlds
21 Dead Finks Don't Talk
22 St. Elmo's Fire
23 Put A Straw Under Baby
24 Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
25 King's Lead Hat
26 The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch
27 This
28 Needles In The Camel's Eye
29 Golden Hours
30 Baby's On Fire

Productions:

1 Before and After Science
2 Remain In Light (Talking Heads)
3 Another Green World
4 Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
5 Here Come The Warm Jets
6 Fear of Music (Talking Heads)
7 Wrong Way Up (with John Cale)
8 My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (with David Byrne)
9 Apollo Atmospheres and Soundtracks
10 Achtung Baby (U2)
11 Discreet Music
12 Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (with David Byrne)
13 Music For Airports
14 More Songs About Buildings and Food (Talking Heads)
15 Another Day On Earth

When I was relatively young - say, 15, I'd guess - someone gave me a cassette with "Another Green World" on one side and "Rain Dogs" on the other. I used to drive around listening to them, never once considering that both are pretty unusual car albums. Anyway, I never considered either album odd or exotic, at least not at the time. But then one day, not too long ago, within the past few years, something unscrambled in my head and I suddenly realized, huh, yeah, these albums are pretty strange. But I think strange really works in their favor in the "not dated" sense. They try so hard to do something different that they're totally at odds with the sound of the times (even though, sure, they absolutely sound very much of their time).

My list is just what mostly gets hit up / dragged into modern itunes-era playlists; I'm not saying these are better than tracks from the four rock albums, just that its been a very long time since I needed to listen to any of them

Eno - Thursday Afternoon
Eno - 2/2
Cluster & Eno - Ho Renomo
Hassell / Eno - Charm (Over "Burundi Cloud")
Eno - Ikebukuro
Eno / Lanois / Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
Cornelius Cardew - Great Learning Paragraph Seven
Eno - Spider And I
Eno Moebius Roedelius - The Belldog
Roxy Music - Ladytron (Live on Old Grey Whistle Test 1972)
Eno - St. Elmo's Fire
Hassell / Eno - Chemistry
Eno Moebius Roedelius - Broken Head
Cale / Eno - Spinning Away
Eno - The Demon Of The Mines
Eno - The Big Ship
Budd / Eno - A Stream With Bright Fish
Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Eno - Becalmed
Eno - The Great Pretender
Eno - Driving Me Backwards
Harmonia / Eno - By The Riverside
Eno - The Harness
Eno - The True Wheel
Eno - By This River
Byrne / Eno - Come With Us
Eno - Chamber Lightness
Eno - 8m1 (The Lovely Bones)
Eno - Iced World
Eno / Wobble - Garden Recalled

Love the Lovely Bones track – other than watching (enduring) it during the movie, I hadn't heard it.

And another voter for "The Harness"! My favorite from My Squelchy Life by a good distance.

I'd kind of love to do a ballot of lesser-known Eno cuts. I had a few on my real ballot but it would be great to see every recommend their 10 favorite obscurities. Can try to brainstorm a few today if others are interested.

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.