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

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...

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.

Did we talk about lucky leif and the longships?

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".

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

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

And come to think of it, no one really rates the Ultravox album he produced, right? An early misfire (though not a bad record).

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)

The first Ultravox! album is sheer fucking genius

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.

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.

Still Return:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH0zEgYviJ8

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.

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.

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

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 again
and 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 about
also the writing is a little corny but whatever it was the only one available and it seemed ok

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

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?

ugh they do but it's a step i have yet to take with more than one thing
i should embrace technology for eno

I didn't find the writing corny at all. Good book. Alas it wasn't available on Kindle in the States.

i should embrace technology for eno

The way Eno embraces technology, you should download it onto a DX7.

why was this picture not posted before
http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/23700000/Brian-Eno-brian-eno-23792357-500-373.jpg

I posted that!

>:-(

oh woops
i was feeling low and i went looking for pictures of eno's costumes and found that one
he looks like a cute vacation boyfriend!

Or this:

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h130/asynchro_nous/jellinghaus_dx-progr.jpg

Just as sexy

i'm totally loving this book
i'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 television
today i looked up what he was doing in august of 1975 and he was finishing up the recording of AGW
does anyone know the order in which the songs were recorded for that album?
next year will be its 40th bday!

an old favourite - has it really been almost 30 years?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMJZwd1AN7A

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l7oFUXcmKU

I updated my poll contributions.