Brian Eno - C or D?

https://twitter.com/BrianEnoMusic/status/985579839821352960

Yeah I'm ENO who fucking cares

— Brian Eno (@BrianEnoMusic) April 4, 2018

seems legit to me

haha not legit (though the box set is real)

lol, that first tweet i posted (https://twitter.com/BrianEnoMusic/status/985579839821352960) was posted 4 minutes ago, and has already been deleted. it said something like "i'll do soundcloud reposts for $50 a pop"

i wonder if someone DM'd them and told them that was illegal or something. i'm not sure if it is illegal to impersonate someone else and then offer to repost soundcloud songs for $50 a pop, but it would be a really interesting trial

haha yeah, that might go beyond a "parody account" defense.
fake twitter accounts are pretty irritating — i've been seeing people reposting the Bill Murray one with something about Syria, saying "Bill is the best" etc.
Obviously a small thing to complain about, but still ...

it's a contemporary example of the hyperreal

i have 0 tolerance for fake accounts
like Brian Eno would say "who fucking cares"?!

man, i love brian eno, and i love Reflection, but goddammit brian eno you have to lower the price down from $30.99.

has anyone else read "A Year With Swollen Appendices"? I'm into late April and... it does not really paint a very flattering picture of the artist, imo.

which maybe is to his credit, like a warts-and-all approach? I dunno, I'm finding it disillusioning.

like he's already yelled at his kids and made them cry like three times

I bought the 2004 remaster of B&AS -- damn, so many instruments I hadn't heard before. Phil Collins is insane on "No One's Receiving."

has anyone else read "A Year With Swollen Appendices"? I'm into late April and... it does not really paint a very flattering picture of the artist, imo.

― sleeve,

I love the in-the-studio moments with Bowie and U2. I even enjoy the drinking-at-Bono's-chateau sections. In my early teaching days, I used his lecture on culture a couple times.

yeah I did really like the "Outside" parts, it's the personal stuff that grates

lots of great quotes and tossed-off ideas, for sure, and I love reading about his working methods and music theories

also those 2004 remasters are fantastic, agreed

like he's already yelled at his kids and made them cry like three times

― sleeve,

kids are annoying sometimes idk

No CD version of the box set, huh?

like he's already yelled at his kids and made them cry like three times
show me a parent who hasn't!

i read on some faraway beach and my worst impression was that he was an insufferable perv and probably a bit precious about his ideas
nothing severely offputting, or not enough to bother me

that's closer to what grates on me, also just yr basic "first world problems" eyerolls

I should withhold further judgement until I finish it...

i give him a 1970s pass for crazy behavior
it's a merciful world if we are not all judged by how pervy we were at our worst!

Stay Pervy I say!

26th August:
Pissed into an empty bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss', so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing.

It's a weird book for sure. His obsession with photoshopping female arses is a detail that sticks in my memory.

Worst part of Year With Swollen Appendices is him bitching about Graceland, tries to allege that Simon invaded his personal cultural space, ie, the white guy bringing African music to the masses... Pretty sure he uses the phrase “my personal garden” to refer to African music commercially released in the West.

Was ages ago that I read it but I remember my biggest lol being him complaining about a massive surplus of wibbly instrumental ambient CDs flooding the market, saying in response, I want words! I want messages! What kind of music offers that? Rap? Hmm, no not that...

omg wow
that's petty & gross
i think bitching in general is nagl

he needs to get a filter for his thoughts to filter these things out before he commits them to writing

If you're not prepared to show us your warts, don't publish a diary.

yeah that's fair, I was just surprised that so much relatively unflattering stuff got left in

26th August:
Pissed into an empty bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss', so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing.

LOL, yes I remember that bit. I always remember his Top Tip on how not to forget to save stuff you're working on on a computer, which was put a book on your head and every time it falls off, save. I've never done it though, but I'm not convinced Eno has either.

has he mentioned the book since or has he kind of disowned it?

I'd be surprised if he disowned it tbh

Heh xp everyone remembers the piss-drinking bit if nothing else, it is one of the top Brian Eno piss anecdotes (there are a few because eno is a piss guy)

I haven't read it in years but I don't remember him coming out of it too bad.

It’s mostly fine, lots of oh I could spend New Years Eve with Bono in Sarajevo but I’m just not feeling it, would love to shag his wife though, maybe next year? kinda stuff. He reveals he’s never been paid any royalties for Are We Not Men? Somewhere on ILM sexyDancer I think called him a “flouncing housewife” with basically no responsibilities and who’s never held to account and that seems accurate to me.

Also worth noting he writes a lot about the War Child charity which turned out to be a total scam a couple years later. He also gets rolled with some kind of elaborate gym membership after a lady trainer praises him. He published a diary too late imo, he’s mostly just a clueless rich asshole at this point, more than 20 years ago now...

Somewhere on ILM sexyDancer I think called him a “flouncing housewife” with basically no responsibilities and who’s never held to account and that seems accurate to me.

this sounds pretty sexist to me; to me he sounds like petulant (and gross) adolescent who hasn't realized that his every thought does not need to be seen/heard

yeah sorry, search isn’t turning up the post I was thinking of so I’m probably misremembering, apologies to sexyDancer, your simile is much more accurate for sure

it's fine i just don't like the feminization of his behavior, which seems textbook brat to me. that is the word to comes to my mind at least.

sexydancer doesn't post anymore does he?

Was War Child “a total scam”? Or was there some corruption in later years? Not sure why this would be a knock regardless as this article suggests the latter and that Pavarotti and Eno both resigned as a result:

https://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2017/apr/10/whistleblower-war-child-need-anonymity-corruption

Anyway, I loved Swollen Appendices BTW – for many of the reasons many seem to be criticizing it. The warts, the admitted ass-love, the dilettante-ism, the risotto recipes and doting dad stuff (doesn’t he take baths with his young daughters?). This was a pretty active time for him as well (Passengers, Wobble, Outside, early James sessions for Whiplash).

My favouritest part of the Eno diary when I was a teenager was when he railed against Saul from James and his inability to stick with a single good idea

I don't know why I liked that so much! I think I just wanted to be in James, instead of Saul

I was fascinated by the descriptions of the way Bowie worked on "Outside"

So, the Music For Installations box...

Gorgeous throughout (unsurprisingly), quite varied in tone and intent (surprisingly), included book more or less distills Eno's whole worldview into a lovingly written record of his experiments with light and sound... anybody else enjoying?

Your fellow davey has listened a few times. V much enjoyed

Dumb plexiglass thing down to £182 from Amazon Italy for a short while (still £330 in the UK apparently)

https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B07B627BXH/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=superdeluxe0d-21&linkId=576ac644ae89733e362c180a400f6ab8

meanwhile i am listening to it on Spotify for, like, pennies per hour

damn at first i thought it was a link to some big plexiglass thing that turns your room into the No Pussyfooting cover

I've been a huge Brian Eno fan since I was maybe 16 or so, high school, so closing in on 30 years now. I've listened to all of his stuff, tons of times. I love everything. I'm a completist. I have books, videos, apps, Oblique Strategies cards. And yet - confession - tonight was the first time I put on "Music for Airports" and, as best I can remember, truly enjoyed every last second. Utterly entrancing. Just sitting in the living room with my daughter, reading books, and it just ... clicked. I never disliked the album before, and once even watched Bang on a Can do it, but it always just sort of eluded me. Which is oddly apropos! But tonight - totally magical. Weird.

I played MFA for Chris Dahlen when we were maybe 16 and he just started tooling on it after about 5 minutes. Pretty sure he likes it now too.

It's a very special and unique thing, still.

xpost (What is Chris up to? We went to college together!)

I know! One reason I mentioned it. He’s Pitchfork emeritus at this point, lives in New England. Great dude.

I am a big brian eno fan as well and always found "music for airports" really boring whenever i tried to listen to it which wasn't very often. maybe three times. so i am still waiting for that epiphany. only problem. i have to listen to the bloody thing. and there is so much other good music out there to which i have to listen before. right now i am realky falling in love with the latest markus stockhausen (eternal voyage) which reminds me a lot of oregon in their best days.