Not sure why U2 aren't down there, but I can see about a dozen albums which could conceivably win this.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 4 March 2019 19:54 (five years ago) link
Voted for Cluster & Eno, but it still really bothers me he never got round to working with Cale properly in the 70s.
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 March 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
i can't vote for the lamb?????????????
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 4 March 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link
think i'm gonna vote for wrong way up tbh
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 4 March 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
Didn't he just spend one day in the studio, run Gabriel's voice through his EMS Synthi and fiddle about a bit?
― MaresNest, Monday, 4 March 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
yes! i still wanna vote for it
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 4 March 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
e n o s s i f i c a t i o n
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 4 March 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
the pearl
― sciatica, Monday, 4 March 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
Thank you for this thankless poll which was never going to be comprehensive enough to please everyone.
(Just to get my own needless complaining out of the way: where oh where is the 'R.A.F.' single he did with Snatch in '78?!?!?)
― Gary Ornmigh, Heywood's son (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 March 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
If All Saints had released an album with Eno called Bowie in 2001 it'd be the best thing on here
― imago, Monday, 4 March 2019 20:52 (five years ago) link
Anyway! Number One in Britain and successful in the States...
― imago, Monday, 4 March 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
just happened to be listening to the pearl when i logged on right now, so that one.👍🏻
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 4 March 2019 21:01 (five years ago) link
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― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 4 March 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
this is a really tough poll b/c there's different levels of 'collaboration' on all this. did he actually write anything on those Bowie albums? I thought "Warszawa" was his but idk about the rest. ditto with Roxy Music - I don't think he really wrote anything, he was just the weirdo with the synthesizer
either way there's like five I could realistically vote for here, kinda thinking about tossing a vote for his collab with Karl Hyde called "High Life" - when I first heard it I thought it was easily the best thing he'd done in decades. its what I wished the '08 Byrne collaboration was.
Wrong Way Up is also a total classic though something about the production of that album bothers me
― frogbs, Monday, 4 March 2019 21:11 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I don't know where to draw the line here. There's Eno as producer, there's Eno as co-credited artist, there's Eno as co-writer, and then there's Eno as featured guest/player. He's always hands-on if his name is on the record (with the exception of maybe, I dunno, Devo or Edikanfo or something subtle), but I'm not sure when he should or should not formally be considered a collaborator.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
I had to think for a while but went with Wrong Way Up
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Monday, 4 March 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
I wouldn’t know where to draw the line, so content for Wikipedia to do the heavy lifting. Not sure why something like Outside or Wah-Wah isn’t listed as a collaboration, guess somehere on the continuum they fall on the wrong side.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 4 March 2019 21:40 (five years ago) link
Remain in Light seems like a special case here - Eno did a lot more than just produce it, he was practically the 5th Talking Head (and his backing vox are fairly prominent in "Once in a Lifetime"!). But I'm glad it's not here, would make for a much less interesting poll
― frogbs, Monday, 4 March 2019 21:52 (five years ago) link
I agree, it's best that Remain In Light is not on the list, but I feel that Bush Of Ghosts kinda owns this.
― MaresNest, Monday, 4 March 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
Weird but I'd vote for High Life
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 4 March 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
Remain in Light seems like a special case here - Eno did a lot more than just produce it, he was practically the 5th Talking Head!!
"all songs written by David Byrne & Brian Eno (except "Houses In Motion" and 'The Overload", written by David Byrne, Brian Eno & Jerry Harrison)".
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 4 March 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
Iirc the credits are more complicated/convoluted than that.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 March 2019 22:34 (five years ago) link
the lodger
― The immortal Hydra Viridisimma (outdoor_miner), Monday, 4 March 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
Write-in votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfqY9Wv6p0s
― Ρεμπετολογια, Monday, 4 March 2019 23:16 (five years ago) link
Remain in Light seems like a special case here - Eno did a lot more than just produce it, he was practically the 5th Talking Head (and his backing vox are fairly prominent in "Once in a Lifetime"!).
― frogbs
as opposed to roxy music, where he was the _sixth_ man
the wikipedia article is probably the result of a lengthy ongoing argument between people who think that everything eno farted on is a collaboration who put it in and people who think nothing eno did is truly a "collaboration" and taking it out, hence the piecemeal and arbitrary nature of the list
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Monday, 4 March 2019 23:59 (five years ago) link
Eno as featured guest/player
Which I assume doesn't count because there's a few notables missing here.
― The Vangelis of Dating (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 00:12 (five years ago) link
The two Cluster - Eno collaborations are all kinds of wonderful. I went with "After The Heat".
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
I've listened to Passengers more than anything else here so
― lukas, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 00:54 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4HSj8IR8GE
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 01:48 (five years ago) link
Can't ignore Low being in this list, it's got to be that then. I would have loved to vote fot one of the albums with Harold Budd.
― Valentijn, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 07:12 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
Second 801 Live, also always wanted to hear this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Leif_and_the_Longships That fab cast rewrite of Peter and the Wolf seemed pretty cool, as I dimly recall, "Peter is a hero," and all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock_Peter_and_the_Wolf
― dow, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
His production of Nico's The End (he all did what he could do).
― dow, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
(No Pussyfooting), although there are too many contenders. This is a lot harder than polling his strictly solo work.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
evening star
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
Voting for Bowie feels like cheating, as those records are mostly Bowie (imo). Voted Cluster & Eno.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
Top 5 are all stellar, good poll.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 02:33 (five years ago) link
Can't say I'm surprised by the winner. Good to see the love shared with a lot of his collaborators
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 08:49 (five years ago) link