Brian Eno - C or D?

box set is the easy place to get Seven Deadly Finns though

And Lion Sleeps Tonight. But not his cover of Ring of Fire. Is that on the Wrong Way Up reissue? I think the only Eno vocal rarity I've never heard, afaict, is a cover of White Light/White Heat.

I didn't know he did either of those (ring of fire/white light), off to slsk.

Yeah ring of fire is on wrong way up reissue, it’s sort of in the style of the river from that album

I think that VU cover may have been recorded for charity, with one copy made. Eno said whoever bought it can release it, but so far nada.

yeah i can't find it online anywhere

I only got the Wrong Way Up reissue on vinyl so this was a nice surprise.

I was delighted when a local dealer/friend bpught a collection including a pristine "Seven Deadly Finns" single, no pic sleeve but he sold it to me for like ten bucks. the b-side "Later On" is an edit of "No Pussyfooting" that afaik has never been reissued.

“Seven Deadly Finns” never fails to crack me up.

I might have misread, but I could have sworn I just saw that the Eno documentary is generative, and shuffles or reorders itself every time you watch it.

which one?

New doc, just premiered at Sundance.

https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/eno-review-brian-eno-sundance-1235876569/

I had a really tough day, just a fucking flailing everything-is-20x-as-hard-as-it-needs-to-be-because-my-brain-is-wired-wrong day. Eventually I stopped trying to do anything productive because everything I tried to do devolved into fiasco, and sitting with Mrs HD talking after, we listened first to Apollo and then to Discreet Music, and it was just so thoroughly healing, exactly what I needed.

<3

I listen to the 1-hour An ending (ascent) in loop whenever I'm anxious, it helps me so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alo3KFRfLvE

best bit from the article: https://www.theringer.com/music/2023/12/26/24014289/brian-eno-tour-career-retrospective

Eno has a cold that won’t quit.

you think he has it bad, you should see frank sinatra!

I just wish there was a Nico version of I’m Set Free.

Was listening to the Kinks this morning, and it suddenly clicked that "Lazy Old Sun" reminded me of something that could have been on "Here Come the Warm Jets"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnXjxtfKFDM

Six-degrees-ing it a little, there are some other Kinks connections. Eno et al. covered "You Really Got Me" with 808:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-S6d_JJOPo

And then, allegedly, Lou Reed once called "Lazy Old Sun" his favorite Kinks song, which is another loose connection to Eno (as VU acolyte).

The song also reminds of stuff like the Tall Dwarfs, too, who themselves sometimes remind me of early Eno.

Lazy Old Sun is seriously druggy. I totally get the Dwarfs/Eno thing. Slippery vocal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9D2BJ5tv8o

The reminiscing in twilight years reminds me a bit of Bowie's Where Are We Now

Lovely. I wish that nerd would sing more.

love it, I too wish he hadn't taken so much time off from doing vocal records

Eno says he doesn't think he can sing that well but I dunno, he's better than a number of his contemporaries I feel

aaaaaaah how can I get this in FLAC/lossless??

It's included in the doc soundtrack, which is out in April

Eno doing the modest music for a Patriotic Millionaires video with super wealthy people imploring policymakers to tax the super rich: https://x.com/patrioticmills/status/1780717878796292150?s=46&t=4DK5sD-8gsSKFExcsnEJqg

saw the Eno documentary last night in SF, I highly recommend catching it if there are many more of these generative screenings with the director in attendance. There will be non-generative, but different versions, screening later on this summer in SF at the Roxy and I assume elsewhere. Bonus: Daniel Lanois sitting a few rows ahead of me looking like a biker pirate (he's also doing an ambient show tonight at Grace Cathedral)

https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/eno-review-brian-eno-sundance-1235876569/

was walking down the street yesterday and somebody was jamming to "needles in the camels eye"

people usually listen to hipster shit but that song's catchy enough that i felt compelled to say "eno, cool" to him

Roxy and I assume elsewhere

This is good work.

i try

$31 for that Eno doc in DC tonight. I can't make it anyway

it was $45 in SF so that's a deal. Also, these are special screenings in that they are essentially edited and assembled on the fly (and the director is in attendance). I imagine he may be able to find a streaming partner who can enable this same experience at some point.

Why would they be editing it? Isn't this the generative documentary that's different every time you watch it? Or am I misunderstanding this?

I thought I read that it was "computer" edited each time to be different (and I wonder if that just means that the director actually has access to lots of footage and just shifts it in and out each time)

It is generatively edited on the fly each time it's shown, yes. It runs off some kind of hardware build by teenage engineering that he's named Brain One. The sequences are anywhere from 2-8 minutes long, maybe some are longer.

Haven’t heard it yet but the live record with Holger Czukay and J. Peter Schwalm is out now.

Brain One, that’s the best thing since scalded brie.

the live record is really cool

The Fred Again.. record is growing on me. Enough and Cmon are both pretty captivating and good places to start for the uninitiated.

i like that record, was surprised to hear negative things about it

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