Dead Finks Don't Vote — ILM Artist Poll #55 — BRIAN ENO

OK, let's poll the work to date of Brian Peter George St John Le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (1948-), composer/theorist/writer/singer/anti-musician/visual artist.

Three Parts:

1. Rank your top 30 Eno tracks. What's eligible is work under Eno's name as solo artist or co-artist (Eno/Byrne, Eno/Cale, etc) and artists that include Eno as a member of a group (Roxy, Scratch Orchestra, Passengers, etc).

normal scoring: 1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12, 21:11, 22:10, 23:9, 24:8, 25:7, 26:6, 27:5, 28:4, 29:3, 30:2.

2. Productions. Rank your top FIFTEEN albums that are listed as produced or co-produced by Brian Eno. Note that this section is for albums, not tracks.

3. Work as other than lead artist. Rank your top FIFTEEN tracks that Eno is credited as being involved with that aren't under his name as Artist. Stuff like Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, Talking Heads' 2nd-4th albums, U2 albums that he plays or sings on. This section can also be for Eno remixes of tracks by other artists. Don't forget Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy! (Note: I haven't heard Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy yet.)

Send your ballots to me at wmcrump AT gmail.com, or via ILXmail. Deadline is midnight Eastern Daylight Time on Sunday, July 6th, 2014.

Eno's page at discogs.com: http://www.discogs.com/artist/634-Brian-Eno .

readysetgo!

bookmarked

http://thestereolounge.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/brian-eno-roxy-music-photo-shoot-circa-1972.jpg

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/images/fatherbe.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0gorpSLIP1qaxihzo1_500.jpg

Ha, yeah, I was so caught up in trying to get the voting details right that I totally forgot to post any images.

For the tracks portion:

Notes for Eno poll

1971: The Great Learning (Cornelius Cardew/The Scratch Orchestra)
1972: Roxy Music (Roxy Music)
1973: For Your Pleasure (Roxy Music)
1973: Here Come the Warm Jets (Eno)
1973: (No Pussyfooting) (Fripp & Eno)
1974: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (Eno)
1974: June 1, 1974 (Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Eno & Nico)
1975: Evening Star (Fripp & Eno)
1975: Another Green World (Eno)
1975: Discreet Music (Eno)
1976: Tracks and Traces (Harmonia/Eno ’76)
1976: 801 Live (801)
1977: Before and After Science (Eno)
1977: Cluster & Eno (Eno/Cluster)
1977: Listen Now (Phil Manzanera/801)
1978: After the Heat (Eno/Moebius/Roedelius)
1978: Ambient 1: Music for Airports (Eno)
1978: Music for Films (Eno)
1978: Air Structures (Fripp & Eno)
1980: Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror (Harold Budd/Eno)
1980: Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics (Jon Hassell/Eno)
1981: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Eno/David Byrne)
1982: Ambient 4: On Land (Eno)
1983: Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno)
1984: Begegnungen (Cluster & Eno)
1984: The Pearl (Harold Budd & Eno with Daniel Lanois)
1985: Begegnungen II (Cluster & Eno)
1985: Thursday Afternoon (Eno)
1985: Old Land (Compilation) (Eno/Cluster)
1985: Hybrid (Michael Brook w/Eno & Daniel Lanois)
1988: Music For Films III (Eno/Daniel Lanois)
1989: Textures (Eno)
1990: Wrong Way Up (Eno/John Cale)
1991: My Squelchy Life (Eno)
1992: Fractal Zoom (Eno)
1992: Nerve Net (Eno)
1992: Ali Click (“Maxi-Single”) (Eno)
1992: The Shutov Assembly (Eno)
1993: Neroli (Eno)
1993: In a Land of Clear Colours (Eno/Peter Sinfield)
1994: Headcandy (Eno)
1994: The Essential Fripp & Eno (F&E)
1994: Dali’s Car (Eno, the Winkies & 801)
1995: Spinner (Eno/Jah Wobble)
1995: Original Soundtracks 1 (Passengers)
1996: Generative Music I (Eno)
1997: The Drop (Eno)
1997: Music for White Cube (Eno)
1997: Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace (Eno)
1997: Contra 1.2 (Eno)
1998: Music for Prague (bootleg) (Eno)
1999: I Dormienti (Eno)
1999: Kite Stories (Eno)
1999: The Shutov Assembly live at Holland Festival (Eno/Metropole Orchestra)
1999: Sonora Portraits (Eno)
2000: Music from the Motion Picture ‘The Million Dollar Hotel’ (The MDH Band)
2000: Music for Civic Recovery Centre (Eno)
2000: Music for Onmyo-Ji (Reigakusya, Eno/Peter Schwalm)
2001: Drawn from Life (Eno/Peter Schwalm)
2001: Compact Forest Proposal (Eno)
2002: The Long Now (Eno)
2003: Curiosities Volume I (Eno)
2003: January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now (Eno)
2004: Curiosities Volume II (Eno)
2004: The Equatorial Stars (Fripp & Eno)
2005: More Music for Films (Eno)
2005: Another Day on Earth (Eno)
2006: 77 Million - An Audio Visual Installation (Eno)
2007: Beyond Even (1992-2006) (Fripp & Eno, aka The Cotswold Gnomes)
2008: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (Eno/David Byrne)
2009: Remixes (Harmonia/Eno ’76)
2010: Making Space (Eno)
2010: Small Craft on a Milk Sea (Eno w/Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams)
2011: Drums Between the Bells (Eno & the Words of Rick Holland)
2011: Panic of Looking (EP) (Eno & the Words of Rick Holland)
2012: Lux (Eno)
2014: Someday World (Eno/Karl Hyde)

my first recommendation for re-evaluation by voters - "This" from Another Day On Earth. love it!

naturally I'll stuff my ballot with Wrong Way Up songs.

I can't keep his instrumentals straight.

bookmarked

cosign, 'This' is a terrific song. As much as I love Eno there is obviously a ton I've never heard (most recent for me is 'Small Craft').

instrumental search:

1/1 (Music For Airports)
Becalmed (AGW)
The Lost Day (On Land)
The Big Ship (AGW)
Through Hollow Lands (BAAS)
No Pussyfooting/Evening Star

I recently, uh, happened across a 13.6 GB archive of everything in that list from 1971-2009 plus a lot of stuff he's appeared on. There's no way I'll be able to do more than scratch the surface of it, but I'll scratch as much surface as I can in the next 2 weeks.

I really need to listen to Tracks & Traces

btw "The Belldog" is all time amazing

I guess "Big Day" and the studio "Miss Shapiro" go to the side poll, huh?

Yeah.

I should add that I have huge gaps in my knowledge of Eno's work, so if I get anything totally wrong, don't hesitate to let me know. I'm in this more to learn about his work than I am to put my thumbprint on the results.

thread: for aid of planet, please to post videos of/links to amzaing brian eno tracks released after, say, 1985

i ask cuz one could hardly be faulted for voting '72-'81 str8 ticket:

1972: Roxy Music (Roxy Music)
1973: For Your Pleasure (Roxy Music)
1973: Here Come the Warm Jets (Eno)
1973: (No Pussyfooting) (Fripp & Eno)
1974: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (Eno)
1975: Evening Star (Fripp & Eno)
1975: Another Green World (Eno)
1975: Discreet Music (Eno)
1976: Tracks and Traces (Harmonia/Eno ’76)
1977: Before and After Science (Eno)
1977: Cluster & Eno (Eno/Cluster)
1978: After the Heat (Eno/Moebius/Roedelius)
1978: Ambient 1: Music for Airports (Eno)
1978: Music for Films (Eno)
1981: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Eno/David Byrne)

thanks for setting this up! i'm excited about the third section (Work as other than lead artist), but also a bit hesitant. i understand the concept, but it's tough to know where to draw the line. for example, talking heads' second album More Songs... which he produced. other than a few glaring enoisms (like the "spooky reverse reverbs on the vox in 'warning sign') it's much more of a talking heads kind of thing, especially compared to something like remain in light where his influence is obvious. but would all songs on More Songs... be eligible, because technically he's associated with it? i guess it's up to each voter to decide if his footprint is tangible enough on the track in question?

on the same note, is there a more authoritative source than wikipedia's list of albums/songs produced by Eno?

at any rate, should be really interesting results!

i guess it's up to each voter to decide if his footprint is tangible enough on the track in question?

I think this will have to be the case. Although with In Conflict, we could conceivably get a little insider info?

http://www.eno-web.co.uk/images/clarinet.gif

please to post videos of/links to amzaing brian eno tracks released after, say, 1985

not links, but off the top of my head:

"This", as previously mentioned
"Ali Click" and "My Squelchy Life" from Nerve Net
"The Roil, The Choke" from Fractal Zoom
"I Fall Up" and "The Harness" from the unreleased My Squelchy Life album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aU6xiTLLWY

I like pretty much all of another day on earth

and wrong way up!

http://www.babelio.com/users/AVT_Brian-Eno_3056.jpeg

oh yeah of course, all of Wrong Way Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhwNXae5_vU

good call, that was a Wrong Way Up B-side

I'm still trying to find my way in to Wrong Way Up -- listened to it again a couple of nights ago. There are some good songs for sure, but... I dunno...

the enocale original "the river" is a similar kinda vibe to the cash cover

just listen to "Spinning Away" again xp

also search:

Seven Deadly Finns
Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)

both were non-LP singles

Wrong Way Up will dominate my voting, it's such a great album.

will anyone rep for the cover tho

LOOK AT THIS THING

http://earbuds.popdose.com/feerick/flashback_wrongway.jpg

now look at this thing

http://www.babelio.com/users/AVT_Brian-Eno_8281.jpeg

wins I applaud your work here

OTM, I am deputizing you as Minister of Visual Propaganda

haha he photographs well, no wonder he was made a totem

http://image.blingee.com/images11/content/output/2007/6/15/203302528_5cde1709.gif

i wanted the last byrne/eno album to be like wrong way up but it was just boring.

man, i haven't even HEARD wrong way up. i SUCK!

someday world is also boring. I feel like collaboration doesn't really do much for Eno's output these days, so I'm not sure why he does it. the last few solo ambient things (small craft and Lux) are great.

agreed on that, I was listening to Lux last week

btw I am a hopeless Eno fanboy so I am gonna be posting a lot, sorry in advance

Yeah, voting for specific tracks on Lux and Music for Airports is going to be tricky. Lux, in particular, has been a go to sleepy time album for the past year for me, but I'm not sure that one track stands out above the others for me..

1/1 is the standout on Music For Airports imo, timeless

I'm voting for the ENOBOXes for something, I don't know what yet though.

his last two solo joints are especially good. I'm also a fan of the passengers project, lots of gems on there. Might actually vote for the most Enocentric one on that, 'a different kind of blue'.

Passengers, good call. The last good U2 album

yooooooooo

so this

1993: In a Land of Clear Colours (Eno/Peter Sinfield)

what the hell

(it's a reading of a robert sheckley story with music by eno)

1/1 is the standout on Music For Airports imo, timeless

― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, June 20, 2014 3:56 PM (47 minutes ago)

Seeing this (all of MFA, not just 1/1) played live by Bang on a Can was nirvana for me.

apparently eno cried when he heard their recording of it

Crimso lyricist Peter Sinfield? (xxp)

This is gunna be fuuuuuun

Yep, same Sinfield. I gave it a speed-listen recently -- only the first track is instrumental, and the occasional music underneath the rest of it is pretty faint and not very noteworthy, imo.

how's the story? I've been meaning to investigate sheckley for years, ballard was an admirer

I haven't listened to (or read) the whole thing -- the middle section I listened to was a description of the narrator's sex life with his primary partner and their extended marriage group of 10.

sounds hot

My my my! I'm looking forward to this.

Me too.

I could go for an addendum disc to each Enobox covering his work since then.

Worried the first part is too broad. Almost think solo Eno should have his own category, and then a category of collaborations/co-credits/bands (like Roxy, Passengers, etc.).

Some Eno trivia in the meantime!

1) That lovely track "Under" first appeared on the "Cool World" soundtrack.

2) This unlikely remix of EMF came as payment for Eno borrowing the song's drum loop for use in "Ali Click:"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfa7Y0oEkl0

3) Last, Eno's one and only appearance on Sub Pop (and another lovely song to boot):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr5EHyGBsgg

He plays synths and sings. It sounds like something off of "Another Green World." There's an Eno mix on some Walkabouts comp.

I don't know if "By This River" is considered an obscure deep cut or a total classic, but I heard this first in an Italian movie. Will be in my top 3 if I vote in this poll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrZYP8SzlN8

total classic imo

Say when, not if!

in terms of voting on Eno Roxy tracks, should the criteria be "songs Eno obviously had a big hand in"? so "Bogus Man" yes but like "2HB" making the list seems wrong

By This River also pops up in Y Tu Mama Tambien. From the Guardian review:

All the time, the death theme continues underneath. After quite a bit of weed, Luisa tells her two companions about her first sexual experience; then she tells them the boy died, at the age of 17. Their age. Later on, Luisa, her face clouded with obscure melancholy, tries to teach a little girl to float in the sea "like a real dead body". And what is it that Julio wants to listen to on the car radio? Not rock'n'roll, not Latino music, not dance music. What he wants is Brian Eno's desperately sad By This River: "You and I/ Underneath the sky that's ever falling down, down, down/ Ever falling down." This happens to be the song played at the end of Nanni Moretti's anguished tale of family bereavement, The Son's Room.

xpost I would just assume not include Roxy stuff, which was just polled.

Deep cut: http://www.pretenders.org/eno.htm

awesome, thanks, never seen that!

Eno production super deep cuts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYl31QIihew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6OhF8hoQNk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4SwFhfNh1w

This guy is a wealth of wonderful detours. Yet one of my favorite Eno productions is one of his most obvious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf024H9fbk0

Rare footage of the man at work (with James):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATFjgFzrhI4

I think this one is his mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pS-Kx-p5o0

And not a bad curiosity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnDZe6QLWfc

He co-wrote this never-heard MOR nugget:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3xhPbyPc5o&feature=kp

And he produced and sang on this uber-MOR cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FMnnqAZfPs

Weirdly I think Eno's legacy as a producer at least is not his weird stuff but his mushy DX7 mode.

yeah... eno's strength when he's strong is as a maker of beautiful objects, weird or no; think it's telling how often his name pops up in What is the most beautiful song ever?, and there are a couple dozen more obvious candidates not mentioned in that thread, maybe more esp when you factor in cluster fripp hassell cale &c

amendment: eno's strengths when he's strong are 1)maker of beautiful objects 2)top-class bletherer (a kind of gallagher for the opposing team) and 3)http://www.uncut.co.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/article/2010/11/brianeno151110w.jpg

hueg craft on a milk sea

Monday morning bump.

I've been conscientiously listening to hours of new (to me) work but not really finding anything to displace my current favorites, though I'll give Cluster & Eno and More Music for Films more time.

love the various Cluster & Eno records, not a big fan of Films 2.

Sort of what I was alluding to before, Eno's had so many long-term collaborations or collaborators - Fripp, Cluster, Cale, Byrne, most of his erstwhile Roxy mates, Bowie - that it makes it hard to whittle down. I like to think of Eno as Eno, solo Eno, and all his bands and other projects/productions as other things.

Over the weekend I've been checking out some of the ambient albums. Current favorite: 'An Index of Metals' from Evening Star.

Has anyone read On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno?

Yes. Pretty good. Moves through the 90s and aughts a bit too quickly IIRC.

OK thanks. I'm more interested in his work from the 70s anyway, so that's OK. I'll check it out from the library.

Very obvious designated #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNIfbdi41ho

Wow. Hold on while I load Music for Airports in Audacity and try what that sounds like 23x faster.

Who'd have thought?

I really need to vote in this, but I have quite a few gaps in my knowledge. Do I have time? Who knows? Arrrgh.

I should vote too but... Jesus, it's difficult

I hope you'll all vote -- at least put a ballot together from what you're familiar with. I worry that we're going to get a whopping nine or ten ballots for this one.

I'll vote, lots of stuff I have never heard but I got so much goodies in my collection selecting favorites will be a challenge anyhow

First ballot is in!

thanks for organising the poll, william. i think i have got some relistening to do! eno is one of my favourite musicians.

Or non-musicians

I'll say it again, but "Sometimes" by James is one of the most beautiful things he's had a hand in. I could listen to that song forever. Iirc, he had his doubts about producing the band until he heard that song on the demo. "Laid" (the album) is so great. I like the other james/Eno records a lot, too, including "Wah Wah."

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-psir2mQ0OOI/UUUbx-AuG9I/AAAAAAAAYv0/BDOHCYeU-e0/s640/Eno+earlier+and+later.jpg

second the love for that James record.

Millionaires is very underrated as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htbQ_FY8EeQ&sns=em

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMtgy8Xt5O4&sns=em

argh I only have 9 days, I need to start work on this

I'll say it again, but "Sometimes" by James is one of the most beautiful things he's had a hand in. I could listen to that song forever. Iirc, he had his doubts about producing the band until he heard that song on the demo. "Laid" (the album) is so great. I like the other james/Eno records a lot, too, including "Wah Wa

Yep. Is Laid much liked on ILM? To me it succeeds at every emotive level at which U2 fail.

It's a shame the title track was the band's (US) breakthrough, because it relegated this album to cut-out bin shame, and the band to novelty status, especially since the song and album share a title. But the rest of the disc is so moody and weird yet largely subdued and acoustic. Yet pretty much lovely through and through.

good album, and thanks to the breakthrough it was a dollar bin standby for years (that's where I got it). "Out to Get You" is a terrific opener. I don't really know where to find Eno's hand in the album though.

Vocals and synths, most overtly. But I suspect he had a huge hand in the arrangements. See: that James in the studio with Eno clip I posted.

It's a shame the title track was the band's (US) breakthrough,

James is dreadfully awful, embarrassed for you guys.

Eno guys, Eno.

Hm, this Harmonia/Eno album is pretty nice.

ooh thanks for the reminder, listening now

Eno has been great foreground/background music for my work overload of the last 7-10 days. Usually I go with a Necks/Pauline Oliveros playlist made for these stressed out days, but Eno works too.

The Tracks & Traces (slightly) expanded reissue from 2009 is one of my favourite Eno related releases.

http://valhalladsp.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/picture-121.png
Must have had a great time in Forst.

Shuffle turned up the Eno/Wobble album, which Eno had nothing directly to do with. Still, not bad!

Anyone listen to either of the "Curiosities" sets? Eno gave his intern permission to cull through the tapes, and those two volumes are what he found.

Anyone listen to either of the "Curiosities" sets? Eno gave his intern permission to cull through the tapes, and those two volumes are what he found.

The Tracks & Traces (slightly) expanded reissue from 2009 is one of my favourite Eno related releases.

Agreed – the three extra tracks on the reissue are among the best things he ever did with Harmonia or Cluster. Imagine at least one will make it onto my ballot.

what's the story with spinner then? I have owned it & remember it not being up to much. What was eno's involvement, if he had "nothing directly to do with it"?

Sunday is a good day for listening to eno.

Eno gave Wobble a bunch of unreleased music, and Wobble constructed the album. Eno had nothing else to do with it.

I will try to do this but, to maintain my own sanity, restrict it only to recordings with Eno's name on them. Even then it's next to impossible.

Thank you in advance for your ballot, Tom D.

ONE MORE WEEK TO VOTE!

Is it ridiculous if I vote for every song on Here Come the Warm Jets?

does the Windows 95 startup sound have an official name we're supposed to use?

no xp

Has the beautiful track he did for a nature documentary about hammerhead sharks ever been on cd?

New music by Brian, not released although some was re-used on the track "Passing Over" on Another Day On Earth, and the UK & US re-releases of Music For Films III each have a different "Shark" bonus track.

just googled, do you mean this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vrMCHsJMPk

^that's an instrumental version of the song "Passing Over" from Another Day On Earth

XP!

I think he means this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5y9IGDCJLM&index=67&list=PLbGm51rmBiGmnrnqDxfbDa9AQ3JJfaoiJ

Eno is a handsome old fart

^gets it

But man, as far as deep cuts go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFVRrpSE0Gs

Super-fave deep cut, Roger Eno with Brian and Lanois:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46_G5JSIg_w

I'm going away this week, but I hopefully will have some sort ballot finished for Sunday

Big Eno piece here http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2014/07/07/140707crmu_music_frerejones

Though makes the common mistake early on of saying Eno produced those '70s Bowie albums. Which he did not.

Render unto Visconti what is mother fucking Visconti's!

No shit. I mean, the most famous production aspect of "Low" is the snare sound, and that was all Visconti.

The most successfully ambient of Eno’s ambient albums is the 2012 release “Lux.”

...“The process of making the skeleton of it was generative, in the sense that I set in motion various processes and let them do their thing,” Eno told me. “But what was different this time was I thought, O.K., I’m going to listen to that, and I’m going to find out where the sort of moments are that something unusual happens, something you didn’t expect happens, and I’m going to work on them—so from a generative beginning I then went into composer mode, basically, which I haven’t ever done before. In the past, I’ve really let the thing just carry on, do its thing.”

The result is both remarkable and almost impossible to remember. I’ve listened to “Lux” as often as any of Eno’s work, but I don’t think I could reproduce five sequential seconds, even by humming. I just know it.

nice to see the props for Lux in the NYer piece. it was generally well received when it came out, but i think it deserves recognition as perhaps his very best non-vocal album, up there with discreet music.

ha, as long as you can cheat by classifying Music For Airports as a vocal album (it does have vocals), I agree, w/an additional shoutout to On Land.

Wonderful synchronicity in that NYer piece showing up this week.

This just in via e-mail:

"Hi Arch,
'Wonderful synchronicity' my ass - we kept postponing the Eno profile because of the slow rollout of the ILM artist polls. I finished that piece six months ago!

Love,
Sasha"

we kept postponing the poll to give you guys time to get some fact-checking done

nice to see the props for Lux in the NYer piece. it was generally well received when it came out, but i think it deserves recognition as perhaps his very best non-vocal album, up there with discreet music.

― Karl Malone, Monday, June 30, 2014 2:45 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's definitely my favorite released album of his since Shutov Assembly (though I have to say over the last ten years I started going through phases with Lightness)

my favorite thing by him in a long time though is his iOS app Scape. it's just complex enough, just familiar / recognizable enough, and it's just different enough with each listening. it's interesting how my initial resistance with this kind of listening faded away -- the kind of stance where if I invest the time in listening to something, I want to not just listen, but to learn it, even if it's a record of improvised music. but of course a lot of that is a side-effect of experiencing most of our music in recorded form and it's interesting to get used to just listening to something for its own sake. Lux does have a bit more structure to dig into than the apps, but it uses so much of the same processes & sonic vocabulary as his recent apps that I'm actually running into resistance listening to it as a CD, it's the same thing every time

Posting this as it wasn't covered in the long list posted by William near the top of this thread. Not sure I will vote for it but definitely worthy of consideration. B-side of King's Lead Hat by Eno & Snatch:

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

...and I'm not sure if this is eligible but I have a soft spot for the cover of "Fever" from this Peel Session, starting at 13:09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtF9edMVYzU

("Totalled" from the same session is an early version of "I'll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoes)")

We have three ballots in.

ohh shit I forgot abt the "Fever" cover

and now I remember that I have to make room for "T.N.K." as well

Bump - don't forget to vote! This deadline is much closer than the classic rock poll.

I know I know, will send this evening, thanks for bump

i've got all weekend right?

Yes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ00zZbfxd4

Question: should this poll/deadline be extended for a while so people can listen to and consider more material, especially the new albums with Karl Hyde? I really hate to be That Guy who drags a poll out ad nauseam, but if it's warranted...

long now iirc

I love that Peel session btw. The cover of fever got 0 votes in my fever poll a couple of months ago

I want to clarify one part of the balloting -- part 2, Productions, can include Eno's own albums as well as albums he produced for other artists.

after careful work on the ballot I still forgot to consider/include on the Work As Other Than Lead Artist Top 15 ranking Jon Hassell's Dream Theory In Malaya where Eno's credited as involved (in various capacities) on 5 of the 7 tracks. still, not sure if they'd bump any already chosen and... No (more) Hairsplitting!

special fuck-you write in for those horrible James records, poptimists are the worst

hahaha, yeah i don't mean to be a hater but the James love is baffling

incredibly I've still never (knowingly) heard any James records, including the early Factory EPs - "Hymn From A Village", was that the highly-rated track? Morrissey-sanctioned? but that's all pre-Eno work.

hmm I guess Robert Wyatt's Shleep album isn't actually an Eno production, these extra ballots are hard

aw shit, I wrote in the Berlin Trilogy as Eno productions, despite knowing but not remembering...

Shleep is not an Eno production, but the title track is I believe a formally credited co-write (as is Heroes and Once in a Lifetime!)

Are any or all of you James haters UK-ers? Because that might explain it. In the US they never amounted to anything save that fluke single, but I imagine they were pretty huge over there.

Anyway, James-haters, I give you an excellent detour: Tim Booth with Angelo Badalamenti, Bernard Butler and our man Eno, playing synths and singing around 2:28.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPFitCGm7QQ

And speaking of Butler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VB21T_DW_0

Don't know if I'll be able to vote, as usual, but I must re-iterate my love for that Walkabouts song, which may be the most solo '70s Eno of anything Eno has ever done.

You can send a revised ballot, anytime until the deadline. xpost

Josh, please vote!

beware misinformation on the net (surely no!?) , e.g. Wikipedia lists The White Arcades as Produced By Brian Eno, when the LP says Produced By Harold Budd (Eno's on 2 tracks including a co-write). and when Eno only produced one track (e.g. track one of Shleep) he may be listed as one of the producers of an album which could also cause confusion.

speaking of Wyatt, Eno's also on a couple tracks on Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard.

^also has some kind of presence on the second matching mole lp, from memory. kudos for the lady june mention at the top.

also forgot Eno's in there somewhere on Lamb Lies Down On Broadway so if you're a Genesis fan…
with Eno and Phil it's practically an Eno lineup!

Some of the credits are wrong but this playlist should be helpful to those looking to review the breadth of the guy's impact before they submit their ballot:

http://www.spotifyclassical.com/2012/07/touched-by-hand-of-eno-150-tracks-from.html?m=1

The playlist itself is here:

http://open.spotify.com/user/ulyssestone/playlist/6CO0pkV4rFn4ynL08OelnA

Further to the question upthread, I wouldn't necessarily mind more time for the voting. I was planning on just doing the main poll, but I might look at the sub-polls if we get an extension.

Eno does some vocal treatments on "Lamb." Amazed he's only a guest on one solo Peter record. Any fans of Byrne's "Catherine Wheel?" He's all over that.

yeah I like that record

Emil.y, part of my fretting and indecision here is because I more or less have the month of July off from work and have been trying to decide when and where to roadtrip. I could hit the road almost immediately but that would push the poll finish back a couple of weeks. I think the better bet is to wrap up the poll, finish the rollout and hit the road midmonth without having to think about ILX or real life. I could still hold the deadline through Monday if that might draw in a couple more ballots or expansion of ballots to include side polls.

Also, yes! to The Catherine Wheel.

I've got ballots sorted for parts 1 and 2, working on 3 but am 99% sure I can get something together before the deadline.

Per Milton's post, I've been listening to Scape the last few days...my 6 year-old loves to play with it, and I pick it up now and again. I think a new add for it is the Oblique Strategies-esque aphorisms and suggestions at the beginning ("Try using a single element").

I also bought Lux on iTunes simply so I could see whether it should appear on my ballot (it's nice but probably won't).

I still can't help but wonder what it would be like if Eno applied all the processing and control techniques he's learned in the last 20 years to analog instruments. He wrote some commentary for Benge's Twenty Systems, so I guess you never know.

it would be neat to see what he would do confined to the role of arranger in an orchestral or chamber ensemble context. Like "here is the piano score, here are the instrumental we have hired, please turn the one into the other".

instrumentalists

He doesn't read music though, does he? Could be a bit trickier.

Well, he does sort of "conduct," often (again, see that above James video), but not in the conventional sense.

yeah i mean he could have a pro orchestrator there to actually write on the staves, that part wouldn't matter

Yeah, I was just thinking he wouldn't be able to hear the melodies from a look at the score. No doubt, he's brilliant at arranging and coming up with bits of filigree and countermelody that are as earwormy as the main melodies. I have his quartet of 70s song albums on my iPod, and nothing makes the hours on the gym treadmill go by faster than listening to those four records and examining the songs in an "exploded view" way.

The absolute coolest thing he did on those first albums, though mostly the first two, is assemble two different bands - that is two sets of drummers, bassists, guitarists, etc. - then have each group take a stab at his abstract or outline. Then he would later combine the best bits from both, like the bass from the first take or the guitar from the second. In the case of a song like "Here Come the Warm Jets," I imagine that accounts for the chaos of the overlapping drums, for example. Then someone like Fripp, he would more or less just drop him in and give him loose instruction, usually just with one take. (That's what Visconti did on "Scary Monsters," too.) Anyway, the probably explains why some songs zig when you expect them to zag, or why the parts "work" even if they are at odds with one another. It's also a very concrete early manifestation of his application of generative music, happy accidents that stumble and shape their way into songs.

btw add me to the list of ppl who paid to download Lux because of talk itt. Auditioning it now and damn this is beautiful.

Anyone else but me have a copy of the "More Dark Than Shark" book?

raises hand. I have one.

yes - first knew of Russell Mills via Dome (e.g. MZUI), but wasn't aware of Eno connection until the book.

btw add me to the list of ppl who paid to download Lux because of talk itt. Auditioning it now and damn this is beautiful.

― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Thursday, July 3, 2014 3:02 PM (4 hours ago)

I did too. I've listened to it once...I'll definitely give it another airing before putting my ballot together.

The Dylan poll will be a record that won't be beat, in that there was a span of 51 years on the songs I voted for, but my Eno ballot will have a span of 41 years.

Speaking of Dome, I think Eno is on here somewhere, perhaps specifically the second track, around the 4 minute mark:

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

I could still hold the deadline through Monday if that might draw in a couple more ballots or expansion of ballots to include side polls.

That would be helpful. I can guarantee a ballot by early evening UK time on Monday.

Currently reading: Geeta's excellent book on Another Green World, which apparently also gets into Discreet Music later on, so I've got that cued up, ready for a spin as well.

Haven't been able to get online or check out albums I don't already know recently but will try to send a ballot before the deadline.

sent!

received!

Really stumped when it comes to Roxy songs. The title track of For Your Pleasure is very Eno but it would seem odd to include, say, Virginia Plain.

Best Eno Roxy moments are on the live documents. I voted for old grey whistle test version of Ladytron; almost voted for BBC 1973 version of Pyjamarama.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EjpwUhaKxx8
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jS_AmSNUel4

Are different performances of "Ladytron" going to be counted differently? I like that version too but I just wrote "Ladytron" on my ballot.

The title track of For Your Pleasure is very Eno

voted for this

I'll combine the votes for a song, but make note of votes for specific performances/recordings.

what about "totalled"/"I'll come running"?

Will be counted with "I'll Come Running."

Just voted via ilxmail.

Got it.

for Eno-involvement tracks I meant (but forgot) to go through Byrne's soundtrack/score to The Catherine Wheel. "The Red House" always stood out to me because when played at parties, etc its sonic intensity cut through making you feel hyperaware, partly due to the tremendous drumming of Yogi Horton (RIP). it's also one of the closest sounding tracks to ..Bush Of Ghosts.

lots of other good stuff on The Catherine Wheel - the cassette had the full score: 23 tracks to the LP's 11. how's this for a great title: "Dense Beasts"? I guess that means they're all close together, or they're all really thick!

I'm struggling with including instrumental pieces in the face of vocal tracks. How do you vote for "1/1" when "Burning Airlines" is in the mix? This is going to be hard.

I agree - I found this especially difficult with On Land, which I love but think of as a whole, except for one particular standout. same with the side-long tracks like Discreet Music title track - I'd probably rather have a half an album than one song, but I think the fave tracks should be ones that resonate strongest with you, usually easier with vocal tracks (songs). you can always fix it in the mix by repping fave instrumental albums high in the Productions rankings.

I also found a few sleeper tracks that were suspected faves and even though they didn't make the list (no regrets!) will be future faves.

Vote Bone Bomb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxY6NLVQaPc

"The Red House" always stood out to me because when played at parties

wait The Catherine Wheel is played at parties?

^great album closer, feels pretty violent coming at the end of such a sedate collection of songs

Xp

xp: sure, college days '81/'82 (it were back-to-back Eno in my day, none of your poncy what-passes-for-music t'day lads!)

Time for me to quit thinking about classic rock for a couple of days and actually work on my Eno ballot.

Voted

Sent!

Sent (via ILX mail)

Will miss this... unless there's extension?

There'll be a short one, a day or two at the most. Please vote!

Internet Alan, got your ballot -- thanks!

eno did the music for Top Boy?!

I don't think I can do this properly -- too many moods to conjure, and too difficult overall considering the range of sounds we're talking about here. I'm just gonna vote up personal favorites and wait for y'all to tell me about the rest to digest at my leisure in the manner of my choosing.

I'm working on my list right now. I'm mainly a fan of his four 70s vocal albums but I have a few of the instrumental albums which I really like. I'm finding it hard to pick out highlights from those as they work as whole albums too well. Not sure if I'm going to have time for the productions poll.

yeah I'm prob just gonna throw together a list of fairly obvious stuff with eno singing on it and "an ending (ascent)" from the classic album pure cinema chillout

I thought this would be pretty easy, HA.

Voted. No deep cuts or obscurities from me, all the old family favourites are present (assuming 'Discreet Music' is a favourite in yr family that is).

Really not sure if I can get this done by tonight, and I'm busy all tomorrow. Will try to rush it this evening but otherwise I'd need until Tuesday night, which might be an extension too far. Mostly need to go over the non-vocal tracks, my brain is not good with titles of instrumentals.

I'll hold it until Tuesday evening. (Bedtime for me aka middle of the night UK.) The main thing at this point, imo, is to get it finished, including rollout, by the end of classic rock voting. But Tuesday evening is firm. Not ending on Thursday Afternoon, nope nope.

Cool, thanks WmC!

Just got mine finished and sent, part 3 involved a bit more thought, in that I tried to pick tracks with an obvious Eno stamp on them rather than just my favourites. Meant a bit of reading up on who did what on some of those records but that was quite fun in itself. Looking forward to the rollout.

xp - You're welcome! Every poll seems to walk the fine line between stretching out the voting window to maximize returns and wearing out its welcome. I think this one will work out ok. It's funny to look back at the Led Zeppelin poll and see that we got 65 ballots in a one-week voting period.

I would pay ten bucks to listen to No Pussyfooting in a big space with a powerful PA system -- I would like to feel those low notes rattling my thorax.

Here Come the Warm Jets really is a remarkable album isn't it? I'm listening to it now and every song could go on my ballot.

Will definitely be interesting to see the ordering of the four '70s pop albums in part 2.

wait what? I thought that was for non-Eno albums...

It's for albums he produced or co-produced, but doesn't exclude his own work. Sorry, I didn't make that clear enough in the OP. You can redo that part if you want.

ok thanks!

Will definitely be interesting to see the ordering of the four '70s pop albums in part 2.

Alright, I am in prime poll result position: on vacation, far away from work, iPhone in hand, ready for results to start rolling out midweek. Let's do this!

36 hours to vote!

13 ballots received!

Drop and give me 20!

Will get mine in this evening. I promise.

you can always just do your Top 30 Eno tracks/songs and (if you have extra time) your Top 15 Eno albums give or take some added-in productions for other artists. the third list is a little trickier.

I realized as I worked on my ballot that this poll includes not only my fave album of all time but also around 8 or so of my all time Top 100 fave tracks.

yeah that sounds about right

I'm not sure that the newest Eno/Hyde album is as great as some have suggested but I find the closer 'Cells & Bells' really affecting. Probably would have made my top 30 if I'd have submitted today rather than yesterday. Will be interesting to see if how much recent stuff makes the poll. I'm familiar with most of the stuff Eno's done but I found my ballot to end up heavily weighted towards those first 4 solo albums. Hoping the poll enlightens me to some stuff I've overlooked.

Not complaining but I think this poll could have also done with a best Eno albums list. The productions list was good but I found assembling it a bit of a hodgepodge – half Eno albums and half "oh this was a good record he was associated with."

That said, I've always cared the most about the tracks polls so that was the meat of what I worked on.

WC, when will you start calculating? I have spent far too much time rethinking my ballot and might actually make some changes if that's an option. Otherwise, will live with what I sent.

nothing ventured, nothing gained!

Voted. But I was in no mood to vote for any Roxy or U2 (we've done them) and was keen to limit the Bowie and Talking Heads to the minimum as well (we've done or will be doing them too). Consequently, my 15 albums include only two where Eno isn't the credited artist or one of them. And I only offered a handful of things for the third category.

That is where it gets hard for me. I love Roxy Music and wanted to include quite a few songs from those first two albums which are two of my favourite albums of all time but it seems wrong to vote for them as we just polled them. I started thinking well maybe I'll just limit myself to a few songs from each album but then it's not really an honest list of my actual favourite songs. I'm probably over thinking this really.

I'll probably start plugging stuff into the spreadsheet tomorrow morning, so revised ballots today are not a problem!

I didn't do custom artwork for the rundowns on Zeppelin, Bowie and Miles, and I'm sorry to say that trend will continue.

"Lux" is lovely, but listening back to "The Shutov Assembly" and "Neroli," I think this stuff (literally) writes itself. Those latter two were back in '92 and '93, "Lux" 2012, but if someone told me they all stemmed from the same session/generative program, I'd buy it. Literally in this case, too, because they are indeed all lovely, but I think Eno has days of this stuff in his vaults. Dunno if any or all of it is really any better than my "Bloom" app.

I just used the list at the start of the thread detailing the albums eligible for the tracks poll as my reference when completing my productions part of the ballot and kept the collaborative stuff for the 3rd part.

i'm having trouble cutting any songs at all from my list
i mean, the songs will definitely 100% for sure still exist even if i don't have them on my ballot and yet

voted! that was hard.

thanks for the extension. voted somewhat predictably in mother of polls

Voted!

This is one of those polls where I'm sure I'm going to hear some really great songs I've never heard before when it comes to the results.

to be honest, thirty was too much, despite loving him to bits.

20 ballots in, 24 hours to vote (give or take). Can we hit 30?

This lurker has voted!

13 HOURS

I'm planning on submitting a really, really terrible ballot tonight. I rarely vote in these artist polls because I always think that I don't know enough, but I want to at least give a boost to a few songs that really deserve it.

Boost away!

TEN HOURS

Did you know that when you paste "1/1" into a Google spreadsheet, it thinks you're doing dates and autocompletes to "1/1/14"? Freakin' Google.

Paging outdoor_miner! Your tracks ballot is 32 songs long! Do you want to make the cuts or do you want me to cruelly snip the last two?

Paging Kitchen Person! Problems with your ballot, parts 2 and 3. Sending you an email now.

dammit. i counted that thing so many times. sorry. yes, please snipe cruelly....

Done.

Formatting request for those still to vote:

Title first, then identifier (artist, album, etc)

Thanks!

Argh, really? Whyyyyyyy? It's totally the wrong way round.

it'll make em easier to sort, cos then he won't have to subdivide the Roxy Music and Eno/otherpeeps tracks.

Paging Kitchen Person! Problems with your ballot, parts 2 and 3. Sending you an email now.

― it's not rocker science (WilliamC)

Responded. Sorry about the mix up.

Yeah, sorry emil.y, strictly for sorting ease. Gotta have uniformity in the titles so "Cale/Eno - One Word" and "One Word - Cale/Eno" votes don't get separated in the counting.

While we're talking formatting, should I specify Brian Eno if it's just a solo Brian Eno song? Or is that taken for granted?

No need to specify in those cases.

45 minutes. Am I going to make it in time? WHO CAN SAY?

You've got five hours! My bedtime isn't that early.

Oh, yay, I thought the cut-off was midnight UK time. Phew. I basically (re)abandoned the idea of doing the subsidiary polls anyway so I probably would've made it, but now I can fiddle and re-listen even more.

I submitted my ballot that I threw together in half an hour.

^^^ honor thy error as a hidden intention, Eno said

Sent. Still pretty scrappy but eh. Hope the formatting is okay.

Worked great, thanks!

We've hit 25 ballots -- thanks to everyone who's voted!

Still have a few hours left -- I'm going to call the hard deadline to be midnight Eastern, 9 p.m. Pacific, so just under four hours.

Done as well. Here come my warm votes...

"Rank your top FIFTEEN albums that are listed as produced or co-produced by Brian Eno"

This includes his own albums, right?

yes - confirmed by William

^^^

Kitchen Person, I've emailed you again!

Alfred, sent you an email -- you need to cut one track from Part 1.

Did Josh vote?

Not yet...

Come on, Josh. You have posted in just about every active ILM thread in the last day and a half. Suck it up and get a ballot in. If nothing else, it will result in some oddities squeaking in.

Sorry I didn't see the formatting request before submitting. :(

No problem, the C&P rearranging doesn't take a long time.

187 different tracks have votes in Part 1...

Could be 217 if Josh votes.

Voting is closed at 27 ballots!

51 albums got votes in Part 2; 106 tracks got votes in Part 3.

Countdown starts tomorrow morning! I will do Part 3 then Part 2 tomorrow and may plow on through with the tracks finishing Friday unless anyone has a pressing need for this to extend into the weekend or next week.

Results will start about 10 a.m. CDT.

Sorry I was busy working on a generative program to devise my ballot for me. It only picks one song every five years, exactly, so it would have been a bit of a wait.

Seriously, though, summer camp season makes it so tough to focus on anything, and last night I was stuck at a landscape design class, which I somehow think Eno would have appreciated. On Land, Imaginary Landscapes, In a Land of Clear Colours ...

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