"Clapton is God!" vs. "Eno is God!"

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Would you prefer to live in a culture that worships Eric Clapton as its highest deity or one that believes that Brian Eno is our Lord and Saviour? This may seem like an easy answer, but think deep before you respond.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

babykiller vs urine fetishist. hmmm.

― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Dude, God isn't even God!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Fuck 'em both. God is Hammill. Or maybe Todd is godd. Or something.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Eno built my hotrod.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

What if Eric Clapton was one of us?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

babykiller vs urine fetishist. hmmm.

so if brian eno is God, that would make r. kelly the Pope (or at least some kind of saint).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

He could be part of the Trinity

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://children.ofthenight.org/albums/images/4745f.jpg

Father, son and holy ghost.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm...

http://children.ofthenight.org/albums/images/4745f.jpg

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

No, Bowie=JUDAS.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Bowie's already got a halo in the photo while Brian's doing that "Here is the Church, here is the steeple" thing

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

He succumbed to the temptation of NILE RODGERS.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

By the Nile, we lay down and wept

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

ha ha ha ha

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

There is (E)no God

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

What qualifications does Clapton have for being God?

Eno is amazing. Read Alan Moore's rambling, dense appreciation of him in the last issue of Arthur and you'll see why Eno may already BE God.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

What's his blues guitar playing like tho?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/clapton/snl-1994-dvd-2.jpg

I'M ABOUT TO MAKE MY UGLY GUITAR FACE.

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

BLUES FACE != GOD

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

THIS IS NOT ILM. Please focus on the original question.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

T/S: Babies dying in fires vs. falling out of windows

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

A world in which Clapton was worshipped might not be so pleasant. There would be statues of him everywhere, and people would leave flowers and throw parties around them. The culture would be shot throught with shitty white blues. You could hardly go into any bar ever without hearing some shitty white blues band.

It would be a lot like Austin, Texas. *shudder*

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Whereas in Eno World, the big controversy would be that a courthouse in Alabama has a plaque of the Oblique Strategies in front of it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Whoever is back off the wagon now, I'll worship them.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Whereas in Eno World, the big controversy would be that a courthouse in Alabama has a plaque of the Oblique Strategies in front of it.

how about a fountain in eno's likeness? < /runs away>

― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

i wish brian ferry were god. he'd make sure everyone dressed well and got laid.

― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

The culture would be shot throught with shitty white blues. You could hardly go into any bar ever without hearing some shitty white blues band.
A Blues Hammer in every town!! It's the Apocalypse!!

― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 15 July 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

Ian Brown is God or Mike West Is God was in every toilet I went into in Manchester in 1989. I think I sided with Mike West ;).

― svend (svend), Friday, 15 July 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if I'm the only person on ILM who feels equally meh about both of them.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 15 July 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

I own an Oblique Strategies set. Eno drank his own piss because he realised he'd never tasted it before. He actually looks as if he's taking the piss on that Low Symphonies cover. THE COVER OF WARM JETS. This is so not hard.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 15 July 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm with Paunch on all counts. We will declare holy war if necessary.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Obviouslys it is Eric Clapton, for, despite his too much adherince to coloured blues, which is rythmh-dominate and not melodic, he has delivered great melodies like Lola and Wonder Fool Tonight and My Baby Fell Out Of A Careless Open Window Into Heaven, where is Enos does unforgetable production work for the U2 Bono, but can not produce melodies of his own, is why Brian Fairley fire him from Rocky Music. The ambulance music he invent is pleasing but with minimums melodic content, it has destroy music we know now because of the chills out when it is not Billy Not Be Hero.

― Comstock Carabineri (nostudium), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

"The ambulance music"

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

I would rather live in a world where people all thought that using a ring modulator on a drumkit was a great idea than one in which people all thought a bluesy cover of "I Shot The Sheriff" was a great idea. In fact the latter world seems like it couldn't be anything but awful.

EnoGodWorld seems like it would be a much more zen type of joint where people were encouraged to engage in lateral thinking. ClaptonGodWorld seems like it would be all full of slobs who think "a guitar is an investment."

― TOMBOT, Friday, 15 July 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

OK you convinced me.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

twelve years pass...

It was 5 August 1976 and Eric Clapton was drunk, angry and on stage at the Birmingham Odeon. 'Enoch was right,' he told the audience, 'I think we should send them all back.' Britain was, he complained, in danger of becoming 'a black colony' and a vote for controversial Tory politician Enoch Powell whom he described as a prophet was needed to 'keep Britain white'. Although the irony was possibly lost on Clapton, the Odeon in Birmingham is on New Street, minutes from the Midland Hotel where eight years earlier Powell had made his infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech. But if the coincidence was curious, the hypocrisy was breathtaking: Clapton's career was based on appropriating black music, and he had recently had a hit with Bob Marley's 'I Shot the Sheriff'.

more like eric CRAPTON. bet he's never heard of that one before. i'm fine with worshipping eno, makes more sense than most other options.

― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 April 2018 16:21 (seven years ago)

no no guys he meant esteemed record producer Enoch Light, be cool

― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Monday, 23 April 2018 16:29 (seven years ago)

Brian Enoch

― The Rachel Supremacy (wins), Monday, 23 April 2018 16:35 (seven years ago)

Would you prefer to live in a culture that worships Eric Clapton as its highest deity or one that believes that Brian Eno is our Lord and Saviour?

I would prefer to go find another, much better culture and live there.

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 23 April 2018 18:31 (seven years ago)

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