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'.

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)