Chance Meeting: The Brian Eno collaborations poll

Not sure why U2 aren't down there, but I can see about a dozen albums which could conceivably win this.

Voted for Cluster & Eno, but it still really bothers me he never got round to working with Cale properly in the 70s.

i can't vote for the lamb?????????????

think i'm gonna vote for wrong way up tbh

Didn't he just spend one day in the studio, run Gabriel's voice through his EMS Synthi and fiddle about a bit?

yes! i still wanna vote for it

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the pearl

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?!?!?)

If All Saints had released an album with Eno called Bowie in 2001 it'd be the best thing on here

Anyway! Number One in Britain and successful in the States...

just happened to be listening to the pearl when i logged on right now, so that one.👍🏻

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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

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.

I had to think for a while but went with Wrong Way Up

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.

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

I agree, it's best that Remain In Light is not on the list, but I feel that Bush Of Ghosts kinda owns this.

Weird but I'd vote for High Life

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)".

Iirc the credits are more complicated/convoluted than that.

the lodger

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfqY9Wv6p0s

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"!).

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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

Eno as featured guest/player

Which I assume doesn't count because there's a few notables missing here.

The two Cluster - Eno collaborations are all kinds of wonderful. I went with "After The Heat".

I've listened to Passengers more than anything else here so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4HSj8IR8GE

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.

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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

His production of Nico's The End (he all did what he could do).

(No Pussyfooting), although there are too many contenders. This is a lot harder than polling his strictly solo work.

evening star

Voting for Bowie feels like cheating, as those records are mostly Bowie (imo). Voted Cluster & Eno.

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Top 5 are all stellar, good poll.

Can't say I'm surprised by the winner. Good to see the love shared with a lot of his collaborators