What is the relation between Eno and Nirvana?

There you have it.

There you have it.

Brian Eno produced several albums for David Bowie.

David Bowie wrote "The Man Who Sold The World".

Nirvana covered it.

Brian Eno did some production work for U2.

Nirvana's career came to an abrupt end when their lead singer was found having with his brain having blown out by a gun shot at short range under somewhat mysterious circumstances.

I would like the same thing to happen to U2.

The 'B' side of Nirvana's single "Lithium" is "Curmudgeon"

The last three letters of "Curmudgeon" are E, O and N - which believe it or not are actually an anagram of "ENO"!

Coincidence? I think not!

I don't think there really is a palpable connection between Nirvana and Eno, truthfully.

Well, you might be excused for thinking so Alex, but actually there's yet another link here:

Brian Eno has worked with Harold Budd
Harold Budd has worked with Andy Partridge
Andy Partridge has worked with Martin Newell
Martin Newell has worked with Captain Sensible
Captain Sensible is a member of The Damned

I think you can work the rest out from there!

Nicely done, though, Stew.

I got a bit excited earlier because I found a link which led via Brian Eno > David Bowie > Adrian Belew > King Crimson > Robert Fripp > .... but then realised I'd just ended up back where I started again.

Nirvana's cover of Devo's "Turnaround" ain't bad, actually.

I've got some CD's by Brian Eno and.... guess what.... yes, I've got some CD's by Nirvana too.

Hurrah!

Adrian Belew is in king crimson, cobain is reported to have told butch vig that he wanted a similar guitar tone to than on king crimson's 'red' (which belew isn't on, but wtf, it makes about as much sense)

Brian Eno > David Bowie > Adrian Belew > Laurie Anderson > William S. Burroughs > Kurt Cobain

Brian Eno > Laurie Anderson > Burroughs > Cobain

Brian fucking Eno!! Do I sound like that when I talk about Kurt Cobain?

Kurt Cobain Lithium (arr. Ziporyn)
Michael Gordon I Buried Paul
Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild (arr.
Lang)
Brian Eno Burning Airlines Give you So
Much More (arr. Ziporyn)
Brian Eno Everything Merges With the
Night (arr. Ziporyn)

There must be some way to do it via No New York but I haven't been able to figure it out yet.

because i'm bored tonight, and there may be a shorter way, but here goes:

brian eno>DNA>ambitious lovers>arto lindsay>golden palominos>bill laswell>time zone>john lydon>public image limited>keith levene>steve albini

oh man, the top of this thread especially is pretty hilarious. dave2225 or whatever his name is killed me.

Eno sounds like Emo. Emo Phillips was in UHF, a movie starring Weird Al. Weird Al covered Nirvana.

Nirvana's Dave Grohl was previously in Scream, whose first record (done before Grohl was in the band) was engineered by Don Zientara. Don Zientara also recorded Mock Turtle's "Thank You for Sending Me an Eno" for Limp Record's 1978 :30 Over D.C. comp LP.

Eno produced a track for The Walkabouts > Walkabouts on Sub Pop > Cobain on Sub Pop

Oh, also:

Kurt Cobain > Pat Smear (played in Nirvana) > Belinda Carlisle (in Germs w/Smear) > Brian Eno (keyboards on a Carlisle solo album)

When Colin Newman was a Watford Art College student he sometimes hung out with Eno (and Watford tutor/Oblique Strategies cocreator Peter Schmidt). So, Eno > influenced Wire > influenced Albini > produced In Utero.

You guys never considered the 60s Nirvana in this equation?

^ suggest ban

brian eno>DNA>ambitious lovers>arto lindsay>golden palominos>bill laswell>john zorn>yamantaka eye>boredoms opened for nirvana and the meat puppets

Jon is getting into Alex In NYC territory, sneaking the Boredoms into every thread.

Other message boards usually have a dude who does that with the Simpsons

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1) Eno played synth on the Walkabouts track "Train to Mercy".
2) The Walkabouts and Nirvana both appear on the Sup Pop 200 comp.

brian eno compiled that no new wave thing.
lydia lunch was part of the movement.
she recorded a song with sonic youth (and with thurston moore) - death valley 69.
sonic youth brought nirvana to DGC and toured with them.

Eno produced the first Devo album. Nirvana covered Devo.

― joday (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, December 18, 2003 11:26 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That pretty much is it.

1) Brian Eno was a member of Roxy Music.
2) Chris Thomas produced a bunch of Roxy Music albums.
3) Chris and Patrick Campbell-Lyons worked together in the band Second Thoughts.
2) Patrick is a member of Nirvana (UK).

The relation between Eno and Nirvana is that of opposites. Eno is a pure aesthete who, while inspired by the urgency of rock, abstracts everything and never fully shows his hand. Cobain, though he was into all manner of artiness, expressed himself with his heart on his sleeve. Eno's all about oblique strategies, looking at the world askance and bemused; Nirvana were aiming for direct communication -- Cobain stares at you, or at his own reflection, and howls.

eno>bono>flood>corgan>courtney love>cobain

"Here Come The Warm Jets", "Territorial Pissings"

Eno made an album called My Life In The Bush of Ghosts. Since the cessation of his life, Cobain's ghost has been represented by the band Bush, who are a witless bag of piss.
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, December 19, 2003 5:39 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've used the term "witless bag of piss" since this post!

In some alternate universe, Eno produced Cobain's fourth solo album, released in 2003. It was terrible.