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ok i just heard eno's "third uncle" on the radio and ...

1. dammit, why didn't someone sit me down for some stern talk about my chilish idea that i don't buy eno's pop records.

2. this song makes me feel like im playing Contra. those amazing quick guitar salvos split by the bassier riff....like entering a stage, killing them all, then waiting for the next stage to load...

i cant think of a good comparison for the bauhaus version (which now need to go home and listen to).

― b b, Friday, 27 May 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

That's the frenetic heavy metal version constructed with equal precision. (No bad thing at all, mind.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 May 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i never even took note that the bauhaus was a cover. i could have gotten over my eno issue at age 16...

― b b, Friday, 27 May 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

This is actually pretty horrible:
http://www.emusic.com/m3u/song/10597077/10536913.m3u

..although some of the others on there are listenable-
http://www.emusic.com/album/10597/10597077.html

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 27 May 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm...someone should have been decent enough to stop that before it started.

― b b, Friday, 27 May 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a huge huge Eno pop album fan but I've never understood why this song is consistently pulled out as the best Eno pop song, or even the best song on "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy." I guess I prefer the "wackier" songs.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

well, the album is now on my "look for in used bins" list...untill then im stuck with how this one struck me

― b b, Friday, 27 May 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha ha...YEAH.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 27 May 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

It's probably my favorite Eno album.
xpost. Mmmm, uh, yeah. OK.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha ha OK yeah.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Tee hee OK OK uh.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

bwgrrgh.

he's the kind of guy i'm glad is in the central shaft.

row row row

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 27 May 2005 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh. It's def. a great song, but it's no "True Wheel"...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 27 May 2005 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

ding ding!

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 27 May 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

That song's got twinned drummers, therefore it can't help being anything other than GRATE! (And isn't Phil Collins one of the two?)

― Myonga Von Bonham (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

for anyone that grew up in the nyc tri-state area, you would instantly recognize "third uncle" as the segue music on WLIR/WDRE, the legendary 80s radio station...

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 28 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

True Wheel is the best song on that album.

Wait, I mean the best song IN THE WORLD.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ben, skip the dollar bins, go straight to full-priced CD. Hell, it's worth the price of 10 CDs. Taking Tiger Mountain is a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant album on all accounts. My favorite Eno album by far.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The version of "Third Uncle" on the 801 Live album is totally worth seeking out.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

to help me reconsider mr eno, id requested review copies of the re-issues from the fall (or whenever) but was told there were no promos (funny, as i saw the series reviewed in other legitimate mags)...so ive been left to my own cheap devices...but ill take yr word dan. ive got a feeling i can be convinced to swing by OM tomorrow.

― b b, Monday, 30 May 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

'third uncle' is great, but 'the true wheel' is a real gem. I love it.

― zeus, Monday, 30 May 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

No, "Mother Whale Eyeless". THAT is IT.

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 30 May 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

..although some of the others on there are listenable-
http://www.emusic.com/album/10597/10597077.html

oh cleopatra, what shitty compilation won't you release?

― tylero (tylero), Monday, 30 May 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i've got my itunes in shuffle mode, and "third uncle" popped up while i was reading this thread. which is just the kind of synchronicity that was constantly happening to john cusack and kate beckinsale in that awful movie "serendipity" which for some reason i actually watched this weekend, my only reward being the appearance of nick drake's "northern sky" in the closing scene. eno's pop records are confoundingly great.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 30 May 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

They're not confounding if they make yr idea of what good pop is

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 30 May 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

MORE HOOKS KYLIE MORE HOOKS

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 30 May 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"The True Wheel" is indeed blazing--when I was in my Eno tribute band a year or two ago we probably loved playing that one best (always started practices with it etc.). But "Third Uncle" was what we ended the set with, because it's nearly impossible to screw it up--you just throw yourself into it and Bob's your, um, uncle. Can't believe how much he makes out of so little.

Those who are reading this site and don't already own Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) need to rectify that, stat.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 30 May 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Those who are reading this site and don't already own Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) need to rectify that, stat."

OTM

"The version of "Third Uncle" on the 801 Live album is totally worth seeking out."

OTM

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

No, Robert Wyatt's the second "drummer" on "Third Uncle."

Some words about TTMBS here if you persevere a bit.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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