Brian Eno Compilation

only Eno proper, or also stuff he contributed to or produced?

Where would something like "Spider & I" fall? Pop? Ambient?

isn't there a box set like this?

there are 2 box sets, divided the same way, I = ambient, II = pop. But they're 3 discs each

That said, disc one (Pop):

"Needles in the Camel's Eye"
"Baby's On Fire"
"Cindy Tells Me"
"On Some Faraway Beach"
"Here Come the Warms Jets"
"Burning Airlines Give You So Much More"
"Third Uncle"
"The True Wheel"
"Taking Tiger Mountain"
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
"St. Elmo's Fire"
"I'll Come Running"
"Golden Hours"
"King's Lead Hat"
"Here He Comes"
"Julie With ..."
"By This River"
"Spider and I"
"Spinning Away"
"Under"

Disc two (pop collaborations):

"Tomorrow Never Knows" (w/801)
"Big Day" (w/ Manzanera)
"The Belldog" (w/ Cluster)
"Heroes" (with David Bowie, a co-write)
"Exposure" (with Fripp and Peter Gabriel)
something from "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
"Once in a Lifetime" (w/ Talking Heads, a co-write)
"A Change is Gonna Come" (with the Neville Brothers)
"The Soul of Carmen Miranda" (w/John Cale)
"I Feel You" (Depeche Mode remix)
" The River" (w/ Geoffrey Oryema)
"Lemon" (w/U2)
"Sometimes" (w/James)
"Eno's Introducing the Band" (w/ Suede)
"Your Blue Room" (w/ U2)
"My Dark Life" (w/ Elvis Costello)
"Butterfly's Dream" (w/ Tim Booth and Angelo Badalamenti)
"You May Feel Me Crying" (w/ Roy Orbison)
"Tomorrow" (w/ James)
"Heaps of Sheeps" (W/ Robert Wyatt)
"Slow Dancing" (with U2 and Willie Nelson)
"Frantic" (w/ Bryan Ferry)
"Do Right Woman" (w/ Sinead O'Connor)
"Rock the Casbah" (w/ Rachid Taha)

Oh. and x-post to myself, add his cover of "You Don't MIss Your Water Until the Well has Run Dry" to the pop disc. And ideally his elusive cover of "White Light, White Heat."

what ever happened with those "enobox" compilations? are those worth big money now or are they worthless?

hm, if amazon sellers are to be believed, they are worth big money. even with that shoddy packaging.

it'd be great if they reissued those with the recent remastering job - there's a couple of things on the vocal box you can't get otherwise, like "seven deadly finns" or the "lion sleeps tonight" cover.

i somehow remember those being a big "event" when they were released (a full year apart IIRC), but were quickly judged a disappointment and taken out of print.

A disappointment to whom? The boxes are great, even if you have all the albums.

the remastering on them is allegedly the same as the remastering on the current releases

really? they came out ten years ago!

The remastering sounds more or less the same to my ears, with perhaps a slightly more attentive ear toward preserving Eno's original mixes. Again, not that the boxed set versions sound off or anything - both they and the new discs are much better than the old EG issues on CD.

I like Josh's disc one, but I'd start the comp with the cover of "Fever" from the Peel session by Eno & The Winkies. And I'd definitely have "Backwater" (perhaps instead of "Here He Comes").

Is "R.A.F." 'pop'? - can't recall what this sounds like offhand. If it is, put that in too for obscurity bonus points ;)

I've not heard "Under" yet.

"Under" is on the vocal box, the "Cool World" soundtrack (!), and his new album.

Hmm, yeah, I'd make room for "Backwater." That song is funny. "Fever" with the Winkies is good, too.

What's wrong with the enobox packaging? Mine have held up strong over all the moves/years... I don't think they were intended to remain in print (ie, I remember distinctively them being sold as a limited release).

i just remember the packaging being sort of flimsy, or maybe just the white cardboard was easily smudged?

the only real problem with the packaging is that it's ugly

and there's that...

It's held up quite better than any number of digipacks that came out around that time period. It's about as ugly as any 4AD release (that is to say, pretty ugly).

it holds up fine although the metallic ink scratches off kind of easily.

"as ugly as any 4ad release?" you are a madman! I think the colors are just kind of ugly. also, the pictures themselves: espadrilles? wtf?

actually they are no espadrilles, they are that other ugly woven footwear no rational person with taste should wear. at any rate, they do not belong on the cover of a brian eno box

Astralwerks has a sampler of just ambient eno to sell their ambient releases.

i bet they'll send you one for free.

I'll say this, the packaging of the new album is even uglier than the box sets

also, to be on topic, I think that josh's vocal selection for the disc is perfect, couldn't do better. I don't remember the names of any of the instrumental pieces, but I do think something from the shutov assembley absolutely needs to be on there, I just don't know which one. It's a massively underappreciated album.

oh, and there are copies of the eno boxes at the berkeley amoeba, $85 and $90 a piece.

Josh has inspired me to piece together those Eno comps. Thanks!

I made this 100-minute tape in 2001, Side A pop, Side B ambient.

Side A
Third Uncle
Needles In The Camel's Eye
The Fat Lady Of Limbourg
On Some Faraway Beach
Golden Hours
Baby's On Fire
Back In Judy's Jungle
No One Receiving
King's Lead Hat
St. Elmo's Fire
Here He Comes

Side B
Fripp and Eno - Wind On Wind (which is just a three-minute snippet of Discreet Music anyway)
Through Hollow Lands
Becalmed
Deep Blue Day
Harold Budd/Brian Eno - The Plateaux Of Mirror
Lizard Point
1/1
Drift
Strange Light
An Ending (Ascent)

I managed to locate a copy of the Vocal box set on eBay. It ended up costing US$55, but $20 of that was in overseas postage, if that's any help to yo who seek the box.