Poll: Eno as a producer

I obviously had to go for "The Lamb Lies On Broadway" although I admit Eno probably contributed more to most of the others here.

Eno did not produce the Berlin trilogy.

Eno didn't 'produce' Low or Heroes you fucking muppet.

I like how I phrased it better, Alfred.

He didn't produce The Lamb either - John Burns and Genesis did. All he did was provide 'Enosifications' for 'The Waiting Room'.'

Depends on how you defend "producer" although I agree I was in thin ice when I included "The Lamb..."

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I like how I phrased it better, Alfred.

Much more elegantly, Nick.

I'm tempted to vote for Zooropa for contrarianism's sake (or, hell, Laid), but More Songs... gets my vote.

Remain In Light, of course. But I've always loved Bright Red, too.

The Q/A Devo album is the winner.

This is very much Remain in Light

no No New York, no surprise

It doesn't have melody.

i think eno did more on the lamb than just the waiting room; for instance, there is something about 'grand parade' that sounds like him (but really only that song). I've never seen anything definitive though.

If memory serves, he also only produced the opening track on Shleep. And this list doesn't include any of the stuff he did for Obscure, the records he did with Jon Hassell, or about a billion other things he produced.

With that in mind, I won't bother voting.

Didn't he produce all his own albums as well?

More Songs About Buildings and Food, just to be different.

I thought Eno did the second Devo album as well? I like that one just a bit more than the debut better, and would've voted for it. Otherwise, it's almost inevitable: Remain In Light.

I'm drawing an imaginary line in my head between true Eno productions and Eno/Lanois co-productions which I basically hate.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7151346.stm
Mr Clegg was joined on his first day in the job by musician Brian Eno, whom he has brought in as an adviser on how to "reach out beyond Westminster to people who don't get a say in politics".

Low, Heroes... where the fuck is Lodger?

Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

all he did was let peter sing through his synths on grand parade of lifeless packaging.

I went with Fear of Music. You can hear the beginnings of the direction they were about to go on "More Songs...", but I think Eno really drew out the darkness on Fear of Music.

Devo, though Geir's presumptions and omissions fuck this poll up from the start.

Low, Heroes... where the fuck is Lodger?

Eno wasn't around for "Lodger" at all, was he?

Other than that, I have just used Wikipedia's list of albums produced by Eno, and the omissions here are Wikipedia's omissions. Those Jon Hassel ones were also credited to Eno though, thus counting as Eno albums.

FIVE james albums?

sheesh

remain in light from this list

souvlaki is good, although he was co-producer or some shit.

FIVE james albums?

Eno was seemingly less in demand as a producer by the 90s.

i kinda think momus thinks he's eno

being all interested in ideas and such

Eno wasn't around for "Lodger" at all, was he?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Trilogy

some really, really awful records there. di'in he do that krautrock lp? harmonium or s.thing? even if he didn't, it's got to be a better vote than u cocking 2. i vote 'fear of music'.

Eno wasn't around for "Lodger" at all, was he?

He's responsible for the "cricket menace" at the very least!

I voted for "Outside."

you crazy

This poll is a joke.

I've got to go with Q:Are We Not Men? simply for the fact that it's an inarguably better album than ANYTHING ELSE ON THE LIST. That said, Devo hated working with Eno and I believe it was mutual.

And I don't believe Eno produced the No New York album so much as culled it together, but I might be wrong.

I think Eno is gonna produce the new Coldplay album. Also, Robert Wyatt - Comicopera... I'm sure he had a hand in that.

I don't like this poll. Genesis wins outright for me.

if you're going to do this, do it right and start a new thread

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Brian+Eno

& chronological order would help to illustrate the things

Those are Eno albums, not albums produced by Eno. There isn't one single album in this poll credited to Eno as an artist. Not even "Low" and "Heroes" were.

I was wrong. Robert Wyatt did produce comicopera. Maybe this list is justified.

I know I left out the "No New York" album because it seemed more like a compilation. Other than that I have included every single album listed in that Wikipedia article. Plus a few others where he were around, and where he is credited although neither as artist nor producer.

Those are Eno albums, not albums produced by Eno. There isn't one single album in this poll credited to Eno as an artist. Not even "Low" and "Heroes" were.

Gear, his production list is on that page if you scroll down just a little bit

this is the actual list, discogs did miss one or two. I omitted albums where he only produced one or two tracks, and omitted Passengers because he's a member of the group.

Portsmouth Sinfonia - Plays The Popular Classics
Christopher Hobbs / John Adams / Gavin Bryars - Ensemble Pieces
David Toop / Max Eastley - New And Rediscovered Musical Instruments
Robert Calvert - Lucky Leif And The Longships
Gavin Bryars - The Sinking Of The Titanic
Michael Nyman - Decay Music
Jan Steele / John Cage - Voices And Instruments
Ultravox! - Ultravox!
Tom Phillips / Gavin Bryars / Fred Orton - Irma
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food
Various - No New York
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Harold Budd - The Pavilion Of Dreams
Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
Laraaji - Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Edikanfo - The Pace Setters
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Roger Eno - Voices
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Jon Hassell & Farafina - Flash Of The Spirit
John Cale - Words For The Dying
Zvuki Mu - Zvuki Mu
Geoffrey Oryema - Exile
U2 - Achtung Baby
James - Laid
U2 - Zooropa
Laurie Anderson - Bright Red
James - Wah Wah
David Bowie - 1. Outside - The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle
James - Millionaires
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
James - Pleased To Meet You

+ Paul Simon - Surprise

anyone see anything I missed, or if that's it, start a new poll -- that's not a bad list

I think it's so funny he produced all that stuff for James.

I guess him producing the next Coldplay is old news. But, damn do I hope he edits coldplay out.

I instantly missed No New York too, but I'd still vote for DEVO over that or anything else (Harold Budd being second).

Eno did not produce the 2nd Devo record even though it is arguably the superior album.

I always think of their first two albums as a whole...generally listen to them both when I listen to either.

Hmm...AMG credits both Eno and the band themselves with production on that 2nd Devo album. But they're not infallible.

("They" being AMG, just to clarify)

Either Ultravox! or The Sinking Of The Titanic

Oh yeah, forgot "Sinking of the Titanic". Out of the Geir's list of albums, some of which Eno didn't actually produced, prob'ly "Fear of Music".

Eno wasn't around for "Lodger" at all, was he?

He (co-)wrote more songs on it than on either "Low" or Heroes"!

Oh can I vote for "Double Exposure" by Television?

No?

OK, bye.

Hmm...AMG credits both Eno and the band themselves with production on that 2nd Devo album. But they're not infallible.

AMG is wrong, but discogs and wikipedia have the correct production credit

Milton, you're missing several Hassell records in there.

I missed Power Spot & Michael Brook's Hybrid & probably a few other things, what other Hassell?

I'd thought Cities but it wasn't that one. It's The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound

you're right -- slipped my mind because it's a live album, but that's a great one

David Bowie - 1. Outside - The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle
is this really the name of this song/LP, and if so, can somebody please direct me to the ILM thread wherein it is deservedly ridiculed?

Fear of Music

Slowdive!

XXP I believe "Outside" was supposed to be the beginning of a series of albums. This is why it is called "1.Outside" rather than "Outside".

A good thing he did't continue though. "Outside" was an interesting experiment that worked in part and might have worked even better on a 40 minut album rather than an 80 minute one. I cannot say I would have died for a sequel though.

I was relying on the fact that DEVO have been one of my favorite bands since childhood. I don't need AMG to know that they never wanted to work with Eno again after he helped them get their name out there.

Outside is frustrating in that ithas several of bowie's best songs of later years on it ('oxford town', 'strangers when we meet', 'i'm deranged', 'architects' eyes') and a whole bunch of annoying shit

Hyper Cycle!

Outside has remained one of my favorite Bowie albums... always thought that it had more of a Young Gods sound than the NIN rip-off it was panned as.

Never really thought much on the album was "annoying." I guess the "Segue" parts were a bit jarring at first, but I've heard them so many times and they're all so short that I barely even notice them anymore. There's some funny little lines in there, too... ("And I've been dreaming of sleeeeeeeep. And ape men with metal parts.")

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I sorely regret that he never finished the whole project. It's nice to hear Joey Barron and Mike Garson on there, too.

holy cow, more stories...

I also read somewhere that Eno gave out "Oblique Strategies"-style cards to each of the musicians that instructed them to play in a certain style. I'm convinced that it was because of this that "Outside" is mostly unmarred by Reeves Gabriels' usually unpleasant-sounding guitar.

novaheat OTM -- Outside is nearly brilliant.

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ha ha ha, i knew i would be the only one who voted for Harold Budd.

i guess this shouldn't count because it's from 81, but i found an afrofunk LP yesterday by a group called Edikanfo produced by Eno. i haven't listened to the whole thing yet but it's pretty amazing. apparently there's not much eno involvement besides engineering it properly.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9603/edikanfofrontwebgb1.jpg

oops. meant to post this in this thread
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