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Well, why not? Preferably songs, but since some of the ambient CDs are so samey-same I guess a CD will also do.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the ambient stuff as well as the next guy. But I'd pick "The True Wheel" (off Tiger Mountain), because it's so catchy and was my intro to Eno.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"St. Elmo's Fire".... my first Eno love. (I really just couldn't decide to well, but I can stand by this answer) The lyrics are wonderful, and I enjoy how, despite being a VERY simple song, it comes off quite original. It's also one of those guitar solos I actually like.

― Keiko, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Baby's On Fire. If a record, then Here Come The Warm Jets.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Kings Lead Hat"

Of course, his greatest contribution to music was producing the first Devo album.

― dave q, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If we're including production credits then let's not even act like this isn't all about Remain in Light...

― Keiko, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Vocal - Needles In The Camel's Eye. Instrumental - Discreet Music, because as opposed to other personal favourites like Drift, Strange Light and An Ending (Ascent), there's so much more of it.

― Damian, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"here come the warm jets" (the song). the drummer from hawkwind plays on it.

― unknown or illegal user, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Spinning Away," on his collab with John Cale.

― Michael Daddino, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Backwater, fecking genius

― Anas FK, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

co-credits on the collaborations are making this easier. for me, either "Among Fields Of Crystal" (-w- Harold Budd) or "Delta Rain Dream" (-w- Jon Hassell). Eno's also the antidote to prog - yo, Anna Rose, get on an Eno tip!

(oh, 'song' songs? "Here He Comes" has ascended, over the years. "Driving Me Backwards" & "Julie With" are faves, too, though Taking Tiger Mountain has the most pound-for-pound song- satisfaction.)

― Paul, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah keiko, i agree but will say "Sky-saw"->"st elmos.."->"big ship"->"fire island" sequence is all as of one for me -- his most ambient _yet_still_there_ record, the beginning of the end ?, the point of greatest crossed destinies ?

look at fertile eno reacting alongside punk 75->80 most cross productive we would probably agree -- punk as foil provoked the best from bowie/iggy/heads (eno types)

but then he goes and joins U2 as though he's brain damaged (well he tells them what to do, but that bands pretence is global understanding or "peace") and i can't easily name a lesser equipped bunch of muscle than U2 pre-eno (and even when he's their joe walsh it does n

― george gosset, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gotta go with "BACKWATER" from BEFORE AND AFTER SCIENCE

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Record: "Another Green World" as listening to it I really delve into another world, a softer, a warmer, a slower, a better world.

Song: "By This River" from "Before and After Science" for the beauty of the melody and the perfection how it mixes with the lyrics. Music from the heavens.

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The True Wheel"... I can't believe it's noone else's favorite.

― gygax! (i forgot my blog password), Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tad picked it, gygax!

Mine: "Energy Fools The Magician" - Percy Jones!!!!

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pretty much EVERYTHING off of "before and after science" but i have to go for the beautiful fragile gorgeousness of "by this river" - it's so frail and sad and - words fail. just an amazing piece of music. only john martyn's "small hours" affects me in a similar way really...

― commonswings, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Duh. "Dead Finks Don't Talk." ("All aboard! All aboard!")

― Nick A., Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

by this river, here he comes -- jeeze the easy listening side (before science ?) -- backwater is neato subversion of river, kings lead hat a t.heads anagran, energy more crafty tricks -- yet it's easy to spot and label all these qualities, with sublime indefinable creation scarse ? isn't "..science" his most pedestrian play-to-your-mother trick-pony poses of the 4 pop albums ? the _prints_ for chris'ache originally "included", now on the back -- eno's "folio" for record companies wondering "what to use him for next" ?

another green world -- that sounded good before i heard the music -- then the cover white stain-glass to off-frame slide + nude eno in green bathe en reverse -- this album oozes finesse -- it's so wholely artful

were these 4 albums demographic shots in various directions with the pop/ambient compromise of "..science" apparently the winner ?

BUT EVEN THAT DOES NOT EXPLAIN (suck) "U2", explain eno doing the boot theme for windows -- it's like he lost his taste completely -- again easiest to blame those U2 "christians"

but mid '70s who could complain if they were named eno and the best complement often laid on some album or other was simply the fact of his presence or credits like "brian eno: eno" ? did U2 dictate to Island "we want eno" ? i mean he's responsible for the cheap grace with which they've sold 200 albums to arena rock dopes -- it's not like he's the fifth beatle, more the first spy bomber

with all this recent selling out (yet artfully protecting his place in history via ambiguous "producer" rather than grimey U2 co-writing credits) he's become an art-slum-landlord

― george gosset, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Needles In The Camel's Eye" First album, first track. Perfection.

― Tim DiGravina, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"On Some Faraway Beach". I love the way the piano sounds.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Needle," natch.

― J, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Everything Merges With The Night from Another Green World (I really love that line at the beginning "...I've been waiting all evening, possibly years, I don't know...")

― jamesmichaelward, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I love that one too.

and what happens to the music in the middle of "The Belldog".
"The Lost Day" is hard to beat for ambient.

aw heck, too difficult - I've turned this into SEARCH ENO!

― Paul, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

i listened last night to all of Before/After Science and must say Spider and I. The moment(s) right after he says 'world without sound' when he re-creates what it feels like to huff paint fumes for hours is so right. Backwater is brilliant. He uncovers every possible riff that song has and varies them enough to make phil glass get wet.

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Fat Lady of Limbourg," for sentimental reasons.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably "By This River". Simple, elegant, perfect.

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"here comes the warm jets" is really really fun to play...

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Dead Finks Don't Talk, because of that piano intro, and that mad over the top guitar solo and the 'OUR PERFECT MASTERS...' voice on the last verse. And the shrieking voice sample.

― Ferg (Ferg), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, someone besides me picked Dead Finks! That song is insane.

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Another great one that leasp top mind is "Spinning Away", on the collaboration album with John Cale. His "ooooooohhhhhhhhhh" at the end of the song, and the way it just drowns into the lyrics.

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Which reminds me, isn't he about due to make a good album sometime soon? :)

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Sweet Bobby Fripp's guitar solo on
"King's Lead Hat" always rings my bell,
but Eno's best work may be his
collab with David Byrne on My Life
In The Bush Of Ghosts; it's
a crucial album in music history.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

seriously tough...but I'm gonna go with King's Lead Hat. I almost want to say something about a flammable infant, but then I remember the line "Splish Splash I was raking in the cash" and well...the choice is made.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Put A Straw Under Baby"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

revive!

'spider and I' is my current eno fave.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 7 March 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Another Green World is my favorite album - it remains estranging and fresh, jolly though meaty. But the melancholy Sparrowfall (3x) from Music for Films can put me to tears - what a beaut!

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 7 March 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

yes music for films is one of the most underrated albums ever. and of course all those films are purely fictional. they don't exist. my life in the bush of ghosts is pretty neat too for the radio/world experimentalism. i have only listened to it once at a party a while ago. but i loved it. fripp + eno is a dream team.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 7 March 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

regarding my life.., that should be Byrne + eno?

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 7 March 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

yes of course. sorry. i am getting carried away.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 7 March 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

in the Eno tribute band I've beein playing with for a bit, "The True Wheel" is probably the most fun to play. though I love singing "Seven Deadly Finns" too.

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

leeks hills (unfamiliar wind)

― m., Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

My current favorite is Plateaux of Mirror.
By the way, Head of Femur does an excellent cover of "The True Wheel" on their debut album from last year.

― otto, Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Warszawa here.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Current: 'Spider and I' indeed.
All-time: 'Baby's On Fire' or 'Backwater' (can't decide)

― Omar (Omar), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

This band of townies in their early twenties who basically did spacey jams got two friends (one owned an analog fuckwithable synth like Eno's) to help them perform a DEAD ON cover of "The True Wheel" on campus one time (and one time only). I think they got every goddamn note in there, maybe added some (their ending was more dynamic than Eno's too). I almost cried at the beauty of it (local bands usually don't even try to pull something off this panoramic or ambitious). I think they could have been pro's if they gave a shit but they were slackers to the extreme. Most live in Portland now I think.

Anyhow, my pick is still the same upthread. King's Lead Hat all the way.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

2/2 from "Music For Airports". However, this thread has reaffirmed my embarassment at not being familiar with his pre-'77 output.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I cannot answer this thread because the sheer amount of incredible goodness in his body of work has given me a particularly nasty case of option paralysis.

― Born-Again Pubescent Undercover Pocket Nihilist Crochet Ninja (mjt), Sunday, 7 March 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Driving Me Backwards"

― anode (anode), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"Cindy Tells Me". Sometimes I sing that to my cat Sindy.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The True Wheel

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

2/2

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

'king's lead hat' (miccio and i agree on something: world explodes!!)

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like Cluster & Eno. It's planetarium music of the highest degree. Fur Eloise is just great. Who else would have the balls(?) to use a sitar in the late 70's??

― Darth Nader, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll second? "On Some Faraway Beach"

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Back in Judy's Jungle"

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"Baby's on Fire"

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't decide between "Baby's On Fire" and "Back In Judy's Jungle"

― Myonga Von Bontee, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sombre Reptiles" is my current poo.

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"The True Wheel" here too. I was gonna say "Needles In the Camel's Eye," for nostalgia's sake, but it's really not a hard call for me.

― M. Specktor, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

This is really difficuot but I'll go with...."St. Elmo's Fire"

― Michael B, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Julie With...

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Julie With ... seconded

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

If I really really had to pick just one song, I think it would have to be "Burning Airlines", as it was the first Eno song I heard - John Peel played it by mistake in late '83 and I was entranced. Got a double pack of "Warm Jets" / "Science" for Xmas that year and it went on from there really. But "Burning Airlines"... that opening line! Those guitars! The bassline that hardly moves off one note!

If I had to pick one album it would probably be "Taking Tiger Mountain" too, it's his most rounded album - the playing is subtle but menacing, the songs are puzzling but fun. For Ambient stuff, I'd go for "Music for Airports".

― Rob M (Rob M), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

how about this one:

POO ENO Vocal

then

POO ENO Instrumental

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

If that's the case, "By This River" (really any track bar "Here He Comes" on Side 2 on BAAS) for the vocal and "Stars" on Apollo (maybe "Under Stars" — I prefer whichever is the slowed down version) for the instr...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

instrumental = "becalmed"

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Golden Hours"

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

wow this thread splinter really took off.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

An Ending (Ascent) off Apollo

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Album: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Song: "Taking Tiger Mountain"

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Inroduced to 'True Wheel' and thrashed it to death. Love heaps of his tracks, but maybe my favorite.. well 'Mother Whale Eyeless'
woooooh

― was, Monday, 22 March 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

thirteen years pass...

how many days in a row do you think you could go listening only to ENO and/or artists he played with and/or produced?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ZJzi7bPpo

― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:17 (eight years ago)

four

― The Suite Life of Jack and Wendy (wins), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:18 (eight years ago)

forty

― sleeve, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:21 (eight years ago)

like two or three idk

Back In Judy's Jungle obv to the question

― imago, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:26 (eight years ago)

in college I probably spent 2 years doing just that, basically everything I listened to was one degree of separation away

now that he's worked with Underworld, IDK infinity

― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:50 (eight years ago)

http://productionadvice.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/oblique.jpg

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:50 (eight years ago)

discreet music side a

if that doesn't count, "through hollow lands"

― brimstead, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:24 (eight years ago)

that totally counts!

my boring answer is "The True Wheel"

― sleeve, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:24 (eight years ago)

Are we POOing? Right now I might say "Spider & I."

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:32 (eight years ago)

I've also long had a soft spot for "Under."

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:32 (eight years ago)

But really this guy is in my DNA, I think of Eno stuff every day.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 19:32 (eight years ago)

Spider & I is a good shout right now.

― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:46 (eight years ago)

Under is great

Woah wait wrong way up is finally on Spotify

See y'all in four days

― The Suite Life of Jack and Wendy (wins), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:17 (eight years ago)

He’s a very generous cordoban

― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:44 (eight years ago)

^^^ might be my choice actually! Or the big ship.

― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:45 (eight years ago)

WWU has some of the best lyrics of both their careers

Remember this oil by Augustus John
These are the ones I found in Rome
Very few things I keep for long
When does your plane leave for Cologne?

― The Suite Life of Jack and Wendy (wins), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:48 (eight years ago)

Is that the song where they got the lyrics from a phrasebook?

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:53 (eight years ago)

Very akin to Eno''s "Big Day" lyrics:

Taking our time before it's through
Passing our days in old shoes
Sister - think I'm returning to Peru.
Wish that I never came here
They can't pronounce my name here
Everyone asks me, "where's Peru?"

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:55 (eight years ago)

That was Córdoba but there are number of points on the album where it feels like they might have used that technique xp

― The Suite Life of Jack and Wendy (wins), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:55 (eight years ago)

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