Eno

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Tried searching for old threads, but Eno's too short a term and just searching Brian's stupid.

He's someone I've found myself listening to more and more over the years. The kind of stuff I can stick on when I can't think of anything to listen to. The recent Cale phase led into Spinning Away which led into just listening to Stars off Apollo over and over and Discreet Music. I've hammered the No Pussyfooting LP with Fripp over the years too.


One thing of his I've never gotten into is My Life in the Bush of Ghosts with Byrne. Always heard it's this seminal album, great use of sampling etc etc but it's never done anything for me. Just sounds naff and dated.

 

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The Uncanny

You know it when you hear it... The album thread has me going back over Amber for the first time in a while and realising just how strangely familiar and dreamlike the whole thing is. It's probably not my favourite of theirs (Autechre), but it's the only one that really has this quality for me...

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his Jah Wobble album is fun

fallen asleep many nights listening to Music For Airports

Another Green World is something else as well

 

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spent a lot a nights around campfires with apollo on, looking at the stars

 

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I'm always disappointed when the opening of Burning Airlines... tails off and it goes into the actual song.

 

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Taking Tiger Mountain or Here Come The Warm Jets?

 

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strong case for most overrated figure in the last half-century of popular music

you'd have to look far and wide to find someone more willing to slap his name on things and take credit for other people's ideas

his "I'm not actually a musician" schtick is the most insufferable humblebrag this side of "all I know is I know nothing"

 

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not that he's never done anything good

he was good in Roxy Music, tho they didn't miss him at all when he left. the first two solo records are good.

some of the Berlin Trilogy, even if as per usual all the supposedly fwd ideas are nicked off other people, in that case from krautrock

I think his ambient records are dead boring but some people like them

obviously he didn't "invent" ambient music, just slapped a label and a self-serving origin story onto something people had long been doing

 

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it's too bad @droid is on indefinite hiatus because I know he'd argue the Eno corner fiercely

 

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I love ambient Fripp.
Theres some overlap between frippertronics and what Eno was doing with tape delay, i.e. the machine that generates Discreet Music. Would love to know how the idea developed between the two.

Recently been enjoying footage from this Nels Cline performance with similar dynamics

 

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Maybe Satie's in with a shout re: "inventing" ambient music with his "furniture music". Often impossible to nail these things down though. Could well have been somebody on the other side of the world doing the same thing unnoticed.

 

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it's too bad @droid is on indefinite hiatus because I know he'd argue the Eno corner fiercely

Yeah, he thinks On Land's the greatest ambient record of all time.

Eno's Ambient 4 'On Land' - Recommendations for Similar?

Totally love great swathes of this album. I'd like to hear more ambient music in this sinister/atmospheric style:

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But yeah. Recommendations to rival probably the best ambient record of all time is it?

That record saved my life after some inadvertent psychedelic poisoning a couple of years ago. True story.

 

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Taking Tiger Mountain or Here Come The Warm Jets?

Here Come For the Warm Jets for the opening and closing tracks

"Needle In the Camel's Eye" is one of the more enjoyable takes on Velvet proto-motorik anyone's ever done

"Here Come the Warm Jets" too but on a more avant la lettre shoegaze tip

"Here Come the Warm Jets" is on my funeral playlist

 

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Maybe Satie's in with a shout re: "inventing" ambient music with his "furniture music"

I mean no one "invented it", it's not like there's a patent on the idea of ambience

Eno was just happy to take credit for inventing it

 

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Was listening to the BBC Session of Baby's On Fire earlier. Very different without Fripp.

 

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Yeah, he thinks On Land's the greatest ambient record of all time

trust me, we've been over it

it's like arguing politics with your dad, best to just avoid it unless there's a strong reason to

 

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I prefer this cover of "Taking Tiger Mountain" to the original

Comelade is an interesting guy, on straddles 70s avant-rock (i.e. France's version of krautrock) and post-punk

 

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strong case for most overrated figure in the last half-century of popular music

you'd have to look far and wide to find someone more willing to slap his name on things and take credit for other people's ideas

his "I'm not actually a musician" schtick is the most insufferable humblebrag this side of "all I know is I know nothing"

anyone tell where any of that is inaccurate tho

 

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the "overrated" part is subjective, admittedly

the rest is pretty cast in stone tho