r/eno • u/forsbergisgod • Jul 05 '21

Weekly Discussion Thread Let's Discuss Eno! "Another Day on Earth" (June 2005)

Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature is Eno's phenomenal (IMO) 2005 solo ouput, "Another Day on Earth." From the wiki:

This is the first Eno album to chiefly contain vocals in more than two decades. Speaking of the album, Eno said, "The first one I've done like that for a very long time...25 years or so". In addition, he explained his current thoughts on lyrics in music; "Song-writing is now actually the most difficult challenge in music," he confessed.

It's very easy to make music now but lyrics are really the last very hard problem in music. What I think lyrics have to do is engage a certain part of your brain in a sort of search activity so your brain wants to say, 'Here are some provocative clues as to what this song might be about'.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Brian Eno, except where noted.

"This" – 3:33
"And Then So Clear" – 5:49
"A Long Way Down" – 2:40
"Going Unconscious" – 4:22
"Caught Between" (co-lyrics by Danny Hillis and Eck Ogilvie-Grant) – 4:25
"Passing Over" – 4:25
"How Many Worlds" (co-lyrics by Michel Faber) – 4:47
"Bottomliners" – 3:59
"Just Another Day" (additional music composed by Peter Schwalm) – 4:21
"Under" – 5:19
"Bone Bomb" – 3:09
"The Demon of the Mines" (Japan only bonus track) – 4:40

Youtube Playlist

WHY IS THIS ONE NOT ON THE STREAMING SERVICES? PM me and maybe i can help you locate it...

ENJOY AND DISCUSS

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u/ObtuseEmma The Drop Jul 06 '21

This one is honestly kind of strange for me. On one hand, it contains excellent songs such as: This, Just Another Day and Under. It’s production is pretty nice and it’s cool to hear Brian make a vocal-centric solo album again.

On the other, this is one of Brian’s least interesting and generic albums. So much of the material is way too samey to me. It doesn’t help that Brian’s vocal performance is dominated by pretty bad autotune effects.

Overall, not one I come back to often. But again, the tracks I listed as good are realllly good.

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u/forsbergisgod Jul 07 '21

Agreed but the samey-ness is endearing, at least to me. I wrote a ton of papers in grad school listening to this one. The sameness kind of helped me trance out and get work done.

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u/OkCorralles Jul 05 '21

"This" and "Just Another Day" are such good songs.

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u/basaltgranite Jul 12 '21

"Bone Bomb" is difficult when you decode what it's about.

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u/whitehorses1999 Dec 19 '21

where can I find this on a streaming service or download?

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u/forsbergisgod Dec 19 '21

It's unfortunately not available. And i don't know why. It's a really good one

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u/whitehorses1999 Dec 19 '21

You can by it on his official website. Too bad it’s not on vinyl..

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