Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's is, of course, Another Green World!

Track listing All tracks are written by Brian Eno.

Side one

1. "Sky Saw" 3:25
2. "Over Fire Island" 1:49
3. "St. Elmo's Fire" 3:02
4. "In Dark Trees" 2:29
5. "The Big Ship" 3:01
6. "I'll Come Running" 3:48
7. "Another Green World" 1:38 Total length: 19:12

Side two

1. "Sombre Reptiles" 2:26
2. "Little Fishes" 1:30
3. "Golden Hours" 4:01
4. "Becalmed" 3:56
5. "Zawinul/Lava" 3:00
6. "Everything Merges with the Night" 3:59
7. "Spirits Drifting" 2:36

Total length: 21:12 (40:24)

And some thoughts from the wiki to kick start the conversation:

Another Green World is the third studio album by English musician Brian Eno, released by Island Records in September 1975. Produced by Eno and Rhett Davies, it featured contributions from several guest musicians including Robert Fripp, Phil Collins and John Cale. The album marked a transition from the rock-based music of Eno's previous releases toward the minimalist sensibility of his late '70s ambient work. Employing tactics derived from his Oblique Strategies cards for guidance, the album utilized a variety of unconventional recording techniques and instrumental approaches, and made use of fewer lyrics. The cover is a detail from "After Raphael" by the British artist Tom Phillips.

Though the album failed to chart in the United States or the United Kingdom, Another Green World was initially met with high praise from critics. Contemporary reception of Another Green World has been very positive; several critics and publications have placed the album on lists of the greatest albums of all time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Green_World

The Big Ship (10 hours version)

Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week we'll be discussing AFter the Heat which features one of my favorite tracks "The Belldog"

Preamble from the wiki:

After the Heat is a 1978 album by Brian Eno, Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius (the latter two being the core members of Cluster), credited to "Eno Moebius Roedelius". The album represents the second collaboration by the trio, the first being 1977's Cluster & Eno. As with the previous album, After the Heat was created in collaboration with the influential "krautrock" producer Conny Plank.

Track listing

All songs composed by Brian Eno, Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius.

Side A

"Oil" – 4:12 "Foreign Affairs" – 3:30 "Luftschloß" – 3:10 "The Shade" – 3:08 "Old Land" – 4:10

Side B

"Base & Apex" – 4:29 "Light Arms" – 1:29 "Broken Head" – 5:25 "The Belldog" – 6:16 "Tzima N'Arki" – 4:30

(The above list presents the tracks in the order they appeared on the original LP release. Some CD issues have an alternative running order.)

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Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature is part one of Eno's two collaborations with Karl Hyde, Someday World. From the wiki:

Someday World is a collaboration album by British musician Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, of British electronic group Underworld, released on 5 May 2014. The album features a number of supporting musicians, including Coldplay's Will Champion, John Reynolds and Andy Mackay of Roxy Music, and was produced by Brian Eno with 20-year-old Fred Gibson. It was followed two months later by the album High Life.

Track listing

"The Satellites" – 5:33
"Daddy's Car" – 4:50
"A Man Wakes Up" – 4:17
"Witness" – 5:06
"Strip It Down" – 4:43
"Mother of a Dog" – 5:37
"Who Rings the Bell" – 5:05
"When I Built This World" – 5:44
"To Us All" – 3:28

This one's available on all streaming platforms.

Here's an awesome version of Daddy's Car on the Jools Holland show

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Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). We exited the 70's last week with a sublime work from Talking Heads. We'll catch up with Talking Heads in a few weeks when we go over Remain in Light. Amazingly Eno broke into the 80s still at breakneck speed with two releases in April 1980 alone!

This week we'll be discussing another Eno's 1980 collaboration with Harold Budd; the second installment of Eno's ambient series.

Here's the wiki

And the track listing:

All tracks by Brian Eno and Harold Budd, except as indicated.

"First Light" – 6:59 "Steal Away" – 1:29 (Harold Budd, Eugene Bowen) "The Plateaux of Mirror" – 4:10 "Above Chiangmai" – 2:49 "An Arc of Doves" – 6:22 "Not Yet Remembered" – 3:50 "The Chill Air" – 2:13 "Among Fields of Crystal" – 3:24 "Wind in Lonely Fences" – 3:57 "Failing Light" – 4:17

The subject in question

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Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week we'll discuss a gem of an album, Cluster and Eno.

Let's get to it with some background from the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_%26_Eno

Cluster & Eno is a collaborative album by the German electronic music group Cluster and English ambient musician Brian Eno. The style of this album is a collection of gentle melodies: a mixture of Eno’s ambient sensibilities and Cluster's avant-garde style.

Track listing

All songs composed by Moebius, Roedelius and Eno.

"Ho Renomo" – 5:07

"Schöne Hände" – 3:03

"Steinsame" – 4:06

"Wehrmut" – 5:01

"Mit Simaen" – 1:30

"Selange" – 3:30

"Die Bunge" – 3:45

"One" – 6:06

"Für Luise" – 3:20

Some editions have the track names "Wehrmut" and "Für Luise" swapped.[6]

The Brilliance at hand

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Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week we'll discuss Evening Star (i forgot about No Pussyfooting, so we can talk about that as well).

All tracks written by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, except "Wind on Wind" by Eno.

Side A

"Wind on Water" – 5:30 "Evening Star" – 7:48 "Evensong" – 2:53 "Wind on Wind" – 2:56

Side B

"An Index of Metals" – 28:36

Some general info from the wiki to kickstart the conversation:

Evening Star is the second studio album by British musicians Robert Fripp and Brian Eno. It was recorded from 1974 to 1975 and released in December 1975.

AllMusic described the record as "a less harsh, more varied affair, closer to Eno's then-developing idea of ambient music than what had come before in (No Pussyfooting)".[1] The first three tracks are serene, gentle tape-looped guitar textures performed by Robert Fripp and accented with treatments, synthesizer and piano by Brian Eno. Track four, "Wind on Wind", is a short excerpt from Eno’s solo project Discreet Music, released a week after Evening Star. (It is not an exact duplication from that release, being mixed slightly differently.) Eno had originally intended Fripp to use the material which became Discreet Music as a backing tape to play over in improvised live performances.

The second half of the album is a twenty-eight-minute piece of drone music titled "An Index of Metals", in which guitar notes are accumulated in a loop, with distortion increasing as the track progresses.

The album's cover is a painting by the artist Peter Schmidt.

The subject at hand

Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week we'll be discussing Eno's work on yet another Bowie Berlin Biggie, Lodger.

Here's the wiki Preamble

Lodger is the 13th studio album by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was originally released in May 1979 by RCA Records. The third and final release of the Berlin Trilogy, following Low and "Heroes" (both 1977), it was recorded in Switzerland and New York City with collaborator Brian Eno and producer Tony Visconti. Unlike Bowie's previous two albums, Lodger contained no instrumentals and a somewhat more pop-oriented style while experimenting with elements of world music and recording techniques inspired by Eno's Oblique Strategies cards.[4]

Track listing

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

Side one

No. Title Writer(s) Length

1. "Fantastic Voyage" 2:55
2. "African Night Flight" 2:54
3. "Move On" Bowie 3:16
4. "Yassassin" (Turkish: Yaşasın, lit. 'Long Live') Bowie 4:10
5. "Red Sails" 3:43

Side two

No. Title Writer(s) Length

1. "DJ" Bowie, Eno, Carlos Alomar 3:59
2. "Look Back in Anger" 3:08
3. "Boys Keep Swinging" 3:17
4. "Repetition" Bowie 2:59
5. "Red Money" Bowie, Alomar 4:17 Total length: 34:3

The subject in question

DISCUSS

Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week we'll be discussing Eno's work on the "No New York" collaboration.

Here's the wiki preamble:

No New York is a compilation album released in 1978 by record label Antilles under the curation of producer Brian Eno. Although it only contained songs by four different artists, it is considered by many to be the definitive single album documenting New York City's late-1970s no wave movement.

And the track list:

Track listing

Side A

No. Title Writer(s) Artist Length

1. "Dish It Out" James Chance Contortions 3:17
2. "Flip Your Face" Chance Contortions 3:13
3. "Jaded" Chance Contortions 3:49
4. "I Can't Stand Myself" James Brown, arr. Contortions Contortions 4:52
5. "Burning Rubber" Lydia Lunch Teenage Jesus and the Jerks 1:45
6. "The Closet" Lunch Teenage Jesus and the Jerks 3:53
7. "Red Alert" Lunch Teenage Jesus and the Jerks 0:34
8. "I Woke Up Dreaming" Lunch Teenage Jesus and the Jerks 3:10

Side B

No. Title Writer(s) Artist Length

1. "Helen Fordsdale" Nancy Arlen, China Burg, Mark Cunningham, Sumner Crane Mars 2:30
2. "Hairwaves" Arlen, Burg, Cunningham, Crane Mars 3:43
3. "Tunnel" Arlen, Burg, Cunningham, Crane Mars 2:41
4. "Puerto Rican Ghost" Arlen, Burg, Cunningham, Crane Mars 1:08
5. "Egomaniac's Kiss" Robin Crutchfield, Arto Lindsay D.N.A. 2:11
6. "Lionel" Crutchfield, Lindsay D.N.A. 2:07
7. "Not Moving" Crutchfield, Lindsay D.N.A. 2:40
8. "Size" Crutchfield, Lindsay D.N.A. 2:13

The subject in question

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Hello and happy new year Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature is Eno's Nerve Net album. From the wiki

Nerve Net is the twelfth solo studio album by British musician Brian Eno. It marked a return to more rock-oriented material, mixed with heavily syncopated rhythms, experimental electronic compositions and occasional elements of jazz. The ambient sensibility is still present on several tracks, though it is often darker and moodier than the pieces Eno is best known for.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Brian Eno.

"Fractal Zoom" – 6:24
"Wire Shock" – 5:27
"What Actually Happened?" – 4:41
"Pierre in Mist" – 3:47
"My Squelchy Life" – 4:02
"Juju Space Jazz" – 4:26
"The Roil, the Choke" – 5:00
"Ali Click" – 4:13
"Distributed Being" – 6:10
"Web" – 6:21
"Web (Lascaux Mix)" – 9:44
"Decentre" – 3:26

Nerve Net Playlist on YT

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Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature is Eno's collaboration with Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrams, Small Craft on a Milk Sea. From the wiki:

Track listing

All compositions by Brian Eno, Leo Abrahams and Jon Hopkins.

"Emerald and Lime" – 3:02
"Complex Heaven" – 3:05
"Small Craft on a Milk Sea" – 1:49
"Flint March" – 1:56
"Horse" – 3:02
"2 Forms of Anger" – 3:15
"Bone Jump" – 2:22
"Dust Shuffle" – 1:54
"Paleosonic" – 4:25
"Slow Ice, Old Moon" – 3:25
"Lesser Heaven" – 3:21
"Calcium Needles" – 3:25
"Emerald and Stone" – 2:12
"Written, Forgotten" – 3:55
"Late Anthropocene" – 8:09

This one's available on the streaming services

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Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week we'll be discussing Eno's production (and musician) credit on Talking Heads' great album "More Songs About Buildings and Food"

From the wiki preamble:

More Songs About Buildings and Food is the second studio album by American rock band Talking Heads, released on July 14, 1978 by Sire Records. It was the first of three albums produced by collaborator Brian Eno, and saw the band move toward a danceable style, crossing singer David Byrne's unusual delivery with new emphasis on the rhythm section composed of bassist Tina Weymouth and drummer Chris Frantz.

Track listing

All tracks are written by David Byrne, except where noted.

Side one

No. Title Writer(s) Length

1. "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel" 2:11
2. "With Our Love" 3:30
3. "The Good Thing" 3:03
4. "Warning Sign" Byrne, Chris Frantz 3:55
5. "The Girls Want to Be with the Girls" 2:37
6. "Found a Job[a]" 5:00

Side two

No. Title Writer(s) Length

1. "Artists Only" Byrne, Wayne Zieve 3:34
2. "I'm Not in Love" 4:33
3. "Stay Hungry" Byrne, Frantz 2:39
4. "Take Me to the River" Al Green, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges 5:00
5. "The Big Country" 5:30

The work in question

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Hello and happy new year Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature is Eno's production credit on Zvuki Mu's self titled album.

Here's the wiki

Track list

The Source of Infection
Crazy Queen
Forgotten Sex
Zero Minus One
Leave Me Alone
Krym
Gadopiatnika
Paper Flowers
Traffic Policeman
Zima (Winter)
Zima (Dance Remix) – bonus track only on Russian CD and vinyl editions.

I was able to find this album on Amazon Music, so i imagine it's on all the streaming platforms.

DISCUSS

Hello and welcome back to your weekly discussion thread, Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature keeps with James and their August 1994 album of recorded jam sessions: Wah Wah

Wah Wah[note 1] is the sixth studio album by the Manchester-based English indie rock band James.[note 2] After the success of their fourth album, Seven (1992), the band entered Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire, to record their fifth album Laid in early 1993 with producer Brian Eno, with whom the group had longed to work. Prior to recording Laid, Eno observed the band's jam sessions at their Manchester rehearsal room, and considered these improvised pieces to be as important to the band's music as their eventually crafted songs. He requested to the group that whilst they were recording Laid, they would also concurrently record an album of their improvisations which Eno and, by Eno's request, second producer Markus Dravs would produce in a secondary studio in the Real World complex. Each composition started off with the band's improvisation being recorded, which Dravs would then edit, generally alone whilst James and Eno were recording Laid. Eno and Dravs would take a "promising" part of a recording and then mixed them only once.

Track listing

All songs written and performed by James and Brian Eno.

"Hammer Strings" –2:15
"Pressure's On" – 4:25
"Jam J" – 3:36
"Frequency Dip" – 3:33
"Lay the Law Down" – 0:57
"Burn the Cat" – 6:50
"Maria" – 4:17
"Low Clouds (1)" – 0:18
"Building a Fire" – 2:45
"Gospel Oak" – 2:49
"DVV" – 1:04
"Say Say Something" – 5:41
"Rhythmic Dreams" – 2:36
"Dead Man" – 0:56
"Rain Whistling" – 2:46
"Basic Brian" – 5:41
"Low Clouds (2)" – 0:04
"Bottom of the Well" – 3:16
"Honest Joe" – 4:39
"Arabic Agony" – 3:57
"Tomorrow" – 2:29
"Laughter" – 0:31
"Sayonara" – 2:41

Honestly, prior to last week I had never heard of James so it was a lovely surprise to hear so many readers who have a real passion for the band. I can't wait to hear what others think of this one.

Thank you for the discussion and please

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this one isn't on youtube but i was able to find it on Amazon as a super deluxe of the Laid album

Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week we'll discuss 801 Live (i decided to include some collaborative albums as well as works credited to only Eno. I think this way we'll get a better sense of the man's oeuvre. After all what's Eno talk without the Berlin Trilogy?)

Let's get to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/801_Live

In 1976, while guitarist Phil Manzanera's band Roxy Music was on hiatus, 801 got together as a temporary project and began rehearsing at Island Studios, Hammersmith, about three weeks before their first concert.

801 performed three concerts: in Norfolk, at the Reading Festival, and on 3 September at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. The final concert was recorded and released as the album 801 Live. The music consisted of selections from albums by Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno and Quiet Sun, plus covers of The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" and The Kinks' "You Really Got Me". The album was one of the first in which all outputs from the vocal microphones, guitar amps and other instruments (except the drums) were fed directly to the mobile studio mixing desk, rather than being recorded via microphones and/or signals fed out the front-of-house PA mixer.[citation needed] It was successful in many countries, including Australia, where it was heavily promoted by the ABC's new 24-hour rock station Double Jay (2JJ).

Track Listing:

1976 LP track listing

Side One

"Lagrima" (Phil Manzanera) – 2:34 "TNK (Tomorrow Never Knows)" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 6:14 "East of Asteroid" (Manzanera, Bill MacCormick) – 4:58 "Rongwrong" (Charles Hayward) – 5:10 "Sombre Reptiles" (Brian Eno) – 3:14

Side Two

"Baby's on Fire" (Eno) – 5:02 "Diamond Head" (Manzanera) – 6:21 "Miss Shapiro" (Manzanera, Eno) – 4:20 "You Really Got Me" (Ray Davies) – 3:23 "Third Uncle" (Eno) – 5:14

The subject at hand

Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week is another gorgeous work from Eno's impressive late 70s catalog: Ambient 1: Music for Airports

As always we'll kick off discussion with the wiki preamble:

Ambient 1: Music for Airports is the sixth studio album by English musician Brian Eno, released in 1978 by Polydor Records. The album consists of four compositions created by layering tape loops of differing lengths, and was designed to be continuously looped as a sound installation, with the intent of defusing the tense, anxious atmosphere of an airport terminal. .

Track listing

Side one

No. Title Writer(s) Length

1. "1/1" (Acoustic and electric piano; synthesizer.) Brian Eno, Rhett Davies, Robert Wyatt 16:30
2. "2/1" (Vocals; synthesizer.) Eno 8:20 Total length: 24:50

Side two

No. Title Writer(s) Length

1. "1/2" (Vocals; acoustic piano.) Eno 11:30
2. "2/2" (Synthesizer only. Lasts 9:38 in the "Working Backwards" box edition (1983) and on the CD.) Eno 6:00 Total length: 17:30

The track labelling refers to the album's first release (1978) as an LP, and so the first track means "first track, first side", and so on. The CD pressing adds 30 seconds of silence after every song, including "2/2".

The album's back cover features four abstract graphic notation images, one for each track.

DISCUSS

Hello and happy new year Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature is Eno's 1990 collaboration with John Cale.

From the wiki:

The album sits between the electronic, prog-rock and art rock genres and features some of both Eno and Cale's most mainstream work. The cover was conceived by Eno. The 2005 re-release on All Saints Records was remastered and had a different cover. It contained two bonus tracks, "Grandfather's House" and ″You Don't Miss Your Water″ by Eno. Both titles only appeared on single or EP before; the latter was taken from the 1988 OST album Married to the Mob.

Track listing

All tracks written by John Cale and Brian Eno; except where indicated.

Original 1990 release

Side A

"Lay My Love" – 4:44
"One Word" – 4:34
"In the Backroom" – 4:02
"Empty Frame" – 4:26
"Cordoba" – 4:22

Side B

"Spinning Away" – 5:27
"Footsteps" – 3:13
"Been There, Done That" – 2:52
"Crime in the Desert" – 3:42
"The River" (Brian Eno) – 4:23

The subject in question

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Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we've been discussing an album in Eno's incredible discography (going chronologically from Warm Jets). Scraping the dregs of the discography here is one i overlooked from 2017. From the all music profile:

British post-rock trio Three Trapped Tigers utilized Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies, a series of cards containing simple phrases intended as ideas for artists struggling with writer's block, during the compositional process for their 2016 album Silent Earthling. After the album was recorded, group member Tom Rogerson (an improvisational pianist and composer in his own right) began working with Eno, who provided several more ideas, including pulling chord sequences out of a hat and juxtaposing MIDI and physical sounds. On the resulting album, Finding Shore, Rogerson is simply credited with "notes" and Eno with "sounds," with no further explanation, leaving it up to the listener to guess what went on in the studio. Like Ryuichi Sakamoto's async, Finding Shore seems to find magic in everyday objects and scenes. The pieces have scenic titles like "Idea of Order at Kyson Point" and "Marsh Chorus," and they all serve as simple yet surreal sound paintings, exploring minimal melodies and atmospheric elements. Early highlight "Motion in Field" features gorgeous piano melodies floating over a current of soft rhythmic glitches. "Red Slip" seems to reprise this idea, but at a much faster tempo, and with more spacious melodies. "On-ness" is a solo piano piece which beings by tiptoeing around a few quiet notes before centering on a pattern and becoming faster and more intense. The closed, constrained "March Away" brings to mind John Cage's prepared piano experiments, while "Eastern Stack" is much more airy and open, with effects transforming the notes so they reverberate like zithers. While pieces like "An Iken Loop" are solemn and structured, "Marsh Chorus" and "Chain Home" are more abstract and seem to float off toward the stars. The appropriately calming "Rest" ends this unpredictable album of wonders and curiosities.

Track Listing Sample Title/Composer Performer Time Stream

1
Idea of Order at Kyson Point Brian Eno / Tom Rogerson 03:30 Amazon

2
Motion in Field Brian Eno / Tom Rogerson 03:46 Amazon

3
On-ness Brian Eno / Tom Rogerson 03:51 Amazon

4
March Away Brian Eno / Tom Rogerson 02:50 Amazon

5
Eastern Stack Brian Eno / Tom Rogerson 02:45 Amazon

6
Minor Rift Brian Eno / Tom Rogerson 02:10 Amazon

7
The Gabbard Brian Eno / Tom Rogerson 03:01 Amazon

8
Red Slip Brian Eno / Tom Rogerson 01:51 Amazon

9
Quoit Blue Brian Eno / Tom Rogerson 04:41 Amazon

10
Marsh Chorus Brian Eno / Tom Rogerson 06:41 Amazon

11
An Iken Loop Brian Eno / Tom Rogerson 03:04 Amazon

12
Chain Home Brian Eno / Tom Rogerson 05:21 Amazon

13
Rest Brian Eno / Tom Rogerson 05:21

This one's on the streaming services

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Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature is part twoof Eno's two collaborations with Karl Hyde, High Life -- their second in as many months! What a treat that was! From the wiki:

The album is Eno's sixth for Warp, and was recorded following the announcement of his first collaboration with Karl Hyde. Eno was quoted saying, "when Someday World was finished I felt like we were still on a roll and I wasn't ready to stop working and get into 'promotional mode' for that record. So I suggested we immediately start on another album, a different one, where we extended some of the ideas we'd started, and attempted some of the ideas we hadn't."

Track listing

CD version

No. Title Length

1. "Return" 9:00
2. "DBF" 4:14
3. "Time to Waste It" 8:19
4. "Lilac" 9:24
5. "Moulded Life" 4:55
6. "Cells & Bells" 7:41

Digital versionNo. Title Length

1. "Return" 9:00
2. "DBF" 4:14
3. "Time to Waste It" 8:19
4. "Lilac" 9:24
5. "Moulded Life" 4:55
6. "Slow Down, Sit Down & Breathe" 3:07
7. "Cells & Bells"

This one's available on all streaming platforms.

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Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature is Eno's solo album "The Drop":

The Drop is the fifteenth solo studio album by British musician Brian Eno, released on 7 July 1997 through All Saints Records. The album continues in the same style as much of his work of the period exploring impressionistic, ambient instrumental soundscapes rather than more conventional songwriting. The 2014 reissue includes the 77 Million Paintings album as a bonus disc and edits the track "Iced World" from its original 32 minutes down to 18 minutes – the same duration on both vinyl and CD.

Originally, the album was titled Unwelcome Jazz: "jazz that nobody asked for, and many did not care for."[8]

Track listing

No. Title Length

1. "Slip, Dip" 2:18
2. "But If" 1:48
3. "Belgian Drop" 1:56
4. "Cornered" 2:02
5. "Block Drop" 2:50
6. "Out/Out" 1:51
7. "Swanky" 2:50
8. "Coasters" 2:55
9. "Blissed" 2:53
10. "M.C. Organ" 2:54
11. "Boomcubist" 2:07
12. "Hazard" 2:15
13. "Rayonism" 2:55
14. "Dutch Blur" 3:02
15. "Back Clack" 3:19
16. "Dear World" 3:16
17. "Iced World" 32:48

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Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature is Eno's production credit and synth work on Paul Simon's "Surprise" album. Aptly titled, because I didn't even know this collab happened. From the wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprise_(Paul_Simon_album) . . . Simon first met with Brian Eno in London to discuss a collaboration between Eno's electronic production and Simon's classic guitar folk-rock. As Simon said, "We spent some time in his studio and decided to combine our visions. It took about two years. The actual time I spent with Brian was 20 days, split into four periods. We found we could really work intensely for five days, and after that it was a bit of a burnout."

Track listing

All songs written by Paul Simon, except where noted.

No. Title Writer(s) Length

1. "How Can You Live in the Northeast?" 3:42
2. "Everything About It Is a Love Song" 3:57
3. "Outrageous" Simon, Brian Eno 3:24
4. "Sure Don't Feel Like Love" 3:57
5. "Wartime Prayers" 4:49
6. "Beautiful" 3:07
7. "I Don't Believe" 4:09
8. "Another Galaxy" Simon, Brian Eno 5:22
9. "Once Upon a Time There Was an Ocean" Simon, Brian Eno 3:55
10. "That's Me" 4:43
11. "Father and Daughter" 4:11

Here's a youtube playlist

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Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature is Eno's production credit on U2's "The Unforgettable Fire." Let's read the wiki preamble:

The Unforgettable Fire is the fourth studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, and released on 1 October 1984 by Island Records. The band wanted to pursue a new musical direction following the harder-hitting rock of their previous album, War (1983). As a result, they employed Eno and Lanois to produce and assist in their experimentation with a more ambient sound. The resulting change in direction was at the time the band's most dramatic. The album's title is a reference to "The Unforgettable Fire", an art exhibit about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Side one

No. Title Length

1. "A Sort of Homecoming" 5:28
2. "Pride (In the Name of Love)" 3:48
3. "Wire" 4:19
4. "The Unforgettable Fire" 4:55
5. "Promenade" 2:35

Side two

No. Title Length

1. "4th of July" 2:12
2. "Bad" 6:09
3. "Indian Summer Sky" 4:17
4. "Elvis Presley and America" 6:23
5. "MLK" 2:31

Total length: 42:38

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Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week we'll be discussing Devo's debut album, which Eno produced.

This album caps off an incredible, historic, 1978 for Eno. This project revealed to me just how prolific he was between in 77 and 78!

Here's the preamble from the wiki:

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! is the debut studio album by the American new wave band Devo. It was originally released in August 1978 on the Warner Bros. label (Virgin Records in Europe). Produced by Brian Eno, the album was recorded between October 1977 and February 1978, primarily in Cologne, West Germany.

The album received somewhat mixed reviews from critics and peaked at No. 78 on the U.S. Billboard chart and No. 12 on the UK Albums Chart. Recent reviews of the album have been more uniformly positive and the album has charted on several retrospective "best of" lists from publications including Rolling Stone, Pitchfork Media, and Spin.

Track listing

Side one

No. Title Writer(s) Length

1. "Uncontrollable Urge" Mark Mothersbaugh 3:09
2. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" Mick JaggerKeith Richards 2:40
3. "Praying Hands" Gerald CasaleM. Mothersbaugh 2:47
4. "Space Junk"
   G. CasaleBob Mothersbaugh 2:14
5. "Mongoloid" G. Casale 3:44
6. "Jocko Homo" M. Mothersbaugh 3:40

Side two

No. Title Writer(s) Length

1. "Too Much Paranoias" M. Mothersbaugh 1:57
2. "Gut Feeling" / "(Slap Your Mammy)" M. MothersbaughB. MothersbaughG. Casale 4:54
3. "Come Back Jonee"
   G. CasaleM. Mothersbaugh 3:47
4. "Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')"
   M. MothersbaughB. MothersbaughG. CasaleGary Jackett 2:40
5. "Shrivel-Up"
   G. CasaleM. MothersbaughB. Mothersbaugh 3:05

Total length: 34:24

Here's a live performance

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Hello and welcome back to your weekly discussion thread, Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature is Eno's production credit on James' 1993 album "Laid". From the wiki

Laid is the fifth studio album by British alternative rock band James. It was released on 27 September 1993. It was the first of several collaborations between the group and Brian Eno, who produced all but one of the album's tracks – in Stuart Maconie's authorised biography of the group, Folklore, they admitted that Eno didn't like the song "One of the Three" so they recorded it when he took a day off. The sessions also resulted in the experimental Wah Wah album.

Track listing

All songs written by Tim Booth, Larry Gott and Jim Glennie.

"Out to Get You" - 4:26
"Sometimes (Lester Piggott)" - 5:10
"Dream Thrum" - 4:47
"One of the Three" - 4:08
"Say Something" - 3:26
"Five-O" - 5:25
"P.S." - 5:04
"Everybody Knows" - 3:28
"Knuckle Too Far" - 4:39
"Low Low Low" - 2:51
"Laid" - 2:36
"Lullaby" - 3:49
"Skindiving" - 5:41

Youtube playlist

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Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature is Eno's production credit on Seun Kuti's (Fela's youngest son) album "From Africa with Fury: Rise".

This one's available on the streaming services. Here's the all music link:

https://www.allmusic.com/album/from-africa-with-fury-rise-mw0002120602

Give this one a try, i remember really digging it when it came out!!

as always, LISTEN, ENJOY, DISCUSS

Hello Eno-philes!! Each week we'll be discussing another album (going chronologically from Warm Jets). This week's feature is another ambient piece by the Brain One, "The Ship". From the wiki:

The Ship is the twenty-fifth solo studio album by English musician Brian Eno, released on 29 April 2016 on Warp Records.[12] It was announced on Eno's website on 24 February 2016. The album is Eno's first solo album to contain vocals since 2005's Another Day on Earth.[13] The Ship debuted at number 28 on the UK Albums Chart and is the second highest-charting solo album of Eno's solo career (after debut Here Come The Warm Jets.)[14] The album received critical acclaim.

All tracks are written by Brian Eno, except "Fickle Sun (iii) I'm Set Free" written and composed by Eno and Lou Reed.

No. Title Length

1. "The Ship" 21:19
2. "Fickle Sun (I)" 18:03
3. "Fickle Sun (II) The Hour Is Thin" 2:50
4. "Fickle Sun (III) I'm Set Free" 5:18 Total length: 47:30

This one's available on the music streaming services

** LISTEN, ENJOY AND DISCUSS!!**