Where should I start with Brian Eno?

[Achtane]

...I like The Plateaux of Mirror

[dubkitty]

of the ambient stuff that hasn't been mentioned, On Land and the Apollo soundtrack during which he discovered Daniel Lanois are important. the essential audience recording of Fripp/Eno at the Paris Olympia is now available as an official DGM download for those who don't have the bootleg, and every home should own one. the material works better in the live loop-segued-into-loop format than broken up into individual LP tracks. for the "rock" albums i like Tiger Mountain and Before And After Science best, because the emotions are closest to the shimmering, opaque surface. Science's combination of loveliness, dread, gallows humor, and bitter resignation is extraordinary. the relatively recent Fripp/Eno The Equatorial Stars is nice, if much more ambient-twinkly than their previous collabs. unless you're a hopeless prog nerd, avoid the 801 album--Eno and Manzanera's glam-meets-Brand-X 70s live one-off--at all costs...it has all the boys'-night-out unpleasantness of Warm Jets with none of the charm. and the Eno + Cluster/Harmonia/Moebius + Roedelius discs aren't really worth the import prices unless you're a total Krautrock fanboi.

[ryan summit]

here come the warm jets
was the first album i heard
needle in the camels eye
is one of those perfect songs
that you dont want to end
and come on
baby's on fire
what a weirdo
man, enjoy this journey though
youll come out of it a better man

[dubkitty]

when i made the "boy's-night-out" comment i didn't mean it as a negative, but rather a characterization of a certain kind of avant-rock aesthetic that seems reductively and reactively masculinist, perhaps best illustrated by [i]White Light/White Heat{/i] which in one sense is a negation of the feminine and pop qualities of the "banana album" (and of the post-Cale VU). the Nico album was heroin and flowers; WL/WH is speed, violence, and dicks.

[deeohgee]

Thursday Afternoon

[voerking]

the essential audience recording of Fripp/Eno at the Paris Olympia is now available as an official DGM download for those who don't have the bootleg, and every home should own one.

that was supposed to come out on cd, but it never has!
I have a hang up about paying for downloads, so i don't have it yet...i want a real cd with art & liner notes. DGM puts out enough lame stuff (most of the collectors club cds) you would think they would prioritize something so good, and essential.

unless you're a hopeless prog nerd, avoid the 801 album--Eno and Manzanera's glam-meets-Brand-X 70s live one-off--at all costs...it has all the boys'-night-out unpleasantness of Warm Jets with none of the charm.

i like that album.

i dig that they do Eno songs, as well as Quiet Sun tunes, and a few decent covers (Tomorrow Never Knows, Heartbreak Hotel). i wouldn't call it ESSENTIAL, by any stretch, but it's an enjoyable listen once you know the songs from their original (superior) versions.