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I totally love Brian Eno and have been pulling out some greats (for me imo) like Music for Airports and the stuff with Harold Budd since this thread. But, I've also been tittering immaturely because when I had diarrhea recently, the thought "Here Come The Warm Shits" came into my head and hasn't left.

 

If I were clever enough to write an album worthy of that title, it would be my favorite part to ape the original by adding a "B" to make it "Beno" as in Beano, the anti-gas supplement and replacing "jets" with "shits" in that red font. The entire altered cover would then be sized as an 8x11 framed photo on a bathroom shelf with toilet paper, Vick's vapor-rub, and other things typical of a shitter shelf and that would be my cover.

 

Sorry.

i think the title is actually referring to golden showers...

 

 

both golden showers (a hobby of eno's in the seventies was collecting pornographic playing cards - there's one on the cover) and also fripp's guitar in the title track, which is supposed to sound like a warm jet. and indeed it does.

 

i always get a mental image of a commercial starting with people smiling, boarding a plane, being served drinks, etc., and ending with them plummeting to their doom in the middle of a vast ocean when i listen to 'burning airplanes give you so much more' from taking tiger mountain.... it's so cheery :crazy:

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i'm watching it and listening to the shutov assembly at the same time

 

double-good :emotawesomepm9:

 

btw thank you kalle awesome linkage.

 

edit: eno is very good at retroactively making things that were essentially down to chance sound like they were part of some intentional creative process. the 'invention of ambient' was a far more accidental musical evolution than he likes to make out that it was.

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Man after reading this thread through I just had to go listen to Taking Tiger Mountain.

The title track is sooo good.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKdiU_gzUrA

 

And of course the opening track is money as well.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20pU6MoJSBY

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tidbit ... - illuminate us

 

i really just dont know.. except its not on mfm3.. (i think)

im leaning towards those installation releases too..

but i have to check which one (cannot remember)

 

...

 

this is one of my favs.. from before and after science

(this and jd's atrocity exhibition has something in common.. i think)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUc8-41vBwI

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as regards roxy... the first two (maybe even the first three or four, eno's influence has a long tail) roxy music albums are incredible.

 

watch eno own proceedings even though he doesn't do a lot on the track (but i'm sorry - if i could get away walking around dressed like roxy era eno, i would). no wonder byron ferrari got annoyed.

 

http://www.mybeatclub.com/video/iLyROoafYK2n.html

 

lots of good roxy music live on this site. the more i look at it, the more i think roxy music invented stereolab

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the album version of that track fades out with a fake ending, then fades back in again, heavily effected (it's the end of side one)

so eno is sort of approximating that

 

when this rocks out at the end... it rocks out.

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that song reminds me a bit of talking heads in a way.. well until it breaks out. whoa, i just noticed eno on two reel to reels... brilliant. doesn't sound like he's frippertronicing the guitar or anything though.

 

this is way before that, you can hear some lovely delay/phasing starting at about 5:00

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also, it's kind of funny how brian eno's role in roxy music seemed to have been really influential too... cabaret voltaire and that whole sort of more electronic side of post-punk. i'm sure there must have been loads of little enos walking around in the late 70s - acting cerebral yet elegant

 

absolutely, pretty soon if you were a post-punk band you needed an 'ideas guy' who may or may not tour with you.

of course eno producing the 'no new york' compilation didn't help :emotawesomepm9:

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Man after reading this thread through I just had to go listen to Taking Tiger Mountain.

The title track is sooo good.

I've been way into that album lately. That shit is bananas.

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I'm about a third of the way into this book at the moment:

 

biranenobook2.jpg

 

A good read, and consequently I'm immersing myself in everything Eno right now. Most interesting revelation I've read so far is that Eno claims to have appeared in a couple of porno movies around the turn of the 70s, before Roxy Music took off. No proof of this has ever been found, however...

 

Also, I had naturally assumed that Eno had come from a wealthy/well-off background, what with that ludicrous "Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno" full name. But infact his father and grandfather were postmen.

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@Brian_Eno put on any record you have ever produced brian if you want people to sleep.was it your idea to dress up coldplay as the beatles

 

@Brian_Eno morning brian wondered when you would wake up when are you going to make a decent record again it was 1972 was the last one cunt

 

@Brian_Eno or should i say obnoxious cunt

 

@Brian_Eno what boring shit are you going to produce next brian old bean?

 

@Brian_Eno i would have stuck to the art installations more chance of having a decent conversation with a bulb than coldplay or dido/bland

 

So far, Eno only had this to say:

 

@alanjmcgee Fuck off, wanker

 

Hahahaha, eloquent and effective.

 

Has anyone heard his collabs with a) John Cale (Wrong Way Up - which has the absolute worst album cover ever made, and which might come across as being cheesy but is in fact brilliant), or b) David Byrne (Everything That Happens Will Happen today)? Love them both.

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