Music Reviews

Brian Eno – Music for Airports – 1978 And I’m done. Music for Airports is exactly what it says it is. Music to help with the monotony and anxiety of flying. It’s new age to the very core. I listened to it twice and by that I mean that I Continue Reading

Listening to “No One Receiving”, the opening track on Before and After Science, its easy to hear the bridge to Talking Heads. In fact, it’s not surprising that Eno would work with them. This album provides the roadmap between that band and XTC and Genesis and proves that New Wave Continue Reading

Brian Eno – Discreet Music – 1975 I will listen to Discreet Music precisely the opposite of the way it was intended. Eno wanted it to be something that blends into the furniture. Not meant to be focused on. So, I’ve got my noise canceling headphones out and I’m giving Continue Reading

Brian Eno – Another Green World – 1975 From the very outset I think I’m in trouble. Everything I don’t like about Talking Heads can be found in the first few minutes of the opening track, “Sky Saw”. The tribal rhythms mashing up against wailing, minimalist viola. It doesn’t last Continue Reading

Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy) – 1974 The reason for doing a Listening Post on Eno was predicated on a conversation with someone who asked what I thought about his first four albums, since I had done that career look at Bowie. I had never heard most Continue Reading

Brian Eno – Here Come the Warm Jets – 1974 Does Adam Ant owe his entire career to Brian Eno? What about Russell Mael from Sparks? Bowie? I think they all do, in some regard. Surely, without Eno there could be no Kings of the Wild Frontier. Or Gary Numan’s Continue Reading