Eno is a genius and a personal hero of mine. His body of work as a solo artist alone is astounding. Once you add his production credits and collaborations, he's easily one of the most important musicians of the 20th century.
Absolutely, 100% agree on that! I was just listening to the No Wave compilation album No New York yesterday and guess who produced it? The man is everywhere!
The effort you put into researching and creating all of your videos continues to astound me. This is EASILY the best music channel on TH-cam and I am so glad you keep getting more attention!
deep cuts Also that song "An Ending (Ascent)" was seriously the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard. Damn, it's like I'm in that end scene from 2001 but without the bombast
First time I put on Apollo and heard "An Ending (Ascent)" I had an uncontrollable welling up of tears. It remains one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have even heard.
I bought Warm Jets just after it came out in 1974. It has remained in my top 5 throughout my life (I'm now 60). Eno's collaboration with Cluster kick-started my interest in Krautrock too.
Your descirption of An Ending brought me to tears, as I've been trying for years to figure out what exactly it makes me feel. That fluctuation between cosmic loneliness and cosmic solidarity is so fitting.
Before and After Science is my favourite Eno record, and it has had far more of an impact on me than Green World, Warm Jets etc.... I think the album encompasses all facets of Eno's musicality and gives the listener a taste of everything that he is about. As great as his other records are, there's something chilling about Science's second half (which acts as a great sample before Brian fully delves into his ambient works) and may just be more beautiful than even those ambient records.
I'm kinda with him on BAAS. I remember buying most of this period's work as cut-out cassettes in the 80s. BAAS was the one that didn't fit (to me). All I knew what Brian Eno was the guy on all the album sleeves. :D
I think it works much better as a vinyl than a cd, you can just put the side on that are in the mood for. My first experience with eno was a single with kings lead hat on one side and RAF on the other side (RAF= Red Army Faction )
it's finally out! you know, I wouldn't mind you putting in more ads in these, because of the time and quality you put into them. I'm sure there are other people here who feel the same too
Eno has changed my perspective on music so deeply. I encountered his ambient works at a time when that kind of music was so vital, even to my sanity. I've always had the tendency to focus on the music I was listening, and I always listened to complex, heavy, proggy stuff, experimental stuff. Having the opportunity of applying this same focus on ambient music, it was like submerging my attention in sound without it being exhausting and overstimulanting. I started to practice meditation shortly afterwards. My favorite albums are Ambient 4: On Land (last track Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960 is one of my favorite pieces of music ever! Yeah, an ambient piece), Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks and Equatorial Stars. Really a musical treasure.
I personally quite like Before and After Science, probably more than Here Come the Warm Jets. Something about the lush vocal harmonies, the sort of lilting, pastoral vocal melodies contrasted with the rhythmic, percussive guitar and bass and the busy drumwork really appeals to me. No One Receiving is great, King's Lead Hat too, Here He Comes as well.
Spider and I, By This River, and Julie With... from the second half are my favorites. Serene, evoking an atmosphere that only exists in the great outdoors. As going where the sun thrives and smelling the fresh air. By This River has an ongoing loop of crickets chirping and ore strokes the water.
Very concise guide. Can I add that Before and After Science has some of his most beautiful songs...Julie With, At This River, Spider and I and King's Lead Hat is one of his most fun tracks. In my opinion anyway! Thanks Oliver.
Before and After Science --- Clearly Eno's best art rock release. Some tracks "not fitting" is intentional. When you consider the title, it makes a lot of sense that side 1 has a somewhat familiar art rock sound, and then side 2 becomes more and more ambient as it goes on. Not to mention it has some of Eno's strongest songwriting - "By This River," "Spider and I," "Julie With." I highly recommend this release.
Thanks for your work here! Before and after science is one of my favorites. Of course kings led hat gave me a manic rush, and still does, but, Julie With is so beautiful and tranquil. The album seems to evolve from headyness into heartful calm.
Amazing work Oliver, this is a fantastic guide to Eno's music! His work has had a tremendous influence on my music and the Ambient series in particular was really inspiring to me back in the day (along with his work with Fripp, Evening Star is amazing!). I hope this serves to get more people into his music. I wish you well, greetings from Spain!
Agree, but was it the first? I'd say the Velvets I'm Waiting For The Man, Venus In Furs, The Stooges I Wanna Be Your Dog and Nico's Evening Of Light can be considerered as the first (proto)-post-punk tracks. Afterall, didn't Eno say the Velvets only sold 30 000 copies, but everybody that had one, went on to form a band. Had they all been a generation younger, releasing these songs in the late 70s or early 80s, they still would have been massive and spectacular, perfectly fitting into the time. Just sayin..
Really excellent video. I'm not new to Eno by any means, but it's difficult to know where to go after the big classics, especially given how many music writers/critics struggle to describe his ambient works without resorting to cliche. Not something that could be said about this at all - you really bring out all the nuances of the albums, the similarities and evolution between them, and it really shows how much work you put into it all. I'm a big fan, please keep it up!
Excellent commentary and insight, Oliver! I have a lot of Eno's stuff from Roxy Music to his solo career to other artists he has produced and collaborated with. He is, at times, an acquired taste but still remains a vitally important force in music in the latter part of the 20th and early part the 21st centuries. There is little doubt of his artistic and creative genius and how it has impacted many other prominent artists in the music industry like David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads Coldplay, and a bevy of others.
An Ending-Ascent is for me the most blissful piece of music I've heard, the minimalism of just having a multi-tracked melody line gives it a sense of a simple irreducible purity.
Man! You are a genius!!!!! Thank you for highlighting the importance of the non-ambient albums of Eno, which to me, are just as important, if not more so. However, I strongly disagree with you about Before and After Science. It is a bit disjointed but still amazing. The level of innovative Eno's aesthetics and atmospheres are a kind of exceptional language never heard before. Such is the case of Kurt's Rejoinder. Eno became the equivalent of modern 70's design, and avant art, like nothing else, defining a very special sensitivity. One point I want to make is that back then, this record was on the vinyl format, which gave a mandatory pause between side one and side two, which explains the lack of continuity between King's Lead and Here he comes. The two sides were meant to be different, side B is literally, the flip side. --I have been listening to Eno since the 70's. It changed my view on life, the world, and aesthetics. Thank you for your insights.
I have "Headcandy", the CD Rom was interesting, especially for the time. The whole thing was very psychedelic, the music which I enjoy and think it still stands up well on it's own. The visuals were a series of trippy colorful graphics that moved around the screen and changed shapes and colors. It was designed to be viewed in a very dark room and included glasses that when viewed at the right distance it duplicated the look of the screen into a 3 by 3 grid so you basically saw the visuals nine times but as one large screen (hard to describe).
The second side of Before and After Science, in my opinion, is supposed to be disconnected from the first half. Structurally, I think it is similar to the Bowie Berlin albums, Heroes and Low, as the second side is an ambient counterpart to the first side. I find the melodies and sonic characteristic of the synths will this side of the album is really beautiful.
Eno's four 70's 'art rock' projects are some of my favorite albums ever, with Here Come the Warm Jets and Another Green World easily ranking in any all time top 10 list I could construct, and in these sorts of situations where I love some part of an artist's discography so enormously I often find myself hesitant to explore the rest, partly because I'm already satisfied with what I've found and partly because I don't want to spoil my spotless impression of their work by hearing their almost inevitable decline and missteps (low-hanging example: imagine if you never knew post-pinkerton weezer existed...) --- But with the way you described some of these albums, I think you've convinced me that it's time to crack into ambient Eno.
I've been a fan of Ambient 1/2/3/4 for a long time and haven't ventured out too much other than that until this video. Now I can't stop listening to Taking Tiger Mountain, it's great! Thanks so much for making these videos, they're fantastic and I'm really excited for Bjork!
For a young guy you have an incredible insight into ENO. I grew Up with him, buying Here Come The Warm Jets when it was new. Another Green World and Apollo are 2 of the greatest musical creations of all time. Thx for reminding me of his genius.
Wonderful comprehensive guide to Eno's work! Thanks for taking the time to make this. My personal favorites are Thursday Afternoon and the two albums done with Harold Budd (The Plateaux of Mirror and The Pearl). Apollo follows just behind. These tracks never get old, in part because they can never really be known or anticipated no matter how many times you listen to them. By this I mean, when compared to a standard pop song that becomes so familiar after a few times it's heard that you know exactly where you are in the song and what will come next at any given moment, the "non-linearity" of these tracks by Eno, especially Thursday Afternoon, defy this kind of familiarity. The sense of discovery remains in the music in spite of 30 years of repeated listening.
How has TH-cam's algorithm waited until now to bring me to your channel?!? This analysis is spectacularly good, and incredibly informative - you pointed me towards so much music I'd never got to, and the context you bring to each release made me enjoy the ones I already knew even more. Extra credit for the Spaced references too :D I really hope you get chance to pick up this channel again after your masters.
you forgot 801 and the pinnacle of Eno's career which is the Windows '95 start up theme!! All jokes aside i really appreciate all the effort you put into this video and all your others, you host a brilliant youtube channel. can't wait to watch your next guide
Great work here man! I love so much of Eno's music and have a hard time picking any favorites without listing a ton of releases. That last quote is beautiful. After having listened to a ton of his output and stumbling upon Tracks and Traces, my mind was blown even more than it had been already....My Life in the Bush with Ghosts is something I can't help but listen to over and over...I feel like Small Craft on a Milk Sea is underrated, it truly creates new terrain. Thank you for your hard work on this video Oliver. Keep em coming! Cody
Before And After Science will always hold a place deep in my heart. I had not really heard of Eno until the Low/'Heroes' collaboration, and BAAS was my first exposure, my curiosity driven by the sudden explosion of musical novelty in the Bowie discs. I realized how fabulous a producer Eno was, and went out and started buying up the prior catalogue. I'm sure you get to Wrong Way Up from the early 90s...that is also one of my favorites, as it seemed to harken back to the good old days a bit...almost nostalgic in its references and listenability. :)
OLIVER! This is only my second listen to one of your "Deep Cuts" surveys, but I can tell you right now that you have a prescient aural awareness that is seamlessly coupled with a brilliant clarity of exposition. I came to your channel hoping only to test my memory on the unfolding discography of King Crimson as it impacted my life from the purchase of the first album. What I found was a spot on comprehension of a now legendary artistic conceit that has up till now defied this kind of humanitarian treatment. How you managed to both understand the genius of Robert Fripp and level a mature praise through your musical analysis is a testament to the power of authentic talent. Autoplay brought me directly to this Eno guide and, as with Crimson, I have listened to his musical output from my boyhood. I cannot express what sympathies arise from hearing your sparkling intelligence and musical appreciation converge here.
So much to say about Brian... I love it. I'm not too familiar with his work pre-Music for Airports, but in the Ambient series Plateaux of Mirror is my favourite. It's just gorgeous. My favourite Eno album is Apollo for sure: so many different feelings in one theme. An Ending is, if not my favourite track on the album, close to it. I am also in love with Lux and Reflection. Eno is just fantastic. I really need to listen to My Life in the Bush of Ghosts though...
Amazing work dude The format of "guides" to get people to listen this artist is genius I really hope you keep up the great job you have been doing I also hope you do (sometime) a guide to Yo La Tengo. A band that deserves a good guide to get people to listen to it (sorry for bad english)
Once again, a great and detailed video! Thank you for all the work you put into your videos, you are somehow able to get me into new music with your every new guide! You are really good at explaining how to approach and understand the music you talk about. None of the other YT music review channels I'm aware of do that. Thank you once again! I'm here since your Guide to Nick Cave video and I'm really glad that you exist and to be a part of your growing community. I have discovered a lot of new music thanks to your videos and I'm sure I will discover even more in the future. You deserve way more subs!
A splendid summation of Eno's vast collection of albums. I have most of his albums so need to revisit so many of them after your superb reviews. Many thanks.
@deep cuts - dude you have saved me from thousands of hours of absurd communication labor. I have been the number one Eno (and Budd and the rest) fan for forty plus years and I just gave up on trying to educate young people about Eno and his collaborations. When you got to 1983 I thought "that's it - I've gone mad - I fantasized an album Bush of Ghosts" then you backed up so I hadn't lost my mind. Wow. Nice work.
I love Eno and his ability to not just be a musician but this amorphous artist that encapsulates the space he projects is brilliant. It's like a beautiful piece of architecture or a great sculpture in the sense the space around it or negative space in it create the piece just as much as the piece itself and I think you touched on this perfectly. I love when people don't just provide opinions but clearly a plethora of research and love that stabilizes the opinions. Love your work man, keep it up
Was apprehensive to watch because of the length; but this is the best hour I've ever spent on an artist guide and album overview ever! - fantastic work!
wow this is so amazing you make these guides and they aren't brief either. thank you so much. looking forward to watch the aphex twin and bjork ones as well.
Oh wow! Another Day On Earth is another one of my favorites!!! I love the title track. And the female vocals on some tracks add such depth. A very important work in my opinion.
Mad props for having listened through his entire discography! I've gone into it a bit, but then go back thinking nothing is going to be as good as Another Green World, and that album, for sure, remains a perfect space to be bewildered by. But this video makes me want to take more time with some more of his others. Thanks for putting the time into the video!
Just watched. Quite comprehensive and compelling. The hour went by quickly. I always loved Eno and instrumental music. In the 80s, I attended his installation in Boston. Also Fripp performing Frippertronics before a Satriani G3 show in California. Eno has created a lasting Ambient artist colony. Bandcamp, for example, has many such artists. Good job covering Eno as a solo artist. I enjoyed it and your delivery.
im a bit late but really loved the video!! its beautiful to see how much you love and are excited about what you talk about and that makes listening even better! despite lovin brian eno and getting to know new music, its always lovely to watch someone talking about something they love.
I for some reason came upon your video here was six years ago you released it anyway I started listening to Eno approximately 1975 when he started doing his stuff So here in the valley about 45 minutes from Los Angeles both Captain Beefheart also known as Dans vanVliet and Frank Zappa came from Now I had read someplace that Eno and I believe David Bowie was sitting around and were very very impressed with Don Vanvliet especially Trout mask replica and all that stuff My best friend from high school John Thomas eventually end up playing with captain Beefheart Anyway the way you dissect Eno s work and all the people he’s been with is just incredible and I agree with the other guy that said you’re you’re extremely underrated the way you put the all this together Praise to ya Because it’s never ending discussion about you knowing all his attributes and Involvements And every single aspect of everything About Eno …….
Great video. I heard eno talking about Apollo and he explained that when the astronauts were allowed to take a cassette each with them into space, most took country and western music. Whether for reasons of homeliness, comfort or cultural, He brought this idea into his compositions
Damn I never heard anybody talking about music so well for so long :D I love your channel. My favs are "in dark trees" from Another Green World and Apollo album. I remember when I found it I couldn't believe how he captured the essence of cold, vast abyss in which we all are suspended. I think this album inspired me the most to get into making music/sounds (of which I don't have much idea btw, so it's cool to hear Brian Eno was also self-taught ;)
It's inspiring to hear how deeply you listen to music. Lately I've been feeling detached from art but you reminded me of how rich most works are if one has the patience to listen. Cool.
Dude i subscribed to you for the Aphex Twin guide, and now you bring us this 1 hour work? Your underrated man, I have not watched the video but I'm excited to see who this BRIAN ENO is! Thanks for your work, seriously keep it up and in no time you'll be more noticed, believe me!!
Before & After Science is, to me, a great record! I had just gotten into AGW, and it felt like a clear progression from that....plus, it really rocks!!
Thanx I have a bunch of Eno records and some were he is a collaborator, but after listening to your video I just know some more to wish for this christmas! Thanx! great show!
This is an extremely well put together music documentary. Also love the enthusiasm you obviously have for the topic. I now feel suitably inspired to go and listen to "Music for Airports/Films" for the first time in ages
I just discovered your channel. I'm not even half way through your ENO video and I already have a lot of admiration from your channel. Eno is my musical idol and one of my biggest influences on my own music. I'm anxious to watch the Swans video too. You should do a special on Stars of the Lid.
wow! What a job. Give yourself a break man! Incredible run down! I am also an Eno-holic. I prefer the big 4 vocal albums: Here Come The Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Another Green World AND Before and After Science. To me it was Eno nearly making fun of pop music and adding his take on it. Some of the most catchy and audibly unique music around. For anyone trying out Eno's music and do not want to fall into a coma of inner thought ambient stuff, I highly recommend the big 4 vocal albums. These albums show you WHY so many pop artists love him as a producer. Nothing sounds like these albums and THEY ARE GOOD. The charm is the mix of punk, prog rock, and ambient music that is scattershot on these records. It's like a rush and a relax on the same record.
Before & After is one of my favorite Eno albums. It doesn't gel well specifically because he's looking at his life before (side A) and after (side B) "science". He explores the art pop thing for a bit, and when you flip that record, damn, I don't know - something has changed. Side B is the pretty piece he ever released, maybe the pretty side of music ever released.
Finally, I have been waiting for this video for so long :) Thanks, Deep Cuts for this full analyze Eno's Discography. One thing; I wish you could mention more about his work as a producer with bands. Like ( Devo, Ultravox, Elvis Costello, Talking heads, Paul Simon... etc , etc) o even Coldplay (lol) and how Eno influence them as artists.
Kudos to you for undertaking the mammoth task of reviewing Eno's work. Most of what you say I am in complete agreement with. For me "The Pearl" is the supreme example of his ambient work closely followed by "The Plateux of Mirror" and "Music for Films" I play these albums often as a release from the stress of the day.
I'll be honest, I'm 58, and I have tons of music, but I know next to nothing about Eno's music, other than a bit of his production work. This video is a great introduction to Eno, and I will definitely get some of his music in the near future. I actually spot listened to some of his stuff over the weekend. However, I believe that Eno's stuff can't be sampled. It seems to take a much deeper listen. I look forward to exploring his discography.
I can never get enough of 'An Index of Metals' as I see a dark sky FULL of glittering stars slowly rotating around the axis. Nothing unsettling there at all, just serenity.
Oh and I also have a copy of the collaboration with Peter Sinfield. Trust me when I say you are not missing anything here. The album mostly consists of Peter narrating Robert Sheckley's mediocre fantasy/sci-fi short story "In A Land Of Clear Colors". Eno plays a very tiny bit of atmospheric sounds lightly peppered throughout. Thanks for putting this great video together.
29:54 The sessions that became My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts were initially supposed to be a three-way collaboration between Eno, Byrne, and Jon Hassell. But Hassell was still finishing up Possible Musics, so Eno and Byrne started messing around without him. And then Hassell didn't care for the direction their first demos were going, so he dropped out. I love the finished album, but can't help but wonder what it would have been like with Hassell's influence. 32:12 This must have been an influence on The KLF. Their album Chill Out (one of the albums that jumpstarted the ambient house subgenre) had quite a bit of pedal steel guitar.
Amazing guide. I started with Music For Airports and that is still my favorite. Been picking up a lot of the rest of these here and there as I could over the years going in no particular order. It's great to hear it ordered chronologically in this way and sense some order in the releases I've picked up. There are definitely several albums I want to revisit now after hearing you describe them, and a few I now know I need to try to track down. Thanks for all the work you put into this guide. It is much appreciated.
Hey Oliver, great Vid. Thanks aplenty.The Album Land of Clear Colours is mainly narration and contains very little music. Maybe 4 short tracks of the 12 from memory. All tracks are untitled. If you like audio books get this album.The first Eno album I ever heard was Before and After Science and it, for me, is his best vocal album. Eno lamented to David Bowie at the time that his old proceses were not working, as they once did and he struggled with this project. The struggle was worth it though. Lyrically he is at his most lucid and ridiculous at the same time. It is not a coincidence that in the same period he was working on Low & "Heroes" that this album dropped and followed the uptempo A side, sombre B side model. Musically the album is disjointed however, so what! Do we want all the arrangements and themes the same all the way through an album?Great channel. Many thanksWas Textures amongst the reviewed albums?
All of your guides are fantastic, my good sir. I'm really enjoying all your videos. I know you get a lot of requests, but it would be fun and essential to do a guide on Miles Davis. So much content with many classics under his belt. Just a thought!
I love Before and After Science, but I agree with it not flowing together as well. However, if you split it in half it works perfectly... bit more glam pop on side 1, ambient peace on side 2. Julie With is my favourite Brian Eno song so I couldn't possibly dislike this album!
Before and After Science is the perfect/imperfect blend of his art pop origins and his imminent ambient signature tone. Ranks very high in my books especially for Side 2.
1 fucking hour....the absolute madman
It's so sick dude.
5 albums dark ambient, pls.
Just about as long as Thursday Afternoon!
Just as long as No Pussyfooting
Eno is a genius and a personal hero of mine. His body of work as a solo artist alone is astounding. Once you add his production credits and collaborations, he's easily one of the most important musicians of the 20th century.
Absolutely, 100% agree on that! I was just listening to the No Wave compilation album No New York yesterday and guess who produced it? The man is everywhere!
you are so terribly underrated
50:58 But it's an hour long.
The effort you put into researching and creating all of your videos continues to astound me. This is EASILY the best music channel on TH-cam and I am so glad you keep getting more attention!
Dylan McMahon thanks a lot for saying so mate, I hope you all enjoy getting stuck into the music I'm talking about!
deep cuts Also that song "An Ending (Ascent)" was seriously the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard. Damn, it's like I'm in that end scene from 2001 but without the bombast
First time I put on Apollo and heard "An Ending (Ascent)" I had an uncontrollable welling up of tears. It remains one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have even heard.
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I'm very partial to "By This River". I think it's one of the best musical pieces ever created.
1 hour of deep cuts boy
Your MC Ride pic is hilarious.
A guide to Lou Reed's solo projects and The Velvet Underground pls.
how about a guide to you
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Glad I found this, thank you. I bought all those early records and saw Fripp on his Frippertronics tour along with Crimson several times.
I bought Warm Jets just after it came out in 1974. It has remained in my top 5 throughout my life (I'm now 60). Eno's collaboration with Cluster kick-started my interest in Krautrock too.
You outdid yourself. THE MADMAN! Cheers mate, your videos are something else.
Your descirption of An Ending brought me to tears, as I've been trying for years to figure out what exactly it makes me feel. That fluctuation between cosmic loneliness and cosmic solidarity is so fitting.
You had me until Before and After Science. It's widely recognized as a landmark album. Julie With is a masterpeice, one of his greatest compositions.
came here to say this
Before and After Science is my favourite Eno record, and it has had far more of an impact on me than Green World, Warm Jets etc.... I think the album encompasses all facets of Eno's musicality and gives the listener a taste of everything that he is about. As great as his other records are, there's something chilling about Science's second half (which acts as a great sample before Brian fully delves into his ambient works) and may just be more beautiful than even those ambient records.
I'm kinda with him on BAAS. I remember buying most of this period's work as cut-out cassettes in the 80s. BAAS was the one that didn't fit (to me). All I knew what Brian Eno was the guy on all the album sleeves. :D
I think it works much better as a vinyl than a cd, you can just put the side on that are in the mood for. My first experience with eno was a single with kings lead hat on one side and RAF on the other side (RAF= Red Army Faction )
it's finally out! you know, I wouldn't mind you putting in more ads in these, because of the time and quality you put into them. I'm sure there are other people here who feel the same too
Eno has changed my perspective on music so deeply. I encountered his ambient works at a time when that kind of music was so vital, even to my sanity. I've always had the tendency to focus on the music I was listening, and I always listened to complex, heavy, proggy stuff, experimental stuff. Having the opportunity of applying this same focus on ambient music, it was like submerging my attention in sound without it being exhausting and overstimulanting. I started to practice meditation shortly afterwards. My favorite albums are Ambient 4: On Land (last track Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960 is one of my favorite pieces of music ever! Yeah, an ambient piece), Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks and Equatorial Stars. Really a musical treasure.
I personally quite like Before and After Science, probably more than Here Come the Warm Jets. Something about the lush vocal harmonies, the sort of lilting, pastoral vocal melodies contrasted with the rhythmic, percussive guitar and bass and the busy drumwork really appeals to me. No One Receiving is great, King's Lead Hat too, Here He Comes as well.
I too am a big fan of Before and After Science. I don't in any way see at as a lesser record than the previous three. Eno learned a lot in Germany.
Spider and I, By This River, and Julie With... from the second half are my favorites. Serene, evoking an atmosphere that only exists in the great outdoors. As going where the sun thrives and smelling the fresh air. By This River has an ongoing loop of crickets chirping and ore strokes the water.
'Becalmed' off Another Green World, I think, is one of the best songs ever made. It soothes some kind of unknown 6th sense
agreed, certainly one of the best songs i've ever heard.
Becalmed leading into Zaiwnful/Lava is one the best duo of songs ever honestly
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Very concise guide. Can I add that Before and After Science has some of his most beautiful songs...Julie With, At This River, Spider and I and King's Lead Hat is one of his most fun tracks. In my opinion anyway! Thanks Oliver.
Before and After Science --- Clearly Eno's best art rock release. Some tracks "not fitting" is intentional. When you consider the title, it makes a lot of sense that side 1 has a somewhat familiar art rock sound, and then side 2 becomes more and more ambient as it goes on. Not to mention it has some of Eno's strongest songwriting - "By This River," "Spider and I," "Julie With." I highly recommend this release.
Thanks for your work here!
Before and after science is one of my favorites. Of course kings led hat gave me a manic rush, and still does, but, Julie With is so beautiful and tranquil. The album seems to evolve from headyness into heartful calm.
30:00 - Eno also produced their previous album to the two that you mention, More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978).
This is amazing. You should do Sonic Youth!
Kremer. Plus a 5 albums 4 No Wave.
Leo - ̃- Is Dirty not Good?!?
Dirty is great, but I can understand why you wouldn't like it. Some people aren't huge fans of Kim Gordon's singing.
Leo - ̃- dirty is one of there best albums.
Amazing work Oliver, this is a fantastic guide to Eno's music! His work has had a tremendous influence on my music and the Ambient series in particular was really inspiring to me back in the day (along with his work with Fripp, Evening Star is amazing!). I hope this serves to get more people into his music. I wish you well, greetings from Spain!
Best channel I've come across in ages. Your articulation is fantastic. Love from London
This is phenomenal. PLEASE do a guide to The Fall, that would be amazing
hell yeah, i tried to dig their sound but dont know much about them
Thank you for the review! I listened to six albums you recommended and enjoyed them all. You introduced me to a new world and I am grateful.
29:39 "it's a slowburn release of uncertainty and resplendence" That's beautifully said.
Since you asked, 'Spider and I' from the Science LP is a haunting, beautiful track.
you nailed it when you said third uncle is postpunk before postpunk. keep up the good work and like everyone is saying, do bjork
sam m proto-post-punk?
Agree, but was it the first? I'd say the Velvets I'm Waiting For The Man, Venus In Furs, The Stooges I Wanna Be Your Dog and Nico's Evening Of Light can be considerered as the first (proto)-post-punk tracks. Afterall, didn't Eno say the Velvets only sold 30 000 copies, but everybody that had one, went on to form a band.
Had they all been a generation younger, releasing these songs in the late 70s or early 80s, they still would have been massive and spectacular, perfectly fitting into the time. Just sayin..
Really excellent video. I'm not new to Eno by any means, but it's difficult to know where to go after the big classics, especially given how many music writers/critics struggle to describe his ambient works without resorting to cliche. Not something that could be said about this at all - you really bring out all the nuances of the albums, the similarities and evolution between them, and it really shows how much work you put into it all. I'm a big fan, please keep it up!
Excellent commentary and insight, Oliver! I have a lot of Eno's stuff from Roxy Music to his solo career to other artists he has produced and collaborated with. He is, at times, an acquired taste but still remains a vitally important force in music in the latter part of the 20th and early part the 21st centuries. There is little doubt of his artistic and creative genius and how it has impacted many other prominent artists in the music industry like David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads Coldplay, and a bevy of others.
An Ending-Ascent is for me the most blissful piece of music I've heard, the minimalism of just having a multi-tracked melody line gives it a sense of a simple irreducible purity.
Man! You are a genius!!!!! Thank you for highlighting the importance of the non-ambient albums of Eno, which to me, are just as important, if not more so. However, I strongly disagree with you about Before and After Science. It is a bit disjointed but still amazing. The level of innovative Eno's aesthetics and atmospheres are a kind of exceptional language never heard before. Such is the case of Kurt's Rejoinder. Eno became the equivalent of modern 70's design, and avant art, like nothing else, defining a very special sensitivity. One point I want to make is that back then, this record was on the vinyl format, which gave a mandatory pause between side one and side two, which explains the lack of continuity between King's Lead and Here he comes. The two sides were meant to be different, side B is literally, the flip side. --I have been listening to Eno since the 70's. It changed my view on life, the world, and aesthetics. Thank you for your insights.
I have "Headcandy", the CD Rom was interesting, especially for the time. The whole thing was very psychedelic, the music which I enjoy and think it still stands up well on it's own. The visuals were a series of trippy colorful graphics that moved around the screen and changed shapes and colors. It was designed to be viewed in a very dark room and included glasses that when viewed at the right distance it duplicated the look of the screen into a 3 by 3 grid so you basically saw the visuals nine times but as one large screen (hard to describe).
This is insane, Eno might just be the most influential person In music. And his discography might just be the most intimidating. Fantastic job.
The second side of Before and After Science, in my opinion, is supposed to be disconnected from the first half. Structurally, I think it is similar to the Bowie Berlin albums, Heroes and Low, as the second side is an ambient counterpart to the first side. I find the melodies and sonic characteristic of the synths will this side of the album is really beautiful.
Eno's four 70's 'art rock' projects are some of my favorite albums ever, with Here Come the Warm Jets and Another Green World easily ranking in any all time top 10 list I could construct, and in these sorts of situations where I love some part of an artist's discography so enormously I often find myself hesitant to explore the rest, partly because I'm already satisfied with what I've found and partly because I don't want to spoil my spotless impression of their work by hearing their almost inevitable decline and missteps (low-hanging example: imagine if you never knew post-pinkerton weezer existed...) --- But with the way you described some of these albums, I think you've convinced me that it's time to crack into ambient Eno.
I've been a fan of Ambient 1/2/3/4 for a long time and haven't ventured out too much other than that until this video. Now I can't stop listening to Taking Tiger Mountain, it's great! Thanks so much for making these videos, they're fantastic and I'm really excited for Bjork!
For a young guy you have an incredible insight into ENO. I grew
Up with him, buying Here Come The Warm Jets when it was new. Another Green World and Apollo are 2 of the greatest musical creations of all time. Thx for reminding me of his genius.
Guide to drum and bass! Thanks for all the work that you did for this guide! I really, really appreciate it!
Wonderful comprehensive guide to Eno's work! Thanks for taking the time to make this.
My personal favorites are Thursday Afternoon and the two albums done with Harold Budd (The Plateaux of Mirror and The Pearl). Apollo follows just behind. These tracks never get old, in part because they can never really be known or anticipated no matter how many times you listen to them. By this I mean, when compared to a standard pop song that becomes so familiar after a few times it's heard that you know exactly where you are in the song and what will come next at any given moment, the "non-linearity" of these tracks by Eno, especially Thursday Afternoon, defy this kind of familiarity. The sense of discovery remains in the music in spite of 30 years of repeated listening.
I genuinely appreciate your videos.
How has TH-cam's algorithm waited until now to bring me to your channel?!? This analysis is spectacularly good, and incredibly informative - you pointed me towards so much music I'd never got to, and the context you bring to each release made me enjoy the ones I already knew even more. Extra credit for the Spaced references too :D I really hope you get chance to pick up this channel again after your masters.
you forgot 801 and the pinnacle of Eno's career which is the Windows '95 start up theme!! All jokes aside i really appreciate all the effort you put into this video and all your others, you host a brilliant youtube channel. can't wait to watch your next guide
I'm in the middle of a 10 hour road trip and this made at least an hour of it wonderfully enjoyable. Plus now I have lots of new music to listen to.
Great work here man! I love so much of Eno's music and have a hard time picking any favorites without listing a ton of releases. That last quote is beautiful. After having listened to a ton of his output and stumbling upon Tracks and Traces, my mind was blown even more than it had been already....My Life in the Bush with Ghosts is something I can't help but listen to over and over...I feel like Small Craft on a Milk Sea is underrated, it truly creates new terrain. Thank you for your hard work on this video Oliver. Keep em coming! Cody
Before And After Science will always hold a place deep in my heart. I had not really heard of Eno until the Low/'Heroes' collaboration, and BAAS was my first exposure, my curiosity driven by the sudden explosion of musical novelty in the Bowie discs. I realized how fabulous a producer Eno was, and went out and started buying up the prior catalogue. I'm sure you get to Wrong Way Up from the early 90s...that is also one of my favorites, as it seemed to harken back to the good old days a bit...almost nostalgic in its references and listenability. :)
Another Green World is - probably - my favourite album, ever.
OLIVER! This is only my second listen to one of your "Deep Cuts" surveys, but I can tell you right now that you have a prescient aural awareness that is seamlessly coupled with a brilliant clarity of exposition.
I came to your channel hoping only to test my memory on the unfolding discography of King Crimson as it impacted my life from the purchase of the first album. What I found was a spot on comprehension of a now legendary artistic conceit that has up till now defied this kind of humanitarian treatment. How you managed to both understand the genius of Robert Fripp and level a mature praise through your musical analysis is a testament to the power of authentic talent.
Autoplay brought me directly to this Eno guide and, as with Crimson, I have listened to his musical output from my boyhood. I cannot express what sympathies arise from hearing your sparkling intelligence and musical appreciation converge here.
So much to say about Brian... I love it.
I'm not too familiar with his work pre-Music for Airports, but in the Ambient series Plateaux of Mirror is my favourite. It's just gorgeous. My favourite Eno album is Apollo for sure: so many different feelings in one theme. An Ending is, if not my favourite track on the album, close to it. I am also in love with Lux and Reflection. Eno is just fantastic.
I really need to listen to My Life in the Bush of Ghosts though...
Hey Oliver, would love to see a guide to Lou Reed if possible, or the velvet underground perhaps?
Lewis Clarke And Iggy Pop
Lewis Clarke Lou's discography is both larger and less discussed than that of the Velvet Underground, so I say Reed. ^^
And I say John Cale - speaking of less dicussed ...
Amazing work dude
The format of "guides" to get people to listen this artist is genius
I really hope you keep up the great job you have been doing
I also hope you do (sometime) a guide to Yo La Tengo. A band that deserves a good guide to get people to listen to it (sorry for bad english)
Once again, a great and detailed video! Thank you for all the work you put into your videos, you are somehow able to get me into new music with your every new guide! You are really good at explaining how to approach and understand the music you talk about. None of the other YT music review channels I'm aware of do that. Thank you once again! I'm here since your Guide to Nick Cave video and I'm really glad that you exist and to be a part of your growing community. I have discovered a lot of new music thanks to your videos and I'm sure I will discover even more in the future. You deserve way more subs!
Thank you for making these guides, they are genuinely helpful in finding a good place to start listening to so many different artists and genres
I don't know how you do it. But the way you describe and explain ambient/electronic music is spot on!
A splendid summation of Eno's vast collection of albums. I have most of his albums so need to revisit so many of them after your superb reviews. Many thanks.
@deep cuts - dude you have saved me from thousands of hours of absurd communication labor. I have been the number one Eno (and Budd and the rest) fan for forty plus years and I just gave up on trying to educate young people about Eno and his collaborations. When you got to 1983 I thought "that's it - I've gone mad - I fantasized an album Bush of Ghosts" then you backed up so I hadn't lost my mind. Wow. Nice work.
Before And After Science is my favourite Brian Eno album
I love Eno and his ability to not just be a musician but this amorphous artist that encapsulates the space he projects is brilliant. It's like a beautiful piece of architecture or a great sculpture in the sense the space around it or negative space in it create the piece just as much as the piece itself and I think you touched on this perfectly. I love when people don't just provide opinions but clearly a plethora of research and love that stabilizes the opinions. Love your work man, keep it up
Was apprehensive to watch because of the length; but this is the best hour I've ever spent on an artist guide and album overview ever! - fantastic work!
wow this is so amazing you make these guides and they aren't brief either. thank you so much. looking forward to watch the aphex twin and bjork ones as well.
Oh wow! Another Day On Earth is another one of my favorites!!! I love the title track. And the female vocals on some tracks add such depth.
A very important work in my opinion.
Thx for the hard work. I always wanted to get into Eno's music, now is the time!
This is an essential channel for every music fan!
BLESSED 🙏🏻
Thank you Oliver
Thanks for continuing to be here my man!
Mad props for having listened through his entire discography! I've gone into it a bit, but then go back thinking nothing is going to be as good as Another Green World, and that album, for sure, remains a perfect space to be bewildered by. But this video makes me want to take more time with some more of his others. Thanks for putting the time into the video!
You may make us wait, Oliver, but it's worth it every damn time.
Please do a Guide to Nine Inch Nails. I find Reznor's career progression very interesting.
You’re so impressive. You cover artists, albums and songs that I’ve loved for so long, with such passion and love. Thank you man 😀
Just watched. Quite comprehensive and compelling. The hour went by quickly. I always loved Eno and instrumental music. In the 80s, I attended his installation in Boston. Also Fripp performing Frippertronics before a Satriani G3 show in California. Eno has created a lasting Ambient artist colony. Bandcamp, for example, has many such artists. Good job covering Eno as a solo artist. I enjoyed it and your delivery.
I think it would be very interesting to make a guide to Scott Walker !
Love your channel mate !
im a bit late but really loved the video!! its beautiful to see how much you love and are excited about what you talk about and that makes listening even better! despite lovin brian eno and getting to know new music, its always lovely to watch someone talking about something they love.
I for some reason came upon your video here was six years ago you released it anyway
I started listening to Eno approximately 1975 when he started doing his stuff
So here in the valley about 45 minutes from Los Angeles both Captain Beefheart also known as Dans vanVliet and Frank Zappa came from
Now
I had read someplace that Eno and I believe David Bowie
was sitting around and were very very impressed with Don Vanvliet especially Trout mask replica and all that stuff
My best friend from high school John Thomas eventually end up playing with captain Beefheart
Anyway the way you dissect Eno s work and all the people he’s been with is just
incredible
and I agree with the other guy that said you’re you’re extremely underrated the way you put the all this together
Praise to ya
Because it’s never ending discussion about you knowing all his attributes and
Involvements
And every single aspect of everything
About Eno
…….
Great video.
I heard eno talking about Apollo and he explained that when the astronauts were allowed to take a cassette each with them into space, most took country and western music. Whether for reasons of homeliness, comfort or cultural, He brought this idea into his compositions
Damn I never heard anybody talking about music so well for so long :D I love your channel.
My favs are "in dark trees" from Another Green World and Apollo album. I remember when I found it I couldn't believe how he captured the essence of cold, vast abyss in which we all are suspended. I think this album inspired me the most to get into making music/sounds (of which I don't have much idea btw, so it's cool to hear Brian Eno was also self-taught ;)
A guide to Frank Zappa?
Gaz Aldo God yes
Cymru am byth
YES PLEASE YES
Yes
I'm only mentioning this because this channel is on hiatus but the first season of the Discography podcast is a fantastic guide to Zapoa.
It's inspiring to hear how deeply you listen to music. Lately I've been feeling detached from art but you reminded me of how rich most works are if one has the patience to listen. Cool.
Dude i subscribed to you for the Aphex Twin guide, and now you bring us this 1 hour work? Your underrated man, I have not watched the video but I'm excited to see who this BRIAN ENO is! Thanks for your work, seriously keep it up and in no time you'll be more noticed, believe me!!
Before & After Science is, to me, a great record! I had just gotten into AGW, and it felt like a clear progression from that....plus, it really rocks!!
What is AGW?
@@g-wiz154 Another Green World
Thanx I have a bunch of Eno records and some were he is a collaborator, but after listening to your video I just know some more to wish for this christmas! Thanx! great show!
This is an extremely well put together music documentary. Also love the enthusiasm you obviously have for the topic. I now feel suitably inspired to go and listen to "Music for Airports/Films" for the first time in ages
I just discovered your channel. I'm not even half way through your ENO video and I already have a lot of admiration from your channel. Eno is my musical idol and one of my biggest influences on my own music. I'm anxious to watch the Swans video too. You should do a special on Stars of the Lid.
wow! What a job. Give yourself a break man! Incredible run down! I am also an Eno-holic. I prefer the big 4 vocal albums: Here Come The Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Another Green World AND Before and After Science. To me it was Eno nearly making fun of pop music and adding his take on it. Some of the most catchy and audibly unique music around. For anyone trying out Eno's music and do not want to fall into a coma of inner thought ambient stuff, I highly recommend the big 4 vocal albums. These albums show you WHY so many pop artists love him as a producer. Nothing sounds like these albums and THEY ARE GOOD. The charm is the mix of punk, prog rock, and ambient music that is scattershot on these records. It's like a rush and a relax on the same record.
Thank you so much for the content you provide. I seriously can not thank you enough for the work you do, I have learned so much from you Oliver.
Before & After is one of my favorite Eno albums. It doesn't gel well specifically because he's looking at his life before (side A) and after (side B) "science". He explores the art pop thing for a bit, and when you flip that record, damn, I don't know - something has changed. Side B is the pretty piece he ever released, maybe the pretty side of music ever released.
my fav.. Before and After Science..loved it since it came out ....thanks for your hard work in making these programs ... how about Frank Zappa next ?
Finally, I have been waiting for this video for so long :) Thanks, Deep Cuts for this full analyze Eno's Discography. One thing; I wish you could mention more about his work as a producer with bands. Like ( Devo, Ultravox, Elvis Costello, Talking heads, Paul Simon... etc , etc) o even Coldplay (lol) and how Eno influence them as artists.
Your guides...your guides...your guides!!!! Love every one. Top notch. Now where to start with Eno...😔
Cheers!!! Keep up the amazing work!!!
Kudos to you for undertaking the mammoth task of reviewing Eno's work. Most of what you say I am in complete agreement with. For me "The Pearl" is the supreme example of his ambient work closely followed by "The Plateux of Mirror" and "Music for Films" I play these albums often as a release from the stress of the day.
I haven't seen a single video yet, but I can already tell I'm going to love this channel. Fuuuuuck yes
I'll be honest, I'm 58, and I have tons of music, but I know next to nothing about Eno's music, other than a bit of his production work. This video is a great introduction to Eno, and I will definitely get some of his music in the near future. I actually spot listened to some of his stuff over the weekend. However, I believe that Eno's stuff can't be sampled. It seems to take a much deeper listen. I look forward to exploring his discography.
I can never get enough of 'An Index of Metals' as I see a dark sky FULL of glittering stars slowly rotating around the axis. Nothing unsettling there at all, just serenity.
Oh and I also have a copy of the collaboration with Peter Sinfield. Trust me when I say you are not missing anything here. The album mostly consists of Peter narrating Robert Sheckley's mediocre fantasy/sci-fi short story "In A Land Of Clear Colors". Eno plays a very tiny bit of atmospheric sounds lightly peppered throughout. Thanks for putting this great video together.
29:54 The sessions that became My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts were initially supposed to be a three-way collaboration between Eno, Byrne, and Jon Hassell. But Hassell was still finishing up Possible Musics, so Eno and Byrne started messing around without him. And then Hassell didn't care for the direction their first demos were going, so he dropped out. I love the finished album, but can't help but wonder what it would have been like with Hassell's influence.
32:12 This must have been an influence on The KLF. Their album Chill Out (one of the albums that jumpstarted the ambient house subgenre) had quite a bit of pedal steel guitar.
Amazing guide. I started with Music For Airports and that is still my favorite. Been picking up a lot of the rest of these here and there as I could over the years going in no particular order. It's great to hear it ordered chronologically in this way and sense some order in the releases I've picked up. There are definitely several albums I want to revisit now after hearing you describe them, and a few I now know I need to try to track down. Thanks for all the work you put into this guide. It is much appreciated.
I love this. Look forward to whats artist you'll cover next.
Hey Oliver, great Vid. Thanks aplenty.The Album Land of Clear Colours is mainly narration and contains very little music. Maybe 4 short tracks of the 12 from memory. All tracks are untitled. If you like audio books get this album.The first Eno album I ever heard was Before and After Science and it, for me, is his best vocal album. Eno lamented to David Bowie at the time that his old proceses were not working, as they once did and he struggled with this project. The struggle was worth it though. Lyrically he is at his most lucid and ridiculous at the same time. It is not a coincidence that in the same period he was working on Low & "Heroes" that this album dropped and followed the uptempo A side, sombre B side model. Musically the album is disjointed however, so what! Do we want all the arrangements and themes the same all the way through an album?Great channel. Many thanksWas Textures amongst the reviewed albums?
All of your guides are fantastic, my good sir. I'm really enjoying all your videos. I know you get a lot of requests, but it would be fun and essential to do a guide on Miles Davis. So much content with many classics under his belt. Just a thought!
I love Before and After Science, but I agree with it not flowing together as well. However, if you split it in half it works perfectly... bit more glam pop on side 1, ambient peace on side 2. Julie With is my favourite Brian Eno song so I couldn't possibly dislike this album!
Before and After Science is the perfect/imperfect blend of his art pop origins and his imminent ambient signature tone. Ranks very high in my books especially for Side 2.
I remember requesting this awhile ago. Glad you made this man!