Was just listening to Before and After Science this am. Like many albums by BE there is a combination of experimental and conventional song. It got me thinking about the vocal box set i used to own...should never have sold it and what an Eno vocal pop oriented singles album would be. I personally would look forward to this. I would think Julie with, here he comes, spinning away, this, how many worlds... but i don't own the whole catalog so i would love some other brian pop vocal song suggestions
Nice idea - I enjoy Eno in small doses, his full albums set me adrift, I prefer song by song. To your pop album I would add I'll Come Running To Tie Your Shoe 801 version of Tomorrow Never Knows and my stone Eno fave! . . . No One Receiving
Here's my absolutely perfect Eno "pop" album. 01: Backwater 02: Cindy Tells Me 03: Burning Airlines Give You So Much More 04: No One Receiving 05: Kurt's Rejoinder 06: The True Wheel 07: Spider and I 08: Kings Lead Hat 09: I'll Come Running 10: Here He Comes 11: Over Fire Island 12: Miss Sarajevo
Great list. I'd add "Baby's On Fire" and "The Great Pretender" Edit: Maybe a little "weird" for "Pop"
Excellent list. I personally would add St. Elmo's Fire somewhere and definitely Baby's On Fire as the album closer.
Eno's cover of William Bell's Soul Classic You Don't Miss Your Water, notably also covered by Otis Redding on the Otis Blue album.
YES! Forgot St Elmos. How I dunno. Baby's On Fire..Almost made it but it's skews more "odd Eno" than Pop?
REVISED! Now it's perfect Eno Pop 01: Backwater 02: Cindy Tells Me 03: Burning Airlines Give You So Much More 04: No One Receiving 05: Kurt's Rejoinder 06: The True Wheel 07: Spider and I 08: Kings Lead Hat 09: I'll Come Running 10: Here He Comes 11: Over Fire Island 12: St Elmo's Fire
I agree that Baby's On Fire is more "odd" Eno, but it begins like a Pop song. To have it as a closer would serve as a great segway into the odder stuff as the next step for newcomers to explore. And I just adore that song.
Don't forget his 1990 collaboration with John Cale, Wrong Way Up. For the both of them it would be considered quite "mainstream" or "pop". It is one of my favorite albums! Of course his first four albums (that is, the ones with vocals) are essential also.
I wouldn't change a thing about the first four. They are perfection as is to me. I want to throw on Blank Frank now so thanks.
St. Elmo's Fire By This River On Some Faraway Beach Golden Hours Third Uncle Here He Comes Julie With I'll Come Running The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch Spider and I The Big Ship Baby's On Fire
I don't if any of Eno's stuff would be classified "Pop" lol. But that's for a "What does "genre" mean thread. Another fine collaboration, with David Byrne Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
You never walked around for days repeating over and over in your head: Baby's on fire Better throw her in the water Look at her laughing Like a heifer to the slaughter Or regularly bursting out in: In the blue August moon In the cool August moon I do and for me that's the hallmark of a good pop song. And yes, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is a fine album
Not sure if it meets "Eno Pop Album" criteria.. But Thanks!! Never heard him before, sounds real fine
LOL. And yes, it's going through my head now. Pure Pop. Like a heifer to the slaughter And... The mechanical bride Has fallen prey to the great pretender. Let me just point out discreetly Though you never learn All those tawdry late night weepies I could make you weep more cheaply
LOL. Missed the vocal part..... But, a wonderful 6 second intro to the comp, followed immediately by "Needles in the Camel’s Eye"
"Broken Head" from the Eno/Moebius/Roedelius album After the Heat has him singing, plus drums and a bassline. Which I suppose is enough for an Eno song to be considered anything close to "pop". He also sings on the closing song but it's the vocal track from "King's Lead Hat" played backwards. I like the lyrics too, but I gotta admit they aren't exactly top 40 material... I was just a broken head I stole the world that others punctured Now I stumble through the garbage Slide and tumble, slide and stumble Beak and claw, remorse reminder Slide and tumble, slide and stumble Back and forth and back to nothing Keep them tidy, keep them humble Chop and change to cut the corners Sharp as razors shiny razors Stranded on a world that's dying Never moving, hardly trying I was just a broken head I stole the world that others plundered Now I stumble through the garbage Slide and tumble, slide and stumble
