History Music / BrianEno

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* The soundtrack for the National Geographic film ''For All Mankind''. Wonderfully atmospheric music to accompany the story of the Apollo Project.

* PersonAsVerb: On Music/JohnCale's album ''Fear'', he isn't credited with playing any specific instrument - his contribution is simply listed as "[[AppliedPhlebotinum Eno]]."

WIth John Cale:

** On John Cale's "Gun", he plays [[RoxyMusic Phil Manzanera]]. That is, Phil Manzanera takes a guitar solo, which is fed into Eno's keyboard, so Eno is {{Sampling}} him in real time.

* PersonAsVerb: On John Cale's album ''Fear'', he isn't credited with playing any specific instrument - his contribution is simply listed as "[[AppliedPhlebotinum Eno]]."

* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: His music since the 70s has tended towards the serene and floaty end of things, but as his published diaries reveal, [[HairTriggerTemper he has something of a temper]]. When he made ''Wrong Way Up'' with John Cale, they...clashed.

-->--'''MGMT''', "Brian Eno"

-->So tired, soul searching, I followed the sounds to a cathedral
-->Imagine my surprise to find that they were produced by Brian Eno
-->--MGMT, "Brian Eno"

* {{Devo}}'s debut ''Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!''. Eno was frustrated by Devo's obsession with sticking to the arrangements they had already demoed, and Devo later admitted that Eno always came up with "cool" synth parts that "we only used for three or four songs".

* {{Coldplay}}'s most recent albums ''Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends'' (2008) and ''Mylo Xyloto'' (2011). Notably, for ''Viva la Vida'', Eno point-blank told the band exactly what parts of their style completely sucked once he accepted the job and set out to correct those perceived flaws.
* LaurieAnderson's ''Bright Red''.

* PornStash: According to [[http://www.pretenders.org/eno.htm an interview]] he did with Chrissie Hynde (yes, [[Music/Pretenders that Chrissie Hynde]]), he had an impressive one in TheSeventies.

* BlackComedy: Some of his songs take a light-hearted approach to gruesome subject matter, like "Baby's on Fire", which is made of {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s about a person who's [[ManOnFire on fire]] ("They said that you were hot stuff/And that's what baby's been reduced to"), or "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More".

* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: His music since the 70s has tended towards the serene and floaty end of things, but as his published diaries reveal, he has something of a temper. When he made ''Wrong Way Up'' with John Cale, they...clashed.

* {{Devo}}'s debut ''Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!'' Devo later admitted that they resisted his attempts to provide more sonic treatments and the like, only to later kick themselves for it.

* Music/{{Instrumentals}}

The man's even got [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfhZoWNeyx8 a song written about him]], courtesy of {{MGMT}}.

The man's even got [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfhZoWNeyx8 a song written about him]], courtesy of MGMT.

* {{Devo}}'s debut ''Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!''

* The soundtrack for the National Geographic film "For All Mankind". Wonderfully atmospheric music to accompany the story of the Apollo Project.

* The soundtrack for the NationalGeographic film "For All Mankind". Wonderfully atmospheric music to accompany the story of the Apollo Project.

* {{Coldplay}}'s last album ''Viva la Vida''. Notably, Eno point-blank told the band exactly what parts of their style completely sucked once he accepted the job and set out to correct those perceived flaws.

Simultaneously, Eno entered into a long {{True Art}}y collaboration with Robert Fripp based around a tape-delay system nicknamed "Frippertronics" and minimalist influences. Eno and Fripp released three albums together: ''(No pussyfooting)'', the first, had exactly one 18-minute track per side. The minimalist direction of these albums along with an apocryphal story about staying in the hospital, eventually drove Eno to abandon rock and dedicate himself to ambient music, releasing another series of acclaimed albums starting with ''Ambient 1: Music for Airports'' which are considered landmarks of the genre. Since then, his solo music has largely been electronic and ambient in nature.

With Robert Fripp:
* ''(No Pussyfooting)'' (1973)
* ''Evening Star'' (1975)
* ''The Equatorial Stars'' (2004)
* ''Beyond Even (1992-2006)'' (2007)

With the band Cluster:
* ''Cluster & Eno'' (1977)
* ''After the Heat'' (1977)
* ''Begegnungen'' (1984) - compilation of collaborative work
* ''Begegnungen II'' (1985) - compilation of collaborative work
* ''Old Land'' (1985) - compilation of collaborative work

With Jon Hassell:
* ''Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics'' (1980)
* ''Fourth World, Vol. 2: Dream Theory in Malaya'' (1981)

With the band 801:
* ''June 1, 1974'' (1974)
* ''801 Live'' (1976)

Simultaneously, Eno entered into a long {{True Art}}y collaboration with Robert Fripp based around a tape-delay system nicknamed "Frippertronics" and minimalist influences. Eno and Fripp released two albums together, ''(No Pussyfooting)'' and ''Evening Star''. The minimalist direction of these albums along with an apocryphal story about staying in the hospital, eventually drove Eno to abandon rock and dedicate himself to ambient music, releasing another series of acclaimed albums starting with ''Ambient 1: Music for Airports'' which are considered landmarks of the genre. Since then, his solo music has largely been electronic and ambient in nature.