History Music / BrianEno

* ''Everything That Happens Will Happen Today'' (2008)

He contributed heavily to Music/DavidBowie's "Berlin trilogy" (''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]'', ''Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum'', and ''Music/{{Lodger}}''), to the point that he and producer Tony Visconti are considered the architects of those albums' sound (and Eno is often miscredited as co-producing those albums). He also released two critically acclaimed collaborations with Music/DavidByrne, ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' and ''Everything That Happens Will Happen Today'', and co-produced Byrne's 2018 solo album ''Music/AmericanUtopia''. His involvement with the music industry is so deeply entrenched that his Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno article]] includes a detailed web diagram showing off just how many connections he has with other ProgressiveRock artists alone (we'd link the image directly, but the fact that it has an apostrophe in the URL messes with how this site processes it); he's ''that'' prolific.

* ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' (1981)

He contributed heavily to Music/DavidBowie's "Berlin trilogy" (''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]'', ''Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum'', and ''Music/{{Lodger}}''), to the point that he and producer Tony Visconti are considered the architects of those albums' sound (and Eno is often miscredited as co-producing those albums). He also released two critically acclaimed collaborations with Music/DavidByrne, ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' and ''Everything That Happens Will Happen Today'', and co-produced Byrne's 2018 solo album ''American Utopia''. His involvement with the music industry is so deeply entrenched that his Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno article]] includes a detailed web diagram showing off just how many connections he has with other ProgressiveRock artists alone (we'd link the image directly, but the fact that it has an apostrophe in the URL messes with how this site processes it); he's ''that'' prolific.

* ''American Utopia'' (2018)

* DarkerAndEdgier: "Ambient 4: On Land" is much darker than his previous ambient outings,with many considering it a TropeMaker for DarkAmbient.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: ''Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)'' is one to a Chinese {{opera}} of the [[SimilarlyNamedWorks same name]].

* WorldMusic: ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' helped popularise the fusion of rock with world music known as worldbeat.

He contributed heavily to Music/DavidBowie's "Berlin trilogy" (''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]'', ''Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum'', and ''Music/{{Lodger}}''), to the point that he and producer Tony Visconti are considered the architects of those albums' sound (and Eno is often miscredited as co-producing those albums). He also released two critically acclaimed collaborations with Music/DavidByrne, ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' and ''Everything That Happens Will Happen Today'', and co-produced Byrne's 2018 solo album ''American Utopia''. His involvement with the music industry is so deeply entrenched that his Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno article]] includes a detailed web diagram showing off just how many connections he has with other ProgressiveRock artists alone (we'd link the image directly, but the fact that it has an apostrophe in the URL messes with how this site processes [=URLs=]); he's ''that'' prolific.

He contributed heavily to Music/DavidBowie's "Berlin trilogy" (''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]'', ''Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum'', and ''Music/{{Lodger}}''), to the point that he and producer Tony Visconti are considered the architects of those albums' sound (and Eno is often miscredited as co-producing those albums). He also released two critically acclaimed collaborations with Music/DavidByrne, ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' and ''Everything That Happens Will Happen Today'', and co-produced Byrne's 2018 solo album ''American Utopia''. His involvement with the music industry is so deeply entrenched that his Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} article includes [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Brian_Eno's_musical_web.jpg a detailed web diagram]] showing off just how many connections he has with other ProgressiveRock artists alone; he's ''that'' prolific.

He contributed heavily to Music/DavidBowie's "Berlin trilogy" (''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]'', ''Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum'', and ''Music/{{Lodger}}''), to the point that he and producer Tony Visconti are considered the architects of those albums' sound (and Eno is often miscredited as co-producing those albums). He also released two critically acclaimed collaborations with Music/DavidByrne, ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' and ''Everything That Happens Will Happen Today'', and co-produced Byrne's 2018 solo album ''American Utopia''.

'''Solo albums''':

'''Collaborative albums''':

With the band 801:

With Music/DavidBowie:

With Music/HaroldBudd:

With Music/DavidByrne:

With Music/JohnCale:

With the band Music/{{Cluster}}:

With Robert Fripp (of Music/KingCrimson):

With Music/JonHassell:

With Music/RickHolland:

With Music/{{Laraaji}}:

With Music/{{U2}} (as Passengers):

With Music/JahWobble:

* CoolOldGuy: He's pushing 70 and still responsible for a lot of awesome tunes.

* BaldOfAwesome: He's been bald for quite some time.

--> These poor girls are such fun \\

(To make [[LampshadeHanging percussion over solos]])

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With the band Music/{{801}}:

* PersonAsVerb: On Music/JohnCale's album ''Fear'', he isn't credited with playing any specific instrument -- his contribution is simply listed as "[[AppliedPhlebotinum Eno]]." He's also credited for "Enossification" on Music/{{Genesis}}' ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway''.

* Music/{{Ultravox}}'s debut ''Ultravox!''

He contributed heavily to Music/DavidBowie's "Berlin trilogy" (''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]'', ''Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum'', and ''Music/{{Lodger}}''), to the point that he and producer Tony Visconti are considered the architects of those albums' sound (and Eno is often miscredited as co-producing those albums). He also released two critically acclaimed collaborations with Music/DavidByrne, ''My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' and ''Everything That Happens Will Happen Today''.

* RenaissanceMan: A performer, producer, diarist, video artist...

* ShoutOut: "Zawinul/Lava" is likely one to Joe Zawinul of Music/WeatherReport and Music/MilesDavis fame. "Kurt's Rejoinder" is a reference to poet/artist Kurt Schwitters, whose cut-up technique was an influence on Eno's lyrical writing style (and whose poem "Ursonate" is actually sampled in the song).

* ConceptAlbum: ''Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)''.

* Music/{{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.

Brian Eno (b. May 15, 1948) is an enormously influential and prolific musician, composer, RecordProducer, singer and music theorist, even though he describes himself as a [[SelfDeprecation "non-musician."]] A former art school student, Eno has an enormous amount of credits under his belt that includes his [[TropeCodifier popularisation]] of {{ambient}} music, {{sampling}}, and world music, his co-authoring of the "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies Oblique Strategies]]" collection of cards alongside Peter Schmidt, his groundbreaking use of the studio as an instrument, his critically acclaimed solo career, his well-regarded work as a RecordProducer, his stint in the {{glam rock}} band Music/RoxyMusic and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking his creation of the "Microsoft Sound."]]