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zaruyache
April 5th 2017


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Ambient 2 and The Pearl are better than Airports too.

guitarded_chuck
April 5th 2017


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Album Rating: 4.0

eno is god [2]

TalonsOfFire
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April 5th 2017


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Album Rating: 4.0

I'm inclined to agree zaru, tho they're all around the same level of quality imo

guitarded_chuck
April 5th 2017


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Album Rating: 4.0

same, im sure i could rate them if i tried but theyre all great and pretty consistently so

Spacesh1p
April 5th 2017


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Ambient 2 is the best imo. It's my favorite ambient album.

TalonsOfFire
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April 5th 2017


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Album Rating: 4.0

Ambient 2 is probably mine unless Shadows of the Sun by Ulver counts as an ambient album. A I A is up there too.

zaruyache
April 5th 2017


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I just listened to ambient one via stereo speakers and found it to be super boring. Like he took four, one-minute loops and dragged each out to ten minutes. The piano track is too minimalistic and without enough atmosphere, last track's kind of annoying with those synths/keys.

Frippertronics
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April 5th 2017


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Album Rating: 4.0

lol

Frippertronics
Emeritus
April 5th 2017


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Seriously though, Ambient One isn't all that it's hyped to be

zaruyache
April 5th 2017


27407 Comments


Jamming this one now and I like it much more already.

Frippertronics
Emeritus
April 5th 2017


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Thursday Afternoon will blow you away if you ever check it out

zaruyache
April 5th 2017


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ugh fine I'll put that one the list too, if it's on Spotify. :3

theBoneyKing
April 5th 2017


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Seriously though, Ambient One isn't all that it's hyped to be

Agreed, that's the only Eno I've heard but it's pretty meh tbh.


zaruyache
April 5th 2017


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Oh hey Thursday is pretty pianos with reverbiness hey hey I dig thx frippandeno

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
April 5th 2017


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

If there're any good or great Eno albums, solo, collabs, or otherwise that're worth checking out from between Thursday Afternoon until Compact Forest Proposal, let me know.

Frippertronics
Emeritus
April 6th 2017


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Album Rating: 4.0

talons, didn't i give you some big laundry list of that kind of stuff a year ago or something?

Frippertronics
Emeritus
April 6th 2017


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

but nonetheless



Brian Eno and John Cale - Wrong Way Up (1990)

Brian Eno - The Shutov Assembly (1992)

Brian Eno - My Squelchy Life (1991; cancelled, but released officially in 2015)

Bang On a Can and Brian Eno - Music for Airports (1997)



heavily advised to check the earlier collaborations he did with Cluster and Jon Hassell if you haven't already. Also Ambient 3: Day of Radiance by Laraaji is essential.

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
April 6th 2017


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Album Rating: 4.0

Yes it was a few months ago. I got all the collab albums you mentioned, and you said that Thursday Afternoon, Compact Forest Proposal, Another Day on Earth, and Lux were good too, which I'm gonna hear, but I wanted to know if anything he did after 1985 was worth checking out, until 2001, which is when he started all the albums you mentioned.

TalonsOfFire
Emeritus
April 6th 2017


20969 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Thanks I'll check those out. I've jammed pretty much everything he's done from the mid 80s and before, including collabs already so I'll move on to more stuff soon.

zaruyache
April 6th 2017


27407 Comments


39 mins into thursday afternoon and I think it's pretty OK, but why it needs to be an hour long is a real concern. Starts out nice with the piano but slowly devolves into minimalistic bleep bloops piano notes and casual synth background lines. Hmmm.



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