His paws are over some of the best music from the 70's and 80's. To wit:

The New York Noise compilation
Devo's Q: Are We Not Men...
Talking Heads - Fear of Music and Remain in Light
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts with David Byrne

As well as collaborating with Cluster, Snatch, Davd Bowie, Kevin Ayers, Nico, John Cale;
His own solo albums
and Roxy Music.

What a dude.

self proclaimed non-musician, with 274 middle names to boost (Brian Jean Baptiste de La Salle etc....until you fall asleep).

yeah Bollocks, what a dude indeed.

Not producing Low.

He was a key part of the compositions - "Brian Eno – vocals, splinter minimoog, report ARP, guitar treatments, piano, keyboards, synthetics, chamberlin, other synthesizers". Who cares that he didn't produce it - Tony Visconti did.

The New York Noise compilation

it's actually the "No New York" compilation. You're getting confused with the compilations that were put out on the Soul Jazz label in recent years documenting material from the same new york scene.

i'm about to buy a car purely because the number plate is 'eno ###'

Apart from Music For Airports and Another Green World, I've very little interest in the chap.

Though oddly it would appear that his full name contains my school within it.. there ya go.

i can't stop listening to steve reich and i hate myself for it. minimalism. ewww. but eno liked him. it's a consolation.

what about Here come the Warm Jets? Fucking great.

cory arcangel too now. minimalism is a plague that's infesting me.

Eno is the ultimate silver fox. Even if there isn't actually much silver up top these days.

Currently I have Apollo, Ambient 2: Plateaux Of Mirrors and Before And After Science in high rotation.

I love Apollo. Thats beautiful.

i heard "third uncle" off taking tiger mountain by strategy by brian eno (solo record) out at a club and i was all like "what is this fresh new sound?" i thought to myself "i really need to be keeping up with this new wave of music" . so i asked the dj what it was. it was released in 1974. then i bought the record. end of story

Sorry I meant No New York. My bad Gorn.

I love the two albums he did with Cluster and his collaborations with Robert Fripp 'No Pussyfooting' and 'Evening Star' are pretty awesome too.

Discreet Music has to be one of the most beautiful albums I've heard.

I only started listening to Eno recently (as in the last 12 motnhs) because his ambient bullshit misled me into thinking he was a tosser.

I was wrong, but.

So can anyone tell me what that David Bynre collba is like? (REMAIN IN LIGHT rocks)

His pioneering work combating indigestion is also remarkable.

eno is a complete legend, here comes the warm jets has so many kickass songs. i've got this bootleg roxy dvd, where is he doing some serious wig out work with the synth. he definitely steals some of the limelight from ferry. he also produced laid by james, what a guy!

his Roxy work is unbelievable.

What a rockstar -

yeah there are some rock star stories about him having some serious sex with a girl and puncturing his lung.

Re-Make/Re-Model - pretty great piece of cultural archaeology looking at Roxy's roots in various nuts art school/university experiences. I'm really liking it but it is an unusual kind of book about a rock band, I'm 3/4 through and the key Roxy guys have appeared only occasionally, there is much more detail about people like Richard Hamilton and their theories of art/education. Roxy is positioned as a (very consciously constructed) product of a particular strand of modern art.

Which is refreshing compared to ''Mick met Keith on the train and dug his records'' or whatever it is.

acmi is showing the doco another green world apr 1-4

I think I already have that on dvd if anyone wants a copy...

the On a Faraway Beach is the best book Ive read on a musical person. The early chapters are great. Best 8 pound I spent!

i'm buying that next payday eple, based on your recommendation (no pressure)

even the little cameos from eno in the bracewell book are getting my antennae twitching, he is someone whose life and work i've always meant to get to the next level with and i have a sense that it is going to be an inspiring read

no pressure at all -

let me know what you think of it.

New from Eno - Glitch
The album Drums Between the Bells will be released on 4 July 2011 on Warp

''I hate remembering,'' he grumbled recently, literally turning his back and walking away from a BBC TV interviewer. ''I can't bear it.''

Always gives good interview, old Brian does.

the man who fell to earth (2011) is up on youtube

Bang On A Can All-Stars
Monday 5 & Wednesday 7 November
Melbourne Recital Centre

Bang On A Can has been a vital force in American music for 25 years. Somewhere between a rock band, jazz combo and a classical ensemble, the new-music mavericks borrow freely from every musical tradition, with a sound that's impossible to categorise but utterly unmistakable. Composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe created the first Bang on a Can Marathon concert in 1987 in order to break down the barriers that separate musical communities. Their idea was simple: instead of sorting music by style, genre, or venue it would be more powerful to group music by innovation, finding the rebels in each musical community, the restless creators not content to leave conventions unchallenged.

Program One: Field Recordings
Rock and Roll's spark came from the legendary 1950s field recordings of the Lomaxes and Seegers combing the Southern backwoods, from the Appalachian Mountains to the bayous, capturing the authentic folk voice of America. What would happen if today's genre-blurring composers went into the field and brought back sounds to challenge their own music? Field Recordings builds a bridge between the seen and the unseen, the present and the absent, between today and the past.

Program Two: Brian Eno's Music For Airports
The brilliant acoustic rendering of Eno's electronic ambient music masterpiece is the signature Bang On a Can All-Stars experience. In 1978, Brian Eno changed the way we relate to music in our lives with his concept of 'ambient' music - music as interior decoration, ''as ignorable as it is interesting''. Bang on a Can has transcribed Music for Airports for a large ensemble and choir, breathing a human warmth into Eno's slightly chilly soundscapes, and yielding perhaps the definitive version of the gorgeously uneventful epic.

More Volts: The Funky Eno by DJ Food

Ooh, Bang on a Can... definitely interested, their Music for Airports is fantastic.

Some other info not included above:
Field Recordings: nine new compositions especially for the Bang on a Can All-Stars by Tyondal Braxton, Christian Marclay (video artist and creator of the astonishing 24-hour film, The Clock), Nick Zammuto, Mira Calix, Florent Ghys, Evan Ziporyn, Michael Gordon, David Lang (Pulitzer Prize-winner) and Julia Wolfe.

Ticketylinks... $60/$50, yow.

there's a combo package to save a bit of money

music for airports has a full orchestra supposedly, so y'know, dollar per performer ratio is pretty good.

The bang on a can field recordings night is now free (still need to book a ticket)

http://www.melbournerecital.com.au/whatson/buytix?perfid=4873

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Whoa! Tickets grabbed, thanks anon. That's a big move, I wonder if the paying customers get refunds? I was still undecided, so hadn't booked. Will probably cough up for the Eno one now, too.

Very excited, never thought I'd have the chance or funds to see them play. Tempted not to eat for a few days to catch Music For Airports.

oh today just got so much better, thanks for the tip! I was holding off on getting tix due to skintness but likewise I'll probably go to MFA now as well...

i read some interview where he described Bryan Ferry as a ''Rhode Island Red''. I liked that.

LUX listening party session thing on Saturday night.

also, you can win free tix to the Music For Airports show here (comp is run by Syd Opera House but for the Melb Recital shows)
http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/bangonacan_giveaway.aspx

I scored a ticket at Half-Tix today for Wednesday's 'Music for Airports' show, $36. They're closed on Cup Day but it might be worth a look at their listing on Wednesday, might still be some tix to be had.

$36 tickets are available at Halftix for tonight's show.