TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Brian Eno
Brian Eno
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.4385
Brian Eno Album Rankings
1
This album, along with Peter Gabriel III , changed my music-listening life.
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2
At last, Eno the Impressionist painter arrives, resulting in one of his best albums and one that even many haters of Ambient music as a concept tend to tip their hats to.
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3
An exquisite experiment,Apollotakes Brian Eno's spacescapes from albums likeAnother Green Worldand arranges them with some heavenly pedal steel guitar byDaniel Lanois.
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4
On Landrepresented a significant move away from the strategies Brian Eno had employed in earlier ambient releases such asDiscreet MusicandMusic for Airports.
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5
Four subtle, slowly evolving pieces grace Eno's first conscious effort at creating ambient music. The composer was in part striving to create music that approximated the effect of visual art.
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6
The first of two retrospective box sets devoted to the groundbreaking work of Brian Eno,Eno Box IIconcentrates on his pop and vocal material, including some selections from the unreleasedMy Squelchy L
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8
Although it's his Music For Airports album, his work with Roxy Music, and his collaborations with David Byrne and other artists are the ones that have been talked about the most, this is an album that
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9
The latter part of 1975 was a remarkably creative period for Brian Eno.
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10
Not bad for a "boring ambient guy." Eno's first "true" solo album doesn't just entertain the hell out of me; it basically defies a single classification.
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11
Track listing: 1) Fractal Zoom; 2) Wire Shock; 3) What Actually Happened?; 4) Pierre In Mist; 5) My Squelchy Life; 6) Juju Space Jazz; 7) The Roil, The Choke; 8) Ali Click; 9) Distributed Being; 10) W
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12
At the time of this recording, Eno's creative endeavors had shifted to sound-and-light installations involving unconventional use of video monitors.
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13
No stranger to anagrams and etymological games, C.S.J. Bofop-- or as he's more commonly known, Brian Eno-- has a bad habit of taking himself too seriously.
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14
The reissue of Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts presents a quandary from a critical standpoint.
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15
On his first album in three years, pioneering ambient architect Brian Eno unveils yet another brand of sonic manipulation, a type of music he vaguely labels "drop.
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16
It's fitting that the most infectious number onWrong Way Upis called "Been There Done That," because few have covered as much musical terrain as Brian Eno and John Cale.
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21
Brian Eno's icy ohms and Jah Wobble's din collide on Spinner.
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23
Sonora Portraits is an odd selection of Eno's ambient work, compiled mostly from his Glitterbug soundtrack and Music for Films III.
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25
The Drop finds Brian Eno replicating the floating, trancy sound of Neroli, creating a shimmering collection of ambient music.
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26
Fractal Zoom, a companion to the CD EP Ali Click, features 11 lengthy mixes of the title track.
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27
According to several of the seven mixes on the CD EP Ali Click, "Brian's been amusing his friends by chewing on some plastic flashbulbs.
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