Ambient 1/Music For Airports

Lyttede i flyveren for at opnå fuld effekt: det passede sgu meget godt

4.0

This album has served as a little place of calm reflection and headspace, and I think much of the music I both listen to and make today can be routed back to Ambient 1/Music For Airports.

Good background noise.

Baanbrekend, en mooi.

ambient and chill

Tedious. Music to sleep to. Maybe airports enjoy this sort of music?

Important for historical reasons

...not for me I guess.

General impression: groundbreaking ambient that still holds up Detailed review: The fact that this album is seen as sort of an “origin” of ambient music may suggest that it’s rudimentary and has been surpassed. Not so. This is still one of the best albums in the genre and is honestly still the best gateway album for someone to get into ambient music. It’s hard to beat that beautiful and unparalleled piano motif in “1/1,” but the other three tracks differentiate themselves nicely. There’s comfort, there’s a little bit of eeriness, there’s piano, there are wordless vocals, there’s some cool synth work. It’s really all one needs for a nice ambient listen. Deeper thoughts (context): I said it above. This is like the Kind of Blue for ambient. Score: 5 Number of albums left to review: 952 Number of albums from the list I’d consider “must-listens”: 29 (including this one) Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 20

Ambient-genren edelläkävijä, joo, mutta ei taida olla minulla se.

Very generic sounding ambient instrumentals. One song blended into another.

It's fine ambient album. I believe it was groundbreaking back then, but it's too minimalistic for me.

I enjoyed this. Relaxing and good background music. 4/5

My appreciation for Brian Eno continues to grow as I make my way through this list. This is incredibly peaceful and calming to the nervous system. My favorite is 1/1, which immediately reminded me of the score for The Social Network (Hand Covers Bruise specifically).

Yeah it sure is ambient. At least the album title is accurate. I have absolutely no idea why anyone on earth would consider this to be essential listening. It’s pretty I guess? But it’s just so boring. It’s muzak and I don’t think it’s anything more than that. More elevators music than airport music. Skilled piano playing, odd vocalizations? Yawn. 2*

I think Brian Eno is one of the most fascinating and creative people in the music biz, so it’s a bit hard for me to be objective, but I think it’s fair to say this genre-defining ambient album is groundbreaking. It takes a certain stroke of creative genius to reimagine the way we interact with music - to say, in the height of the disco era, that music doesn’t need to be melodic or even phrasal but can exist as a texture to subtly morph our surroundings. I think the intent of this album is pretty contrary to the intent of the 1001 Albums project, or at least the way I like to listen to my album of the day, which is intently and carefully with minimal distraction. It’s hard to know how to rate this album because the content is hardly even musical. But I have so much respect for Eno and have in fact listened to this album several times in my life and always enjoy it, so I’m gonna say 8/10? I guess?

Really nice and chill awesome to listen to

wowza uil music for sure love it

Ahhh. The birth of ambience. Spectacular album.

Great ambient sound to walk late at night

As described: calming background music. Wouldn’t really listen to it as an album

Thoughts before listening: I am typically not into ambient music so I have always avoided this album. I like some of Brian Eno's music, but 4 long ambient tracks just doesn't appeal to me. Maybe this will be nice background music while I work this morning. Review: So I won't be adding any of these songs to the playlist, but this isn't as difficult of a listen as I assumed. It does make for nice background music but with musical themes and textures that keep it interesting. This is very relaxing music reminiscent of what you would hear when getting a massage. Overall I am glad I had an excuse to listen to this although I doubt I would revisit...I also got a little bored by the end. 3-stars

pleasant enough. would probably be really nice to fall asleep to. can’t imagine myself ever playing this in an airport tbh highlights: 1/1 (feb 13 2026)

Gotta love someone that establishes a brand new genre of music. I enjoy having this on in the background while I am working. I know I have heard it in airports.

Pretty chill kinda boring tho.

Well, what do you know… ANOTHER CLASSIC BRIAN ENO RECORD.

Lovely chilled relaxing ambience, beautiful.

Love

J'anticipais tellement peu cet album et j'ai vraiment été agréablement surpris. Bien que son but était purement de litérallement faire de la musique de fond pour des aéroports, le résultat est quelque chose qui s'écoute vraiment bien pour le plaisir. Il y a vraiment une atmosphère particulière à cet album. Une bonne trame sonore pour un après-midi tranquille à lire un bon roman. 7.5/10

Nothing happens in this album and that's why its beautiful! There is so much emotion conveyed in the ambient spaces and sparse musical material of this wonderful recording that I will always be in the mood for.

OG ambient

Ambient always first evokes images of forests, more so than airports, but I can easily also picture myself awaiting the dry void of a crowded plane in a dry void of an architecturally indefinable airport.

3.5? Lovely, but so hypnotic I'd only recommend for the commute home (no driving)

Like a pleasant, comforting coda played at the end of the line. The irony of the title (and the album's intent, I suppose) is that no airport would actually play this eerily calm music (though parts of e.g. 2/1 are more ”active” and heightened, for lack of better words); Eno's sounds are meant for a far stranger terminal, a transitional limbo to an alien country.

Well…..as advertised it is ambient background music. The author of this book made some really dumb picks

That was peaceful and influenced a whole genre

Wow... I did not expect this! What a great album, and amazing that he more or less invented this genre! Love it.

Excellent! Tails off in the middle a bit so not perfect but I liked it a lot.

A tricky album to rate, I didn't exactly hate it and I didn't exactly love it. Half marks then.

Well it was as described. Too many Eno albums on this list stop Eno, he aint all that.

Does what it does very effectively. Great album, this is what Brian Eno does best

Well, I was really in the mood for this yesterday whilst working. It is then ultimate in minimal background noise. To say I listened to it would be a stretch. We were in the same room and it made that room extremely chilled and tranquil. I'm not sure about its suitability for an airport what with all the announcements, people being in a rush for their gate, bright lights and overpriced goods.

Ambient music: "as ignorable as it is interesting"; which, I guess, this album achieves. 4 for the calm.

This wasn't really music to listen to, just sounds to be on.

Beautiful. Classic. Created a new genre

People actually spend money on this album?

I dont understand this at all. I would give this the lowest score possbile if there was something below a 1.

Breezy nothingness.

I mean... the title says it all, I guess.

Chill

cool

Not even really for airports. This is just tones and sounds. Got nothing from this except the desire to sleep - which isn’t all that bad. Still got to give it a 2 - not bad, it’s just not music.

Primer acercamiento a este trabajo de Brian Eno. Ambient 1/Music For Airports se trata del sexto álbum de estudio del artista en solitario. Este trabajo involucra una versión más reduccionista de su sonido, el cual tiene como consecuencia un álbum minimalista que dio estructura al género del Ambient. Eno no fue el primero en hacerlo, pero si probablemente el más importante. Así, este trabajo nos lleva en un viaje por cuatro piezas musicales, las cuales ponen como protagonista un piano y un sintetizador. Sin mucho más que ello, el artista se dispone a crear loops de diferentes composiciones que van tomando posición sobre las extensas canciones. Lo más característico de esta decisión es que Eno va agregando capas de sonido en cada una de las mismas, e incluso vuelve sobre elementos contemplados en canciones del mismo trabajo (como es el caso del sintetizador de 1/2 que volvemos a escuchar en 2/1). No obstante, es importante destacar que esas adiciones nunca buscan crear canciones sobresalientes ni instrumentalizaciones gigantescas. Por el contrario, el artista comprende que el objetivo más importante con este trabajo es el confort del oyente, lo cual no arriesga en ningún segundo. Con una duración de 48 minutos, este trabajo involucra la creación de diversas atmósferas que envuelven a quien lo escucha en la más cálida de las reflexiones. Mucho se ha dicho sobre que este género no es realmente música, puesto que "no está hecho realmente para ser escuchado". En lo personal no podría estar menos de acuerdo. Si bien este trabajo no contiene letras introspectivas o instrumentales épicas del artista, sí invita al oyente a descansar y pensar. Estamos tan acostumbrados a que la música se trate de una voz acompañada de instrumentos que olvidamos a veces que la calma puede venir de las cosas más mínimas. En este sentido, el artista no decepciona y lograr crear un álbum sumamente influyente e indispensable para cualquier fan de la música. En síntesis, gran trabajo de Brian Eno. Recalcar que si bien 1/2 es mi pieza menos favorita de este álbum pienso que todas las canciones aquí son buenas. FAVTRAXS: 1/1, 2/1, 2/2 LEASTFAV: 1/2

The middle vocal loops are too New Age to me, while the opener and closer are gorgeous. Having got into ambient music through friends a couple of decades ago, coming to this for the first time is peculiar; I was expecting something even more abstract or perhaps sublime, and my initial thought was that this is almost too tuneful to be ambient. 1/1 and 2/2 earn the stars.

The absolute finest music to fall asleep to, which is meant as a compliment. 1/1 in particular is the peak of the ambient genre and could last forever with no complaints from me

Brian Eno was easily one of the most important people in music history. Not only was he at the forefront of Art Rock, Experimental Sound Design and even Drone but he also invented the actual genre of Ambient. This album was purely created because he was annoyed with the Airport music and *boom* Ambient!!! The album kickstarted a new way of approaching and looking at music and even though better Ambient albums have been created (even by Eno himself), the album is still packed with great ideas and beautiful moments as well as a Blueprint of any following Ambient projects. The album is made up of 4 tracks all titled after the number of the song and the number of the vinyl side. So, '1/1' starts the album with some great moments right off the bat. It combines Modern Classical Minimalism (which artists like Steve Reich were at the forefront of) and New Age and even Impressionism. Meaning that right at the start, the Ambient genre shows what it tries to give you: peaceful and even meditative melodies that are easy to listen too and put one into a state that is both soothing and ethereal. The track is mainly made up of simple and lovely Piano sounds as well as some synths. There isn't much more than a total of three instruments on the entire track. It is incredibly simple but it knows that and it doesn't push itself further than that. I guess that it's hard to really give a "score" or anything to a track like this because either it works for you at this moment or it doesn't but I personally love this track. Brian Eno was and is one of my biggest inspirations and a track like this just emphasizes that less can be more. The track does exactly what it wants to do and I am hypnotised by what it does: This is a perfect track. '2/1' keeps things going by adding a lot of Choral A Cappella from four vocalists including Eno himself and using that as an Ambient instrument by playing it from a tape in different ways. It does sound like it's just a few parts of a church Choral and I do like that sound on its own but this track repeats and all of that and often breaks the little bit of flow that it had. The only thing that I really enjoy here are the synths but to be honest they aren't really so prominent that it takes the fact away that the vocals are simply annoying after a while which is the least thing Ambient tries to do. It does get incredibly frustrating because it feels like the exact same thing over and over and over and yes, the first track also sounding like that but it did it better and not as obnoxious as this track. I am sorry but I genuinely think that this is a very, very unpleasent track and without a doubt one of Eno's worst songs ever put out on a major release. The second half of the album starts much better. '1/2' does feature very similar vocals but there is piano again and doesn't fully rely on the vocals. They are still very present but they are used much more sparingly and are broken up by the piano which often times does a much better job at keeping the track together than the synths did on '2/1'. I do think that after what happened on '2/1' that I am connected to these vocals a little more than I should be because they still feel a little bit annoying which does ruin the song a little bit for me. I think that it's still an incredible track but it's simply not perfect because of these vocals. The album is closed by '2/2' which is another complete change of sound because it goes much more into a genre that only later was put under the Ambient umbrella. It uses Electronic Space Ambient in the form of only synthesizers to create a similar Ambient atmosphere. It does still fall under the "normal" Ambient genre because it does set itself apart from other Space Ambient tracks and mostly the Progressive Electronic aspect but it does utilise a lot of the sounds that it first made popular. The track sounds like a dreamy sci-fi movie about astronouts and I absolutely love it. While I do think that '1/1' is overall better, this is still a perfect Ambient track and has some of the best moments on the album as well as closing it perfectly. favourites: 1/1, 2/2 least favourites: 2/1 Rating: strong 7 to light 8 https://rateyourmusic.com/~Emil_ph for more ratings, reviews and takes

3/5 Good ambiance noise for background music.

Love this album. Great background music for focusing on just about anything. No one was really packaging up stuff like this until Eno.

Remind me to add this album to my roster of things I can do to mediate anxiety.

Skipped through most of this. I get that it is the first of its kind in the genre, but it was made as a background, not to be listened to like the 1000 other albums on this list. This is fine as ambient music but I've never been in an airport and thought "oh cool I know/love this song, glad I know it's a Brian Eno original!". It's supposed to go unnoticed. It was peaceful I guess.

Not really sure how to rate this. It’s music that was meant to be ignored, and it’s great at cutting out background noise. Listened to it over the years when I’ve really needed to concentrate, and it’s perfect at that. But I dont sit thinking ‘I cant wait to stick me Airports record on!’. It had a time and place and it’s perfect for that. Plus this paved the way for more ambient records, like that quiet Jon Hopkins record, or maybe even Boards of Canada to an extent

Brian Eno has a lot of strings to his bow this sounds nothing like his other stuff. There were some interesting parts to this, which is incredible considering how ambient it is and speaks to Eno's talent. It is much too ambient for me though, I can't think of when I'd want to listen to this. Without anything to offset it, I find the sparseness a bit dull. Way better than an album like this should be but not really for me. 2.5.

Tried not to listen to this to enjoy it as it was meant to be enjoyed. 2/2 was my favourite movement. Very weird inclusion in the list, however I suppose it paved the way in the ambient music scene. Looking forward to Music For Lifts.

I don't know how to rate this at all.... I liked the other solo Eno album we've had, but it was actually of substance. This is specifically designed to not really be listened to I guess, and just serve as background noise. And as that is was pretty nice I guess, but can't see myself even thinking about putting this on. Very clearly Brian Eno though, which is quite interesting in itself

I'm pretty sure they play this when I get my eyebrows waxed.

Excellent Ambient...

This just isn’t for me

It would be great to live in a world where the music was the problem to be solved with regard to air travel. I feel like I understand this album more in relation to *contemporary relational art* than to album-based music. Both in regard to the clear thesis and also the tendency of artists to conveniently find solutions that can fit their own immaculate sense of aesthetics. In other words, I'd love to come across this in a museum with an indecipherable text on the wall and a small listening booth. I would be utterly baffled to come across this in the wild.

this was neat, idk really how to explain it any better than that

This almost put me to sleep LOL. It was nice, but reminded me of music I used to listen to when practicing mindfulness. I would literally never choose to just listen to this again. Also, this does not match the vibe of airports today at all.

my friend made me listen to this a couple weeks ago when we were picking up a mutual friend from the airport. there was no parking, and so we just drove around in loops for like a DVD idle screen waiting for her flight to get in. it was perfect for that, so great work there. would never listen to it in my spare time, it's a little too minimalist to make my brain smooth in the way i think it's attempting to

does what it says on the tin

sure, beam me up dude

Great early foray into ambient music!

Seguro es un disco muy importante porque inició el ambient, pero vaya, no es un álbum que creo que vaya a volver a poner nunca.

I enjoyed it

Its aight

boring, unless you like ambient then it's probably alright.

Could have used this 2 days ago when I was in an airport... I did quite like this though. It was nice background music at work!

Gets the extra star for Robert Wyatt on the piano

Brian Eno finally delivers on what he promised. This song is called Ambient 1, and this album is literally just ambient noise. This is not music at all, and is more meant to be on in the background than actually listened to. Why this is on an essential album listening list is beyond me. If this is on the list, then random sound effect records should be on this list too, because that is basically what this is. Super fucking boring. Typical weird Eno. Favourite songs: 2/2 Least favourite songs: 1/1 2/5

Heard of Brian Eno thru this site. This music is easy to work while playing in the background.

heavily dependent on the occasion you listen to that. background music while working: absolutely. active listening: hell no...

That was very, very boring! I understand the concept of an ambient sound album, but the atmosphere created in these tracks is as enthusiastic as a half-hour recording of just my farts.

I appreciate the artistry in this, but I prefer airports to have gently energetic music, to strum my excitement about traveling.

Ugh The first song was pretty relaxing and I liked the piano. The rest of it was enough to bring on a major depressive episode 2 ⭐️

If you listen to this backwards, it fucking rocks.

There's not much to say about Ambient 1/Music For Airports is there? :D It does what it says on the tin and achieves his goal, I wouldn't pay attention listing to it because I'm not meant to, in the right setting it delivers perfectly but this is an exercise into what I like, not whether the artist's intentions hit the spot, so I'm giving it a 2 as it's neither good nor bad, it just is.

I think this would be quite good to play over the speakers in an airport: it's calming, chilled music that might take some of the heat out of the frustrations that go with air travel. It's just far too airy fairy to be an album you have to listen to before you die. 2/5.

This is an odd one to score. The intention of the album is so different to any others it’s hard to compare; I found it boring, but I guess that’s the point. Also, since this was released, ambient music has become so much more prevalent because of stuff like video games and YouTube that this just seems basic and in no way noteworthy. I don’t know whether to give it credit for helping to define the genre or mark it down for being easily reproducible, so I’m hedging my bets

This is will be a lovely addition to my Reading on a Train playlist. Simpsons: had a few songs used, but no references.

A great album to help you fall asleep, and that isn't a criticism. I listened to it last night and it did a great job. Would also play this again whilst studying, or if doing some kind of yoga/meditation. I've used the term 'background music' to criticise quite a few albums on this list, but this one is intentional and I definitely appreciate it. Also had a good laugh imagining El Grande absolutely raging whilst listening to what should be a peaceful and relaxing album.

Boring boring boring

Something completely different to most other things on this list. Super enjoyable to listen to while eating my breakfast and staring out the window at the world going by

im getting this feeling that this shits gonna piss me off 1/1- bro. 3. minecraft music 2/1- huh. 2 or 3 1/2- 2 or 3 2/2- f i hear that fuckign chorus

This is album is just shit.

I’ve been getting more into ambient music this past year or so and loving it. It makes for great background music while I’m writing. This album is one I discovered earlier this year and put into rotation. It’s also a great album to end the night with. I’ve sat out on my porch late at night listening to this. It’s really tranquil music. The piano melody on “1/1” is particularly gorgeous. And on “1/2” as well. I also love the synths on “2/2” that sound like sad, muted horns. Beautiful music and all the more impressive knowing that it was one of the pioneering works of ambient music.

Beautiful, meditative, relaxing, introspective music. This is my first dive into Brian Eno (after being told my whole life I need to start listening!), and I'm really enjoying it. The first track actually sounds exactly like music I used to write when I was in music school, and I guess now it's finally clicking ~16 years later as to why all my professors told me to listen to him. If I had to have a gripe it would be that some of this feels a bit undeveloped, and I mean that in the classical composition way of actual "development". You hear so many layers and instruments come in and out, and they all add colors, but the melodies that they play don't really expand or explore. They do their thing, move around inside of the key, and then resolve. There's a real lack of tension (not that even album needs to have tension) that leaves me feeling complacent in a nice way but also a little unsatisfied over the course of a whole album. 3.4/5, rounded to a 3.

Very experimental. Very peaceful.

Music For Airports? Unless you want everyone to fall asleep and miss their flights, don't play this at the airport...

I can’t really give such neutral music anything but a neutral 3… Actually, I was going to give it a neutral 2, to separate it from other albums (including other Eno albums) that I’d actually choose to listen to and get some active enjoyment out of. But then I was listening to the final track at the kitchen table and experienced a profound moment of calm that bordered on emotional. Dammit, Brian!

I reviewed this when it came out in 1978. It was pointless,46 years later I went back to it - still pointless.

Brilliant. Perfectly encompasses what ambient music should be like.

Ahead of it's time.

🛗

Ambient perfection by the patron saint of Ambient. I couldn’t love it more.

Creepy spa music. I feel brainwashed.

If I ran an aquarium, this album would be playing all the time next to the jellyfish tank, particularly tracks 2/1 and 1/2. Other than that, I can't see myself listening to this again. It's exactly as advertised, so I can't fault him there. It's not bad, it's kind of relaxing even, but it's just ... there. I know that's the point, but that's not what I look for in music. 3/5 because it's listenable and obviously influential (or maybe I should deduct a star because it's responsible for creating the ambient genre?) but wholly forgettable.

I kind of want to know what the production process behind this was. Was Eno pacing angrily around the studio, occasionally stopping to press a key on the piano and angrily scowling at the sustain pedal for it's usefulness to the music. What I absolutely cannot imagine is this being played in an airport. It's not bad. But it also by deliberate choice not something you want to listen to actively. Eno is incredibly influential in music but I can't help belive that's in spite of him being Eno, rather than because of him being Eno.

It feels hard to review this album. It is very good at what it is aiming to do (be ambient), but is something I’m likely never going to seek out to listen to again. It is like a more modern day version of Gymnopédie No 1 by Satie - made for the background. However, Brian Eno made something that, in my opinion, is far more ambient. You likely won’t find any melodies that will stick in your head here. More likely, you’ll remember nothing but remember thinking it was calming.

A 3 for simply being titled exactly what it is.

Lame

pretty odd

Hey Brian, love the concept! The negative space in 1/1 would truly calm a frenzied traveler in a 1978 airport. (We remember ‘78 and airports at the time, they sucked. As humans, we have learned and gotten better about airports since then.) 1/2 not as neutral but still works. The B side gets less ambient and a bit too churchy. We’ve never heard any of this music at an airport (or any where else for that matter) but it is calming and would be appropriate during meditation, massage, or reiki. General consensus: original idea that is well thought out (1.8*s)

I don't think this album is bad per se, but I don't think it's "For Airports" or the 1001 list. It's really mellow (like fall asleep mellow) and it'd be better as a sound bath or meditation backing track. Some points for coming out in 1978 before those were even a thought. I think Eno himself describes it well with "as ignorable as it is interesting." 1.5

If this was playing at the airport while I was waiting for my flight...I would have passed out. The man is known to be experimental and developed this genre but it was so slow and boring I was almost begging for some Bill Evans Trio or John Zorn. More like Ambien x10:Music for Insomniacs...zzzzzz...0.2.

Hard to rate something like this as it's not a traditional album in any sense. If you are going into this looking for music you'll get nothing out of it. Overall, it's nothing great and not something I'll ever sit and listen to again. However, I give credit to Brian Eno for trying develop something for ambient listening. It's nothing something I explicitly enjoy, but could see it as passive background music in a lounge, waiting room, elevator, whatever. I think this album in general is more of a thought-piece than work of musical art. Incidentally, it works for background noise when sitting around with a 1-week old infant. I'll probably check out the rest of Eno's Ambient series just as background noise when I can't have sounds distracting a sleeping baby. 1.01 stars with a pretty big asterisk*

Fabulous ambient album. 3.5/5

I like a bit of ambient / chill background when I’m working, but this was barely there. I may as well have been listening to rainfall. It’s a bad album to judge because the music is literally designed to be ignored. However, when I actually did focus on it, I found it boring. If you stick this on while giving me a massage, then fine, but other than that I won’t be listening again.

You can just always put this one, what a great experience, and texture

Too weird to critique

Ambient? I guess Ambivalent? Absolutely! A whole lot of nothing.

STANDOUTS: NONE WTF IS THIS OVERALL: 1/5; it's all just AMBIENT NOISES

Pretty neutral on this, frankly

does what it says blends into the background is interesting but not too interesting was good to put on headphones and do some work

I like working to ambient. I dont love it. Glad to see it represented on this list but I think there are better ones out there. SAWII, Pop, etc. Can see this getting slated on here but it's nice, peaceful etc. 2 to 4 depending on my mood.

An interesting album to be featured on this list. This album offers almost nothing, but is a very peaceful listen. I don't think anyone would actually listen to this without doing some other activity concurrently. Since it has the element of deliberately naming it self background music, I think the album does an incredible job at that.

Super relaxing and contemplative. Great to have in the background while doing some work

Don't know what to say about this. It was pleasant, and very cool to know that it pioneered ambient music. Of all "pioneering" albums I've heard on here, I liked this one a lot, but it's, by definition, background music.

Has taken me years to wrest this back from it's pigeonhole of 'music we put on constantly 13 years ago in desperate bids to get the baby to sleep.' Same as Satie's Gymnopedies. Perhaps it's the familiarity of those liminal evenings between sleep and waking that this music brings to me, that makes it so easy to just drift off inwardly when this music is played. Particularly 1/1 and 2/2. I could not disagree more strongly with the idea that this is background music. It's music to get lost in, swim around in, go on journeys inside your own head. I sometimes wonder if people who don't appear to appreciate that aspect to this music simply aren't that introspective. That might be harsh but if it's true it's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm sometimes jealous of that as it probably provides a much tougher exterior to the world around you, bad things must simply bounce off your psyche without you noticing. But on the other hand, yes, you can drift in and out of it and use it as a backdrop to get into a flow state while working. So it's simultaneously absolutely not background music and definitely is background music.

I'll take the train

These are the album titles that get me out of bed in the morning. I've heard of this one before and understand, going in, its appreciation by music critics in general. Never have I listened to it before, but I've enjoyed the Eno on the list thus far. Opens on a warm / heavenly tone where you can actually hear a bit of background static that wraps around your ears like a warm blanket. On top of the static, a sparse layering of keys and bells plink around. Swelling slowly over and over without any sense of urgency. This seems like prime music to eat mushrooms to and stare off into the void. Ya know this was nice, and it did wrap around me like a warm blanket and make for an enjoyable background listen, but it really is hard for me to get too overly excited for ambient music. I say that having listened to quite a bit... Like I can appreciate that this is top execution, but I can't understand anyone getting off to this. For me, the production quality and layering push me to a 4, but I lacked the emotional response to push this into 5 territory.

Very ambient album. Would be great for an airport. I'm sure that's the review everyone else gave. It wasn't a bad listen but very slow. Fine to listen in the background of doing something. 2.5 stars

Fitting that I am listening this right before going to the airport. Not something I would like to listen to in the airport, unless this was the score for a movie that I am in where I am having an introspective/melancholy flight. This is something I would listen to early in the morning to feel peaceful and focused during work though (exactly what I am doing now). Very beautiful album that I will likely never listen to again. Maybe my favorite Eno album so far? It's very different from his other 37 albums that are on this list.

Going to have to check with Kevin on if that was Eno or not. Well that was certainly Ambient. It was great background music while working. Just don't know if I needed 40+ minutes of the repetition. Still gets a high 3 but can't go any higher than that

ENO I actually listened to this one in the past year after going down an ENO hole. Can't remember if it was at an actual airport or not. This is really good rainy day music, or music for falling asleep (not a bad thing). Great background music for working. Just feels super lush. Thanks for the hug ENO.

3.80 rym 3/5

Man, what a punch! If anything makes me want to listen to an album, it is a title like "ambient music for airports"! But more to the point, this album could only accompany a sparse, minimalist European airport with lots of windows, sunlight streaming through, and a zombie apocalypse that leaves the airport utterly empty. I would not be able to take this seriously at JFK or LGA. Or Frankfurt, for that matter. Maybe it could play in Geneva, or the airport in Station 11.

Well, certainly interesting. But really just quite boring.

A very good album, but I do think that having recognizable "melodies" does hurt this album. Especially when they are repeating for 10+ minutes.

Music For Airports has 1 big point in it’s favour, and 1 big point against it. The point in it’s favour is that it is truly groundbreaking. I can think of a good 2 dozen artists that I really love who have clearly taken direct or indirect influence from this album, and on top of that, there’s the fact that ambient music is fucking everywhere these days. I’ve listened to music directly inspired by Music For Airports that wasn’t even really aware that it was inspired by Music For Airports. I’ve fucking fallen asleep to music like this! Which leads us on to the big detraction to it, which is that it’s incredibly rucking boring to actually sit down and listen to. I was on board at first. During the first five minutes I was calmed, relaxed, ready to turn around, present myself and yell ‘Yes, Daddy Eno, please take me!’ And then the foreplay continued for another 10 minutes, and then the rest of the album was also pretty boring. I can see where people have taken inspiration from this, and appreciate it’s influence when it’s in downbeat electronic or ambient interludes on Indie Pop records, but this is the OG Lo-Fi beats to relax/study to, and I don’t think I’m ever gonna prefer relaxing/studying to this than I am that channel. For personal enjoyment, this is only a two, but because of it’s clear importance, I’m gonna give it a 3

Great mood album

I was aware of Brian Eno, but hadn't listened to much of his work. He is definitely a pioneer of ambient music, with this being released in the late 70s. Without this would there be Moby, Air and FSOL? Definitely worth checking out if you're into your ambient music. 4/5 #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie

Ambient gold

Nein, beruhigt mich nicht. Macht mich voll aggro. Kann aber auch daran liegen, dass ich im Moment nicht in einem Flughafen bin, sondern in meinem Büro sitze. Sorry Brian Eno.

It's beautiful and relaxing, but not something I would seek out for any reason, really.

This was designed to have a calming effect on airport travelers, and I think it is perfect for that. I was especially thinking about the tunnel to Concourse B at O'Hare Airport in Chicago. As for car travelers on the highway, I don't recommend it. The calming effect is not beneficial to attentive driving. I am impressed how this did, in fact, create a common genre of music. It's hard to remember that when it sounds so commonplace now.

Shoot, I don't know what to say. It seems to be just what it says it is...I suppose...

Felt more like a day at the spa than a day at the airport. Very relaxing.

I pressed play and within 30 seconds realized I have heard the opening track somewhere before… fairly recently… I think it was maybe an art installation - perhaps even at an airport. There’s something strangely interesting about this album. I played it driving in rush hour traffic and I’m sure it lowered my blood pressure as it put me in a space to just sit back and be. I think I love this album and will definitely keep it at hand for the upcoming election season.

Love the ambient vibes

I mean, it's exactly as advertised. If I could give it 2.5 stars I would, because it's neither exceptionally wonderful or dreadfully bad. It is what it is.

Feels wrong to hear this outside of a massage

I don’t get it

I have listened to this album probably 100 times. The unofficial soundtrack to my doctorate. I always get the opening of 1/1 and Gymnopedie No 1. Mixed up in my head. This album is my personality.

goated ambient, muchos no lo entienden, pero el propósito es ambientar un espacio o momento y quien mejor que brian eno para ello

Hmm Ambient music I like it

I wonder if Brian Eno was an inspiration to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for their soundtrack making. The first song sounded very reminiscent of Reznor and Ross but almost a bare bones version. Definitely a lot of emotion within the notes that were played. It definitely sounded like a soundtrack or score. The second song was just God awful. Synthetic choir 'oooohs' - that's all it was Just fake choir vocals. And then the second song was a mixture of the first 2 songs.... Then the 4th and final song was more like the first song but by the time, I was so fed up with this record and annoyed by it that it fell flat and my patients were already spent with this record. 4 songs. I liked 1.5 songs... I guess this gets a respectful 2.

I quite like Brian Eno.

Prefer elevator music.

Shite.

3-

I forget how beautiful and serene Eno's music is.

Fell asleep at work listening to this, accidentally caught myself on fire

2.5/5

I mean this is exactly what I expected from the title. Calming, ambient, yes, but not something I would look out for. After a while I was waiting for it to end.

Ambient 1: Music for Airports is the sixth studio album by Brian Eno, originally released in 1978. This record was the first in a series of four compositions that Eno would release under the "Ambient" label. I'm not going to pretend like I know a ton about ambient music but this record is a pillar of the genre. I believe Eno was actually the first person to coin the term "ambient" to describe this style of music. The tracks on this record are as described: ambient. They leave a lot of space and I think that's what really sets this style of music apart from your typical easy listening. Eno obviously envisioned a future where public spaces would play this style of music. This is an interesting thought especially in the context of busy, anxiety-inducing public spaces. This music reminds me a lot of the frutiger aero vibe that a lot of companies were pushing throughout the 2000s-early 2010s. Maybe that's the future we could've realized had this music been played in airports.

Ground Zero for Ambient Genre. Eno created a whole new thing.

not as good as the one that has lizard point on it

Sounds like lounge music... But it's actually an airport lounge music. I'm pretty confused about this album, was it an attempt at the best songs that no one will consciously listen to? Well, Brian did a pretty good job then, because I couldn't listen to it at all, it was so bland it was distracting. Nice experiment though.

So meh...I mean it was fine background music for an airport, mall, mediating or whatever you might need this kind of music. From today's context I don't see how this was amazing and influential. Not bad...you can just hear this kind of music anywhere.

Great music for napping or meditating. I wouldn't listen to it otherwise. This might have been innovative back in it's day but there's 600 youtube videos of ambient noise I can choose to fall asleep to or cleanse my astral chi.

As someone with moderate flying anxiety, I appreciate that he made something designed to calm the airport/flying experience. Super cool that it’s known for sort of creating the ambient genre. Not an album I’d crank up in the car on a road trip, but it’s very pretty and soothing for what it’s intended to be.

50 minutes of nothing

Can confirm music for airports goes hard in airports

I played a game of League and was very tilted. Then I put on this album. Tilt is no longer a word in my vocabulary. Such an incredibly peaceful album. There's not much to it, it's just a synthesizer and piano. Reading up on it, Eno wanted to make an album that diffused the stress felt in airports? Yeah, good job dude, you friggin nailed it.

Not my favourite Eno's album, but very nice to listen if you are waiting at the airport

Would fall asleep to again

The master of his craft. Old soar puss himself.

I remember this album from years ago - loved it then and still do

Intriguing album. It definitely accomplishes Eno's goal of ambient music being as forgettable as it is listenable. That's not to say it's necessarily boring, there was definitely neat stuff to listen to in here, but it's also easy to just kind of tune out and feel more than hear. Not sure how often I would listen to this again, but it piqued my interest enough that it's worth more than a 2, so 2.75/5.

This is so ambient. It's SO AMBIENT. 1/5

I’m surprised by how much I love Eno’s ambient stuff, but he does it better than anyone else. I could listen to him tinker with a soundboard for hours. One of his greatest works. Thinking A-

Calming. Makes sense to include if this is basically the first of its kind.

Well it is exactly as the title says. Ambient. Pure, early form.

It was a very chill album

Insomma... non e' il mio genere. Tranquillo.

I guess it’s probably good at what it’s aiming to do. Definitely not something you’re supposed to *listen* to

Brian Eno accidentally discovered and invented ambient music as a form in itself and pioneered the idea with ‘Discrete Music’. However he codified it and made it listenable with this one. Just formless enough to be an atmosphere, just musical enough to be something more. I think the Apollo album is my favourite of his. But this one is the most essential and is very deserving of its place in this list as a source point and milestone of so much that followed.

MMM ok

Didn’t enjoy this at all.

Música instrumental. Sin más. Agradable. En todo momento pienso que estoy en el espacio :D.

Beautiful ambient music, great for relaxing or meditation. Allegedly the first of its kind so it gets a 5 for that landmark.

Harmonics, subtones, and overtones

Well, I've already listened to the collaborative album Brian Eno had with David Byrne, and thus I get to hear one of his earlier solo works. This was the first album in a four-part series of ambient music where the intent was to make them meaningful with irregular patterns and various motifs. It's a pleasant album to listen to in the background while working, with enough going on to keep it interesting, and doesn't overstay its welcome.

Helped me mindlessly crunch through some trimming at the studio today 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Pretty cool but this is literally background music

This is exceptionally comforting while trying to work from home with a terrible head cold. I usually rage against electronic music and tracks with interminable lengths but somehow this is perfect. The ambient nature feels like I'm in a spa getting a massage and lightly floating between the awake/asleep consciousness. Lovely.

One of my favorites.

I find ambient music endlessly fascinating, and this is so far head of its time. Works well as wallpaper music, but I recommend putting on a decent pair of cans and giving it a proper audition.

It is honestly genius how you can copy paste 8 bars to make a song. 2/5

Okay. Ambience. Sure. I mean, it's got Brian Eno's name attached to it, and he's one of the greatest producers in music history! I don't really know what I was expecting, and I don't know what to say. It's 42 minutes of ambient music. But hey, it's some great ambience. I listened to this while drawing and I gotta say, it was a pleasant experience. The sound is quite enjoyable. Would I want to listen to this in an airport? I mean, it's not the most fitting in my opinion, but I certainly wouldn't be upset if this started playing. The instrumentation is quite good. Overall, this is probably one of the most important ambient albums of all time, so it deserves the inclusion on the list. High 3/5.

I’ve discovered I quite like Brian Eno whilst doing this but this might have been a little too ambient and ephemeral

Well, it certainly is ambient.

I bet music for Greyhound bus stops is more my style

It's hard to rate an album that was literally written not to be listened too. TBH even for background music I found it quite boring. Not for me at all

hyvä brian... älä laula... pysy hiljaa... hyvä brian... lentokenttämusiikkia ilmeisesti, taustamusiikkia, ei kuullu kuunnella, ei keskittymistä tähän... olen eri mieltä... keskityin tähän enemmän kuin oman elämäntilanteeni parantamisen jahtaamiseen... mikä nuotti tulee seuraavaksi? ai se sama taas... ei aina tarvitse olla yllätyksiä... suuntaa... musiikki on tyytyväinen tarkalleen siinä missä se sijaitsee.. kiirehtijät, kiirikot, pääkaupunkikeskuksen veikot oivat kommentoimassa, onpa tylsää... ei ehkä oikea elämä ole vielä tuttu... tuleeko koskaan olemaankaan... kaikilla on kiire, ei mihinkään.. muutan kuusamoon... hyvä brian, hyvä brian 2/1

Listened to this on a very turbulent flight. It was very calming.

I can see how this would not be everyone's cup of tea, but I really enjoy the ambient genre and this seems to be the start of it. I could have this playing in the background all day.

Don't really know what to say about this except that it does exactly what it tells you it's going to do and it does it very well. Great studying music and very relaxing

Ambient music makes me want to kill.

I mean, it's ambient, but, it's seminal.

Repetitive and uninspiring

You know, for being an album called Ambient 1/Music For Airports, The songs didn't really feel like they would fit an airport, more like a beach during a sunset. That aside, This album generally gets its job done and my biggest problems with it are just the problems that come with all ambient albums. Its repetitive sure, but that is what you would expect from these sorts of songs. There is also the fact that this kind of music is very purely situational for me as in i have to be in a very specific mood or situation to really want to listen to this stuff. But for what it is, this album does what it sets out to do pretty well. Best Song: 2/1 Worst Song: 2/2

Ambiente Music - the genre attempts to create sound as "...ignorable as it is interesting." Total success on part 1 - total fail on part 2.

Familiar in 2024, unclear of historical perception.

fínasta afslöppunar/vinnutónlist. fær aðrar umferðir. 4

He might have created ambient music, but it has been done better, overall a bit dull

k coño?

No, only wild world.

I always have soft spots for instrumental/ambient albums I can throw on in the background while reading or doing chores. Brian Eno exceeded my expectations on this one. This album is definitely get more plays from me.

Very chilled out, practically sent me into a coma

Minecraft - Volume Alpha by C418 is really fantastic ambient music. Highlights for me include Minecraft, Wet Hands, Sweden, Cat, with Mice On Venus being the standout track. Can definitely be enjoyed outside the context of Minecraft. Surely Remain In Light will be on here. We can give Eno his flowers then.

5/5. Beautiful. Transcendent. A perfect relaxing album full of patience and quietness, it allows the listener to reflect and truly listen or ignore completely and let it follow your mindset, coming along with you on the internal journey. It's similar notes and patterns yet feel distant and with additional notes here and there, it never gets old or boring. A must-listen experience in the dark or laying down, or even with loud sounds elsewhere, it adds to what whatever atmosphere you find yourself in. Best Song: The Whole Album

Fuck no. 1

🥰

The most surprising thing about this album was that I could actually identify that I had heard 2 of the songs before in the wild, with suspicions confirmed by the wikipedia page. It's a sound bath. It's music for airports, backgrounds, interludes.

I felt less anxious while listening to this in an airport. But then suddenly became enraged as I was trapped in a dystopia.

Completely okay music. Good for focusing or for a quiet morning but won’t ever be in my regular rotation. It’s like some abstract art you see in a museum that you appreciate and admire but you'd never buy a piece like it for your own house. WHAT DOES HE KNOW? BRIAN ENO

First two songs were actually really chill - was perfect working background music. back half didnt feel much different and kind of dragged on

The best background music. Does exactly what it says on the packaging

I could yoga so hard to this album. And outside of that environment, I’m not likely to listen to it again.

I listen to this regularly, and just listened to it over this past weekend. This is an easy 5 bagger here.

Bits of this reminded me of the stuff off the second side of Autobahn. But quite a lot of it reminded me of a sixth form piano composition. And not in a good way. I loved Autobahn. It really is genius. But that's because it does something with the style. This, well, didn't grab me at all and, as I say, seemed too basic - certainly not what I was expecting. I didn't hate it, but that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of ambient music. In fact, if anything it was too prominent in places - and I really was trying to do a lot of other stuff at the same time.

Seriously? The maker of this list needs to be shot

I mean absolutely pretty sounds but not gonna actively listen to it. Maybe 20-30 years later. Love it tho

I normally don't care much for ambient, but something about this was so relaxing. If I'm ever floating in a dark tank of water, I hope this is playing

Wasnt for me and I like the dudes music most of the time

I listen to this album and all of Eno's ambient music regularly. I really connect with the concept - of having some "music" in the background almost all the time, and I like to play these albums in my house when people are over for a casual atmosphere or when I'm cooking or cleaning sometimes. Eno helped create an entire genre that is growing even more today due to the way it connects people to another mental state.

This was what it says on the tin. It's ambient. I listened right after waking up and doom scrolled to it. I did doze off some. So I guess that's a compliment.

As if people needed another reason to hate airports...

I mean, it does what it says on the can. I listened to it in the background while I worked. Effective.

Actually really Ambient music for airports. Also useful as Ambient music with crying Kids.

I feel like I want to vote N/A on this. It's certainly skillful and Eno is a name for a reason, but it's almost hard to tell what type of album this is or the role this plays in musical development. It's beautiful and balanced and flows perfectly but it's almost devoid of something by design. I think this may make sense to be on the list but I'm not sure what to do with it. It feels like it could be meaningful at the right time but forgettable outside of that. My vote is middle mostly due to indecision.

This was a pleasant listen. Was keeping me calm in traffic. Sometimes I didn't notice it was there and it was over before I knew it.

Super relaxing. Quite enjoyed it!

i don't know if ever there's been an album titled so aptly. the title does indeed make me chuckle. i'm not surprised brian eno created such a beautiful album, nor about him birthing the ambient genre. eno has a great many talents but there is something about his instrumental work. the piano in particular was just lovely throughout the album. he created music that's delicate and peaceful. something that calms you down in the middle of chaos (read: an airport).

Another beautifully ambient, new age-y album from Brian Eno! I was intrigued to learn that this was the first album that he ever released in which he called it "ambient music". I had never known Eno to be anything BUT an ambient/new age artist in his solo career. Like many ambient albums of the time, this has many hints of that "space age" to it, but I would say it does not overtake the entire album. There is plenty of non-spacey ambience to be heard here! Overall, this is simply peaceful, but with a touch of mystery.

This was mega chill, I would never have chosen it, I cannot remember any of the songs but it was an easy listen 4/10

Not interested in airport music

The man himself, Eno is an absolute genius Atmospheric. Has a weird psychadellic feel to it at times. 3.5 / 5

Quite pleasant. 4/5

Stellar Album

I’ve studied with this on in the background multiple times, and I loved it every time.

Before I listened to this album, I told my group that I wasn't gonna be listening to this album. Which is to say, I wasn't going to afford it the same level of attention I've given every other album on this list. It's ambient music, after all; it's not meant to be listened to in the same way you would other genres. And that's not a knock against the stuff, of course. That's just, bluntly, how it is by design. And I understand, for that reason, the frustration some have about the inclusion of an album like this on a list like this. Ambient music, to most ears, is essentially wallpaper. You put that next to ABBEY ROAD and THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON and TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY, and how does it even stack up? How does it even compare? For me, yeah, I kept my word. I didn't really listen to the album; it just kind of floated in and out of my attention as I did other things. But whenever I did catch it... Damn, it's some transcendental shit. Just, these vast, open, beautiful soundscapes. Heaven stretches before your ears. There's not much there melodically, true. If you're looking for it, I get the disappointment. But just for how it evokes for me a sense of safety and calm... Damn. A++ tape loops.

It may only be ambient, but Eno makes it his own beast.

I mean, in terms of doing exactly what it’s supposed to do, I’d say it gets a 5 as an ambient album. In terms of the music itself… it’s like a 3.5, maybe, but the point of the album is almost certainly not to critique the actual composition – sure, there are layers to the music, intentional production decisions, and a general melody loop each track follows, but that’s not the stuff to focus on. It’s just about getting lost in the soundscape and going for it. Obviously, it would be dumb to go, “oh, it’s a 5, that means it’s as good as Illmatic or something” because it’s obviously not, but like… what else am I supposed to rate it, you know? The only knock I have is that 2/1 was probably the most “distracting” of the tracks, but it’s like complaining that a bird is chirping while it’s sunny outside. It happens. Seriously, I think I’m gonna go with a 5 in terms of keeping me focused, steady, and relaxed for its entire 48 minute runtime. If I had to go out of 10, it’s almost certainly like a 7/10 or something, but that’s just because it’s clearly not at the highest of high levels or anything. What a strange album to include in the 1,001 set, but like… I’m glad it came up, because now I have new focus/study music to add to my collection. Pretty good.

Top notch ambient

saying this album is bad is just plane stupid

This album is functionally good for a lot of things, but let me ask, have you ever listened to this in an actual airport? Crank this thing up on headphones, get to the airport early for your flight, dad-style, and move slowly through the airport. Stand on the moving sidewalks, speak to no one, take everything in around you while you let this 4 track collection rip. What results is a very calming, cinematic experience. The title is not just Eno being cheeky, this is extremely well designed music for the headspace you’re in just before travel, in the purgatory of society where nobody is exactly living their ideal life. For better or worse, we’re waiting at the gates of a complete reset of our circumstances, and Eno is there to give us some simultaneous reflection and peace of mind about that. The concept came to him in an actual airport, anxious before his own travel, which was not exactly eased by the top 40 coming out of the universal speakers. It was a new, beautifully designed airport, however, and why shouldn’t every sensory experience about it be as meticulously designed? This is, in part, why I feel ambient music today seems to be having another moment. It’s music architecturally designed for the optimum headspace for a variety of states. It’s a functional tool in your toolbox for being present in oneself, for reflection on the impact of the past, all in the service of an optimal future. Maybe more calm, reflection, and stillness is what the world needs more of in recent years, whereever it is we’re headed.

This is The Benchmark for ambient albums. I have probably listened to it thousands of times going to sleep at night over the past 30 years of my life.

Love the idea of this. Album definitely does what it sets out to do. The last movement is the most evocative of ‘airport’

For background music I'm only supposed to hear while I'm in line at TSA, it sure did trigger a mini existential crisis. Honestly, I just can't believe the goofy little gremlin who made Here Come the Warm Jets also made this gorgeous ambient album. Like, the range!!! Full transparency, though, I think Music for Airports is one of those albums where a star rating feels inappropriate. It's kind of removed from pop music criticism. I'm not going to actively listen to this all the time, but I do thoroughly enjoy it, and I will definitely listen to it passively. But it's also not an album that I'm meant to "enjoy" by definition; it's an artistic statement, closer to a composition than a pop album. That also means it's a bit unstuck from time, and places Eno in the lineage of your Bachs and your Beethovens and your Mozarts, not in line with his contemporary rock/pop peers. At the end of the day, though, this is a gorgeous album, a genuine work for art, and essential listening that I really enjoyed, and I'll be using this as my writing background music moving forward.

Did its job very well

I don’t think any ambient music is music I need to hear before I die. And this music in particular is nothing special. If you have a basic understanding of music theory and a synthesizer, you could compose this. 2.3

What an odd thing...setting out to make music that's intentionally unremarkable and inventing a new genre in the process. The synth voice was probably pretty novel for the time, but I prefer the piano-based track. It has its place and could be a repeat listen. 4.0

3.5/5. This is falsely advertised because it’s not just music for airports but also for studying and falling asleep.

Very chill, a nice music nap

Meh. "greatest ambient album of all-time" isnt much of a selling point. 2/5

I would love to revisit this while flying. It’s beautiful but the album title describes it perfectly. This would be perfect to listen to while people watching at the airport

its nice grew on me

This was very weird. I quite like ambient background music at time, but this was too background even for me. It's perfectly titled, but I just don't really get why it exists on this list

I actually like Brain Eno's music. But I found this kind of babbling boring. Too bad, I was really looking forward to it. Obviously I was expecting something different. 2/5

I liked this as an album I listened to at work while doing mindless reporting.

Like the title says "Ambient" 2/1 and 2/2 are probably the best. Overall, I liked it and will listen again. 4 of the best

Another album I don't believe belongs on this list. This sure this may have lead the way for more ambient music, but the music itself is supposed to be background music...

Not for me

Very rarely is an artist able create something wholly novel that also feels like it should naturally exist, but Eno’s creation of ambient music does exactly that. It’s not some obscure, avant-garde creation that few can appreciate, but a genre that serves a purpose and excels at it. This is music that anyone can hear and appreciate at any level, totally fulfilling the goal of creating music as forgettable as it is engaging. The story behind the album is more interesting than the album in a vacuum.

Very soothing and interesting. I might keep this in mind when I need a little ambient music at work.

I forgot it was on at one point and went out.

This feels impossible to rate. Ambient music can’t be listened to and rated, because by nature, if I’m paying attention to it, it is failing. So I guess considering the fact that I played it and got some work done during means it must be okay, I guess. Weird choice for this journey.

Yeah, it's ambient, but ambient on a artistic level

5 stars. a favourite.

It was born of its time so it could talk to the future. It’s probably the quietest musical revolution in popular music history. In ‘78 there was Muzak but nothing this minimalist and haunting. Now you can’t walk into a public space without at some point encountering ambient music. Eno was a visionary who helped other bands in their quests, but his Holy Grail might be this record.

Music for Zen! Delicate notes, I enjoyed everything about this album. And now it's on my Lounge folder 4/5

Great for relaxing background music.

Für Airports ok (wenn's nicht so runterziehen würde)

Listened to this while playing Imperium Classics. The game is still in progress. The whole time I was listening to this, I kept thinking "if only Satie had been alive to hear this." My dog loved it...she passed out the whole time. There was one time in an airport where for over 2 hours, the airport lost power. There was this emergency alarm that was blaring so loudly, they gave everyone earplugs and you could still hear it. I would have given anything to have this piping into my ears instead.

An album I've been meaning to listen to for years and it didn't disappoint

A chef's kiss of ambient bliss

Good tunes, nice to play games with.

Well, it is what it says it is. Unobtrusive in the background, somewhat interesting if you listen to it. Repetitive in a non-annoying way. I bought this when it first came out expecting something more experimental. It actually is for its time, but just not in the way I was expecting I guess. Other than if you actually work in an airport, I suppose there are lots of scenarios that you could have this playing in the background. It would be decent studying or relaxing music I guess.

Just went home and got this album for today! Very fitting cause I was gonna study for my exams and this will 100% help!

I didn’t hate it but it was almost a completely nothing album. There’s ambient then there’s this… it’s like the sound of a distant fridge running

A simple and straightforward ambient chiller. Not too dense and changes tone each track. A wonderful companion during a walk on a warm sunny day. 1/1 and 2/2 are my favorites

just as described. Made me crave an overpriced cocktail (a double for just $2).

Numbing to the senses

Brian Eno is a genius. This was experimental but I believe he has done better stuff!

Great yoga music