Ambient 1/Music For Airports

The generator gave me this album on a day when I'm working from a cafe and it was just perfect. Listened to it on repeat several times and it flowed very nicely. Nothing particularly memorable which is exactly how it was intended. 4/5

Cet album pose tellement bien les bases du genre qu'on peut croire que tous ceux qui ont suivi en sont issus et y sont déjà représentés

File under uneasy listening. As this album starts it seems ethereal and relaxing. It turns out it is hiding a dark secret where the noise below the sound grates and puts you on edge. Like an orchestra of nails down chalkboard. Amazing stuff really and responsible in many ways to a fair amount of technology and soundtrack work that followed

Ambient music as advertised, not sure it should be on 1001 Albums to listen to before you die

Bit boring to be honest.

I think the best way to describe this album would be "deeply unambitious".

Such a visceral experience - I swear if I closed my eyes I was sitting at my American Airlines terminal waiting to board in group 9.

okay - not sure how to classify. Pretty chill for certain times of pondering?

Will definitely listen next time at an airport.

Ambiente. Instrumental. Mortalmente aburrido.

Ambient music. I like the concept. But this is a bit intrusive for easy at-home background music. 2.

I think I fell asleep

It's nice, relaxing, and interesting. Maybe in hindsight it seems like typical new age bullshit, but we have to consider the fact that Eno pioneered this genre. There's more to it than just relaxing sounds. 4 stars.

ik it’s influential but what came after is better

This needs to go with something. On it's own there's just not enough happening for me (I know that's what ambient is). 1 - bad 2 - average 3 - good 4 - great 5 - outstanding

I fall asleep to this music, I also fall asleep to silence so it's not saying much. 2/10

Honestly shit dont listen -2/10

Miellyttävän rauhallista ambienttia. Tietyssä hetkessä oikein sopivaa, muuten voi olla ehkä liian itseään toistavaa

Eh

Every airport has that dreaded customer service desk between security and the gates. This is where you find the most irate people in the airport since the only people who use that desk are ones who, because of a late connecting flight or their own tardiness, missed their flight and need to line up to get more bad news. If this album were played at the airport, I expect the amount of yelling and swearing at this customer service desk would decrease, but the lines at this desk would be longer since people would fall asleep in the airport and miss their flight. I don't like this album but I can't give it a 1 since, as boring as it is, it's infinitely better than muzak.

I think that one of the ways Eno described this was "music that could be ignored" and that's fairly accurate. The song patterns don't build, or ebb and flow much, they remain constant, sparse and uneventful, but at the same time, pleasant in the background when you need to focus on something else.

This is one of the Grand Daddy’s of modern ambient music. A remarkable evolution from his earlier rock music, it’s not as saccharine sweet or commercial as some of the “New Age” artists that followed, nor as controversial or mind bending as say John Cage’s 4’33” where there’s nothing but silence for the duration. This album never gets old, and I think it’ll always be as essential hundreds of years from now.

Music for Airports - and generally quiet environments. I tried to listen to this in a busy cafe with loud, terrible music (KLAXXONS) in the background, and it kind of ruined the serenity. But it's definitely a great album, and a very influential one. I love the repetition of motifs and the way it builds up layers. Hypnotic.

I enjoyed tracks 1 and 4 for what they were. I could see the concept of playing this at an airport while you wait to be boarded or checking in luggage. However, the fact that track 2 and 3 used the same vox/vocal kind of annoyed me because it brought a sense of discomfort. 2.5/5

Truly meant as background noise. I liked the beginning more than the middle or end. It is good music for reading or studying. I get why it's on this list, but at the same time it feels like it doesn't quite belong.

far too culty for an airport...

Somehow I got to listen to Brian Eno for two days in a row, today was the second day. Yesterday the album was unbearable: https://1001albumsgenerator.com/albums/1m08xZXMNDVCYU7VgUGsme/my-life-in-the-bush-of-ghosts, today's one was maybe a bit bitter though I still didn't like a lot.

Eh

Este es mi disco para viajar en avión. Según registro de mi last.fm lo he escuchado entero más de 23 veces. Si os parece mucho, el Ambient 2 tiene registradas un total de 67 escuchas completo. En general puedo entender que no guste, es solo música de fondo sin ritmo ni orden pero me encanta. Además por ser el album que fundó la música "ambient" debe estar aquí sin ninguna duda.

Med første spor 1/1 ønske rueg å starte hver morgen med tøy og bøy. Kult opplegg med albumkonseptet, det har vist meg en ny sjanger. Det blir mer ambient musikk fremover!

literally ambient noise why does Brian have 4 albums on here

This guy ffs

Great Sauna music! Kinda difficult to actively listen to though, although I understand the appeal and it's importance in music history

amazing all the way through

Spa music the missus calls it😂

Hard to rate. It certainly does what it sets out to do. It's good background music. It's far from unpleasant but it's SO BORING. I can't imagine listening to this for pleasure. A 2.5 rounded down to 2 because I would never actually choose to listen to it

Groundbreaking music that your can't dance to, can't sing along with, can't rock out with? Love it. Eno uses his toys to make music that is texturally fascinating, layering fragments of melody to build a place of comfort.

The ambition of many during the COVID lockdowns of 2020, that the extended free time and solitude would allow them to pursue hitherto neglected creative hankerings, oft proved overambitious. It turned out most lost themselves in chain-wanking and opening the first can of the day at 10am rather than nailing down chapter 14 of their epoch-shattering debut novel. Pointing this out is not to judge people; basically, most people aren't Brian Eno. In 1975, a taxi struck Brian Eno in New York, leaving him bedridden for several weeks. To ease his convalescence, his friend Judy Nylon brought him a record of harp music, leaving Eno alone when it began to play. But Eno found that the volume had been set very low, and that one of the stereo channels wasn't working anyway. He also found that he lacked the energy to change the setup, forcing him to listen to this hushed harp music mingle with the outside rain. Our Brian being a clever bugger, he realised that this accidental restraint meant that he was listening to music in quite an innovative manner, as a background texture rather than as a attention-demanding spectacle, as an ambient feature. Well, maybe "innovative" is a slightly generous adjective. The use of music as ambience may well be as old as music. Just think of the coffee shop pianist performing gentle, genteel trills to accompany the clientele's chatter. Those oddball good-eggs Erik Satie and John Cage wrote Dadaist pranks such as Satie's Vexations and Cage's 4'33" which inspired later ambient musicians. Satie's Vexations, a posthumously discovered work first performed by John Cage and a group of assistants, consists of a simple piano motif repeated 840 times: Cage and his chums didn't realise that such a performance would take 18 hours. Cage's own 4'33" is a three movement piece for any length of time and for any combination of instruments, the sole directive being that the musicians cannot touch their instruments. In other words, silence. Because of this, the John Cage Trust has claimed to hold the copyright on silence, and in 2002 sued Mike Batt (who wrote Art Garfunkel's Bright Eyes and was the mastermind behind the Wombles' music career) after Batt included a minute of silence on one of his albums and tried to claim joint songwriting credit with Cage for his silence (they settled out of court). These, and many others (American minimalists, Krautrockers, the raga ambassadors et al.) all pioneered the aesthetic which would become known as ambient, and that clever chap Eno definitely knew gulping portions of these. With these precedents, and his own incapacitated experience, our Brian codified ambient music as we understand it today, first revealing his formulation in 1975's Discreet Music, and cementing the name with his series of four Ambient albums, of which Music For Airports was the first. Our Brian has always been a nervous flier, finding airports generators for anxiety and disquiet. Hence, his goal of creating a musical backdrop which would seek to calm and mollify, not overwhelm and distract. I am not a nervous flier, indeed I relish flying, and the anxieties that fray me at airports concern tiredness and missing the flight, not fear of plummeting. That is, I find airports boring places, usually attended in some state of exhaustion, a purgatorial sentence before the heavenly delights of the heavens. Mind, I'm not listening to this in an airport, but rather on the sofa in pyjama shorts and with an enfeebled foot. Which I suppose is a convoluted way of saying that the listener need not heed the artist's intentions. One can treat this album as a wholly ambient experience, a sonic equivalent of a fireplace, an element to comfort oneself while one reads a biography of Harold Wilson, completes a crossword or writes a review of Ambient 1/Music for Airports. Yet our Brian was also clever enough to add a vital ingredient to Ambient 1/Music for Airports, without which the entire album would be a mere curio: he remembered to make it beautiful. One can just shut one's eyes and focus on the album, wallowing in the textures. The lack of direction becomes the central strength, allowing the listener to lose themselves without fear of missing some aspect. A still yet sensual pool of an album, and one that invites thought as well as serenity. Thoughtfulness is our Brian's hallmark, you know. Not everyone will embrace Ambient 1/Music for Airports. The meandering, the impassivity, the seventiesness of the record will bore and irritate many. This is no indictment on either them or Eno. What everyone should observe is that a preference is not a philosophy, and a fondness or distaste for ambient music is no more profound than a fondness or distaste for tomatoes. NoRadio, signing off.

Calming. Good for airports.

El títol ja diu tot el que cal saber

fuckign boring

This deserves its place on the list for ambient music, but isn’t something I can see myself listening to again. Glad I tried it though

The point Brian Eno was making with this album was that there should be a genre that could be played as background music, but that would still benefit from closer listening if the listener so chose. This first of his series of four Ambient titled albums is probably his most significant achievement in that genre. It is relaxing yet strikingly beautiful. Brian Eno struck the perfect balance to create something that did not create a demand on the listener while providing something substantial to the development of popular music.

Pretty enjoyable

The last time I had an extended stay in hospital, I watched Stuart Little 2 again and again until it felt as though I could recite it word for word. In the 1970s, it wasn’t out yet, so all Brian Eno was able to do was coin a new genre of music. “Ambient” was allegedly conceived when Eno was bedridden after an accident and stuck with the volume of his music too low to distinguish it from the sounds of his environment. The resulting “Music for Airports”, one of his first full-length explorations of ambient music’s potential, isn’t strictly music for a dedicated listening session. It’s not an experience in itself, but it’s in service to something else. It’s music to be subliminal, wallpaper, an extra layer of the environment. Most succinctly described by Eno as “ignorable as it is interesting”. This album has helped me through many a study session or sleepless night in the past, becoming my go-to to calm my nerves or put me at ease. In most cases, I’ve only got as far as the end of 1/1 before either falling asleep or switching it off and getting on with something else. I’ve never listened to it in the middle of an airport lounge while worried about a flight: on this particular occasion, I heard it through headphones in a dark room. At worst, “Music for Airports” is distracting (presumably exactly what Eno did not want it to be). At best, it’s arrestingly beautiful. There’s something of a feeling of diminishing returns across the album: when the vocal or brass synth pads come in on 2/1 and 2/2, it feels a bit plastic space-age, like an airport from a Star Trek set. In 2022, it was enough to take me out of the immersive experience and wish they’d gone for some different sounds. The sparser and more organic the instrumentation is, the better, which is why 1/2 feels so effective and cleansing. As the whole idea of this album is to present a different purpose and function of music, it’s useless to measure it in the same way as others on the list. The main question really is whether “Music for Airports” fulfils its aim?While it never really took off (no pun intended) as a departure lounge soundtrack, ambient music is pervasive now, and this is a landmark record in the genre. Sure, if Eno hadn’t done it, somebody else would have done, but “…Airports” is spacious and serene enough to deserve its acclaim. I wish I’d known about it back when I was stuck with Stuart Little 2.

I enjoyed this one if nothing else because I needed something soothing at the moment

I think its cool, but not totally my thing. Imagine if they actually played this in airports?

4.5 stars, rating 5 for Drew's sake

Surprisingly not bad. Faded into the background, which I think was the purpose.

Shut up Ryan. No one wants to hear about how this is a 5 star album.

Where's my massage!?

This was interesting. I didn’t make it through the whole album but I can see listening to this while I’m working or studying or walking through the airport.

Effective as noise filler, but certainly not for gratified listening.

No juu on ambientia. Ei huonoa sellaista. Mutta ei oo montaa hetkeä, jossa jaksaisin ajatuksella kuunnella.

Reiluuden nimissä en arvostele tätä levynä vaan rentoutumisvälineenä. Rentouttava musiikki eikä kuitenkaan ikinä ole rentouttanut minua, mikä lienee epäreilua.

As advertised, this was very much ambient, and wouldn't feel out of place at the airport (or maybe as an airline’s hold music). Unfortunately, that's not really what I'm looking for when I listen to music. I know Eno's a musical genius and all that, but these tracks seemed repetitive and without much variation, and “1/1” seemed to be just an x-second/minute-long patch that was simply repeated over and over for nearly 17.5 minutes (and I swear there's a slightly-tweaked snippet of "Frère Jacques" in there). This isn't something I'd ever listen to purposefully, but it might be good to throw on for a massage or yoga class. Or hey, throw it into a video game. Some of this stuff reminds me of Russell Shaw's soundtrack to "Fable," which has a genuinely fantastic ambient track called "Summer Fields." In fact, Eno's "2/1" sorta reminds me of Shaw's "Fresco Dome" (sorta). Personally, I'd rather listen to the "Fable" soundtrack.

Beautifully crafted ambient landscapes. Brian Eno will always get 4-5 stars from me.

Some fine vibey ambiance tunes... not an everyday thing, but I can never fault Eno.

Probably good but didn’t fit the vibe needed at planet fitness

I hate this kind of music. Its not relaxing, it just builds a kind of “GET ON WITH IT” anxiety

Minecraft music, but not as good.

Does what it says on the label

1 star

Not a lot happens, sounds like Ross finally found his sound

All prog

It’s interesting but it definitely shouldn’t be in the list

It’s literally background music. It’s not bad background music, but it’s not meant to be fully listened to as an album like one would with pretty much everything else on this list.

The record that defined ambient as a genre, Brian Eno created this in 1978 and today it still sounds like it came from the future. I could actually feel my cortisol levels dropping while listening to this. Relaxing, but never boring. Beautiful, but still challenging. The heavenly choir on '2/1' is something else. From the liner notes: "Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting". Eno fully succeeded in this - Music For Airports creates a space that allows you to alternate between being lost in the music and being lost in your own thoughts.

Ambient 1/Music for Airports is exactly as breathtaking and innovative today as it was when it was first released. Time simply flies by as you lose yourself in both the ethereal music and your own mind. This is genius. Pure and simple.

Very quiet, good for studying

I really dislike 1/2. But otherwise, what a soundscape. It sounds like something that unearths what already naturally occurs. That illusion of manufacturing something that feels like it should have always existed is what makes this brilliant.

i like this kind of music. thank you brian for inventing it.

Literally music for airports

great for chilling

Not a massive fan of ambiant music

Idk not rly my jam

Probably really good but ambient music is just not for me

It’s great but it’s background music.

я слушала его вчера! что-то с сайтом. нормальный эмбиент, интересно увидеть истоки жанра; не моё

The musical equivalent of eating flavourless foam: light, airy, bland, and insubstantial. Maybe it pairs well with something, but on its own is wholly unsatisfying.

You could certainly tell this has influenced others. Not terrible but probably won’t listen again.

More like a 2.5. Some of the loops were short and then it started feeling repetitive.

Very pleasant to paint to

Did not realize this would actually be airport music. Fairly relaxing, though.

Fuck. I just lost all my comments for this and don’t feel like rewriting them. This was sort of ok, and better than I thought. Still not something I’ll be playing often or much at all.

Inte det bästa ambient albumet, ens Enos bästa, men bra ändå

I’m not going to sit down and listen through it, but I kind of dig it

So....yeah....saw the name Eno and after trying to listen to this, started thinking back to when Dan Enos was QB at MSU late 80's, early 90s. Perles was coach and Sparty had very good teams. Not good enough to beat the Irish, but good enough to win big 10. Back when college football was more than NIL and 2 super conferences, like they're working towards... Anyway, I checked out about 10-15 minutes in and started daydreaming about other things. Can't wait for the weekend Back to the album. Zero for me. Hope there aren't many more like this.

Lmao

1 I appreciate the album going ahead and rating itself for me in the title. I was bored about 5 minutes in, and it didn't get any better from there. It didn't even do anything interesting... like it just repeated the same piano patterns and vocal harmonies for like 10+ minutes at a time. I would say to leave this at the airport, but then I read the below on the album's Wikipedia page: "The album has been installed and performed in at least five airports; it has been met with resistance from some travellers and workers, who deem it disruptive." So I guess it's not welcome at airports either ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I know a lot of people find ambient music calming and good to get work done to, and I can definitely understand that, but still, not for me.

The title already says it.. Music for airports.. I mean, the music is calm and relaxing and may be great for studying or as background music. But this is a list for the best albums and I think there are thousands of albums that deserve the spot of this album.

Truly a beautiful album. Filled with sounds of wonder and opportunity. I don't entirely know the context of the album and if it's designed to be an airport album or something, but they really should be playing this stuff in an airport. It's a great soundtrack that would add to the sense of travel and exploration that airports offer us.

I think I bought this cheap on tape from some mall somewhere near Scranton, PA when I was working in the kitchen on a summer camp for rich kids from NY. Good times, good album.

Dude's insufferable but also undeniable.

I liked this, nice and peaceful and I would definitely listen again in certain situations.

Really like this ambient music. Nice sounds that make me feel something and isn’t that what art is all about.

chillllll

Good for getting mediative in the airport amongst all the chaos

elevator music not my style

Seems ahead of it’s time. I love ambient music.

Ambient music as advertised - fell asleep after 30seconds

Not sure how to rate this. It’s definitely not “good” but I would also listen to this as background music anytime. After reading about it it sounds like that’s what he was going for so mission accomplished but I still can’t give it more than 3 stars.

A regular listen…

This album is very soothing. To the point where it makes me sleepasdf;kjna;sdlkfnlksndf;kdddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

For sleeping!!!

Actually some really good ambient music! Watched a perfect sunset while listening so it fit pretty well. 4

This kind of music is not something that I enjoy. Not my cup of tea!

I don't get it. Sounds like I could make it in garage band in a few hours

Relaxing and chill

Ok, not sure how to rate this. It’s not something I would just put on to listen to it. It’s more something I would use for meditation or maybe to help me fall asleep. It’s almost more of a tool than it is music to me I guess. That being said; I like the way that the sounds are put together. A lot of times with meditation/relaxation music, there are sounds mixed it that end up becoming distracting. However, this had a nice consistent sound and feel to it that makes it able to melt into the background. In general, I dig it and will give it a try for relation/meditation/sleep.

Maybe I’m just not a fan of ambient but this album did nothing for me. I’d rather listen to silence.

Not one for me, find it too ambient for my taste.

An ok ambient record, nothing much to say. First Listen?: Y Fav. Tracks: 1/1 Rating: 2/5

It was very chill Ambient music

Background music, which is what he apparently intended. Really pleasant to have on while driving, studying or relaxing, as it is nice but not too engaging. Surprised I liked this so much, after previous Eno experiences, but it was (twice) a lovely wee reset in my day. Only four tracks, but it might as well be one to be honest.

this is a good title for this album. Very chill ambient sounds. I liked it.

Tja, lekker rustig maar wel heel veel herhaling en saai..

Coincidentally listened at the airport. Blended right in with the actual airport muzak

More like massage music if you ask me.

Tja, Brian Eno, natuurlijk retesaai, maar het vloog voorbij en was wel rustgevend.

Mijn hemel! Dit zou ik prima kunnen gebruiken voor mijn mindfullness, maar dat is het dan ook wel.

Ik wilde lekker wat muziek opzetten tijdens mijn werk, maar dit saaie hoogpolige muziektapijt zorgde ervoor dat ik na 10 minuten bijna in slaap viel. En ik ga me er ook verder niet aan wagen want het gaat maar door en door merkte ik toen ik door die 4 nummer heen skipte. Boring!

Precies wat ik op dit moment nodig had. Muziek die geen energie kost :)

Solid. But I find ambient hard to place above a 3. In fact a perfect ambient should strive to be a 3!

Eno described this as "as ignorable as it is interesting". I think he might have been onto something however I felt like I should have been getting a massage.

This was the most boring thing I've ever subjected myself to. A star because it was ambient?

Эмбиент база

Simply great if you like ambient music. (6/10) FT: 1/1 , 2/2

Quand je tombai sur Brian Eno, je le trouvai roulé en boule dans un coin de la pièce. Après m'être approché lentement et lui avoir demandé ce qui avait pu le mettre dans un tel état, celui-ci répondit simplement par l'identité de mon pire ennemi : "eltrapeze". J'étais furieux. Cette situation me rappelai un souvenir d'enfance. Une fin d'après-midi, alors que j'étais en moyenne section maternelle, j'allai avec ma mère chercher mon grand-frère à l'école primaire après l'étude du soir. J'avais sur ma tête un immense chapeau de fou du roi rouge confectionné en classe le jour-même. J'en étais très fier. Il était 17h45 lorsque nous arrivâmes à l'école. L'heure de la sonnerie n'étant pas encore venue, je décidai de monter dans la classe où mon frère se trouvait dans le but de me pavaner avec mon grand chapeau sous le regard de ses camarades. Seulement voilà : ce chapeau ne fut pas du tout de goût de celui-ci qui me reprocha de lui faire honte. Je sortis alors dans la cour de récréation pour aller pleurer lorsque tout à coup, trois élèves semblant âgés de seize ans (je pense maintenant qu'ils avaient neuf ans) vinrent me voir pour me demander pourquoi j'étais dans cet état. Je leur racontai toute l'histoire depuis le début. Ceux-ci me confièrent alors la chose suivante : mon chapeau était le plus beau qu'ils aient jamais vu. J'étais alors pleinement consolé. Revenons-en à Brian Eno. Une fois que celui-ci eut prononcé le nom de mon ennemi juré, je me rappelai mon grand chapeau et lui confiai la chose suivante : "Ne pense pas à ce que t'a dit cette ordure d'eltrapeze, je le trouve très beau ton chapeau de fou du roi, Brian." — C'est vrai, tu le penses vraiment ? — Oui, je te le jure." Brian Eno sécha ses larmes et me fit un bisou sur la joue. Je l'avais pleinement consolé.

Va bien te faire foutre Brian

Ambient music got me through the COVID lockdown, so learning its roots with this album was a real treat.

This is extremely relaxing, pleasant, comforting. I enjoyed this a lot more than ever I have Brian Eno. Not sure I'm a convert yet, but it is very good. Perhaps this is because of my recent experiences reuniting with the Hearts of Space radio program which serves up weekly ambient music now online whereas it did so when I was a kid on the radio once a week. When it's done well, ambient music can really head straight into the heart and move you.

Listened to on 7/21/22 4/5 Favorite song: 2/1 This ambient music was PERFECT for working and definitely hit the goal of being interesting enough to not be ignored

4.1 + Definitely a curiosity that adds depth to Eno's rich and varied output. Revisiting this, I'm struck by the tone. One would think ambient music for an airport would be more cheerful. But then I wonder how that upbeat music would make me feel personally if I'm running to my gate towing luggage. Instead Eno creates a sense of calm empathy. As if to say: "I know traveling can be hard. But you'll get through it. Be strong." Also, this album has a vaguely East Berlin feel to it - particularly, "2/2" feels like I'm drifting through rows of gray residential buildings on a sunny day.

Well does what is says on the tin. Can't recommend or ever say I'd listen to this again and if I did I wouldn't even realise. Total background music

Yndisleg plata. Mjög róandi. Ég vil þakka Brian Eno fyrir að hafa komið mér hjartaáfallslaust í gegnum erfitt borð í Chip's Challenge.

Brian Eno is one of my favourites and so is this album. There are many no doubt who will be horrified by this and I enjoy reading their 'wtf?!' reviews but I'm happy it's found a place in the 1001. This is a cornerstone of ambient music and although I like Hendrix, Joy Division, Motorhead, Pet Shop boys and many more I also enjoy this and think if all music was the same life would be very dull. This is ambient.

When I told someone that there is no such thing as "ambient music" (which, to me, means "background noise"), they responded that "ambient music is ambient sound, but well-organized." I stand by my original statement. The album is appropriately named, however. I've been in airports and heard this same type of thing in the background. I just normally put my headphones in (or hang out at the PF Chang's Airport Bar).

One of my favorites. Music to sleep to (and that is a compliment to the artist). Love it.

Slow, boring, fucking awful. The first "song" sounds like the same 3 notes played over and over again for 6 minutes. I kept listening in hopes for something in the "music" to pick up and enjoy but eventually gave up. The second song I lasted for 4 minutes of the repeated moaning and vague hints of music in the background. 3rd song sounded like the 1st and second song mixed together and I got frustrated and stopped listening all together. Play this music on the plane if you want to sleep the whole trip. Terrible.

Really beautiful ambient music, I want to check out the rest of his Ambient Series I wouldn’t really call myself an ambient fan, like I don’t really go out of my way to listen to ambient music But I think it’s really nice to listen to and I appreciate it when I get it Overall, it’s just very lovely, 9/10

Thought I’d accidentally put on some hypnobirthing music. Somatic furors rip off the bandaid quickly to listen to this one.

"As ignorable is it is interesting"

This was the perfect album to have recommended to calm my nerves before a job interview with my employer Clark College.

A little too sleepy for me, but really beautiful.

Imagine a rainy day off work. It’s coming down decently hard but it’s early morning. So the rain is coming from above and the sun is streaming in the windows on your eastern side. Your cup of coffee is just at your elbow and you had a good night’s sleep. You can just kinda space out and watch the old dog dog at your feet breathe. Or you can read poetry from Lenore Kandel that fuddy-duddies were trying to ban for obscenity during the Summer of Love. Or you can try to figure some personal stuff out. Or you can rehearse your next argument with your politically awful relatives. And all the while, you can use the rain and the dog and the sunlight as anchors to the real world, or springboard for more abstract thought. This is kinda that.

Fitting, and lovely

A lot can be said about this album's artistic merits, but at the end of the day (hold on, I'm developing a pan here) this is an Eno albums of a style I will only listen to when going to bed.

This has been on my shelf for decades. You need to be in the right mood but it is essential Eno and essential ambient...4 longish instrumental tracks that slowly evolve. Music to get lost in.

Quietly beautiful. The more I learn about the experimentation behind its creation, the more amazing it becomes.

Exactly as advertised. Great background music.

ughhhh i understand that he’s very influential in making so many different styles of music but this one was just so unnecessary 😝😝😝 it was just boring and 17 minute songs are ugh. i think it was pretty music but for like five minutes.

This is such a different kind of album or listening experience that it's hard to put this on any type of scale similar to the others. I mean...Brian Eno himself said that this music is meant to be "as ignorable as it is interesting." That's as good a description as I can think of. As a point of note I feel I should say that I absolutely HAVE listened to this album in airports before. It's very relaxing. I can also imagine very clearly many people loathing this album - like..."this isn't music!" or "the most boring 45+ minutes possible" and I get it. e.g. I got this a few days after getting Green Day's "Dookie" - they are not similar. Compartmentalizing it (because you have to)...: this album is not meant to be "enjoyed" in the same way a typical pop music album is; it is literally background loop music (but it is music, let's be fair) and I do find it entrancing, dreamlike [n.b. it's great to fall asleep to, if not already obvious], and mysteriously haunting at times. Also points for being one of, if not the very, first truly ambient records. I'm a fan. 8/10 4 stars

Longtime fan, easy 5. As part of my wind down for bed routine I listen to a playlist of songs created by Sigur Ros called Sleep. 1/1 and 2/2 are part of the playlist and instantly bring calm.

There had been bits of pieces here and there (collabs with Robert Fripp, Discreet Music, the majority of Another Green World) but this is it. The start of the main chapter of Brian Eno's career and the main thing that most people associate him with. This is the perfect collection for unwinding, mellowing out after a tough day. It seems quite ironic that this was considered made for airports, given the rather chaotic nature of those places. Maybe that was what Eno envisioned. I don't know but what I do know is that this is essential to the Brian Eno discography. It would be incomplete without it. Favorites: 1/1, 2/2.

Does its Job

Supaboring

Did feel a bit too much like an art exhibit

Ambient will never be a genre I listen to a lot of. I played this on the perfect day when in fit what I was doing and was a great backing track. Probably liked it more because of the timing, but I did really enjoy it.

cool and eerie but to a mind numbingly boring level

Hauntingly beautiful. Austere yet warmly human.

I enjoyed this album but I feel there is better ones to come from Brian Eno. 2/1 & 2/2 were my favorites.

I know that these days, so-called 'ambient music' is a huge genre, so even though I do like it sometimes, I thought this album might suffer from being one of the countless albums in this area. I listened to it twice this morning as I worked. It's beautiful, and when I read about how it was pretty much the first album in the genre, it's all the more impressive.

Yes!

Is this a landmark album for the genre, and deeply important for music as a whole? Yes! Is it a beautiful piece of music? At times! Will I ever be busting this one out again in the future? Almost assuredly not!

Actually listened to this in an airport. Honestly so fitting and so damn good.

Definitely like this one a lot - in the right place & time of course.

The most ronseal of albums, this sounds like ambient music for airports. Not something to be actively listened to, but nice and relaxing. I wouldn't be unhappy if this was playing in an airport or a spa. 5/5 for achievement of artistic intent. 3/5 for my enjoyment of the output. Rating: 3/5 Playlist track: 2/1 Date listened: 19/04/22

Mellow ambience from a chameleon musician

Well. It's ambient music for airports. Totally fine for work. But absolutely nowhere near where I'd actively listen to it.

Background for sure-

Ay, Dios mío, qué embole más triste.

Alle ambient music klinkt voor mij wat hetzelfde. Moeilijk om over te oordelen. Maar er is wel een tijd en een plaats voor deze muziek, maar lang niet eender waar en wanneer

Not my favorite ambient music but still fine to listen to in the background. Will still never beat c418

Music for (empty) elevators, deaf people, morgues, and trees falling in the woods when nobody can hear them.

I enjoyed listening to this and I wasn't even in an Airport. The description of it being an alternative to musak holds up in that it is beautiful, rather than reductive.

It's good background music. Gets boring if you actively listen to it but I guess that's kind of the point.

I didn't really notice it

Cheeeeeeeeeeeeelin

Any album that names a whole genre should be listened to before you die, this is no exception. A manifesto for what ambient music could be, expectedly pretty and abstract

Maan... lyssnade på denna medan jag gick ut och promenerade med katten och det mesta i livet kändes ganska kristallklart... banger

The title of the album says it all. It is ambient music. In no way is ambient music noteworthy. It is just there. No need for an entire album of it. No need to hear this ambient music before you die.

Nice, relaxing ambient, possibly only suitable for airports in 2020/21. Not a huge amount of substance though ...

It began. It ended. Inbetween it played for eternity. It haunts me still. Like a poltergiest.

"The album's usage at Pittsburgh Airport in 1982 brought on a barrage of complaints from passengers who said its uncertain tones made them feel uneasy and demanded that the previous background music be restored."

Zzzzzz

I'm pretty sure I heard this in a public sauna once. Actually feels really weird listening to this from the comfort of my home with pants on. I need to be relaxed, dripping with sweat, balls sticking to the wood. I don't know how to rate this. It's an entirely different art form from every other album I've ranked so far. This is not something that's supposed to be listen to. It was specifically designed to be background noise that loops endlessly and can't just be put in the same basket as The Beatles, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, or even Nickleback and Justin Bieber.

Ambient music, great for work, great to concentrate, and like the title says, great for airports 3/5

This is the album that transformed ambient music from a concept that some artists used to toy with to a de facto music genre. Brian Eno's sensible minimalistic approach in those four compositions became a roadmap for ambient records in the late 1970s and it's still very much referentiated to this day. The piano improvisations stitched together, the vocal loops and the beautifully crafted synth sounds all come together to create an album that grows inside you like a very powerful feeling and leaves you calm, but also pensative. As a electronic music record, it also explored that dicotomy of a human-machine relationship, evoking the uniqueness of giant flying metal machines mixed with small helpless humans on the go. Altought the attempt to remove the tension of an airport terminal through music didn't really work on a practical level at the time, when it was used as an art instalation, airports enviroments changed a lot in the last 25 years and I'm curious to see how it would work like that again after all this time and in this world we currently live in. Nonetheless, it's a masterpice, an album that goes straight to the heart.

Does what it says on the tin

Background music.

Not soemthing I would really listen to but I can see why it made it here for its influence.

Should be called 'Music for falling asleep'. Pros: Good to fall asleep to. Cons: fell asleep.

Enjoyed this album and it was great to hear

Very 😢 music

This was an awesome album. Perfectly timed for traveling in the airport. A huge desressor, but also didn’t exactly sound like something you’d hear in the airport. Either way, I’m excited to use this for meditating and sleeping in the future.

A beautiful, relaxing album. Paired with news of a family member passing today, this feels perhaps more somber and melancholy than intended. But I know that the memory tied to this will make this a comfort album for me regardless, and the music is just amazing. Great job, Mr. Eno. Favorite tracks: the whole thing, no favorites. Album art: It's a map, it's minimal, it's perfect. If it isn't, this should be ambient music's bible. 5/5

2-3

While interesting that this was the first album to be marked as ambient music, there really wasn't anything special about it for me. Soothing and peaceful but unimpressive

Very relaxing. Better suited for a spa than during with hours

I did like the ambient feel with a lot of piano throughout rather than the synth sound. But I would’t say this is a “must-listen”.

Wasn't nearly as "lobby" or "elevator" as I thought it would be. This album belongs in a spa. I had no idea how to rate this, so I went in the the middle.

This gave me a literal headache

amazing atmospheric ambient

Loved it.

Good for sleeping, nothing else

In a tous ecoute a la maison et personne a deteste. C’est tres atmospherique. 3.25

top 10 of this year

Ça me fait sentir tout léger

Juste envie d'aller prendre un avion.

moi aussi j'ai peur de l'avion et donc je testerai le concept de l'album prochainement, en attendant c'était très relaxant pour commencer ma matinée de travail en mangeant des miel pops

I love your work Brian, definitely a stand out producer, but I didn't groove with this project like I thought I would've. Listened to it driving in the car and it just didn't hold my attention which is a shame because I could listen to Side B of David Bowie's 'Low' all day long. Needs another listen, but as of now I'm not super into it. 2.5/5

Not his best, but essential anyway.

I like Brian Eno, this one is mellow music for any lobby.

48 minutes of ambient music, eh? well I guess. Eno says that this is music "Really, it’s music to resign you to the possibility of death." Its very calming after a while, so thats nice. Wow that album passed me by in a flash. Defintely soothing.

Very cool album! Great atmospheric work.

Música ambiental agradable pero un tanto cansina por repetitiva. Ni fu ni fa.

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

It's ambient music, so you definitely need to be in the mood for it. I actually own this album, but I never play it for that reason. I'm never in an ambient mood. I don't know. I want to like this more than I actually do. The first track is really good, though.

This perfectly captures the ennui of sitting in an airport, so points for doing what it says on the tin. Album you must listen to before you die? I'm not so sure about that. Best track: 2/2

You're better off taking some Xanax if you're that nervous about flying. Suitable album title, as it sounds what it's like to be stuck in an airport. But who the hell wants to spend time in an airport? I'm also guessing airports could get a better deal from Muzak than they could from Brian Eno. In the interest of full disclosure, I put this on once to put me to sleep, and I'm pleased to report that it worked in that regard. The only reason this album is getting bumped up a notch from a 1 rating is because I really needed sleep that night, so much so that Spotify kept playing a shitload of songs after this Airport Album ended. The following is an incomplete list of artists played after "Music For Airports" ended. I have to assume these artists are all approved by TSA, Airport Group International, and any other group associated with airports: • Galaxie 500 • Goldmund • Julianna Barwick • Scott Walker • Television (!) • John Cale • Library Tapes (go figure) • Harold Budd • Stereolab • The Fall • Boards of Canada (should have been called BORED In Canada, amiright?)

Too soft

airy

It does exactly what it says on the tin. Music to be ignored and listened to. Ketamine probably helps. Best Tracks: 1/1; 1/2

I don't know very much about ambient music. I got into it a while back. So this isn't my first time listening to it. I think it's the top-est of tiers as far as ambient music goes.

I bought this album many years ago thinking if I listened to Eno being ambient it would somehow make me edgy or at least I'd be able to sound like a bit of a muso snob. The whole point of this is that it challenges what we consider to be "an album" or the points where music/sound/art collide. Maybe I actually need to listen to this in an airport rather than sat at my dining table on a monday morning working from home. Or maybe I just don't really like ambient music.

Should this be on the list? It's atmospheric, beautiful and very relaxing, but I'm fairly sure if Brian Eno hadn't been in Roxy Music etc it would be deemed classical, despite the synth pads. It's mostly piano music (lovely piano music). That concern being said, it is lovely music, and it's very clear that everything non aesthetic about Roxy Music was his work (to be fair, the dreck released after his exit proves this too). However, there are limited circumstances I would put this on - it is very slow and meditative.

I just… like, why?? It should not be on the list. There’s nothing about this album that is culturally significant. It’s music. Okay, I’ll give it that. But to say this should be included with the likes of Bowie, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Nirvana… actual artists whose work was impactful? That’s insane. This doesn’t fit.

Вот они, истоки эмбиента. Идеально для медитации.

Hard to know how to rate this, as by design it’s not something to devote yourself to listening to. But by its own intentions, it’s a success.

Not unpleasant. But I don't see the point in listening to something that only makes me think of being on a moving walkway getting me from one set of airport gates to another.

Reductionist, minimal ambient music, devoid of many musical elements. Brian Eno pioneers the ambient genre, with wide soundscapes and almost eerie vocal production in '2/1'. Easily digestible as background music, as it does not require your attention to detail.

First time listener, very interesting stuff.

Great to fall asleep to

Nice background album, but not something I would frequent. Music for a specific mood

Can definitely understand how influential and important this album is. It probably won’t be my go to ambient album in 2021, but the ones I would go to likely wouldn’t be here without this.

One of the defining releases in ambient music (one of my favorite genres). This album is beautiful and interesting, while also being able to fade completely into the background - exactly as Eno intended.

"as interesting as it is ignorable" -- is an intriguing description. Music that you can drift away from, but it's still rewarding when you return to it. This reminds me a bit of puzzle adventure games; some have great soundtracks that excel at leaving you to focus on the problem at hand.

more loffy

I thought about giving this one star because I don't think this deserves to be on the list and I was constantly wanting to listen to other things, but I also considered giving it three because the fact that it's boring is the point. So I settled on two. Still don't think it should be on the list though.

Wow. I didn't know it was possible! A Brian Eno album I liked! Obviously very chill and sleepy, not particularly attention grabbing, but great mellow music for the background.

There’s a reason I wear headphones in airports. Absolute garbage.

I like ambience. Very nice flow 👍

I first heard of Brian Eno as a producer of other bands that I like (including U2 and the Talking Heads). I listened to Ambient 1/Music For Airports before, to find out what Eno's own music sounded like. I'm not sure who to recommend the album to, but it's good enough. I know when I would play the album. I would have no problem listening again. Rounding up to 4 stars.

I have heard this album at least a hundred times as I play it before going to bed at night. It is so relaxing and tranquil. I will admit, the first time I heard it, I was really wondering why this would be on a list like this....now I know. If you feel the same - give it a chance. It is really difficult to rate with stars though. I can't put it on the same level as most of the other albums that I love... I will give it a respectable 3/5.

Not a fan of Eno's ambient phase. Love his early Psycha-Glitter mode and Faux Velvets, but I don't "get" Ambient Music.

Contemporary classical, played on the studio. More interesting historically than aesthetically. Other Eno and other ambient are both better. Neat movements though.

1975??!! very innovative

Dakle, ovo. Ovo je za mene jedno od savršenijih ambient materijala. Definitivno ako ikad budeš imao problema sa spavanjem, da se umiriš itd, ovo je taj album koji ti treba. Brian Eno je legenda ambijentalne glazbe, i to sam se bome uvjerio kroz dosta njegovih albuma. Uglavnom, ako nisi slušao, a paše ti ambijentalna glazba, ovo je pod MUS!

Glazba za tipa main menu u igri, al nije u igri, album je ko album i ne mog/ne želim

I love ambient, but I don't know what blocked me from Eno for that long time. Nevertheless - that is something I searched for. I think I will get to know with more music from the father of ambient. Short, 4-song-album, but outstanding.

Chill, relaxing, calm...yeah, this is meditation music and that is so nice sometimes.

Música ambiental. Sin nada especial que aportar. No me ha dicho nada especial. Discos de este tipo hay bastantes

Nice to fall asleep to, so it’s not entirely without merit, but I can’t imagine another time where I’d want to listen to it. If this is really your thing, Aphex Twin does it better.

This is just not something I was in the mood for. I understand that this inspired a mood or tone for music and film scoring, but I rarely am in the place where I can or would want to listen to a film score. It's all fine. Not difficult to listen to but also not much more than background.

Legit put me to sleep but I guess thats the point?

well this is an interesting album from Mr. Eno. Be told I<m a fan of Eno but never heard this before. I think Another Green World is brilliant. as is Here Come The Warm Jets. Taking Tiger Mountain.... and Before and after science are great but not quite uo to the lofty standards of AGW. So where does this album fall...Not sure. It;s great late-night, lights out music that blends into the background but also bears stands up well to further scrutiny. After it finished I wanted to hear it again. I hear some of AGWs quieter moods in the opening piece which aided in my appreciation of the album. I can see this becoming an addictive album. 4 stars with a bullet

Awful

Absolutely classic

September 21, 2021 This was ok at first to have in the background while I worked, but dear god do all the songs sound the same and I just wanted it to end.

Do not listen to this album if you don't want to feel like you're in an airport

Tranquil loveliness! I am a massive fan of ambient music, so gotta give props to the album that started it all... Fave track "1-1", I guess - not that it makes sense to break the album down into tracks...

It's not exactly BAD, but I'm still giving it one star because why in the hell is this part of the list? What's next - an album of elevator music?

Good ambient music

nope

Cool!

Elektro Jazz synfonie. Groß und besonders

Decent study/meditation music

Absolutely hated this album. I can see its virtues for some people but definitely not one for me.

Piano

I looooove Eno

Really good background music for just chilling. 0RS

Good music for putting the baby to sleep

I mean, it's fine for what it is, but hard to understand how this is a "must hear."

Music for airports got me through a lot of grad school coding projects and has served me well when I’ve needed to call on it since. Good stuff, aptly named. I Stan Eno

Starts out as music for airports, becomes music for spaceships. Brian Eno, and more specifically his ambient albums, were a great comfort for me during a lot of recent stressful times in my life. Just to have something nice on in the background while working through some stuff. Just perfect.

Eno is a master of ambient music. First listen of this album. Extremely mellow and transcendent. Somewhat lengthy and repetitive.

I had an ambient music phase around fall of last year so I’ve already listened to this piece before. However I forgot everything about it. But this is an essential album for anyone who wants to get a start into the ambient genre. Honestly all of Brian Eno’s works are good “starter” albums. The sound is so peaceful and it would be great to listen to while doing any task. Again I really enjoy this album, I haven’t listened to ambience in a while, but I might hop back in

Eric Satie this isn't.

Does its job

So exciting!

Google tells me this album was innovative for its time. Fine as background music, but pretty boring.

I'm only two days in and this 1001 Album exercise has served its purpose. First though, the real job of a douchey music critic is to write reviews and say everything except how you really feel about something. But I'm going to shatter that and just say one word three times: "LOVE, LOVE, LOVE." I feel like we all have been listening to this album in our hearts since we were born, or at least since we hit puberty and experienced a wealth of emotion for the first time. I was two years old when this was released and this album plays as if it could've been released today. It's evocative, emotional, raw and unspoiled by the inter-workings of what a traditional album should be. I've heard this a million times since 1976, but this is the first time I've listened to Ambient 1/Music for Airports. This one pays dividends, I truly enjoyed it and is inspiration for me to find / listen / experience more Eno. Five stars for this album. Five stars for this exercise.

Eno is a genius and this offers great background music for what it intends to do. Not only is it Eno quality but it is highly influential, popularizing the genre. However, the parts only differed slightly, making the album feel tiring with full attention. Nevertheless one of the best ambience works out there cause Eno duh.

Great studying music

It's ambient music. There's really not much to say; it states it right there in the title. Not much to like or dislike about this album. Favorite track: 1/1

Aptly titled. I'm sure there's a time and a place but it certainly won't be on high rotation here.

if Buddha found a synthesizer while ego tripping in a small town Midwestern Episcopal church

nice ambient music. It is what it was supposed to be. Calming.

Hahaha jaa. Var väl inte dåligt. Passar säkert bra i flygplatser, eller när man vill lyssna på musik men inte orkar lyssna på musik. Tror att jag kan fatta och kanske uppskatta den konstnärliga ambitionen, men det kan också bara vara Brian Enos rykte som påverkar. Perfekt att säga att man gillar om man vill vara prettohipster. Bästa låt: Hahahaha, 1/2 kanske. Om man lyssnar på pianotonerna i 1/1, och sedan på ljudet i 2/1, och önskar att de två ljuden kunde slås ihop, är det exakt det man får i 1/2! Magnifikt!!!!!!!

Neat album, very relaxing and warm. I didn’t care for the breathy choir though. It’s definitely not an album for everyone, but I enjoyed it

Very relaxing

Needs a particular mood to listen to this one.

Calming, really good for learning 4/5

There are a lot of compositions that I like on this album, I just don't like ambient music as a whole or on principle. Especially the first side had some great moments on it. The name confuses me, since airports are such a stressful place with hustle and bustle while this album is the complete opposite of that. Highlights: 1, and 2.

Not too great, bit boring

A bit anxiety-inducing, but I'm not sure why.

This is music. But it's background music. It's not meant to be listened to. (By Eno's own admission. It was literally written with the thought of having looping background music in airports and other similar spaces.) So it's inclusion on 1001 albums you've gotta hear really frustrates me. Since Eno pioneered ambient music with this album, thousands of other similar pieces of music have been made to serve as background music or meditation soundtracks. What makes this example special other than it being the first? It's not that I have a problem with this music (though I wouldn't choose to listen to it), but I have a bone to pick with its inclusion on this list.

This album is everything about being calm. Really relaxing listen and very enjoyable to have on in the background!

Ambient is tough. I like it for relaxation purposes, or background while working, but don't feel like I really "listen" to the music. This album was pleasant enough - nothing jarring or difficult to get through, but also nothing that stands out as particularly moving or sonically amazing.