My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

I cannot tell if I like this or not lmaooo. Giving it a 2 bc I don't think I like it as a full project, but there are some songs I like enough that, if I were an indie filmmaker, I would have them in a production of sorts. But even still, idk what to do with that lol.

Not my bag at all

Regiment is a banger

An interesting album that isn't really in my wheelhouse, but enjoyed it. And usually love anything David Byrne is involved in. Highlights: "Mea Culpa" and "Help Me Somebody"

Очень интересно, но скорее всего на один раз

I understand the experimentation, and why it's cool, but I still don't find this a fun listen. This is what pretentious music snobs will tell you is the greatest album, not something people unironically listen to. Like Tate McRae

This was a cool abstract album.

Odd!

ну шо за

When to listen: Aliens have landed and we need to communicate. I respect that this is art, it's just not my kind of art. I love the global elements, but this is pretty dang inaccessible. I agree it belongs in the annals of history, and there it shall stay.

One of my first memories with Alex is hitting a record store in Center City sometime in our first month or two on campus. I probably picked up some Rod Stewart record or some shit like that and Alex swiped My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. It was basically the first time I heard something like this and it helped expand my tastes a bit more. While it's not the best thing either one of these guys have put out (or close to it, imo), it's still an interesting listen. I could play Regiment on repeat for 24 hours

My cat scratched my copy of this years ago so I have not given it a full relisten in many years. Still holds up, the Eno-dominate back half is a little less exciting than the hybrid first half. America is Waiting & Mea Culpa are great spins. Side-note, I believe my pressing had the Qu'ran track removed from later pressings for blasphemy & perhaps that's why my cat, who is Muslim, scratched it.

I feel like David Byrne just kinda makes everything less enjoyable. Like I really liked the last Brian Eno project I listened to, and this one was so insufferable. I really just didn't enjoy my time with this until maybe the last five minutes. Tragic stuff to be honest. Favorites: A Secret Life, Come With Us, Mountain of Needles

Elastic album. I am not a big fan but I can appreciate this for what it is which is experimental. David Byrne's stuff is sometimes a little out there. I think if you liked this album you should check out the artist Widely 2 Diddly, who did the Lisa the Painful soundtrack, which is in my opinion a better take on this experimental sort or stuff. Favorite track was Number 8 Mix.

2.5 stars

Pretty groovy drums, but weird album. Too much talking for my tastes.

It’s alright. Nothing crazy, pretty experimental and instrumental. It is David Byrne, whom is the lead singer of the talking heads, which is funny because I got “1977” a few days ago. Tolerable, and not a bad listen, but definitely not on the top of my list, similar to that of the Talking Heads record. Personal ranking: 6/10 Favorite Tracks: None

La musique est parfaite, le sampling me fait pas tripper. 3.75 étoiles

An interesting curio. Two stars. Side A 1 "America Is Waiting" (2/5) 2 "Mea Culpa" (2/5) 3 "Regiment" (3/5) 4 "Help Me Somebody" (2/5) 5 "The Jezebel Spirit" (3/5) Side B 1 "Very Very Hungry" (2/5) 2 "Moonlight in Glory" (2/5) 3 "The Carrier" (2/5) 4 "A Secret Life" (2/5) 5 "Come with Us" (2/5) 6 "Mountain of Needles" (2/5) Total - 24 Average - 2.18 303/1001 164/303 albums reviewed were new to me

I might not be cool enough to get this one, but it's what I'd expect for a Eno and David Byrne album

I honestly don’t believe anyone actually likes this.

If ghosts could make music I know it would sound like this!

Borderline Experimental™: The Album I had a headache when I put this album on. The elements inspired by the legendary David Byrne helped relieve my headache symptoms. Those inspired by Brian Eno made it fucking worse. But hey, Radiohead exists largely as a result of the electronic concepts on display here, so that's cool I guess.

A toss up between a 2 and a 3. But I'll go with a 3. It's as weird as fuck and I can see how some will hear it as dicking about 😅. But there's something mysterious about it

мужики веселились

I have a lot respect for Brian Eno and David Byrne, just not this album. I can see how this would be influential to bands like Radiohead and others who expanded on this sound. I was excited to hear it, and a bit disappointed.

This week im only receiving sht lowk

Not my type

Keff

Started listening to it and definitely skipped around and decided that this album was not worth my time. Weird random Avant-gard rock album? Why this album is on the list is beyond me. Read a bit more. and just because it preceeded talking heads and other things.. doesn't make it good.

Just my kind of weird. Quality 4.3.

I don’t know what to think of this album. Pieces of it were enjoyable, especially in my elevated state this evening, but it didn’t hold together for me. 6/10 Pretty Good

Brian Eno always has an interesting sound. Not something I'd listen to every day, but good

What is this. Waste of time.

i don't quite understand what this album is all about. it really just seemed like a bunch of looped sounds that he got from a trip to Africa, and then made it into an album. it was odd...

Pretty much what I’ve come to expect from Brian Eno, not too offensive but very different. I’m sure there’s some influence behind the artist, I’ve just yet to see it.

I guess this is an album that you sell to other artists? Do they just use these songs as samples, or they can chop and screw them? 1 hour is a long time for songs that go nowhere.

This got off to a good start. Played the first half when driving to work. The second half I listened to at work and it was either the location or the songs that didn’t do it for me. To be honest I think it was the tracks, some were pretty weak and weird. Would have been a 3 otherwise

This probably isn't a top 5 Eno album for me and yet it's still a 4 out of 5. I really like Eno.

Hated this

Lately the amount of records with altered track lists has been grating at me, I've formed an entire conspiracy theory around it. Here with this record, we've also got a lost censored track, in addition to 20 minutes worth of rerelease bonus tracks that change the overall experience. How could an extra 20 minutes of music not make a marked impact? Are you not going to notice your childhood building is 5 extra stories now? Needless to say I'm happy I was able to find the original track list on YouTube. A few listens later and yes, the experience with the rerelease is extremely different with the unreleased material. Also, the censored Qu'ran is such an amazing piece of music history, particularly because of how badass the song is and how it adds depth to the darkness the album can sometimes represent. I would buy myself an LP with Qu'ran in it. I wouldn't otherwise. I'd be fascinated by a remix with a replacement for the sacred material. The overall experience of this album is erratic, experimental, it's a bit on the off-putting side if you haven't been preexposed to musical sounds of the world. I personally find it intriguing, I like how they mesh the math of their samples, how they explore emotions through complicated combinations that work no matter how awkward it is for them to achieve it. It's an odd one for regular repeated play, but if I had it on vinyl I'm sure it'd have its occasional spin. 3.7/5

1/5. I would legitimately turn this off if a friend put it on.

I woul love to live this album, but I don't.

What the actual fuck?

I mean, I get it, but it's still Sims music.

Makes a lot of sense with this collab of Brian Eno & David Byrne. Very avant garde & experimental. Definitely an album to really concentrate listening to. Thats what I appreciate about Eno. Byrne is such a weirdo, and I dig the “out there” brazen approach when it comes to his music. Some songs are funky and I liked them. Some were not for me.

You know how you’ll be messing around with your friends and be like man it would have been cool if we recorded that? That’s what this is. Except it’s actually decent. And somehow not as weird as I expected it to be. But in no way is it required listening. But I really enjoyed it.

Enjoyed listening to this sound collage of objet trouvé. All the more impressive knowing the analog technology they were working with at the time. Some things work better than others but overall an interesting listen. 4

This is the result of two musical geniuses, Logic Pro and far too many yes men

einfach nur geräusche

For an album made in 1981 this is way ahead of it's time.

Great run from this generator. Literally all my favourite albums back to back. This blew our mind when it came out. On the back of the Talking Heads albums produced by Eno came this colab. Mind blowing. Sampling AM world radio and turn it into afro beat Fela Kuti inspired beats. “The Jezabel Spirit” radio exorcism….Mind blowing when it came out and still mind-blowing now. However I find the additional bonus tracks of the rerelease interesting but not necessary. The original album was more concise without the bonus tracks. “Mea Culpa” is brain melting in particular when the synth melody kicks in at 2:55. Regiment has one of the coolest bass lines.

Ambient wank.

Brian Eno has been haunting my spotify for ages, but i have never listened to an album out of pure fear. What if i truly like it and then I am haunted??? NOT THE CASE, I REPEAT, NOT THE CASE. I FEEL SAFE IT WAS NOT THAT GOOD.

Some good rhythms in a few songs but mostly random noices and instruments that feels out of place. This wasn't an album for me att all. I try to point out things I like and dislike in every album but the likes part is extremely thin with this particular album.

This wasn't as good as the Airports record - this felt a lot more random noise which I just wanted to skip

America Is Waiting - it's brian eno, i expected weirdness. It's not a comfortable listen, but it's interesting. Mea Culpa - weird, like it shouldn't be considered music. But it's interesting, in a way. Percussion is really good. Regiment - ooh, its nice. The drums, bassline, guitar. Feels very ahead of its' time for 1981. Saved for later. Help Me Somebody - very cool, carribean feel in the rhythm. A little bit nervous, but interesting. I love the variety between songs. The Jezebel Spirit - funky and danceable, but doesn't resolve into something that I find satisfying in the end. I don't really love the sort of megaphone type vocals. Very Very Hungry (formerly Qu'ran) - laid back, interesting percussion, a bit disjointed in melody and vocals, but interesting. Again feels ahead of its' time for 1981. Moonlight in Glory - nervous percussion, but interesting variety in instruments. Funny bassline and melody. I like the use of such a variety of instruments. But, not my favorite song by far. The Carrier - interesting vocals, interesting song overall, not much to say as it wasn't too special either. A Secret Life - bit of a nervous song, didn't really hit me in a good way, the vibe is ominous. My least favorite of this album. Come with Us - strange song, sounds more like an OST of a weird video game. Not totally uninteresting, but not appealing either. Mountain of Needles - kind of lacklustre ending to a strange album, but not totally unbefitting. Still interesting listen.

Couple of the songs aren't available on YTM so I found a bootleg version on YouTube itself. This album isn't bad but I am definitely not into it. Might need to come back to this another day.

I really hate to just give this a 1, but I didn't like anything about it. Far too experimental for my tastes, and it felt like several songs played twice. Too repetitive and too long. This album was less me enjoying the art and more me trying to get through it.

Best Song: Solo Guitar With Tin Foil. This had a sparse, original, agoraphobic feeling that I kind of liked, especially after the rest of the album that preceded it. Worst Song: A Secret Life. This feels like touristic voyeurism. I can almost imagine Brian Eno recording the vocalist his iPhone vertically, whispering to David Bryne, "I wonder what they're saying. I bet it's something spiritual." Overall: The wikipedia page for this album says this about the album's title: 'According to Byrne's 2006 liner notes, neither he nor Eno had read the novel, but they felt the title "seemed to encapsulate what this record was about".' To me, that philosophy pervades the album and makes the whole thing worth less than the sum of its parts. It feels like they've taken important and meaningful cultural vocal samples, stripped them of all meaningful local context (and based on the above quote, were perhaps unaware of that context and meaning), and present them solely for their base aesthetic value, with a bit of electronic accompaniment. And yeah, what results sounds decent, but I always got the sense that the samples that they choose carried a lot more interest in situ, and something intangible is lost when they're used simply because they "sound good". Why did they sound good in the first place? Did it have something to do with the emotional and cultural context in which they were embedded?

Probably a 4.5 for me. Tone of greats songs with no wave/dance punk grooves. It was new to me but will be a return listen.

9.3/10

Skabet venstrehåndsarbejde.. Ikke i i nærheden af at være interessant som takling heads kan være. Det virker mere som et afløb for alle de lyde som har været forbudte for Eno før.

Det er ret fedt langt hen af vejen. Spændende lydlandskaber af Brian Eno der masher alverdens lyd og musik sammen. Og David Byrnes vokal er bare altid dragende. Dog bliver det lidt kedeligt hen imod afslutningen af albummet.

A few good and funky songs mixed in with experimental noise garbage. Pretentious garbage like the other Eno albums on this list.

A postmodern collage that does not renounce to rhythm. I love the transcultural samplings in this. Fun to make (I think) and fun to listen. Beautiful cover image, I like it more than the original.

It’s unique, but not very good. It’s like they randomized each song’s parts. No vocals, which is probably for the better. I understand what they were meaning to do with this album, but it didn’t work out.

This is what mushrooms and privilege sounds like

You know how, when you're walking through the early Renaissance wing of an art museum and you get to roughly the Giottos and you can appreciate how different they are from what came before but you still can't quite fathom exactly how revolutionary they are because it's really just that all the sudden all the people and perspectives just kind of start to look *right*? That's the experience of hearing this album in 2026. These rhythms and techniques are now so embedded in all of pop music, from pop to rap to country to EDM to whatever's left of rock, that I suspect I'm missing a good deal of the exhilaration that a listener in 1981 would have experienced. Which is another way of saying this is all still quite good and feels like it belongs - and its influence is everywhere, from Timbaland to Uematsu.

I like other Brian Eno albums…. I like the Talking Heads….. expected his to be better than I found it. Meh. The first couple songs gave me Hope but there are no standouts for me.

As a fan of Talking Heads. I didn’t like this as much as I thought I was.

It has one good track. That's the only reason it's not a one star. Also for the love of all that is holy stop with all the electronica.

Pretty decent album. I like that every song has its own vibe, it never feels like it’s stuck doing the same trick for 40 minutes. It’s constantly switching moods, textures, and weird little ideas. It also feels kind of proto techno in a cool way. Not in a club banger sense, more like you can hear the early blueprint for a lot of electronic music that came later.

++*: The Jezebel Spirit ++: America Is Waiting, Regiment, Help Me Somebody, Qu'ran, Moonlight in Glory, The Carrier, A Secret Life, Come with Us, Mountain of Needles +: Mea Culpa 9,7/10

Kinda cool, but all over the place.

Look, it's a tough listen. It's as avant-garde as it gets, and even though i didn't like it at the first, i kind of have to say this is the electronic version of what Miles Davis did with Bitches Brew. If the idea of "Two very successful dudes create an album full of electronic and avant-garde rhythms, fueled by samples of anonymous politicians talking, an exorcism, Qur'an, a Christian Sermon and a very popular Lebanese singer, named after a book two of the dudes never read but felt like the name fits the album, and said it 'Feels like a psychedelic Africa'" interests you, even though it might not be the best first listen, you'll eventually come around to like it. The problem with avant-garde electronic and jazz works is that, on a first and very casual listen, it's more funny and after a while boring rather than good. When you take time to give yourself in to the beats, to the samples, to the meaning, it takes a while but you start finding things from yourself, from the producers, from the samples, and from the beats. It's like a very occasional perfume where you can easily understand a lot of effort went into it and for the occasion itself it's actually a masterpiece, it's just not a casually good ear candy you can pop all the time & everywhere. I'll definitely get this as a physical copy.

Instrumentally, this is an absolute groove and I'm all over it. Vocal extracts excluded this is massively up my street, but most of the vocals didn't sit as well with me, seemed conflicting with the music and used too much distortion. I preferred the vocals when they weren't English and then they blended more with the instrumentation.

This sounds exactly what you'd expect a Brian Eno/ David Byrne collaboration would be

I loved the rhythms in this and the samples just provided a wide array of sounds to sculpt with, so it didn't really matter where they came from. I think that's one of the joys of sampling - that you can take an excerpt from one context and transpose it into something completely different. I am tempted to say that this shows some of David Byrne's talent without him spoiling it by singing, but that would be a bit mean

This is an interesting pairing. Being sampledelia through and through, this album also jumps around quite a bit in terms of the genres it's trying to mimic. I think this album may be one of the earliest commercial examples of sampledelia, hence its inclusion in this list I assume. However, I think I'm more impressed at HOW the duo found these samples. Many of the samples you hear are from seemingly random radio snippets across the country, plus an exorcist's dialogue over a particularly funky track ("The Jezebel Spirit"). Unsurprisingly experimental given the two who were involved in the creation of this album. Doesn't do much for me personally, but I can't ignore the influence this may have had.

Exactly what I expected from this duo. Soundscapes combined with world art rock.

Listened to this a lot in the 80s. Advances in technology likely make this sound antiquainted but I am sufficiently antiquated that I can't tell.

All the rhythmic innovation and technical skill of Talking Heads, none of the charm. I can't say I dislike it but I don't know what I'd use it for. 3.5

Talking Heads On Meth?

No idea why this guy is so famous. This album is no better than the rest. Yes, there are some nice ideas on it. But no, I don't need to listen to it again.

Some weird 80s experimental stuff. Definitely hit or miss. Not my idea of a good album though personally.

Still sounds daring. The cut-and-paste vocal experiments and rhythmic loops create a strange, hypnotic flow that feels more discovered than composed. It can be distancing, but the imagination on display keeps pulling me back.

I have a really hard time rating this. I can see why it's important I enjoyed bits of it. But also it has strong Shoreditch dude sampling cultures they don't engage with. The mixing of jungle sounds with Lebanese folk singers feels not great even fir the time

Creative, but not too enjoyable to listen to.

I kind of get the hype now

That was fun and interesting. I'll probably add it to the rotation but its not gonna become a new favourite.

Kind of a funky album. Not super into it but it's not offensive to my ears.

It's an album

Did they make this album for jungle birds??

Thought I was gonna like this but wasn't really feeling it.

pan eno jest panem eno troche gorzej niz zwykle

This sounded like I was pressing all the sound effect keys on my keyboard. Why is this on here

No lo terminé

This makes me uncomfortable and gave me a headache. No thanks, next.

When I was a kid, I had some records and cd’s that were just of sound effects. Never would I say that those were music albums. This is an evolution of that but bridges itself into music. It’s ok for what it is but it’s just way too long. This should have been a 35 minute album instead of a hour. It became unbearable after 15 minutes.

c'est expérimental et certains sons sont cool mais est ce que ça apporte vrmt qqchose

not too impressed, but not a Talking Heads fan, well, maybe a couple of songs

no escapará del 2

Can I say I hear the Byrne influence without being performative?

7.5/10

I wanted to like this more, it's just some kinda good experimental stuff. I like the more rock songs on here. The first half is immensely better than the rest as well.

Eno is the master of compiling and layering sounds, influencing bands from Talking Heads, to King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Bowie, and others. The album is a collab with David Byrne — don’t know why his name’s not listed in the generator? This is complex electronica, and very listenable. The sounds are literally engineered to please the nervous system. Like most electronica, it is in the end a bit soulless. A 3.

He he he pretty cool but not anything I really care for. I do like Eno and David Byrne quite a bit though.

Funky ambient electronic beats and vocal samples. But what does it mean? Should I care? Poor Jezebel

Bleep bloop blop

This is a wacky album. I love how you can clearly see both artist's contributions. Fun stuff. Favorite track: Mea Culpa

I thought I'd enjoy this a bit more than I did

Not much of this worked for me sadly. I liked the idea of using recordings and tapes of news casts and such but I found it began to get a little tedious. I know this probably is in part to thank for the use of sampling found in hip-hop today but it definitely has improved since this. I did appreciate the sound influences from around the world but these moments were often overshadowed by the monotony of the accompanying beat. As influential as it may have been, wouldn’t say it’s for me.

It's an interesting album, mixing lots of samples (quotes from sermons?), some world/Indian music, plenty of post-pop / funk music, etc. I don't think it's an album I would ever reach for, but if it's there in the background, I don't mind.

While a lot of purely electronic music leaves me cold I tend to enjoy artists who collect piles of samples and mash them together to form songs (like DJ Shadow and the Avalanches). This album feels very much like an early entry in that genre. And, despite its reputation as art rock, its surprisingly listenable and groovy. The world music singing and preachers feel cliche by today's standards, but this pre-dates most albums that rely on it by a decade, so I feel like it gets a bit of a pass.

I don't know that I buy that you don't get Air or Moby or Radiohead without this album. There are definitely moments that are interesting but some of the sampling is too dissonant or repetitive to actually enjoy, and I'm not sure I love that Talking Heads feel over a Radiohead/Air-style ambiance. Also, naming your album after a book you haven't read is too pretentious for words.

Just becuse you can doesn't mean you should, in audio form.

I like this. It’s weird, idiosyncratic and at times hypnotic. Eno and Byrne are two autistic guys being dudes, turned loose in the studio to commit the music streams running in their heads to vinyl. It’s not particularly memorable. But it’s a pleasant listen that has enough moments to hold my attention for an hour of runtime. I like to think of it as a little rumspringa for two creative giants to do whatever the hell they wanted.

Okay this was genuinely an experience. not necessarily a good one. I mean I get what he was trying to do but it was so odd. guys like the only songs that I somewhat didnt want to turn off immediately was mountain of needles (it reminded me of the minecraft night time music but like damn why is it so repetitive) the rest of the songs were pretty good to start and then it was the SAME thing. over and over and over again. it was all background music, like I could deadass come up with scenarios in movies where these songs could play in the background (some of them, not all some of them are so odd that they cant even be background music.) i kept checking how far down the album i was and then keep listening in hopes id find a hidden gem in this mess of an album. I read a review saying that it sounds like something you'd come across on SoundCloud, that is literally the best explanation for this. like yes I get it wouldve been awesome in 1981 but right now it feels like some teenage boy just started putting shit together for shiggles (shits and giggles) literally help.

My second sort-of-ambient sort-of-background-music Brian Eno album in three days after Music for Airports, and this is much the same, if giving a different feel. It’s not bad, it’s not good, it’s not interesting, and it’s not getting another play from me. And it’s not getting more than 2 stars.

Albummet er lavet ud fra samples fra radio, prædikener, feltoptagelser osv bliver brugt i stedet for traditionelt band og instrumenter. TRor nærmest det er det første sampledelia som senere blev grundlag for samples i triphop, big beats, hip hop, electronica osv. der var også global rytmetænkning før world musik osv, så der meget nytænkning osv over det. Briano eno og david byrne man. Synes sagtens man kan høre der er world over det, fordi det lyder sådan lidt tribal i mange sange på en eller anden måde? og meget spirituelt også. Der er mange lyde føler næsten man er i en jungle eller sådan noget.

Nyt meneekin sitten nelosten sarja poikki tyylikkäästi ja generaattori näyttää taas oman puolensa :) Onhan tää melko tekotaiteellista settiä eikä kyllä ykskään biisi jäänyt mieleen positiivisessa valossa

Suht mystistä kamaa, moni biisi hiveli omaa musiikkikorvaa. Yllärinelonen! Ehkä jopa vitonen mut ei sentään

Ihan hauskaa häröilyä kolmosen arvoisesti. Ehkä tosin nuo loppupään biisit meni vähän yli.

Mitä tähän nyt sanois. Vissiin kovasti on jannut olleet edelläkävijöitä samplaamishommissa, mutta liekkö tätä kuunnella jaksaa. Kiva kuriositeetti.

Ekasta biisistä tuli vahvasti mieleen Kummelin Prinssi Haapamäeltä -sketsi. Jotenkin tosi vaikea oli ottaa vakavasti muutakaan levyä. Aivan hirveää paskaa omaan korvaan. Onneksi Brian ei ole oma enoni :(

Evidence that, if you work with Brian Eno, you don't know what to expect next and Talking Heads followed up 'Remain in light' with a year's hiatus whilst their leader and their producer created an entirely new form of music by using samples of voices as a 'lead melody' over rhythm tracks. The bonus outtakes are not really worth much but it's inventive stuff and influential, creating even more credibility for its creators

Favorite track(s): Mea culpa, Regiment, Help Me Somebody, The Jezebel Spirit, Moonlight in Glory This is what happens when you get two of history's most quirked up white boys in the studio together.

This sounds great, people need to open themselves up to weirder sounds more. Especially the production of the music from Regiment, Help Me Somebody and The Jezebel Spirit, very danceable, infectiously so. I like these weirder albums. I should’ve given The Modern Dance a better chance.

This a fun album. Lots of cool samples and it sounds great. Very innovative and I enjoyed listening to it.

Not a very fun listening experience. Yeah, okay, it's "experimental" but it should also be good, instead of just a bunch of disjointed noise with no structure or anything.

Veldig absurd ikke for meg

I generally like repetitive music, but holy criminy, this was too much.

The Jezebel Spirt

I approached this album with bad attitude - due to my previous experience with experimental music - but it was suprisingly good to listen to. It wasnt that every song on this album was good for me, but some of them have nice grooves and nice vibes that can induce a trance of some sort.

It feels like everyone who does the dissonant sound album is really just trying to copy this guy. He walks the very thin line of making something that challenges you conception of music and sound without being a goddamn ear sore for an hour. Admittedly, my enthusiasm did start to wane for this one in the final 15, but if left me with the same feeling after you spend to long in an art museum, tired but fulfilled.

Extremely not my vibe. Some rocking bass lines but it's just layers and layers of noise that is not entirely pleasant to listen to (at least not while sober)

Crazy instrumentation and tonality makes it so refreshingly unique

Weird sounds pretty innovative for the time, with arabs sounds and electronic instrumentation but just too fucking weird and it felt like noises that someone does with their first juno keyboard

I came into this project with only a vague awareness of Brian Eno, but I've enjoyed reviewing his albums over the last few years. As for David Byrne, I would call myself a casual Talking Heads fan, but I don't know any of David Byrne's solo work. Based on the reviews for this album, I’m pretty excited to listen to it, because it sounds like it’s right up my alley. I can’t believe that this is my second to last album to review, but here we are! My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is the album Tom Tom Club wished it could be. While Bush of Ghosts wasn’t perfect, I really loved the overall sound of this album. I’m typically more drawn to melodies, but I couldn’t help but be swept up by this album’s excellent rhythms. I was listening to this album at work, and it took everything I had not to stand up and dance while I listened to it. The bass playing was truly remarkable, and I loved how well the synthesizers and samples fit so well into the overall groove of the music. I enjoyed this album’s melodies as well, but I felt that the rhythms were more consistent. My biggest complaint with this album is that I didn’t care for the sampled vocals, but they weren’t enough to drag down my enjoyment that much. I listened to the original track listing for this album, with “Qu’ran,” but I also listened to “Very, Very Hungry,” and I thought the latter was much better. “The Jezebel Spirit” was my favorite song on the album. The guitar and bass were excellent, and the sampled sounds were incredible too. This was just a really fun bop. While this album did fade a bit towards the finish line, the overall work here was fantastic. Without this album, I can’t imagine how different the music landscape would be.

Funky African-inspired rhythms looping, ambient soundscapes and textures floating by, and a whole bunch of weirdness and peculiar sampling in between. It certainly sounds like a collab between Eno and Byrne would sound. It’s cool and a unique listen, but not something I’m likely to revisit regularly.

Sound pretty overall, kind of sci-fi vibes.

I bet that in 1981 there weren’t too many albums which used samples in this extent. For us Talking Heads fans the grooves on this album sound really familiar and they make you foot tap along, but it does get bit monotone towards the end. Plus points for the experimentation and trail blazing way of working, but this album would have benefitted of having few songs on it in between the repetitive groove tracks.

Pretty, interesting, very wide spectrum of sounds and sources, languages and styles. I didn't so much listen to this album, but let it flow over me. Some of it made me dance in my seat, some just let focus on my taks at hand and some blended into aural tapestry. Quite a few times I felt I was listening to David Byrne's music and not Eno, but such are collaborations. This was a very nice record.

Cool futuristic-sounding record that's a bit of a complicated mess, leaning a bit cluttered in its experimentation. If it hadn't, though, I imagine it would have been a boring new age mess instead, which would have been much worse. So I don't know if I want to give this a higher score for that reason. Oh well. Still a big Eno guy regardless.

I like weird stuff like that. Brian Eno is a treasure.

Avantgarde funk techno prob ahead of its time but not really that accessible to modern listeners.

It’s a strange album. Has some decent grooves, but is musically all over the place and becomes a little too hectic. 2.5/5 Probably won’t listen again

Boy, Brian Eno is all over the place for me. Here come the Warm Jets was a trashcan album, but Music for Airports was a 5 star banger. Another Green World was 4 stars exceptional, and Before and After Science was a 3 star, mostly good but a little dated. Now we have Life in The Bush Of Ghosts and it is good. Very good. It's WAY better than Before And After Science, but I don't think it resonates as much as Another Green World. So 3.5 stars would be about right, but of course, we don't have half stars. Because my 3 star rating has started to devolve into "meh" albums, this one gets 4 stars. Which is a bit too high, but not a crime like 3 stars would be.

egreve gamovrte ts fried af

I know Eno is highly esteemed for his influences and abilities as a producer. But I preferred the elements of this that leaned more toward Byrne’s sound and style. 3.5*

When two artists, who are on the spectrum, get together to make “music” (read: challenge the world of music) this is what we get. Also, there was probably a lot of coke supplied.

Enjoyed the David Byrne influence. Picked up on before I realized it was a thing. I must be improving my music appreciation. 3.5 rounding up.

Fuuuck yes, some solid vibes. Definitely bordered on a little too experimental.

This album was hard to get through.

Simultaneously sounds like parts of Eno and probably more so Byrne (Talking Heads) without being as compelling as either

Assuming that all albums have an intended audience, and aren’t just created as an entirely self-centered endeavor (which I am unsure of here), I’d really like to know who this was for. It felt like what would happen if you took a 90s “world music” cd, and gave it along with some dj equipment to a child. It was all over the place and with lots of noises.

This just didn’t go anywhere for me. Sort of interesting sample but not worth an album of it.

Really interesting, varied. Some tracks I love...others...meh

very funky and experimental. i can see why its influential, but it’s not for me.

I was really digging this, then it got a lil too esoteric in the second half so 3 let's say?

Weird, wonderful, whacky and.... I can't think of a synonym for 'unique' that begins with W. "Won of a kind"?

A lot of noisy nonsense

It’s just sound

Great to hear this album. Can really tell this was made just after remain in light.

quite peculiar and moogy and transported me to many different places. not sure its my bag tho i did enjoy some of it

Eihän tätä kuuntele kukaan

I was excited to listen to an album by Brian Eno and David Byrne but this was a major disappointment. My standard for what constitutes "MUSIC" is higher than when this album produced. I've said before I'm fine with having to "find the music" ... if eventually it's music. None of this was worth the payoff. This sounded like recorded practice or releasing an album of throwaways. I get it's different, but that's not music to me. Each song was so repetitive I felt like I was caught in a dream and time stood still. It's like both guys wanted to out simplify each other and just released whatever came out. Disappointing.

ну норм для фанатов, я послушал и оценил, мб вернусь

High highs low lows

Much more interesting than other purely electronic albums that have appeared here - still quite boring. 3/5.

So fun to listen to I love all the samples

Like someone recorded some good/interesting music and then said "This is fine but what if we add in some fart sounding synth?"

Si el moho o la humedad hicieran sonidos, sería esto. Fue una tortura. https://youtu.be/1MZqge5A05U?si=hwpoIx_ivzBZ6i-B

There was no clear direction to it, it is all iver the place and hard to keep up. Although I will say I like the mix of different instruments, makes it chaotic and different from different artists but unfortunately it ultimately became too much for me. 2/5

Actually had some nice moments rhythmically, and it's a good collaboration between Byrne and Eno carrying on from Remain in Light. Loses itself by the end of the album though.

Very experimental and weird, but it works! I kinda dig this album. It’s interesting, hypnotic, and has some great groove as well as slower, more dreamlike sounds.

Noisy

Funky and good. It’s an album I’d classify and ambient listen, something to rock too in the BG, but occasionally has the oomph to come to the front and demand focus. Its play time is a little long for me. Wish it was closer to 45. Doesn't hold on to me enough to give a 4 atm, but i could see it getting there. high 3

very cartoonic

Two legends of music produce something not terribly exciting and feels a bit all over the place some of the time.

I generally quite like Brian Eno, but this doesn't quite hit the mark.

Música de doente mental. 2,5

Aguentei duas músicas

Pior que ser currado na praia

I don't know...its not unlistenable, the sounds are all okay but they don't make sense. I want to connect and fall into it but I don't even understand what I am connecting to. Like the Carrier sounded like whale sounds I would hear in an aquarium layered with African tribal chants...why? I could have maybe done a 3, but it just felt so long and unnecessary to continue.

So this is what happens if you lock Brian Eno and David Byrne in a room together. It's artsy and noisy but still has a beat. A fun smattering of 80's analog buzzes, beats, and funky guitar. Regiment and Jezebel Spirit were pretty good songs.

This is just an instrumental Talking Heads album. It’s white boy funk with polyrhythmic beats. That’s not a bad thing, but it’s also completely unnecessary. I suppose this is cream and honey to their hardcore fans.

Interesting-ish I guess, though this isn't something I'd ever put on again. It feels more like a science experiment than actual listenable music.

Not the best or most interesting project that either has on this list, but occasionally captivating nonetheless.

very experimental sound (at least to me)

I don't know that I have anything interesting or novel to say about this album. I liked it. I like Brian Eno and David Byrne's music and this collaboration was pretty on par from what I would expect from this union.

This was an experience. I get why it’s on the list but far out it’s a tough listen. 1 hour of noise music with a cool vibe repeated for 5 minutes and random samples thrown at you gets old quick. I have huge respect and love for Brian eno and David Byrne but I won’t list to this again.

The combination of David Byrne’s guitar playing, Brian Eno’s synthesizer work, and the audio clips blend together perfectly. It was a funky piece of music. I could hear Holger Czukay‘s influence on some of the Middle Eastern songs. Great album from start to finish.

Ok

Ich weiß nicht, was ich konsumieren müsste, um dieses Gedudel anhören zu können. Diese „Musik“ nervt mich nur.

- ilmeisen vaikutusvaltainen levy ollut, kyllä tästä radiohead kuuluu - ihan koko levyä ei jaksanut kuunnella töiden ohessa mut iha jepa

Like a milestone/groundbreaking film, when you experience all that has come after it and been influenced by it, the original text loses some of its 'holy shit' factor, but immersing myself in this music was really rewarding. Loved the African and Middle Eastern influences, the intriguing vocal samples that border on scary at times, and the underpinning of Talking Heads-esque post punk funk. The technical prowess to edit all the tapes and samples aside, the blanket of sound is impressive and revolutionary. I think what some at the time dismissed as Eno's studio fuckery has come to bear a huge electronic music movement in today's culture.

I love both Eno’s and Byrne’s work from other project before and after this, and I get the importance of the record. I don’t really enjoy this one though.

Interesting stuff. Tracks with it being Eno and Byrne. There are some definite grooves you can jam and bob your head to.

This was an interesting listen. Musically accomplished but didn’t really stand out. I loved my 80s instrumentals like this (Art of Noise, Yello, etc.). This felt like that. 3/5

Avantgarde stuff that gets more enjoyable with every spin, but it really demands attention. I'm glad to have heard it, but I'm not sure how often I'll return to it.

Must be fun to be in this stage of being a musician and just be able to collaborate with your musical genius friends.

Didn’t listen

Didn’t impress me

I can tell I’m supposed to think it’s interesting but every song is the same group of 3 or 4 noises over and over again and it’s boring. I love Talking Heads and I like Roxy Music but this was nonsense. Weird/avant-garde isn’t automatically good but I’m sure it was ground breaking at the time so that’s cool.

Ik ben geen Brian Eno hater, maar ik vind dit maar een zenuwachtig schijtalbum. En dan druipt m'n niet zo favoriete decennium er ook nog vanaf. Ik kan hier echt bijzonder weinig mee. Vooruit, af en toe zit er een aardig stukje in of een leuk geluidje. Daar kan je niet heel lang op teren als het album bijna een uur duurt. Ik hou het op 2 sterren en ik hou het na 10 tracks lekker voor gezien.

After I got past the first couple of songs that were a bit disjointing to me, I enjoyed the album. Some songs seem to have more of a David Byrne influence to them. Track 38 made my playlist.

The only other Eno album I've heard is Before and After Science, also from this list, and this album blew that one out of the water. I would describe this album as intriguing. Each track was a combination of sounds that always engaged my attention. There aren't any earworms or hooks, but there was complexity here that I appreciated even if I likely won't go back to it.

I feel like Michael Gira listened to this before starting Swans

Very repetitive

It's alright, has a Biggie sample in there too.

I'll start to like a song and dig whatever's going on and then it just keeps going on and on and on and on and on and on all the same....

Very well produced background music. But I don’t really even know how to fairly compare this to other actual records on this list. No real lyrics or songs, just a lot of well produced interesting beats. Didn’t hate, but didn’t really think it was worthy of this list.

Unlike anything I’ve heard before

Just not worth listening to.

Another zone-out-and-get-shit-done kind of album. Personally didnt find anything special here but was glad to hear it.

I hear this was groundbreaking at the time it was released. OK for some background noise, interesting in parts, relaxing in others, exciting sometimes.

Quite a conceptual adventure. Flag for re listen. Some good influences on eg Public Service Broadcasting.

This album is just wildly creative and ahead of its time. The usage of samples is so crazy, it's hard to believe this dropped in 1981. It's so futuristic and fascinating. It's crazy that they manage to fuse in so many styles from all over the world. The album is quite experimental but also somehow accessible and hella groovy. The grooves are actually so massive. Pretty crazy. Towards the end the album switches into more of an ambient sound and again, it sounds incredible. The songs are super hypnotic and entrancing like all ambient songs should be. Amazing and wild listen

More of an experiment than an album. I thought it was interesting

I did a dumb thing. When I started this, I found that one album a day wasn’t enough. And so I decided to start a second project. And then that was too little, so I began a third! While I’ve paused the other two as I’ve decided I’d rather focus on re-listening to one album to give it the time and attention it needs to be properly reviewed, I did get to this album on one of the other projects. Which is insane. I’m 21 albums into this project and got about 14 into the other. So the chances of this showing up there then me getting it here are, like, one in over a thousand I think. I don’t know. It’s one in the morning and I don’t feel like doing math. I’m not going to re-listen because I have a lot of other music to listen to. I decided not to keep up with many 2025 releases because I’ve found music has been pretty disappointing recently. Established artists do their thing but a lot of stuff is extremely algorithmic—not to mention the rise of generic country-pop. I listened to the new twenty one pilots album and loved it, I listened to Getting Killed and loved it, I listened to a couple of the recent riot grrrl revival albums and thought they were okay, and I listened to the new Florence and the Machine album and loved it—and I listened to the new Taylor Swift album and hated it beyond words. I’m not even a hater of her music—I just find it kinda redundant—and it genuinely angered me. But anyway, yeah, I kept hearing such good things about Let God Sort ‘Em Out and Lux that I listened to them both, and now I’m realizing oh, crap, I should probably have paid more attention to new music. Lux especially was amazing. So tryna catch up on that before the year ends. But I digress. I listened to this album a week ago so it’s still kinda fresh in my mind. My review from my other account basically just said “classic David Byrne weirdness combined with classic Brian Eno weirdness. Awesome,” and I gave it four stars. I stand by that rating. It’s niche. It has integrity while also being obviously self-indulgent. It isn’t mind blowing, but it is unique—and it’s fascinating in the scheme of music history, as it really is just an album of the oddest impulses of Talking Heads, with some more electronics—not to mention its influence on Radiohead, Moby, etc. It’s too discordant to have any sort of ambience, but the discord makes you pay attention to each element, allowing you to lock in nonetheless—just maybe not as background music for studying or the like. Every odd little note fights for attention. It’s entirely vibes while also being the antithesis of everything vibes-based music stands for. Definitely something to listen to before you kick the bucket. After all, there’s no point in *not* listening to eighteen balearic/afrobeat songs made by two weird dudes wrapping a guitar in metaphorical tin foil.

This isn't for everyone, and in many places feels more like an art piece than a traditional album. But it is highly musical despite being unconventional. I see kind of two forces at odds here. There is the organic warmth of world music, drums, traditional singing, and religious sermons. But then there is the cold sterility of studio sampling and radio compression and cutting pieces and putting them together to make something coherent out of chaos. And that is what makes this album to interesting, this musical tension between humanity and technology. I especially love the tracks with Lebanese singer Dunya Younes. In particular, "Regiment" is one of my favorite songs ever, that bass line is so heavy. I also love the weight given by featuring a recording of an exorcism (though it seems the original was not allowed). The snippets culled from the radio make it feel like you are simultaneously in the American south, in Africa, in the Middle East, etc. I don't like that the current streaming version has removed "Qu'ran" (though "Very, Very Hungry" is still good). Just another excuse for me to track down a physical copy. I can't imagine how weird it would have been to hear this in 1981. There doesn't seem to be much like it that came before it, but in it you can hear 50 years of musical innovation.

Was amped for this Eno/Byrne combo that I’d never heard of. Interesting, but only until the limits of my attention span. Then I found myself craving, no, thirsting, for some solid grounding. At the end of the day, normie bullshit works because we’re all used to it. Props for doing something different. If anything, I learned that I’m agonizingly pretty normie.

I appreciate most of the work Brian Eno does, but this album was way too David Byrne forward - many of the songs sounded like instrumental stems of talking heads songs. That mixed with repetitive audio loops that were too long and uninteresting, and the prayer lean which was taken. Really just a mess that is mildly elevated through Eno's skill. 2/5

idk

yeah it was cool, all of the samples were creative and used really well, I just wasn’t that obsessed with it while I was listening idk

I was excited for Brian Eno since I Iove his relaxing ambience albums. This was not relaxing, nor was it good. Too repetitive and the vocal samples were too distracting.

I love David Byrne. I love Talking Heads. But this was a foray into something different, which I usually appreciate, but I just didn't connect with it sadly.

yea I was excited to get this one and then it sucked

Didn’t have a ton of time to get into this one today, but from a quick first listen, it has everything that an amateur fan of David Byrne such as myself would like. It’s definitely on the list for a re-listen.

Although David Byrne has never been my vibe, I did enjoy several parts of this album. I felt like some tracks really spoke to me and others I tried to tone out. I’ll probably revisit although I do not foresee anything wowing me on the second pass.

Byrne and Eno were all over each other in this era. According to legend, they pushed for Remain In Light to be billed as “Talking Heads and Brian Eno” but the non-Byrne members of the group reverse psychologied them out of it by pointing out that Eno would have to tour in support of the album if his name was on it, which was a thing he didn’t want to do. That has nothing to do with this album but it’s amusing. I just kinda am not knowledgeable enough about production to comment on anything musically here other than to say “very bold use of sampling.” Another amusing anecdote that has nothing to with this album: “He’s a genuine eccentric,” Eno said of Byrne. “He’s always been exactly like that, and I’ve seen him remain like that in quite extreme situations.” Eno continued: “For instance, we were mugged together once in New York. It was quite frightening; we were mugged by 14 people. My enduring memory is of David being dragged off into the bushes, saying, ‘Uh-oh!’ That’s absolutely true; it was like a cartoon scene.” I doubt that happened but it’s pretty funny.

The kind of thing you’d hear in the little side room of a modern art museum that plays a short film on loop, you know with little stools or benches strewn about. This album was as weird as I’d hoped! The beats were the highlight of the whole thing, so intricate and fun. The overall sound and glitchy samples were way ahead of their time, I thought Boards of Canada were the first to really do this — but they didn’t debut until like 20 years later.

aahhhhhh.... I love both of these guys but that's a no for me dawg. I bet Laurie Anderson liked this though... :) ;P

Not my favourite by any means

𝘔𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘴𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 plays like a collision of ideas — part atmospheric experimentation in the vein of Bowie’s “𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘦𝘴”, part rhythm-driven exploration that anticipates the aesthetic of 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵. Found voices, fragmented samples and restless percussion drive the record forward, but the experience can feel more like a fascinating experiment than a fully cohesive album. The sound world is inventive and influential, yet a bit detached, as if the concept itself matters more than the emotional impact. Interesting, clever, sometimes striking — but not consistently gripping.

Before Madlib, MF Doom, and RZA, Byrne/Eno were the first incorporators of vocal snippets that engender a kind of immersive and documentarian experience: from Ray Taliaferro of KGO Newstalk AM 810 to Reverend Paul Morton and Lebanese singer Samira Tewfik, these samples prompt worldly perceptions w/o committing the crimes of a poacher like McLaren. The two were also able to sustain enuf funkiness throughout to engage my dance-wise senses. However, what I love about the Talking Heads, especially w/ Eno, as well as Brian's solo work, is missing here: this is nerd music, plain and complex, w/ almost no emotional depth. I feel it percussively, and I can dig its influence, but the two of 'em made far better records than it. Nerds!

It had its moments

Fun beats! I will definitley use this for studying sometime! 6.4/10

Classic David Byrne weirdness mixed with classic Brian Eno weirdness. Fantastic album.

was expecting it to have vocals, i was hung up that i wouldn’t hear any david byrne vocals but after i got over that the instrumentals were okay and had some good sampling, okay overall and i can see the influence it may have caused

Trur eg likar Brian Eno utan David Byrne

Nice music of Africa I guess

Meh

6/10

This seems to be a more foundational text for the DJ style, a style that through this list I have heard Moby, Avalanches, LTJ butem, DJ Shadow. 85 percent of the listen I am bored. There is one or two tracks that are well written, the rest is repetitive. I felt the same way about this album, however I heard the Byrne Eno sound throughout.

Superb minimalism ambient

If you want Byrne and Eno firing on all cylinders, go listen to Remain In Light (though, “The Jezebel Spirit” does sound like the bones of “Born Under Pressure”). I don’t mean to imply that this album is bad, but don’t expect a meeting of the minds that intended on creating a pop opus - have some patience. Everyone was hemming and hawing about how this was Radiohead before Radiohead and I don’t agree except for one song, which is “Mea Culpa”, and I must say it was a fantastic song. All of the Radiohead sound without the Radiohead bemoaning. “Mountain Of Needles” was impressively futuristic in the sense that it sounds a bit like a vaporwave song before the advent of vaporwave which was of course pulling from songs during this albums time. That was a nice little timeloop. After that, the record does just meander a lot. Any derogatory “bleeps and bloops” comments can be fairly directed at the last bit of this album. Still, Eno is a mastermind. For every bad record that Neil Young is involved in on this list, there’s a good record Eno (post Roxy Music) is involved in. 3/5

don’t particularly care much for brian eno… but this album with the genius of david byrne is pretty good.

Nah

Very creative and diverse

I appreciated how experimental this album was for the time.

Really freakin odd, but a whole lot of fun.

Never understood the Talking Heads and this is just David Byrne going even further.

Felt like a Talking Heads album without David Byrne vocals. Few songs got a little repetitive but the overall concept and execution was awesome.

Brian Eno and David Byrne present in this album a collection of very funky and abstract tracks. So abstract, that I might be a bit difficult to describe these songs in detail. The album starts with some very funky new age cuts, but they get more abstract, weirder, experimental and less funky as the record progresses, to the point where the last tracks is basically ambient music. Apart from the sound progression, there is no real cohesion between songs. The world 'collection' that I used at the start really fits as a description of the album. What makes this album special is how detailed and ambitious it sounds. They borrow a lot of sounds from different genres, such as Afrobeat or Tribal music, and they play with a lot of noises and samples, making every song incredibly detailed. However, while the album sounds really good in concept, I think it is a bit stale in emotions. The funkiness is not contagious enough to make me want to dance and the atmospheres created aren't that engaging. Nonetheless, I still appreciate a lot how unconventional this album sounds

2/5

not for me

This album has a lot of missteps, and it's definitely too up its own ass, but I really enjoyed it despite that.

< the Beatles Brian Eno, the world's foremost elevator and hold music composer, has far too many albums on this list. Admittedly, this is easily his best album but I give all credit for the "enjoyable" and borderline listenable parts to David Byrne.

Just another random collection of noise

Nice one Brian, shame you’re a sexual deviant

Interesting, if not really enjoyable. I hoped/expected to like this, but it never really clicked. Maybe I’d appreciate it more if I knew how it came to be. I will say that it feels like a rare example of successfully incorporating “world” music, though. Favorite: The Carrier 3?

Chaotic headache inducing nose 2/10 David Byrne is the extra point

Really good but not next level for me

Not impressed

Overall Rating - 1.45/5 (2.91/10). I'm sure this is foundational, I just don't like it.

Had a hard time trying to decide whether I’d give this four or five stars. I’m giving it a second listen, having a couple of beers and it’s a nice evening in general so what the hell, sure, let’s round that up to five.

Don't. Like. Brian. Eno. A bit shite. Lots of sounds =/= music.

There are some great sounds that have been created for this album, but I'm not hearing any actual songs or tunes that I would ever want to listen to again

An interesting one , it felt like demos of future talking heads songs

An odd album to say the least...

I can't say I really enjoyed this album, but I also kind of get it? It's way more experimental than the Talking Heads, which is saying a lot. And, it's mostly instrumental, so depending on how you feel about Talking Heads vocals that could be a good thing or a bad thing. All in all, this was just a bit too abstract for me, and basically the more the song sounded like a funky groove that the Talking Heads would produce, the more I liked it. And the more it was just weird and out there, the more I was just waiting for the song to be over. I do think it's an interesting sound, and it feels like a precursor to some of the loop stuff we got in the 90s like Moby.

"Regiment" is a really cool song. I like the funky bass that's present on some tracks. Overall it's fine with some bright spots, but not really something that hits for me.

Couldn’t do it, it was just noise to me. I don’t know how this is even considered music…

Did these guys get there inspiration from tribal villages and drugs? That's the vibe I'm getting and I'm enjoying it! It was a bit too strange to add to my library. But it was good! 7 out of 10

Kinda interesting. Sometimes it sounds like Byrne, sometimes Eno. First half was good, second half was boring. It's aight.

At first I was confused. I spent a bit of time waiting for David Byrne or Brian Eno to start singing. By the third track, Regiment, at the moment where Robert Fripp started playing, I realised I was in new territory. It feels demeaning in a way to call this an album when it is so much more. It’s whirling, twisting kaleidoscope of sound and emotion and, if you let it, it will take you on a journey. You can hear the seeds Remain in Light being sown, but this album shines on its own merits. Incredible.

Good Brain Eno stuff. Listened while I worked.

Bad electronic music that is either experimental noise or at best too repetitive. Vocals are random audio clips. The Middle Eastern motifs were strange and did not work well. Album cover sucks.

1st album with group. Good Songs - Nothing. Bad Songs - America Is Waiting, Mea Culpa, Regiment, Help Me Somebody, The Jezebel Spirit, Qu’ran, Moonlight in Glory, The Carrier, A Secret Life, Cone with Us, and Mountain of Needles. I could’ve stopped listening at Qu’ran like many people did but I didn’t because there is value in listening to an album in full even if it isn’t that good. I’ll say this though if you made it quieter and got Kendrick this would be an amazing album.

Nah. Felt like laying down the underlying rhythms for Talking Heads songs that never actually gain the story, complexity, or vitality of actual Talking Heads songs.

Definitely not for me. I'm a big fan of Talking Heads, but this ain't that. This is just noise to me, not music. I'm just not a fan of experimental "music."

interesting, and can appreciate it as a historical snapshot, but not for me.

This is #day471 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… how about something from some of the most important figures in alternative and electronic music of '70s-'80s? Experimental, daring, and eccentric, this record is an adventurous sonic experience that intertwines ambient, world music, and more. Such fun to listen to. This is a 5 out of 5. Looking forward to #day472.

No. 22 I feel like I can understand the importance of this album in terms of shaping the perception of sampling in modern music, but that doesn’t mean that I enjoy it very much, or that I would listen to this on a daily basis.

This is some very weird shit. It sounds like the backing tracks to a bunch of rap songs without the rapping. I can see this being influential on the rap and electronic music scenes, but it doesn't really hit with me. There are some good parts, but a lot of it is just weird for weird's sake. It might be some kind of highbrow art, but if flew way over my head if that's the case.

I didn’t enjoy listening to this. Much as I didn’t enjoy the artwork. I found the repeating sounds too frequent to be enjoyable and the random sounds off-putting.

this album is very experimental. it did not hold my attention.

Liked this one. Weird tunes, but if I enjoyed the first listen I imagine many of these would grow on me.

138/1001 Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ❎ The use of samples and soundscapes have clearly inspired a number of artists listening to this and whilst I can appreciate its influence, it wouldn't be an album I'd gravitate towards. The highlights from this album are the more Middle Eastern inspired tracks.

I know it's innovative and influential, but at the end of the day it's just samples and I don't care for that. 2.0/5.0: Disappointing

a few good grooves, but mostly just a collage of samples which did not make for a very enjoyable listen

Oddly enough, I got Roxy Music’s debut album and then this one. Brian Eno is a musical genius and the landscape of modern rock, ambient, electronic and even hip-hop (sampling) would be entirely different without his influence. Separately, David Byrne through his solo career and with the Talking Heads has broken down doors and introduced genres to Western audiences. They are both amazing artists. But a couple of musical geniuses creating together doesn't automatically make it enjoyable listening. -1⭐️ for that. 4⭐️

Is this album influential? Yes. Is it fun to listen to? No. 5/10 Favourite track: Regiment

Interesting but not my bag.

Too synth-y 3/5

Liked it, little odd at moments, didn’t fully grab me

Aces.