My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

nah, nöd min gschmack

The aspects of Eastern and African music were neat to hear, but even given that, a lot of this album was a bit of a slog. There's definitely a lot of avant-garde inspiration at play here that I'm sure influenced artists throughout the 80s and beyond. This was also an example of sampling in music long before sampling was popular or common. Overall, though, I wouldn't say this album did too much for me. It's higher than a 2, but I wouldn't say it's a 3.

I get why this was groundbreaking and I like both Eno and Byrne but this was not an easy listen. Not my style

I guess this was an ambient album? I generally don’t like ambient music. It wasn’t bad, but I just didn’t get it

Musica muy peculiar, difícil de escuchar. Aunque interesante experimentación muscial, se siente desde sus entrañas la apropiación que conlleva. 2/5

Wat een bizar trippy album is dit. Van Brian Eno van Roxy Music en David Byrne van Talking Heads. Dit album gaat echt alle kanten op, maar om nou te zeggen dat het een lekker stukkie muziek luisteren is... Dit album is pure chaos en opzich vind ik het interessant, maar denk niet dat i kdit nou vaker op zou zetten. Ik denk dat het mij iets te experimenteel is en dan kom ik uiteindelijk uit op een schamele 2 sterren, iets wat ik heel jammer vind want ik vind het wel echt tof dat er iets anders word geprobeerd!

Not really for me, but it sounded well put together.

21 Based on this scale: 1 - 0 to 19 2 - 20 to 39 3 - 40 to 59 4 - 60 to 79 5 - 80 to 100 More interesting than compelling, this album is more famous for its importance and influence than for its aesthetics.

- this is literally goofy ah music - the weirdest mix of sounds and lyrics - regiment is literally a groovy beat with a croaning lady over it - it’s at least interesting to listen to - chaotic neutral

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts really wasn't anything to write home about. Usually I don't mind the electronic/psychedelia type of sound however Brian Eno this time round really didn't do it for me. Best: The Carrier Worst: Mea Culpa Note: Had to listen to the Carrier on YouTube Music as it was unavailable on Spotify.

OK, so Eno & Byrne sampled like there's no tomorrow, and therefore one can argue they paved the way for others to follow. But it's not a good album, nor is this good music. P.S. I wonder if the curators here have picked albums to also commemorate the end of mass sampling, courtesy of the record companies' waking up and using copyrights to stop it from happening.

This sample-heavy album is not nearly as musically intimidating as some of the other vocal-less albums on this list, while still being varied enough to steadily hold my interest in the first half before slowly losing me towards the finish line. That being said, I don't think there's much on the bone here, and nothing that would really make me want to listen again. Highlight: Mea Culpa Lowlight: Mountain of Needles Surprise Hit: Moonlight in Glory

I listened while drawing. Background music and not so enjoyable imho.

Rollo patatero.

If there's one word for this, it's boring. You can hear aspects of both of their styles peeking through, but I'm just not crazy about how ambient it was. Oh well. The original album cover is kinda cool. My favourite song was Help Me Somebody.

The Bush of Ghosts is stuck in the Bardo for me. Too experimental to be called music to my ears.

They’re interesting soundscapes but I can’t imagine ever wanting to listen to it again

I've listened to a few Eno albums on this 1001 journey and thoroughly disliked them all. This is a little better as you hear the Byrne/Talking Heads ideas nearly making it through the tosh.

No. Me gusta la portada, pero eso es todo.

Mostly just easy listening with some sound bytes sprinkled in. Not my favorite though.

Not my thing.

Alkoi melulla, josta oli kyllä melodia ja idea havaittavissa, mutta ei makuuni tarpeeksi. Tuntuu silti siinä mielessä vaatimattomalta, ettei luota omaan oletettuun virtuoottisuuteensa vaan yrittää luoda jotain tiettyä sanomaa. Mutta en saa siitä kiinni.

Groundbreaking and influential in its use of samples, which makes it interesting from an academic point of view. It is, though, quite boring from a 'having to listen to it all the way through' point of view. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: The Jezebel Spirit Date listened: 26/07/23

Before Tom Wamsgams and Greg Hirsch, there was Brian Eno and David Byrne. Yup, these guys are the original disgusting brothers and, by God, they got stanky on this ol thang. The album sounds like what AI would generate if it were trained on Eno and Talking Heads. It sounds like a musical representation of a description of a musical representation of a description of a song. It sounds like they recorded an album, cut it into chronological pieces, and randomly shuffled those pieces all around. Is it interesting? Yes. Is it pleasant to listen to? Not really. 2 stars (one for each of these legends)

Je suis sincèrement désolé Brian

sure grandpa lets get you to bed

'Regiment' and 'Help me somebody' - yes. Rest of the album - no.

Meh really didn’t do much for me. The samples were strange and it felt quite disjointed at times

I really wanted to like this, but it just did not hold my attention and was pretty forgettable. Maybe a future listen will change that, but for now it's a 2/5.

Not for me but appreciate the concept

Es un disco rarisimo, como una banda sonora. Cositas de electronica, cositas de musica tribal. No me gustó para nada.

Being innovative, unfortunately, often means that you won't be a master of a particular skill - voice sampling in this particular case. The album seemed dull. To name at least one advantage: I like that cover.

I know, it was innovative. But it does not mean that it is automatically good. It has two enjoyable songs. Despite them this album is all over the place and not good.

alright

Funky out-there background music fueled by David Byrne’s creative whimsy is still just background music at the end of the day

Another high concept art album from legendary assholes. Important in terms of sampling and tracking but not a particularly enjoyable listen. Often sounds like the music from How It's Made

Didn't really care for most of the..... music?.....sounds.

I just don't understand what it is trying to tell me. It's not even so unpleasant, but quite empty

Usually I like Eno's works but that goes more for his straight-up ambient work, especially with Robert Fripp. Also his job as a producer is tremendous. This album is not for me. Some of the later tracks have a nice experimental character to them. Besides that it's not really for me.

Must have done a lot of ecstasy before recording this album.

I want to give this a 1 but I’ll be kind because I understand what it’s trying to do. Still, I kind of disagree with this being classified an album at all. It’s two incredibly talented and creative artists exploring something new. Unfortunately the end result is more academic than enjoyable. Low, low 2.

Huh, onpahan ollut tullut melkosta paskaa viime viikot ja tämäkään ei ole poikkeus. Tämän levyn kuuntelu ei tuottanut edes hetkellistä mielihyvää ja helppo jättää lopullisesti unholaan.

Don’t like, found it to be very grating on the ears

This is my second Brian Eno album, and I greatly disliked the first one. I'm hoping to enjoy this one more. I wouldn't really consider this to be music that someone should listen to regularly. I don't enjoy experimental music like this, but I can appreciate them trying to think outside of the box.

Here I am writing the review 3 days after I listened and I don't really remember what I listened to. That can't be good.

Mostly instrumental/samples, kind of hip-hoppy.

Enorm experimenteel. Maar daar is Eno wel voor gekend. Niet iets dat ik opnieuw zou opzetten

Well that was annoying. 2/5.

I appreciate the experimentalism and the amount of sampling, but I'm sure each song could be better without certain aspects or noises. Overall, it's different. I wouldn't say I really enjoyed listening to it. Fave track(s): Regiment

I feel like this album is rated at like 984 out of all 1001 albums. Who is this for? When do I listen to this album? What purpose does this album serve?

It's mostly a bore

Just an instrumental album with minor vocals but goes on for way too long. Typical Brian Eno work. 4/10.

2, is interesting musically but flat out unenjoyable to listen to and a bit too experimental for my taste.

No me gusta

I am very restless with this album. It irritates me.

Not for me at all.

Listening through hundreds of albums, one of the artists I've rediscovered has been Brian Eno to the point where I definitely consider myself somewhat of a fan. This one might be thrown in the exception pile. I get the concept though - it was probably a *lot* of fun to make, in the same sense (but far far more advanced) as when I first got a 4-track recorder I was making all sorts of weird shit and sounds and I loved it. I seriously doubt I could have sold a copy :D With apologies to experimental music and with a few exceptions, this one doesn't serve as much more than almost an aural equivalent of a whiteboard - trying out ideas that could (or should?) have been left in the garage and further developed. ["Regiment" is an outlier - I really love that groove. But it could or should have been used for a better final product.] Actually.... I could see this as a great repository for *other* artists to use and sample from. Like a sound/sample grocery store. "..ok, gimme some of Mea Culpa, i'll take 16 bars of Regiment, and ... yeah, a touch of Moonlight In Glory. All at 90bpm please, thanks." As a proper "album" though - it's a little disappointing and not that easy to listen to, even as background. 4/10 2 stars.

Awful. Two stars cause David Byrne.

I had already heard about Brian Eno's solo work, and this album is what I was expecting. I understand why this is one of 1001 albums to be listened to before dying, but this doesn't make it much better. I like some noise in some songs, but JUST noise is not so good. I'll increase my rate from 1 star to 2 because it's nice to understand some musical tendencies better and, as I said, my expectations were completely fulfilled, even the worst ones.

I have this CD, because on paper it sounds great. Unfortunately, I just did not care for this. The first few tracks are pretty good, though.

Weird

I feel like experimental music is wasted on me...I just don't get it and can't appreciate it. This album very much faded into background music, albeit interesting background music. I feel like if I gave it proper attention (with a certain substance assistance), I would give it more stars.

Experimental music isn't meant to be listened to sober IMO. Thus, listening to this in the AM wasn't a good experience. Lot's of sounds with not much substance. Before I realized I wasn't really paying attention anymore it was over. I guess if you need some sounds in the background this could be for you.

Weird, decent background music.

Mad respect to David Byrne and Brian Eno because they are titans of musical production and artistry. But I just don’t like electronica. I tried, but I’m not into it. Sorry dudes, I prefer Talking Heads and Roxy Music to whatever this is.

Nice jams v pretentious

Bryan fait absolument n'importe quoi pendant tout l'album. Ce dernier possède en effet une boite sonore, où chaque bouton représente un son différent. Il se contente donc pendant 40 minutes d'appuyer frénétiquement sur ces boutons, dans le hasard le plus total. Ceci ne peut donner lieu qu'à un cafouillage incompréhensible.

Not really music, more like a showreel for advanced production techniques. Could be used as background music for some sort of sci-fi movie set in the future, where the director doesn't want the music to distract from the dialogue. Interesting, but only rarely enjoyable, not one I am likely to come back to. Still far from the worst album on this list (*cough* Nico *cough*)

I'm not sure what it is, with the last Bob Dylan album and now this one. My least favorite Eno album and I have been loving his other ones. This one just felt way more frantic and unfocused compared to some of his calmer albums we had. No doubt he has become one of the rising stars of this list for people I didn't know prior, but I'd put this one at the bottom of what we have gotten.

Oh gosh, why?!

2nd Brian Eno album, it better than the the first one, but still not a fan. A few songs are okay to listen to, but for me it would do better on the background.

I don't get Brian Eno, and I don't think I ever will. He makes some nice soundscapes but they are, fundamentally, broing to listen to. High quality background music for sure but I don't think that's really a compliment. Jezebel was a nice track in that it actually had something to attach to, but the rest is just...there.

Wel prima, maar niks bijzodners

I'll be honest, I got quite bored of this and couldn't finish it.

I'm sure this is very important in the history or electronic music and sampling, and there are some interesting soundscapes, but it otherwise is not that much fun to listen to

esse brian já passou por aqui ein..

Experimental instrumental, expected talking heads and it was not.

Interesting but not something I’d want to listen again.

I did not care for the album. It is just a bunch of mixing but not good. I was not familiar with the group or any of the songs. No need to listen.

I love David Byrne. I did not like this

Well, that was interesting. Enjoyed this one more with headphones on and no distractions. Amazing sounds and sampling. Love to hear more. For now, first listen, a strong 2/5.

Love this. But will never listen to the whole album. Will probably never dip in again. great work though!

Listened to this on a plane. Even then, it was too long and experimental for me.

I feel it was a bit too uneven. There were some interesting experiments, and then there were some experiment experiments (e.g. New Feet). I don't know if there is anything here to bring me back.

Meh

Woodshedding music, not interest keeping. Sounds cool I guess

Funk rhythms reminiscent of Remain in Light side 1, but not be as fun. Undeniably clever and technically forward thinking, but not that enjoyable.

Rollo patatero.

Innovative...sure, but no real musical enjoyment for me 2 stars

Just sounds!

Some tracks where pretty nice. Some were pretty bad. Great cover art // Favs: — Score: Strong 2

Not really for me. I can see some value, but it's not my cup of tea.

Muss man schon hören wollen. Experimentell und für seine Zeit sicher avantgarde

I'm not a huge fan of solely instrumental music if it isn't classical and this is not much of an exception.

Y'know, I've read enough times that Brian Eno is very influential but the music just isn't for me. It's not melodic enough, it's understated, it's repetitive... I feel weird every time I rate these albums low, like I'm missing the things I'm supposed to appreciate!

I wish I loved anything as much as this list creator loved Brian Eno. At least it was better than the first two.

Couldn't connect with this. It was a clash between Eno's ambient work and Byrne's rhythms but it didn't mesh. Will revisit at some point.

Sounds like something you'd hear in a Northern Quarter vintage clothes shop.

Weird. Like an album of the strange interludes on other albums.

Het begon heel aardig met een paar lekkere Talking Heads-achtige nummers. Maar daarna verviel het in te wazige sound-collages en gefrobel.

Mooie albumhoes. Verder: leuke stukjes maar over het algemeen te avantgardistisch voor mij.

Brian Enon nimi on edelleen takuu laadusta! Ei tämä kuitenkaan ihan yhtä epämiellyttävää ollut kuin Talking Heads tai tylsää kuin Music for the Airports. Jonkilaista äänitaidettahan tämä kai on enemmän kuin musiikkia ainakaan perinteisessä mielessä. Harmittavasti levyn paras raita oli ”Regiment”, joka ei ollut Spotifyssa saatavilla, mutta onneksi YouTubesta löytyi!

electronic music. Interesting, but not my style

4

Very innovative and creative... ok, thanks, next

Meh

I think I'm too late for this one.

I wanted to like this but it was just too tense for me to really enjoy it

A critics choice special... why does it have to be so bad?

Great album, if what you are looking for is spy movie background music or new age spa relaxation music. why this is a top 1001 album of all time is beyond me.

Debe tener su gente, pero a mi me disgustó

If I were a horse you'd have shot me to prevent further suffering

Totalmente prescindible como el “ Lulu” de Metallica y Lou Reed

experimental indeed

You know how sometimes you’re in an art museum and you see a painting of a bridge and you’re like “cool” and then you see a painting of a sad clown smoking a cigarette and you go “ok, not my thing, but ok” and then you see a banana duct taped to a piece of drywall and you go “ok, this makes no fucking sense?” This album is that banana art, but for your ears.

No me ha dicho nada

This was dumb. Just random sounds and noises on repeat. Why is Eno important? I don’t get it.

Just a bunch of noise :( did not enjoy my listen thru.

227. boring

I wanted to like this but this was just rough

meh

what the hell is going on here

This was just plain awful

I knew I was gonna hate this but I didn't think it would be THAT bad

I read the wiki and the reviews and it may have laid groundwork for other music but I found it very hard to listen to and get through.

Honestly this was awful. Trying to be creative sounded like high school band tune up.

Why?

i just waited for it to end.

I'm not sure who this is for but it's definitely not me

What happens when two of the most overrated folks in music make an album? I don't know, as I have not heard this yet, but I suspect I will not love it. My suspicions were correct.

This is definitely a Yin Yang type of album to me. Love Brian Eno but hate Talking Heads so by extension that includes David Byrne. Trouble is not very keen early Eno much preferring his ambient stuff. So that makes this album a Yin Yin. Or should that be Yang Yang? 1/5 28/6/26

annoying shite

Since starting this experiment, I have been listening to sounds which have been described as music, but I've decided that I'm limited in what I like and this album was not it. I actually liked the music in the commercials between the songs better than the songs themselves as I listened to this album through youtube.com. Not a fan! The only redeeming factor was that most of the songs were around 3 minutes long, although there were a couple of times I had to check as I couldn't wait to go on to the next song.

A ghost of its former self

Nope

Garbage.

Noise

Not for me

Inescuchable. No le pondría estrella.

This is NOT for me.

I mean I guess

1 - might be historically significant because of what it presaged but it was a bad listen

Blind album and artist. This album was so dumb I swear I could gave Fallen asleep while driving on my commute. Maybe David Byrne shouldn't have left his band and done solo work. 1.

I love both of these artists, but I've always hated this album. Self indulgent, meandering and too "bleep bloop, click clack" in its production. The first time I heard these two put out an album (not just a Talking Heads album with Eno producing but a bona fide album of the two of them), I was so excited. Every time I listen, I'm reminded of that disappointment.

As always, I give albums a fair shot, even if I don’t like the genre. I go in hoping that by the end, maybe I’ll have a new appreciation and/or find a new song from an artist that I enjoy. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen with Brian Eno.

Sampling before sampling was popular. Problem being this is incredibly irritating. Has none of the humour or groove of later sampling. Just achingly trendy

Not sure that I needed to hear this before I die.

Not my bag at all

ну шо за

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.

I honestly don’t believe anyone actually likes this.

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.

What is this. Waste of time.

Hated this

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?

einfach nur geräusche

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 :(

Veldig absurd ikke for meg

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)

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

egreve gamovrte ts fried af

This album was hard to get through.

A lot of noisy nonsense

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.

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

Noisy

Aguentei duas músicas

Pior que ser currado na praia

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

Didn’t listen

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.

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.

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

Nah

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

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

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

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

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.

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."

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.

Album no available

It's just noise. Oh no! I sound like my parents!

No.

It’s not fair to say this isn’t interesting, but being interesting doesn’t make it enjoyable. This was sort of somewhat organized chaos.

These dudes are just... trying too hard to be weird. This isn't good. At all.

Ambient music isn’t my thing

Two guys messing around with their soundboards. Some of these would be good intros or instrumentals. I think the idea was Byrne would bring the creativity and Eno would bring the production and it just didn't culminate in anything. I didn't like it.

Didn't like it, too chaotic and too many elements. Made me feel anxious.

Interesting but don’t care to listen to the whole album.

One hour of noise and musical rambling. Somewhere someone is sampling parts of this album and hopefully making it better.

eugh

Nej, det här går inte.

Eh...

Tired of Brian Eno please give me anything else

Unfortunately one of my least favorite albums of this project. Few songs had the nice progression of themes that I'm used to in more housey songs. Not for me

Even though I skipped quickly to the end of tracks that I felt were going nowhere, I regret that I will never get that time back.

Part of me says "This probably deserves at least a 2. It's not for me personally, but I shouldn't let my inability to enjoy this album drag it down to a 1. It's definitely a unique sound, and I'm sure some people think it's brilliant." Another part of me says "Nahhhh, let's be real. I powered through about half of it, but couldn't force myself to finish it. Different != Good. This is not good music, it's just some sounds smashed together."

Brian Eno? The man is essentially an expensive screensaver in human form. His “ambient” music is what you’d hear if an airport tannoy system took a sedative. He’s less a composer and more a furniture salesman for sound: bland, flat, and only appreciated by people who mistake boredom for intellectual depth. Eno isn’t the future of music — he’s the sound of your computer freezing in 1987

I love both David Byrne and Brian Eno, so the prospect of a collaborative album seems exciting, and judging by their previous work together on three amazing Talking Heads albums, this one was bound to be great too, right? WRONG! For this, and Byrne's first non-Talking Heads album, they decided to put together the a collection of aimless, vaguely African-inspired tracks. It's all style over substance, and style isn't even that good.

Jesus Fucking Christ. It's Eno again. This is going to be painful. If this is better than 1 star I'll be amazed! Had to skip track 1 after about 30 seconds, it was a new low - even for fucking Eno. Track 2 was no better. Randomly selected snippets from the next few tracks were equally as bad. I can't listen to any more of this so it's 1 star. It's now getting close to the point where I may not even give a chance to any album with an Eno involvement!

One minute in and I knew this was not my kind of 80’s. It’s a chaotic mash of random radio voices, clanging percussion, and grooves that go nowhere, like being stuck inside a possessed shortwave radio. Whatever groundbreaking magic people hear in this, I just hear noise.

No

You're kidding. 1.2.

This was very hard to get through and was a bit of a tedious listen, though I can understand its importance. Personal enjoyment: 1/5 Relevance to this list: 4/5

Meget besynderligt

Ugh! Did not even sound like music.

strange to my ears.

A bunch of noise. 1/5

didn't like it, me dolía la cabeza al escuchar este álbum

Rating (1-5): ✩ Higlighted songs: None This sucked ass sorry

No, gracias.

Pretentious foonk hell.

Well, this just sucked. It's like my 5 year-old nephew got a hold of my Casio and a mic and pumped out some random sounds. Then a studio turned it into an album and people pretend to like it because it makes them feel cool and different. News flash: it's terrible.

meh, this might have been better if I was rolling

Just shy of the halfway mark of this project, I can say with confidence that I just don’t like Brian Eno. He’s produced a few things I don’t mind, but things that are more of a solo or direct collaboration I just can’t stand. This is no exception. He described this album as a “vision of a psychedelic Africa” and that tells me all I need to know. Him and David Byrne really thought they were doing something here, but instead they decided that as two white men they should make an album sampling music from artists around the world and take the credit for it. It’s colonizer shit, and they thought they were so clever. It just makes me angrier the more I think about it. It’s not even good either. They also took this title from a book they didn’t even read. What a goddamn mess. Writing this review actually made me like this less than I already did. It just takes a lot of audacity for two white dudes to do something like this and think they have something to say. If we need an album on here that does groundbreaking sampling, put a rap record on here. Not this cultural appropriation abomination. And if you’re going to do something like this, at least make it good or interesting. This was just sounds. I was going to give this 2 stars, but as I write this, no. Fuck that. They don’t even deserve 1 star, but that’s the lowest I can go. David Byrne, I am disappointed. Brian Eno, I am not surprised.

Not even done before im writing this but my god this fucking sucks shitty elevator music a disaster of sampling DJ Shadow clears this any day

After almost 500 albums evaluated, I have no doubt that the author of this book, along with Brian Eno and Elvis Castelo, form a threesome. I've never seen a guy with as much ass as this author. It makes no sense to have five Brian Eno albums on the list, much less six by Elvis Castelo. Just a rant. Brian Eno was one of the things I had the greatest displeasure in meeting. It doesn't make sense, as I said, if the author formed a beautiful threesome with him.

Too atmospheric ambient for me

Cool sounds but boring and messy

Love the artists, hate the project. Self-indulgent crap.

Thumbs down

NO

a few interesting songs, but generally odd, monotonous

frygtelig digital/mellemøstlig kombi

WHY????

Wow! Two of my least favorite artists teaming up to make one of my least favorite albums of all time. Boy, this sure sucked! 1/5

This annoyed me.

No words, just weird sounds

This couldn't have sounded more like a mix of Brian Eno and mr. Byrne than it does. It has the electrical and ambient elements of Eno, and the weird and quirkiness of David Byrne. Gotta say this album is quite garbage though. It's just a collection of blip-blops, and strange percussive and industrial noises. The songs are very much "exactly one thing" for 3 straight minutes, without variance or change in tone. You can listen to the first 10 seconds and know what the rest is going to sound like. Extremely unexciting. This deserves a strong 1 star to me. Not for sounding particularly bad, but because the music is just bad. Sure, it might be a bit experimental and different, but it fails to be something I want to listen to.

these were some goofy beats. if you’re familiar with the internet meme “dr. hanky spanky”, know that these songs sounded like they were produced by him. there was maybe one song i liked (out of 18). mid would be generous. 1/5.

Not a fan.

Some of the worst music ever put out in my opinion. Sounds like a shit theme tune to a spooky super Mario level set in the desert. Going through the process to revoke David Byrne’s Scottish identity now. Also slightly biased as I was listening to this as I fell in partick station and sent a whole tub of brownies flying. All the points still stand though. Specific rating - 0.1 Fav song - none of them Least fav- all of them

Experimentell und ich suche immer noch nach dem was die Musiker machen wollten.

Great, another one of these albums… no way to really describe this kind of music, sounds like those music toys babies DJ on, in fact - it probably is for the opener. I understand this maybe revolutionised sampling but who actually listens to this and enjoys it? I’m an avid listener of all genres of music, but whenever I see “Prog Rock” I wince. Too repetitive. 2/10.

A lot of garbled vocal samples and metallic percussion sounds. Absolutely useless album. 3.2/10

Do I like experimental music? Apparently not.

My dog and I did not like this.

Wow this was terrible. Just because two influential people work on something together doesn't make it good, interesting, or anything. This sucks. It's boring yet hurt my head and was mentally exhausting to listen to. I will be listening to nothing here ever again. "Solo Guitar With Tin Foil" and "Number 8 Mix" were the only "fine" things here....David Byrne should stick to "Talking Heads"

liked songs: Mea Culpa There's a little too much going on here. Not in a cool soundscape way, like in a cluttered mess way. The sounds used just don't go together. Some of the sample work in interesting, and the idea of using samples to replace actual vocals is creative, but I don't think it's very good. 1.5

Meh

Not a single track that was decent

Fuck no. 1.44

aika paskaa brian enoa..

Could not get in to this...maybe if high in a club it'd be fun?

My ears!!

This is weird, I was just listening to the Adam Buxton audiobook and he mentioned this album! I understand the genre pushing aspect of it, but it's really not aged well at all! Some of it was unlistenable.

Not my thing. I understand the concept and recognize that they are both musical geniuses but it does nothing for me.

The more I listen to these recommendations the more I wonder if I just don’t like music.

Maybe I just wasn't in the mood, but I just didn't get this at all

I've got a few Brian Eno songs I keep in rotation. These definitely will not be any of them

Experimentation for experimentation's sake doesn't have to ranked highly, even if it ended up being influential. It's like giving Trout Mask Replica a 5 (though in this case there are some good tracks buried amongst the nonsense). Wake up, sheeple. You're being targeted by Big Avant. The one-chord songs are particularly suspect. I'm a big fan of chord progressions, and songs that don't utilise them face an uphill battle in my ears. Mea Culpa, Number 8 Mix, Very Very Hungry, and various other tracks commit this sin. The sounds are scattered, seemingly selected at random, and not at all coherent with one another (in most songs, anyway). There are very few melodic hooks on any instrument, or indeed any melodies at all until the final track, Solo Guitar with Tin Foil, which acts as a breath of fresh air at the end of a dubious setlist. Quotes from sanest reviewers: "It just seems the artists are trying to make it weird, and not trying to make it good." "A lot of unique sounds, but very little musical cohesion and flow." "Some of the songs are almost enjoyable but it all gets lost in a giant mess of sounds." (And even then, these negative reviews are often 2 or 3 stars. Delusion.) 1/5 Key tracks: Regiment, Help Me Somebody, The Jezebel Spirit

Too weird for me

This guy is a great producer and has lots visual and musical talent but the albums are always so odd and atmospheric.

What are these noises? Why?

Struggled to interpret this as music.

Well... I heard it. Oh. You want more of a review. Ok. This sounds like the soundtrack to a bad 80s computer game you would play on a Tandy computer mixed with whales farming.

Music by a non-musician.

I'm sure this is amazing art— I guess I just don't get it. 'Annoying' is the word I'd use to describe this album. Scream-talking and whining over mostly insufferable noise.

If this album generator keeps spitting out absolute trash like this, I’m gonna quit it early. What the fuck.

Annoying

I’d heard enough of this after like 3 songs. Then there were 14 more to go and they were all the same thing.

I finally get to clear this off my queue 😂 By product of accidentally adding this entire album to my day-to-day, new-to-me rotation, Ive listened to pieces of this album on and off for at least 3 months now (this and the elvis album 😅) I confidently say that I dont get it 🤣 if apple music collects skip related stats, im sure im in the top 1% of listeners who start any of these tunes and skip within 20 seconds…. Every. Single. Time. To make this more fun, I decided to give this album a real shot again today and it still hasnt caught any neural traction in my brain. Thank you Brain and David. You guys changed the world of music, but this album is dog shit to a 31 year old in 2025

What a cruel move to put this right after Simon & Garfunkel. Why is this album on this list.

Enough Eno - not really something worth my time

Not more Brian Eno. And David Byrne? Some good, not great stuff. He needed Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth. Honestly. It’s like Neil Young or cult sixties albums. Way way over represented and after you’ve heard one you’ve got the idea. If you like it chase the artists up but on your own time. Django Django broke me. This is pissing on the pieces. 0 stars on general principle. (Album actually not awful but I’m on a crusade here. Sorry Brian and David if you read this. It’s not you.).

The sampling is experimental for sure, but the album overall isn't interesting. Mumbling lyrics, too many sounds layered over the top. Difficult to get through. Got boring fast.

I just kept waiting for this to get good. Halfway through the album I gave up.

I respect the hell out of Brian Eno's work as a producer as he has engineered some incredible albums by some of my favorite artists. The shallow dive into his solo work thus far has shown me that he may be at his best when he goes a little experimental but has a band/label reels him in. This is too artsy and experimental for me to care after a couple of songs. A little too much Eno, not enough Byrne. Getting a little worn out on experimental noise albums. Not sure I need to hear more of these before I die. 1.13 stars

phew

Well it grabbed my attention for the first ten seconds of the first few songs but then my attention wandered and I couldn't get it back. Hard to imagine I'd have trouble engaging with anything by Eno and Byrne, but there it is. Liked Regiment, though.

I disagree with Moby and anyone else who liked this

What the fuck did I just listen to. Waste of time.

This is like an album of default ringtones off a phone from 2006

Poor

Not for me

Sad excuse for music

DNL

Close to a 2 but I got sick of it

just a collection of sounds, didn't interest me in the slightest

I just don’t really get it. This doesn’t really have any redeeming qualities to me.

All noise.

this is the worst album i’ve ever heard

# 223 : sigh! I quit half way through! There's a reason why it was named 83rd best album of the 1980's! it all gets lost in a giant mess of sounds. have the people that rate something 5 stars actually listened/read/watched what they are rating?

The sound of two old white men tuggin’ each other off.

Borde kanske gilla det här då jag gillar experimentell musik. Men det gör jag inte.