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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.
i'm sure influential on 90's dance but rating on how much i enjoy listening. so 1
jesus christ. standout track: - mea culpa: (made me anxious bc it reminded me of the hell level in super castelvania IV) 1/5
Lyrics are mainly background noise and very repetitive. Nothing much here interesting for me.
This album doesn’t have enough songs about buildings or food.
Like both not this
A lot of sounds, not a lot of music
It’s not music at all, just fuckin’ noise. Boo
Didn't like it much
1. america iz uuaiting - 0 2. mea culpa - 0 3. regiment - 0 4. help me zomebody - 0 5. zpirit - 0 6. hungry - 0 7. moonlight- 0 8. carrier - 0 9. zecret life - 0 10. come uuith uz - 0 11. needlez - 0 12. voltage - 0 13. 2 vz 3 - 0 14. neuu feet - 0 15. defiant - 1 16. number 8 - 0 17. tin foil - 0
Not an album worth listening to
I’m sure I just don’t get it.
Going into this I thought “surely Brian Eno won’t let David Byrne ruin an entire Brian Eno record” and I was right, but multiple songs sound like 5 minute long intros to a Talking Heads song and that’s just such a waste of the time these two had together I expected better
just cuz its ahead of its time dont mean its necessarily a good album
Boring, like everything Brian Eno does.
Schöne Covergrafik. Die Musik mag ich nicht.
I really didnt like this.
A strange blend of blade runner soundtrack, mad scientist delivering a sermon, and hari krishna worship, this album did not have much appeal for me. Very experimental, with diverse ethnic influences and eclectic instrumentation, but unfortunately without regard to aesthetics
They must be taking the piss.
too slow and moody for me.
I wanted to really like this. Music snobs rave about it. Music snobs are dicks. This was shit.
No, bot for me.
Hell no
absolutely awful
This is the kind of album you need drugs to appreciate. Lots and lots of drugs. Unfortunately for me I was sober listening to this and it made for a terrible experience. If I could give 0 stars I would but I guess by default this album gets a 1 out of 5.
Lots of random samples of music put together
what
I just couldn't get into this one starting with the first track. I like Brian Eno and I like David Bowie I just could not find a groove with this one.
I'm sure it's influential or whatever but I found it unlistenable
David Byrne est le chanteur des Talking Heads. Très expérimental, très pas mon style. Certains sont intéressants, mais plus d'ambiance de film que d'écoute musicale.
bof bof bof
Insanity
plop desde la canción 5 ya se vuelve repetitivo en todo caso se puede escuchar este álbum https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/5YNZYOdNSUDyMfJu0exTeb?si=ca-W49qpRmOYR2O8NraPtQ y no es apropiación cultural xd y tiene un concepto sjajsj no sacado del culo con disque experimentación
More of Eno's garbage music for artsy hipsters. When I saw that this was a collaboration album between Eno and the equally fucked David Byrne, I knew I was in for a treat, and what a treat it was.... African chanting, sampled voices, theramin work, scratches, boops, beeps, and other irritating noises all packaged as one dumpster fire of a record. Absolute dogshit of an album. Really dumb, unoriginal album cover, and a nonsensical album title. I'm not on near enough drugs to even begin to enjoy this trash. Waste of an hr of my time (which I had to break up into sections because I couldn't stand to listen to the whole album all at once). Favourite songs: Help Me Somebody, Regiment Least favourite songs: Moonlight in Glory, Very Very Hungry, America is Waiting, The Carrier, A Secret Life, Vocal Out-Takes (why the fuck was this even on the record?), New Feet 1/5
This album might have been groundbreaking at the time for its heavy sampling, and I have respect for both artists, but this is not in the top 10k albums I need to hear before death. There is nothing here aside from dated beats.
Chaotic pile of shit. 0 stars
Nope
First listen Saved 0/11
soo boring
What a dumb album. Really excited to be done with this list so I don’t have to listen to anymore Brian eno music. I don’t think there’s anyone consistently as bad as him on this list maybe except for pj Harvey. It’s a shame David Byrne had to attach his name to this. On to the next one. 1.9/10
i get this was really influential and whatever and is like a big reason as to why sampling is used the way it is nowadays but it kinda sucks
Muusikoilla on herkästi tylsää. Tarkoittaako se, että minullakin täytyy olla?
Awful noise
Awful album.
Seriously, this is not good. Sorry Brian Eno, but this is a far cry from the hay days of Roxy Music! This album generator should be renamed 1001 albums that should never have been made!!
Shockingly shite
really bad album. couldn’t wait for it to be over. actual struggle to get through
not for me
This is a joke, right?
If you like soundscape electronica, you will like this.
An experimental and difficult album to listen to in its entirety. It shouldn't be on this list.
If you'd told me there would ever be a time when I would think, "Damn. I just wish Brian Eno would be more ambient," I'd have laughed in your face. And yet, here we are. I very much prefer the second half of the album where it seems that Eno and Byrne stopped tryin to make a statement and focused on making mostly inconsequential noise. Not that any of it was good. It's just that the last half was less horrible than the first half.
This is the musical equivalent of modern art. I don't care what innovative techniques were used if it's boring to listen to.
achei péssimo o álbum, não gostei de nenhuma música mesmo.
Wtf. Absolutely awful. Just a collection of random noises jumbled together that was annoying from the beginning to the very end.
Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: No, it’s not really my thing for experimental and ambience Favourite song: didn’t have one
Ja vielleicht is es das erste Album das Sampling benutzt hat, ich mag es trotzdem nicht.
"Hmm... Human Music... I like it!" There's millions of albums out there, and this was one of the 1001 that I just had to listen to before I died? This is an example of the editors of the list jacking eachother off for knowing random obscure albums.
This is terrible.
Listening to this is torture... I couldn't even finish it. Never before have I disliked an album so badly
Öööö, joo eips
Horrible. Why would anyone want to listen to this? Twitchy loops and repeated vocal samples. Sounds like a panic attack. Ew.
A full album of drums/space? No thank you
Very experimental rock, Not my type of music. Probably a good source of inspiration for a lot of artists
just not my kinda music
Two insufferable guys making insufferable music.
I don't like Brian eno
I am so glad I got through thus album. I can't even call this music, just noise. I hated it. Absolutely hated it.
I must not be cool enough to understand this album. It makes sense that it's weird with Byrne involved, but just too much for me.
No like sounds
This is an album I actively did not want to listen to. Too much going on
If you’re not going to have a chorus in your songs, you better be Sigur Ros.
Brian Eno's bullshit is usually mostly benign. This was an assault on my ears. Best track: N/A
Shite
This was obnoxious noise that I hated but weirdly my 1 year old enjoyed.
Incoherent noise
Nope, don't get it. Absolute art wank
too big to fully understand, might revisit later
His holy mush be offsetting any positives from this album
Did not enjoy
no
So, it's 1000 albums I need to hear, and this one tossed in. What a waste of time.
Brian Eno is a hack.
First time I've listened to Brian Eno outside of Roxy Music. Not for me but I guess it's influential for its sampling.
I like Brian Eno but this one sucked
Mostly unlistenable. Terrible
no
Decisamente non il mio genere
This was kind of hard to listen to
This is an album people play when they're trying a little too hard to make everyone think they're interesting. The only saving grace is there's a chance this album led to Paul Hardcastle's song "19". At least he made sure we'd forever remember the average age of the Vietnam soldier.
Nah not my cuppa
Not for me.
Horrible
Didn't like any of this. 1/5 stars.
25th June 2021 Listened on my phone while working at home home. Mum said "that doesn't sound very cabinet" I really want to like arty music like this, but it's just not my bag.
Not for me.
Instrumental noise
Gekmakend
Ik weet dat dit heel invloedrijk zou moeten zijn, maar op een zondagochtend is dit niet de meest voor de hand liggende muzikale keuze. Eigenlijk op geen enkele ochtend.
No. Maybe I wasn't paying attention but sounded like someone trying to tune a radio.
Sounded like a bunch of noise to me
Noniin, aiemmin kuuntelemani "Here Come The Warm Jets" -levy oli melkein kuunneltavaa Enoa mutta tämä menee taas vaihteeksi "vittu mitä paskaa" -osastolle. Teki mieli luovuttaa jo ensimmäisen biisin aikana, mutta taistelin urheasti kerran loppuun asti. Ei enää näitä pliis.
This is distracting noise, not music. It can't be soothing or meditative even in the rare occasion I need something a bit repetitive and I actively listen to it.