Fripp, John Cale, erm Phil Collins. Fripp's guitar contribution makes the album. You can hear how Bowie wanted him to do the work on Heroes. I like the idea of how Eno was working against pop music at this time. Especially given his Roxy background. This sounds like a bridge to punk in ethos, but most definitely not in substance. He's not the greatest songwriter, but he knows how to put a song together
Not my favourite Eno album, as it falls between his more prog-glam Warm Jets material and the full-on flotation tank later ambient works like Music For. And growing up in the UK, the Arena music (title track) feels very dated now. So it falls between two stools and for me takes the less interesting aspects of each style - there’s no full on energy of tracks like Third Uncle and the ambient stuff is still a little too busy. But an interesting document of the move from one phase to the other.