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Updoogle for Eno.
Favorite Eno albums? This could be a question of the day.
Mine is Another Green World.
I listened to that album non-stop while reading Lord Foul's Bane, book one of the Thomas Covenant series, for the first time, in my teenage years. The two became unforgettably entwined in my mind.
For the purposes similar to what PepeSee is talking about, I like to sleep to Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. But for listening while awake, Another Green World is great. I’ll Come Running is a nice song.
Here Come The Warm Jets is a fantastic album. The title track and Needles In The Camel’s Eye are classics, but my favorites are Baby’s On Fire and Cindy Tells Me.
Wow Covenant series, that flashed me back. The last big set I finished was Wheel of Time, maybe I should go back to Covenant before something new...
Did you know that Donaldson put out a 3rd set, after about 20 years, in the mid-2000s? (2004 - 2013)
Unlike the first two sets, there are four books in the final set. I managed to read through it all. It did not disappoint. Seriously.
Worth a read.
Thank you, pede, no I had no idea! This is exciting. I've been immersed in nonfiction and research; it's high time for an epic. As soon as I finish A World Without Cancer, I'll do Thomas Covenant plus the new set.
me too!!!!!!!!!
Dude, Brian Eno is great! Music for Airports! Plus he was instrumental in Slowdive's Souvlaki album, one of my all-time favorite albums. Beautiful.
Elevator music itself was like a genre. In the early days if youtube, I remember looking up elevator music and play them when I needed to focus. There is a term for it - I believe it was called Muzak or something like that.
Muzak was the company that distributed elevator music. Muzak became a term used to describe any piped in music, like kleenex, xerox and bandaid are used generically. An interesting factoid I found about Muzak:
Westinghouse owns Muzak! That’s so funny… and typical
I remember there was a Westinghouse building in the big city near where I grew up. Their big lit up logo always reminded me of an unfinished or upside down crown. Knowing the cabal, it's probably the latter with that inversion thing they love.
Something I found that I didn't know:
Today I learnt something.
Muzak is soulless. No expression. The opposite of real music, which is a song of the soul.
I bet that was something to hear. I recall the first time I heard Pink Floyd on Muzak, laughed my ass off!