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| | Another Green World | | | Music Artist : | | Eno | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Astralwerks | | Release Date : | | 2004-06-01 | | Store Price : | | $11.94 | | Artistopia's Price: $10.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Sky Saw
2. Over Fire Island
3. St. Elmo's Fire
4. In Dark Trees
5. Big Ship
6. I'll Come Running
7. Another Green World
8. Sombre Reptiles
9. Little Fishes
10. Golden Hours
11. Becalmed
12. Zawinul/Lava
13. Everything Merges With the Night
14. Spirits Drifting
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Another Green World On A String
Submitted on: 2009-08-28 |
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An earlier reviewer referred to this album as "bubble-boy music". After I stopped laughing, I realized this WAS bubble-boy music. Eno had created a little cube-room in the middle of his N.Y. loft that was just big enough to house him and a few instruments. This musical shed was where he did lot of his composing.
This was the second Eno album that I bought, Eno & Cluster being the first. It was all very liberating to my Midwestern ears, and the effect was astonishing. It seemed at once to be a soundtrack for the subconscious mind. No prog-rock artist had displayed this much creativity and aural stimulation before. After this, there was no going back to Pink Floyd or Genesis.
My favorite moments here are some of the more enigmatic sounds featured, like the ripping screech that hangs above John Cale's viola on Sky Saw, and the air-raid siren sound of Sombre Reptiles. After this, the bubble had burst for a lot of synth players. This was not the sound of crushed velvet- it was a strangely beautiful alien landscape generated from the mind of Brian Eno, and it suggested many possibilities not yet considered. Genius is like that. |
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now why would a guy with such a great voice ...
Submitted on: 2009-02-17 |
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... make instrumental albums?
unless ofcourse he thought he had more to offer. but this great album makes you doubt that! |
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a world where your problems go away forever
Submitted on: 2008-12-12 |
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Another world indeed- a world where everything seems to come to life and change in front of our very eyes!
I like how the first song has a riff that actually SOUNDS like a saw, but somehow making it beautiful, instead of noisy. The bass in the background is awesome here. "The Big Ship" has a tropical vibe, and highly memorable vocals. Yup, vocals you can sing along with (and while you're alone and taking a shower, I KNOW you'll be singing them!)
"I'll Come Running" is quite awesome too. In fact, I haven't mentioned the instrumentals yet because even though they're very melodic and fit in perfectly with the theme of the album, I just ain't got nuttin' to say about them, baby. "Little Fishes" is the one instrumental that catches my attention more than all the others- it sounds like some Asian voyage with weird images appearing before your eyes with pretty piano playing in the background. VERY bizarre, trust me on that!
Absolutely *love* the vocals on "Golden Hours", and "Becalmed" is a perfect example of a song that might need to grow on you to fully appreciate. "Zawinul/Lava" is kind of boring though, since it just sounds like four piano notes repeating like crazy. "Everything Merges With the Night" is a flawless pop song. You will love it, I just know it!
A masterpiece... YES! |
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A wonderous journey through ever-changing aural landscapes
Submitted on: 2008-12-03 |
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First off, I am a huge Eno fan. From the first two Roxy Music albums, through his 70's "rock output", finally to his ambient work. I have an older cd without any re-mastering or 'incomplete tracks'. The sonic quality is superb. This is his 3rd solo album and one of my favorites in my entire collection(700 plus cd's). Eno really went down the experimental road on this one. Even more than his previous two. A few of the tracks contain vocals, and Eno does posess a fine voice. Alot of this record is short "musical statements" formed with a wide variety of instruments. He will build up a theme and let it play out for awhile, then fade it, and on to the next creation. Also a couple of more "standard" type songs. Then also some oddball stuff that maybe non-fans would really hate(I've read the reviews that call this garbage). To each his/her own, but I still am on the verge of goosebumps when I listen to any track on AGW, even after hundreds of listening 'sessions'. This is really an album to play from start to finish as it takes you on a pleasant musical journey. A little edgy, somewhat unsettling toward the beginning(in a good way), then some great fun along the way. Throw in a few top-notch Robert Fripp guitar solos, and it ends with 'Spirits Drifting' which I consider to be one of the most beautiful, reflective, kinda melacholy maybe, pieces of music I have ever heard. Puts me in a mood not unlike 'On Some Faraway Beach'.
I know I've rambled here, but I truly LOVE this album. We all have opinions, and mine would be that if you are unsure, go for it with this one. In all honesty, if I was on that proverbial desert island and could only have 10 cd's with me for eternity, this is without a doubt one of them. Thank you for taking your time to read what is only, my opinion. |
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Pop Goes Ambient
Submitted on: 2008-06-28 |
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This was Brian Eno's first album on which he really applied the ambient techniques he had developed on music such as "Discreet Music" to pop. There result was a classic, probably never to be bettered by Eno.
The album have some of the most hauntingly beautiful instrumental parts and the Lyrics are some of Eno's most accessible.
A classic album.
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