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Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
On the other hand I love Apollo Atmospheres & Soundtracks, early Roxy Music, and I like most of his work as a producer.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/801_(band)
I'm not sure how accurate this website is, but it gives some idea of the music development path - http://inflooenz.com/?artist=Velvet+underground
I had a similar experience to you regarding Joy Division. I just didn't get them the first time around, and I couldn't get into them during subsequent listens. But one day they suddenly became one of my favourite bands, along with the Cure, the Clash, Husker Du and the Pixies. Even studying the musical output from this quintet should result in the formation of another 100 top bands, and it probably has.
PS I also like ABBA and the Carpenters, so I try to keep an open musical mind
I was far more into electronica in those day than guitar music.
As for what happend I think Eno remained a key influencer rather than chasing the fickle light of flame.
His work in production is much admired in rock/pop circles these days and he is the master of bringing the tinkerings of the Avant garde to the main stream.
His main talent is as a creative spark, his Oblique Strategies cards can be useful tools. There used to be a simple app (hypercard stack?) but I've not found it when I did a search recently.
While I'm not so keen on the earlier, more whimsical stuff, there's gold to be found on Another Green World, and Discreet Music sees his early dabblings with systems music.
I love the two Music For Films albums (MFF2 was only released with the box set or given to a few TV producers), the four Ambient series albums and Apollo.
My favourite Eno albums are Ambient 4: On Land (which has an eerie, unsettling feel to it) and the two albums he did with pianist Harold Budd, namely Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror and The Pearl, which wasn't included in the box set.
The latter two albums are mainly comprised of "treated piano" and are utterly exquisite. I've listened to those two albums literally thousands of times!
A word of warning about the earliest CD releases: the mastering, if you can call it that, it atrocious. On Music For Films, not only is the track order wrong, they missed off the first part of the first song and there's a horrible, digital distortion all the way through it. Ambient 2 is a bit better, though some distortion is evident, particularly on the title track.
I said maybe.....