Happy 62nd Birthday Brian Eno!

[elshiva]

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno was born May 15, 1948! He's awesome! Nice! Nice! YAH-YAY-YAh!

Early 1970s Eno:


Reading a magazine as a member of Roxy Music circa 1972
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/29806271/Roxy+Music+all+kinds+of+wonderful.jpg

Nowadays:


Blank Frank from "Here Come The Warm Jets."

Blank Frank: he's the messenger of your doom and your destruction.
Yes, he is the one who will set you up as nothing.
And he is the one who will look at you sideways
His particular skill is leaving bombs in people's driveways.

Blank Frank has a memory that's as cold as an iceberg
The only time he speaks is in incomprehensible proverbs
Blank Frank is the siren, he's the air-raid, he's the crater.
He's on the menu on the table, he's the knife and he's the waiter.

http://www.absolutelyrics.com/lyrics/view/brian_eno/blank_frank/

MGMT's "Brian Eno"

So tired
Soul searching
I followed the sounds to a cathredal
imagine my surprise to find that they were produce by Brian Eno

past the gates
quite stark
the roses trimmed and the windows dark
I see the walls through a limestone crack
not red not blue not yellow but black
and all the space left for you
if the sky was synthesized you'd probably know

he taught me many things
the wisdowm of o bleak stratagems
the prophet of a sapphire soul
presented through creative freedoms
and everything i say is true
cuz if i was telling lies it'd probably show

i can tell that he's kind of smiling
but what does he know?
we're always one step behind him, he's Brian Eno
Brian Eno

when I was stuck he'd make me memorize elaborate curses
tinctures and formulas to ditch the chori and flip the verses
my whole foundation came unglued
when i tried to humanize by ambient light
dipping swords in metaphors yeah but what does he know?
he's go the whole world behind him he's Brian Eno
Brian Eno!

he promised pretty worlds and all the silence I could dream of Brian peter George St John Le
Baptiste De La Salle Eno

well all alone by the oldest stone where the shade
trees grow the creature by the water feature with a
ghostly glow making sure that time's preserved
well we reap what we sow he's go the whole
world behind him he's Brian Eno etc. etc.

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858821792/

[Amerigo Vespucci]

1. I've been playing the living crap out of his two albums with Harold Budd

Both have well-deserved 5-star rankings on Amazon...just amazing stuff.

[bluesbassman]

2. Sweet Mother of Pearl! Brian Eno is 62?

Hmmm... let's see... that'd make me...

































Late for my nap.