John Cale & Brian Eno
Lay My Love
Wrong Way Up
(1990)

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winotron
Feb 20, 2013 - 14:15
Worst album cover ever?


Alexandra
Feb 20, 2013 - 14:14
LizK wrote:

Northern Exposure was tv at its very best . ....God I miss Northern Exposure.


Amen and amen!


fredriley
Jan 20, 2013 - 06:26
Proclivities wrote:

You know, of course, that these guys were both making music long before the Talking Heads around.

So they're responsible for David "Tellytubby" Byrne's oeuvre ? Shame on them. Brian Eno's instrumentals are fine and was a great innovator, though his self-confessed role as father of lift muzak isn't one of his shining achievements. Kudos to the guy anyway, but this song is a definite turn-off.

Is "-ation" the most rhymed phoneme in the English language? It gets a bit tedious after a while... {#Sleep}


LizK
Dec 19, 2012 - 22:07
rtrudeau wrote:

I am impressed! You are a Northern Exposure prodigy! Did you work on the show or something?

Music was always such an important part of that show.

Northern Exposure was tv at its very best. My favorite was a show about a Jungian retelling of Jonah & the whale. A friend was in Jungian analysis & we would rehash each show in that filter. God I miss Northern Exposure. {#Doh}


helgigermany
Dec 19, 2012 - 21:58
Jools Holland has them all in his show. Thankx for this.


jmkate
Oct 18, 2012 - 04:38
Ah, beautiful. Thanks!


Proclivities
Aug 16, 2012 - 03:59
revsully wrote:
I dig Brian Eno, but I feel like every song I hear sounds kinda the same. Am I nuts? Or do I just keep hearing the same song?

You may not have heard a lot of his material. Some of what is on the playlist here may sound similar, though.


Xstar
Jun 14, 2012 - 01:59
Waking up, foot taping {#Bananasplit}


geege
Apr 11, 2012 - 13:55
NEED more ENO...thanks for this one though :)


thomasd2
Dec 06, 2011 - 14:40
Love this song. I found "Spinning Away" on a sampler years ago. These guys seem to make a good combo.


revsully
Oct 04, 2011 - 10:00
I dig Brian Eno, but I feel like every song I hear sounds kinda the same. Am I nuts? Or do I just keep hearing the same song?


meadowwoods
Oct 04, 2011 - 09:59
Yes, more Eno please....



Proclivities
Oct 04, 2011 - 09:57
fredriley wrote:
Very Talking Heads-esque. Which is not a good thing to my ears. 2 from the Nottingham jury and an escape to our iTunes library...


You know, of course, that these guys were both making music long before the Talking Heads around.




Alexandra
Oct 04, 2011 - 09:56
mvanderford60 wrote:
So beautiful - words and music.


{#Yes} I first heard it back in the 90s, on an episode of Northern Exposure ......loved it ever since.


cosmiclint
Jan 25, 2011 - 16:05
vanyanyc wrote:

It was used in Season 4, episode 7, "The Bad Seed". Ed and Chris dance to it while they see a growing bird off to fly with its flock. The song survived on the DVDs, which is amazing considering how many other songs were edited or replaced with generic music because of rights issues.

The episode you mentioned is S3, Ep 8, "A Hunting We Will Go". Ed couldn't think of what to get Ruth-Anne for her 75th birthday, so he bought her a burial plot on a beautiful hilltop. Unfortunately, whatever song they danced to was replaced with generic soundtrack filler on the DVD set, as was much of the non-score music for this show. It's a real shame.


Years ago my boss asked if I could find out what song Dr. Johnny Fever played first after scratching the needle across the "elevator music" record that was playing when Andy first told him WKRP was changing formats.

It was tough. As you mentioned, music is typically changed for syndication/VHS/DVD releases. But I found a fan site that stated quite adamantly that it was Queen of the Forest by Ted Nugent.

The boss was happy with that answer, and since there really was no way to find out for sure (short of building some sort of hot tub/time machine combo) we agreed that was the song.

It is a shame when IP issues get in the way of art. Imagine Psycho without the screeching violins, or, I dunno, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid without Burt Bacharach's score.




mvanderford60
Jan 25, 2011 - 15:53
So beautiful - words and music.


Cynaera
Jan 25, 2011 - 15:53
This is such a great collaboration! I can't tell if it's Brian Eno leading Cale into unknown territory, or vice-versa. Or if it's the blind leading the blind. Whatever it is, it's perfect for today! Thanks to whoever uploaded it, and to Bill and Rebecca for playing it! {#Sunny}


Jalmari
Dec 25, 2010 - 07:11
lemmoth wrote:
This fantastic collaboration is one of the best kept secrets. Great record from Cale and Eno.



I agree, very interesting music.
lemmoth
Nov 23, 2010 - 14:16
This fantastic collaboration is one of the best kept secrets. Great record from Cale and Eno.


cohifi
Oct 22, 2010 - 22:07
fredriley wrote:
Very Talking Heads-esque. Which is not a good thing to my ears. 2 from the Nottingham jury and an escape to our iTunes library...


Isn't technology great? Sometimes it works!



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