Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.music.gaffa Subject: Eno is (was?) God Message-ID: <8701262202.AA14280@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 16:38:18 EST Article-I.D.: EDDIE.8701262202.AA14280 Posted: Mon Jan 26 16:38:18 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 27-Jan-87 19:29:11 EST Sender: daemon@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds Organization: Love-Hounds Anonymous Lines: 30 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: Robert Stanzel IED wrongs: >As for Eno's LPs, they are highly innovative, interesting >and influential. They do not even begin to approach Kate's >post-1981 work in several respects, however. Even Eno has >said on several occasions that his lyrics (from the vocal LPs) >were devised almost exclusively for their phonetic/rhythmic >qualities, and that he had never put any serious >effort into them. ... Yow! This is ridiculous. Eno has also said his methods of art include "found" methods and results; one cannot infer that he or others should regard his lyrics or music as less worthwhile simply because he put "less serious effort into them". The famous four albums, and particularly the later two ("Before and After Science", "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy") are masterpieces of fortuity and subtlety. They are at least on the same level as Kate's masterpiece, "The Dreaming". And across the breadth of their work (and Eno's is far broader than Kate's) the quality of Eno is consistently better, more crafted and interesting. "There's a piranha -- a piranha swimming" Rob Stanzel UUCP: ...{decvax!wanginst, mit-eddie}!apollo!rps -------