Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) by Brian Eno

Pros: The crazy artsy stuff. The melodies!!
Cons: Nothing! OK, maybe it's not as crazy as his previous solo release

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Pros: Eccentric pop ditties, with a growing sense of detachment.
Cons: Injecting moody artsiness into standard song formats is a hit or miss endeavor.

Is it a shameful thing to admit that many of the bands I love were brought to my attention by the tendency of guys like Metallica and Bauhaus to cover other people's songs? Could I have strung together a more awkward and pointless opening sentence? I ...

Pros: If you'd like really to explore music, here's proof it can be done well.
Cons: If you'd like really to sell lots of records, this is the wrong path. Unfortunately.

Experimenters and innovators in any field are hard to deal with, make us squirm in our chairs a bit. Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart, by many accounts, were not nice people on the whole. Thomas Edison you wouldn't want to hang out with in a bar and watch a ...

Pros: Nothing else in the world sounds like this
Cons: If you need love songs, don't look here

When the definitive story of alternative and electronic music is written, Brian Eno will require a chapter entirely to himself. He changed how rock music is performed and recorded, and established for all time that art and rock are not mutually...