His solo debute after leaving (or being fired from) Roxy Music. It's an album impossible to categorize - rock, glam, prog, pop, art, new wave, experimental or all at the same time. Eno called himself a non-musician and his main contributions to two first Roxy albums had been with ideas, arrangements and making odd sounds with his syntheziser. It seems this was built from the same ground. The songs were made by Eno dancing to the musicians asking them to play accordingly and the lyrics came from nonsense words Eno chanted to himself and later formed into verses. Recorded in twelve days, during which he also mixed and produced. One would expect such a project to become a big disaster and maybe it would if not for the great backing. With Robert Fripp and John Wetton from King Crimson, Simon King from Hawkwind, Chris Spedding, and most of Roxy Music it turned out surprisingly well and is today considered a classic. The audio is uneven - some of the tracks sounds dense and others very clear and sharp. There are some great numbers on here and many top guitars - e.g. Fripps long improvised solo on "Baby's On Fire". Later on Eno would go further in formal and tonal experimenting, but this is still in pop/rock shape having both attractive melodies and mostly regular backing. Peaking at #26 in UK and #151 on Billboard. 1:st US issue with same sleeve design and number. Premiere UK with label as shown here, matt cover and Island custom inner. Also re-issued as CD and LP for EG records and later on Virgin. (ÄNÖ*) (FÖF*)
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