How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)

Re:How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019) by bamboozled on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @08:06PM (#46129068)

I've never really understood the appeal honestly. I feel it's more of a "masterpiece" in a historical sense, because it was an early electronic / ambient work which no one had really heard before and that gave it a huge cult following. Which is understandable, but outside of that, I don't see how it's any more interesting than basically any other ambient work of which I would say there is much much much better. Robin Guthrie comes to mind...

I don't see it a masterpiece in the same way I see Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" is. The reason? Because I don't think there is a better Jazz album, ever, where as with Eno's early Ambient work, I think it was surpassed very quickly.

That said I'll give it another listen today and see if I can hear the magic.

Am I missing something?

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Re:How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019) by defrost on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @08:20PM (#46129156)

People have many tastes; some like Steve Reich, others Wim Mertens, Michael Nyman, or even Shostakovich.

If Guthrie does it for you (with or without Elizabeth Fraser?) perhaps The White Arcades also fits the bill, it's a Guthrie, Eno, Budd collaboration.

One thing to admire about Eno is just how deeply and broadly connected he was as an engineer and contributor to so many artists and albums.

David Bowie owes much to Fripp, Eno, Belew, ... etc.

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