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ford7885 t1_jd1r87s wrote

After this album failed, Billy's reaction was interesting as to the two things he did next. First he grew his hair longer and dreaded it... then he played a reunion show with Generation X.

So from one extreme to the other really. Then he took a couple years off and eventually reunited with Steve Stevens and started making the kind of music that really worked for him again. Well, except for that Sinatra wannabe Christmas album, but that's a whole other story.

I listened to Cyberpunk once and then tried to block it out of my mind forever. I might give it another shot now, for the Hell of it, I guess.

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Gezz66 t1_jd18kqd wrote

One favourite bit of Eno trivia.

He recorded Taking Tiger Mountain... at the same studio and same time that Genesis were recording The Lamb... album. Gabriel being an admirer invited him to contribute and he duly provided some ethereal touches to what was already a very trippy album.

He is the only non-member to have a writing credit on a Genesis album (check out The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging). However, his influence seems to pervade the album more generally - there are 2 short ambient songs.

However, Eno needed a drummer to work on Mother Whale Eyeless and Genesis offered up Phil Collins (he stated he felt like a prostitute). It obviously went well because Collins would also play on AGW and B&AS.

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Gezz66 t1_jd17qrz wrote

I would define AGW as proto-ambient, with a foot in the Progressive camp (most of the musiicans were from that genre). Completely agree that it's a perfect album. Could argue there is some inspiration from the Harmonia album that came out a year before, which Eno effusively praised. After AGW, he would produce an album with them.

But Eno's 4 non-ambient albums in the 1970s are all classics and each so distinct in their own style.

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