Brian Eno discography

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Brian Eno discography
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Brian Eno at his "Illustrated Talk" lecture at Moogfest 2011.
Studio albums28
Compilation albums14
Video albums8
Singles9
Collaborative albums26
Production37

The discography of Brian Eno, English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer, consists of 28 solo studio albums, 37 collaborative studio albums, 14 compilation albums, eight video albums, and nine singles.

Albums[]

Solo studio albums[]

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
NZ
[2]
US
[3]
US
Alt

[4]
US
Electronic

[5]
US
Indie

[6]
US
New
Age

[7]
Here Come the Warm Jets
  • Released: January 1974
  • Label: Island (ILPS 9268)
26 151
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
  • Released: November 1974
  • Label: Island (ILPS 9309)
37
Another Green World
  • Released: November 14, 1975
  • Label: Island
24
Discreet Music
  • Released: November 1975
  • Label: Obscure (OBS 3)
Before and After Science
  • Released: December 1977
  • Label: Polydor (2302 071)
18 171
Ambient 1: Music for Airports
  • Released: September 1978[8]
  • Label: Polydor (2310 647)
Music for Films
  • Released: September 1978
  • Label: Polydor (2310 623)
55 27
Ambient 4: On Land
  • Released: March 1982
  • Label: E.G. (EGED 20)
93
Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
  • Released: July 1983
  • Label: E.G. (813 535)
16 48 16
Music for Films Volume 2 (More Music for Films)
  • Released: November 1983
  • Label: E.G. (EGSP-2)
Thursday Afternoon
  • Released: October 1985
  • Label: E.G. (EGCD 64)
Nerve Net
  • Released: 1 September 1992
  • Label: Opal/Warner Bros. (45033)
70
The Shutov Assembly
  • Released: 10 November 1992
  • Label: Opal/Warner Bros. (45010)
Neroli
Headcandy
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: BMG (76896-40067)
The Drop 135 ��
Extracts From Music for White Cube
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Opal
I Dormienti
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Opal
Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace – The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Opal
Kite Stories
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Opal
Music for Civic Recovery Centre
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Opal
Compact Forest Proposal
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Opal
January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Opal
Another Day on Earth
  • Released: 13 June 2005
  • Label: All Saints/Hannibal/Rykodisc (HNCD1475)
75 13 33
Making Space
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Lumen London
Lux
  • Released: 13 November 2012
  • Label: Warp
77 [A] 7 27
The Ship
  • Released: 29 April 2016
  • Label: Warp
28 175 9 1 11
Reflection
  • Released: 1 January 2017
  • Label: Warp
78 23 2 17
"—" denotes albums that did not chart

Collaborative studio albums[]

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Notes
UK[1] US[3] US
Alt
[4]
US
Electronic
[5]
US
Indie
[6]
US
New
Age
[7]
US
Rock
[11]
Roxy Music
  • Released: 1972
  • Label: Island
10
For Your Pleasure
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: Island
4
(No Pussyfooting)
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: Island (HELP 16)
  • With Robert Fripp
June 1, 1974
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Island (ILPS 9291)
Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Caroline/Virgin (CAR 1509)
Evening Star
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Island (HELP 22)
  • With Robert Fripp
Diamond Head
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Island
801 Live
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: Island
  • Credited musician, album by 801
Low
  • Released:1977
  • Label: RCA (CPL1-2030)
2 11
'Heroes'
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: RCA Records (AFL1-2522)
3 35
  • Credited musician, album by David Bowie
Cluster & Eno
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: Sky (010)
After the Heat
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Sky (021)
In a Land of Clear Colours
(a.k.a. Robert Sheckley's In a Land of...)
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: Mensanjero,
    Voiceprint (VP151CD)
  • With Peter Sinfield (as narrator)
  • Multimedia album, text by Robert Sheckley, illustrations by Leonor Quiles
  • Limited edition of 1000, masters were then destroyed
Lodger
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: RCA
4 20
  • Credited musician, album by David Bowie
Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: E.G. (EGAMB 002)
Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: E.G. (EGED 7)
Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: E.G. (EGAMB 003)
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: E.G. (EGLP 48)
29 44
  • With David Byrne
The Pearl
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: E.G. (EGSP-2)
  • With Harold Budd
Hybrid
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: E.G. (EGED 41)
Music for Films III
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Opal/Warner Bros. (25769)
  • With Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno, Michael Brook, Harold Budd, Laraaji and others
Wrong Way Up
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Opal/Warner Bros. (26421)
  • With John Cale
  • Remastered release with bonus tracks on All Saints in 2005
Spinner
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: All Saints (23)
71
Original Soundtracks 1
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Island/PolyGram (524 066)
12 76
  • With U2
  • Billed as Passengers
Tracks and Traces
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Rykodisc (10428)
    S3 (488658)
  • With Harmonia
  • Listed as Harmonia & Eno '76 or Harmonia '76
  • Previously unreleased September 1976 sessions
Music for Onmyo-Ji
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Victor (60980)
  • With J. Peter Schwalm
  • Released only in Japan
Drawn from Life
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Venture/Astralwerks/Virgin/EMI (ASW 10148)
196
  • With J. Peter Schwalm
All Saints
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Virgin/EMI
  • David Bowie compilation album of instrumental material containing unreleased outtakes, some of which were collaborations with Brian Eno.
The Equatorial Stars
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: DGM, Opal (0402 and 0550)
23
  • With Robert Fripp
Beyond Even
(a.k.a. The Cotswold Gnomes)
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: DGM, Opal (0702)
  • With Robert Fripp
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today 153 174 18
  • With David Byrne
Small Craft on a Milk Sea
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Warp, Opal (207)
82 84 15 2 9 22
Drums Between the Bells
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Warp, Opal (214)
106 9 44
Panic of Looking
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Warp, Opal (322)
Someday World
  • Released: 2014
  • Label: Warp, Opal (249)
46 194 6 33 50
High Life
  • Released: 2014
  • Label: Warp, Opal (WARP255)
94 194 7 31
Finding Shore
  • Released: 2017
  • Label: Dead Oceans (DOC146)
5
  • With Tom Rogerson
Mixing Colours[12]
  • Released: 2020
  • Label: Opal
[B] 23
"—" denotes albums that did not chart

Compilation albums[]

Year Title Notes
1981 Music for Airplay
  • Released: April 1981
  • Label: E.G. (ENO DJ)
  • Highlights from his first four "song" LPs[specify]
1983 Working Backwards 1983–1973
  • Released: 1983
  • Label E.G. (EGBS-2)
1984 Begegnungen
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Sky (87090)
  • With Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Konrad Plank
  • Compilation including collaborative work from the Cluster-related albums
1985 Begegnungen II
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Sky (87095)
Old Land
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Sky (SKY 105)
  • With Cluster
1986 Desert Island Selection
  • Released: January 1986
  • Label E.G. (EGCD 65)
  • Expanded compact disc version of vinyl release of More Blank Than Frank
More Blank Than Frank
  • Released: March 1986
  • Label E.G. (EGLP 65)
1993 Eno Box II: Vocal
  • Released: 16 November 1993
  • Label: Virgin (ENOBX 2 (7243 8 39114 2 4))
  • Box set (3 CDs plus CD-package booklet) focusing on vocal tracks recorded between 1973 and 1992
1994 The Essential Fripp and Eno
  • Released: 11 March 1994
  • Label: Venture (CDVE 920)
Eno Box I: Instrumental
  • Released: 22 March 1994
  • Label: Virgin (ENOBX 1 (7243 8 39110 2 8))
  • Box set (3 CDs plus CD-package booklet) focusing on instrumental tracks recorded between 1970 and 1988
1999 Sonora Portraits
  • Released: 10 August 1999
  • Label: Materiali (95701)
2003 Curiosities Volume 1
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Opal
2005 Curiosities Volume II
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Opal
2018 Music for Installations
2020 Film Music 1976-2020
  • Released: 2020
  • Label: Opal/UMC/Universal
  • Compilation of music composed by Eno for various films and TV series

Singles[]

Title Year Peak chart positions0 Album
US
AAA

[14]
US
Dance

[15]
"Seven Deadly Finns" 1974 Working Backwards: 1983-1973

and Eno Box II: Vocal

"The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)" 1975
"King's Lead Hat" (different mix from LP) Before and After Science
"The Jezebel Spirit" 1981 37 My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
"Backwater" 1986 Before and After Science
"Ali Click" 1992 Nerve Net
"Fractal Zoom"
"Baby's on Fire" 2007 Here Come the Warm Jets
"Strange Overtones" 2008 14 Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
"The Ship" 2016 The Ship

Other appearances[]

Year Song Album Notes
2021 "Wanting to Believe" Winter Tales[16] with Roger Eno

Video albums[]

Year Video details
1977 Jubilee
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: Criterion
  • Format: VHS
1981 Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Mystic Fire
  • Format: VHS
1985 Thursday Afternoon
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Sony
  • Format: VHS, LD
1989 Imaginary Landscapes
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Mystic Fire (#76243)
  • Format: VHS
2005 14 Video Paintings
  • Released: 15 November 2005
  • Label: Ryko
  • Format: DVD
2006 77 Million Paintings
  • Released: 26 September 2006
  • Label: Ryko
  • Format: DVD
2007 77 Million Paintings Second Revised Edition
  • Released: 4 December 2007
  • Label: Ryko
  • Format: DVD

Productions, mixes, and guest appearances[]

Year Album Artist
1974 Fear John Cale
Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters Robert Calvert
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Genesis
Plays the Popular Classics Portsmouth Sinfonia
Hallelujah Portsmouth Sinfonia
1975 The Rock Peter and the Wolf Jack Lancaster and Robin Lumley
Mainstream Quiet Sun
Lucky Leif and the Longships Robert Calvert
New & Rediscovered Musical Instruments David Toop & Max Eastley
1976 Music from the Penguin Cafe Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Voices and Instruments Jan Steele / John Cage
1977 Ultravox! Ultravox
1978 More Songs About Buildings and Food Talking Heads
No New York Various artists
The Pavilion of Dreams Harold Budd
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Devo
1979 Fear of Music Talking Heads
1980 Remain in Light Talking Heads
1981 The Pace Setters Edikanfo
1984 Dune Toto / Brian Eno
The Unforgettable Fire U2
1985 Hybrid Michael Brook
Wide Awake in America U2
1986 Power Spot Jon Hassell
1987 The Joshua Tree U2
1988 Flash of the Spirit Jon Hassell
1989 Words for the Dying John Cale
Zvuki Mu Zvuki Mu
1991 Achtung Baby U2
Exile Geoffrey Oryema
1993 Laid James
Souvlaki Slowdive
Zooropa U2
1994 Bright Red Laurie Anderson
Wah Wah James
1995 Original Soundtracks 1 Passengers
Outside David Bowie
1998 Nomad Soul Baaba Maal
1999 Millionaires James
2000 All That You Can't Leave Behind U2
Faith and Courage Sinéad O'Connor
Now, Always, Never Sikter
2001 Pleased to Meet You James
2005 X&Y Coldplay
2006 Surprise Paul Simon
2008 Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends Coldplay
Hurricane Grace Jones
Prospekt's March Coldplay
2009 No Line on the Horizon U2
2011 Mylo Xyloto Coldplay
From Africa With Fury: Rise Seun Kuti
2013 Overgrown James Blake
Edgeland Karl Hyde
2014 In Conflict Owen Pallett
2015 A Head Full of Dreams Coldplay
2017 Altar The Gift
2017 Kaleidoscope Coldplay
2020 Don't Shy Away Loma

References[]

  1. ^ a b Warwick, 2004. p.379
  2. ^ "charts.nz — Brian Eno — Discography". Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Brian Eno: Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Brian Eno: Chart History - Alternative Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Brian Eno: Chart History - Dance/Electronic Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Brian Eno: Chart History - Independent Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  7. ^ a b "Brian Eno: Chart History - New Age Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  8. ^ https://img.discogs.com/v7nXdUncCit6aw_9yKaZbjw1hec=/fit-in/600x563/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3331847-1339295866-2214.jpeg.jpg
  9. ^ a b "Certified Awards Search. British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved on 4 March 2018. Note: User needs to enter "Brian Eno" in the "Search" field, "Artist" in the "Search by" field and click the "Go" button. Select "More info" next to the relevant entry to see full certification history.
  10. ^ "Brian Eno: Chart History - Top Current Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Brian Eno: Chart History - Top Rock Albums". Billboard. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  12. ^ "Mixing Colours by Roger Eno & Brian Eno". Apple Music. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  13. ^ "Brian Eno – Music for Installations [6 CD] – Amazon.com Music". Amazon. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  14. ^ "Brian Eno: Chart History - Triple A Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  15. ^ "Brian Eno: Chart History - Dance Club Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  16. ^ "Introducing 'Winter Tales': Seasonal music reimagined by a dazzling array of star musicians". www.deutschegrammophon.com. Retrieved 27 September 2021.

Sources

  • "BEEP Discografie". Alex Rubli. Archived from the original on 4 June 2008. Retrieved 9 June 2008.
  • Warwick, Neil; Jon Kutner; Tony Brown (2004). The Complete Book of the British Charts: Singles and Albums. Omnibus Press. ISBN 1-84449-058-0.

Notes[]

  1. ^ Lux did not enter the US Billboard 200 but did peak at number 162 on the Top Current Albums chart.[10]
  2. ^ Mixing Colours did not enter the US Billboard 200 but did peak at number 63 on the Top Album Sales chart.

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