A much longer version of this post just disappeared into the digital ether. Evidently you can't start writing a post, leave it onscreen for an hour, and then come back and hit Submit.

So here's the short version:

New Eno album of old Eno music, More Music for Films, just released. 21 short tracks. Recorded mid-'70s - early '80s. All previously released on ultra-rare vinyl 20 to 30 years ago, which none of you own. 14 tracks showed up on the Eno Box I: Instrumentals box set, which one or two of you own. 7 tracks never before on CD. Crap liner notes; songwriting credits but no musician credits.

But the first pressing's fucked up--one track appears twice, another one not at all. Second pressing supposedly at the end of the month. I, of course, learned this too late.

Other news: new Eno "songs" album being released in June. But Eno said Nerve Net was going to be a "songs" album, and, well, it's not. Holding out hope anyway.

Fucked up? Damn, how did that happen?

Original pressings of my fave, Another Green World, were messed up too - the beginning of "Everything Merges With the Night" was cut off.

So is Eno rejoining Roxy Music or not?

32 years is a hell of a long time to be out of a band.

Hmm, what's it supposed to sound like? There may be a reason my copy of AGW was two dollars...

I could go for another Drawn From Life myself. It was very organic, original, and Jan Peter Schwalm's contributions helped bring new life to Eno's sound. The album has this unique vibe to it as if Eno spent the night in a dimly lit concert hall for a few months.

I think I should have clarified my original statement - original pressings of the recent Another Green World reissue were messed up. Instead of hearing a second or two of music followed by the lyrics "Rosalie, I've been waiting all evening," it starts up at "I've been waiting all evening." People who haven't heard the correct version probably won't even notice the error.

No.

Though it wouldn't surprise me if he twiddled a knob or two on the new Roxy album they're supposedly recording--he did show up on one of Ferry's recent solo albums.

Knob twiddling is considered a big deal these days. They should do like hiphop.

Rox Mu Sic f/ B. No

Featuring who?

Ahem... I've got Music for Films, 1976-1978. Are these tracks other than a re-issue of that?

I am also baffled that "Drawn from Life" cause zero interest. Songs, vocals, mood music, chill ambient IDM touches for the average 26 year old... and kaput, nothing.

Everything Eno does is brilliant. He is what Moby dreams to be.

It's not a reissue of Music for Films (though Astralwerks did just reissue that the same day they released More Music for Films).

Tracklist:

Untitled
The Last Door
Chemin de Fer
Dark Waters
Fuseli
Melancholy Waltz
Northern Lights
From the Coast
Shell
Empty Landscape
Reactor
The Secret
Don't Look Back
Marseilles
The Dove
Roman Twilight
Dawn, Marshland
Climate Study
Drift Study
Approaching Taidu
Always Returning

It's convoluted. The first 14 tracks were originally part of a 27-track promo album called Music for Films: Director's Edition, which came out a year or two before the commercially-released Music for Films album that you've got.

The remaining 7 tracks come from an album called Music for Films Vol. 2, which was only available in a box set called Working Backward 1984-1974, a collection of all of Eno's albums of that time period. (Vol. 2 also contained a half dozen or so tracks that were later released on Apollo.)

14 of the 21 tracks on the new More Music for Films were released on CD for the first time in the Eno Box I: Instrumentals box set; the other 7 tracks are making their CD debut.

Not unusual for Eno, several tracks on More Music contain elements that were also used in other places--for instance, a slightly faster version of the rhythm track of "In Dark Trees" from Another Green World shows up in one track. There's also quite a bit of that fretless bass sound (Sky Saw, Energy Fools the Magician) he was so enamored of at the time. It's definitely of a piece with Music for Films.

Ah, haven't heard The Drop, eh?

Hey, Mr. Lump, from your original post were you trying to say that the first pressing of the reissues pf Music for Film II should be held onto becuase it will probably be "worth something" later on?

...And/or that the original vinyl pressing is extremely rare and worth something...?

I have a vinyl copy of Music for Film I, as well as On Land.

That's More Music for Films, not Music for Films II. See, I said it was convoluted!

I doubt the first pressing of this CD will be worth anything in the future, because you're getting shorted on music--the track "Climate Study" is missing from the first pressing (by mistake they repeat the track "Approaching Taidu" a second time).

The original vinyl pressings of the 1976-ish promo album Music For Films: Director's Edition (only 500 pressed) and the 1984 box set bonus-disc Music for Films Vol. 2 (I'll bet there's not more than 500 of these either) are undoubtedly worth buck-o-las. What the new More Music for Films CD does is make the rare tracks from those albums commercially available to shmucks like us virtually for the first time.

Your plain old Music for Films vinyl is probably worth somewhere between dick and bupkiss, or somewhere between a plugged nickel and the Tracks of My Tears.