Yeah, the horrible truth about Ambient 1: Music for Airports, one that no one wants to talk about, is that it's pleasant, in the worst way possible. I mean, pleasant, the same way handjobs given from an inexperienced girl who has never seen the equipment or is unused to moving her hands in a certain way is pleasant, because its better than nothing. This is certainly a step above John Cage's "4'33" (oh, man, he did not go there) but why listen to Ambient 1: Music for Airports when you can listen to anything else at all is beyond me. Why settle for a clumsy handjob when you can have the world?
So because people think that Ambient 1: Music for Airports is the first ambient record, it has been romanticized to the moon and back (and nothing beats romance like the moon. That thing's been following the Earth since it formed and it's been too scared of rejection to get cozier and too scared of loneliness to leave). For those who've come to believe that this is the first ambient release--it's not! I mean his own Discreet Music, that little oddball that no one likes talking about, came three years before this. The only reason this one gets a little more attention is because that one wasn't named Ambient 0: Music for Hospitals, which is essentially what it was. And this one wouldn't even work in an airtport, which is normally so busy you wouldn't be able to hear ambient music, or else so dead that you'd rather listen to anything else. Another thing, have you seen these track titles? I mean, do you ever get together with your friends and say things like, "Man, do you like Brian Eno?" "Sure, I like Brian Eno." "What's your favorite Brian Eno song?" "Oh, I gotta say it's probably '1/1.'" "Really? I much prefer '1/2.'" You guys will sound absolutely nuts, I tell you.
But for all the negative things I have to say about Ambient 1: Music for Airports, remember that I did say it's "pleasant" in my opening thesis. I think that "1/1" places somewhere in the best 5 melodies Brian Eno has ever concocted, and that one miraculously manages to swing past, despite being 16:30 in length (longer still, if you're holding a CD version of the album. What's that? 16 minutes wasn't long enough for you? Have thirty seconds of additional silence, because that's just how we roll). Unfortunately, none of the rest of these tracks come close to touching "1/1"'s melody, and without that to help them, every slow second is felt. "Death by a thousand cuts? Probably the worst way to die.
If Ambient 1: Music for Airports was released today, no one would even look at it, because 1) anyone with a bit of musical savvy could've created this and 2) ambient artists (well, most ambient artists. Eno is still living like it's the 70's) have the decency to end tracks when they've run their course, and not sadistic enough to loop them to pad out an album's worth.
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Kill yourself tripfag
Cool
Thanks for sharing
I'll give it a listen
my anus is prolapsed lmao
>eno's face when
ambient music was a mistake
His bud Fripp is better at ambient anyway
>>63122902
Eno actually did the loop tactic on "Thursday Afternoon"
Ambient 2 is better but the pearl is the best
>>63122902
>referring to a shitpost as a "thesis"
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>>63122902
More proof that marsbars' opinion is as relevant as any other RYM reviewer
ITT: people who don't realize this is a RYM review
Ambient 2 > Ambient 1
>>63125133
No one gives a shit about RYM users
