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Brian Eno discography
Brian Eno at his "Illustrated Talk" lecture at Moogfest 2011.
Studio albums26
EPs2
Compilation albums13
Singles7
Video albums8
Collaborative albums26
Production43

Brian Eno is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer.

Studio albums

Solo albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions[1][2]
UK US US New Age US Elec. US Indep.
1974 Here Come the Warm Jets
  • Released: January 1974
  • Label: Island (ILPS 9268)
26 151
Taking Tiger Mountain
  • Released: November 1974
  • Label: Island (ILPS 9309)
1975 Another Green World
  • Released: September 1975
  • Label: Island (ILPS 9351)
Discreet Music
  • Released: November 1975
  • Label: Obscure (OBS 3)
1977 Before and After Science
  • Released: December 1977
  • Label: Polydor (2302 071)
171
1978 Ambient 1: Music for Airports
  • Released: March 1978
  • Label: Polydor (2310 647)
Music for Films
  • Released: September 1978
  • Label: Polydor (2310 623)
55
1982 Ambient 4: On Land
  • Released: March 1982
  • Label: E.G. (EGED 20)
93
1983 Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
  • Released: July 1983
  • Label: E.G. (813 535-1 Y)
Music for Films Volume 2 (More Music for Films)
  • Released: November 1983
  • Label: E.G. (EGSP-2)
1985 Thursday Afternoon
  • Released: October 1985
  • Label: E.G. (EGCD 64)
1992 Nerve Net 70
The Shutov Assembly
  • Released: 10 November 1992
  • Label: Warner Bros. (9 45010-2)
1993 Neroli
  • Released: 3 August 1993
  • Label: All Saints (ASCD15)
1994 Headcandy
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: BMG (76896-40067-2)
1997 The Drop 135 17
2005 Another Day on Earth
  • Released: 13 June 2005
  • Label: Hannibal (HNCD1475)
75 13 33
2012 Lux
  • Released: 13 November 2012
  • Label: Warp
77 7 27
2016 The Ship
  • Released: 29 April 2016
  • Label: Warp
28 175 1 11
2017 Reflection
  • Released: 1 January 2017
  • Label: Warp
78 2 17
"—" denotes albums that did not chart

Ambient installation albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions[1][2]
UK US US New Age US Elec. US Indep.
1997 Extracts From Music for White Cube
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Opal
1998 I Dormienti
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Opal
Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Opal
1999 Kite Stories
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Opal
2000 Music for Civic Recovery Centre
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Opal
2001 Compact Forest Proposal
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Opal
2003 January 07003: Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Opal
2010 Making Space
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Opal
"—" denotes albums that did not chart

Collaborative albums

Year Album Label Peak chart positions[1][2] Notes
UK US US Alt. US Elec. US Indep. US Rock
1973 (No Pussyfooting) Island (HELP 16)
1974 June 1, 1974 Island (ILPS 9291)
Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy Caroline (C 1509)
1975 Evening Star Island (HELP 22)
  • With Robert Fripp
1977 Cluster & Eno Sky (010)
1978 After the Heat Sky (021)
1979 In a Land of Clear Colours

(a.k.a. Robert Sheckley's In a Land of...)

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
1980 Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror E.G. (EGAMB 002)
Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics E.G. (EGED 7)
1981 My Life in the Bush of Ghosts E.G. (EGLP 48) 29 44
1984 The Pearl E.G. (EGSP-2)
  • With Harold Budd
1988 Music for Films III Opal (25769)
1990 Wrong Way Up Opal/Warner (26421)
  • With John Cale
  • Remastered release with bonus tracks on All Saints in 2005
1995 Spinner All Saints (23) 71
Original Soundtracks 1 Island (8043) 12 76
  • With U2
  • Listed as Passengers
1997 Tracks and Traces Rykodisc (10428)
S3 (488658)
  • With Harmonia
  • Listed as Harmonia & Eno '76 or Harmonia '76
  • Previously unreleased September 1976 sessions
2000 Music for Onmyo-Ji Victor (60980)
  • With J. Peter Schwalm
  • Released only in Japan
2001 Drawn from Life Astralwerks (10148) 196
  • With J. Peter Schwalm
2004 The Equatorial Stars DGM/Opal (0402 and 0550)
  • With Robert Fripp
2007 Beyond Even

a.k.a. The Cotswold Gnomes

DGM/Opal (0702)
  • With Robert Fripp
2008 Everything That Happens Will Happen Today Todo Mundo (TODO 002) 153 174
  • With David Byrne
2010 Small Craft on a Milk Sea Warp/Opal (207) 82 84 15 2 9 22
2011 Drums Between the Bells Warp/Opal (214) 106 9 44
Panic of Looking Warp/Opal (322)
2014 Someday World Warp/Opal (249) 46 194 6 33 50
High Life Warp/Opal (255) 94 194 7 6
"—" 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

Singles

Year Title Album
1974 "Seven Deadly Finns" Working Backwards: 1983-1973 (1983),

and Eno Box II: Vocal (1993)

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

EPs

Year Title Album
1992 Ali Click Nerve Net
Fractal Zoom

Video albums

Year Video details
1977 Jubilee
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

Production

Year Album Artist
1974 Fear John Cale
Plays the Popular Classics Portsmouth Sinfonia
Hallelujah Portsmouth Sinfonia
1975 Lucky Leif and the Longships Robert Calvert
New & Rediscovered Musical Instruments David Toop & Max Eastley
1976 Music from the Penguin Cafe The 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 Ambient 3: Day of Radiance Laraaji
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
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
2014 In Conflict Owen Pallett
2017 Altar The Gift

References

  1. ^ a b c Brian Eno > Charts & Awards at AllMusic. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
  2. ^ a b c Warwick, 2004. p.379
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.