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Desert Island Selection

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Download links and information about Desert Island Selection by Brian Eno. This album was released in 1986 and it belongs to Ambient, Electronica, Rock, Glam Rock, Punk, Alternative genres. It contains 11 tracks with total duration of 49:03 minutes.

Artist: Brian Eno
Release date: 1986
Genre: Ambient, Electronica, Rock, Glam Rock, Punk, Alternative
Tracks: 11
Duration: 49:03
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. Here He Comes 5:37
2. Everything Merges with the Night 4:01
3. I'll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoe) 3:38
4. On Some Faraway Beach 3:38
5. Spirits Drifting 2:39
6. Back In Judy's Jungle 5:16
7. St. Elmo's Fire 2:59
8. No One Receiving 3:49
9. Julie With 5:52
10. Taking Tiger Mountain 5:23
11. 1/1 6:11

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A CD-only expansion of the 1986 compilation More Blank Than Frank, Desert Island Selection is Brian Eno's handpicked summation of his first few albums, now thought of as his pre-ambient pop phase. It's actually not a bad selection at all, and Eno seems to have taken care to choose and sequence the songs so that the whole thing hangs together. The only problem is that the album's unerring focus on the mellower, almost proto-ambient side of Eno's early music — "Here He Comes" and "On Some Faraway Beach" instead of "Baby's on Fire" or "King's Lead Hat" — gives a skewed and not entirely representative view of these albums, which were much more cacophonous and weird than prettily poppish tracks like "I'll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoe)" and "Taking Tiger Mountain" would suggest. This set hints at what was to come with the addition of two slightly later instrumental tracks, "Spirits Drifting" and a six-minute condensation of the first track from Music for Airports, "1/1."