Comments on: Afternoon Thursday

Afternoon Thursday

vronsky — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:46:09 -0800

By: rooftop secrets

rooftop secrets — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:54:09 -0800

um. I'm relaxed. Now what?

By: iamabot

iamabot — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:55:20 -0800

Friday Afternoon?

By: rooftop secrets

rooftop secrets — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:58:31 -0800

Always was more partial to Tuesday Afternoon

By: Faux Real

Faux Real — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:58:35 -0800

I Don’t Like Mondays Tuesday Afternoon. Wednesday Afternoon. Thursday Afternoon. (It’s Friday here.)

By: rooftop secrets

rooftop secrets — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:00:07 -0800

I also love me a Sunny Afternoon.

By: spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints

spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:00:21 -0800

That was exactly what I needed to see right now. Anyone have a higher-res link?

By: xod

xod — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:03:05 -0800

Just Another Day

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:06:52 -0800

The album version is almost an hour long. External imagery is not required.

By: marxchivist

marxchivist — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:08:00 -0800

It's Friday here!

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:09:31 -0800

Also, we used to crank "Thursday Afternoon", "Neroli", "The Shutov Assembly", and the Ambient 1-4 series to hear all the neat dissonant stuff Eno puts in there. A casual listen will not always catch subtle events going on in Eno's ambient music as the mind tends to lock on the linear melody (or approximation thereof in his case) and ignores the other bits. It took us proper dosing to really hear it.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:10:08 -0800

Also, I'm going to flag all non-Eno video links and others should do the same.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:11:33 -0800

Wednesday Week

By: unSane

unSane — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:16:31 -0800

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

By: unSane

unSane — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:17:47 -0800

The Seventh Day

By: xod

xod — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:24:52 -0800

In the course of recording this album Brian and I crossed paths with artist and filmmaker Bruce Connor, who lives in San Francisco. Bruce's' legendary "experimental" films are well known for their pioneering use of found footage, so it was natural that we approach him regarding the possibility of working together- which was more like suggesting he use some of the Bush of Ghosts tracks in a film or two, due to the similarities of our working methods. Connor mainly uses old educational films, science films, government footage and film footage that people throw out and then recuts them to new music, creating dark and sometimes hilarious moods and visual commentaries. His work was sampling before that word existed, as was this record. The films gain an additional level of depth due to the fact that you can often guess what the footage was originally used for, and so you see it as an artifact and as something entirely new, both at the same time. Mea Culpa

By: alexwoods

alexwoods — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:32:28 -0800

A+ (but you should have posted it yesterday)

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:36:16 -0800

Friday on my mind

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:37:37 -0800

Damn you, Marxchivist!

By: ddaavviidd

ddaavviidd — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:39:34 -0800

Thursday I don't care about you It's friday...

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:48:13 -0800

vronsky, are you my mom in disguise? 'Cause she always sends me schmaltzy stuff that I get hypnotized by. If so, then Happy Mother's Day, and that's all you get. If not, then Happy Mother's Day, and that's all you get.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:48:36 -0800

Sunday you need Love, Monday be alone.

By: jonson

jonson — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:51:10 -0800

This beats a Sunless Saturday.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:55:33 -0800

that was a lovely find, vron. i'm so mellow i can't even capitolize.... or spell...

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:31:54 -0800

The video note says there is something to "see in the swells" and repeat if you don't see it. I see swell but nothing but swells.

By: xod

xod — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:35:19 -0800

It's important to note that the FPP video has nothing to do with Eno. Thursday Afternoon is the rearranged soundtrack to a video production by the same title made in San Francisco in April 1984. The project featured "Seven Video Paintings" (available on the compilation, 14 Video Paintings) made by Eno with his friend, actress and photographer, Christine Alicino.

By: sonascope

sonascope — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:40:36 -0800

I used to rent the actual non-baby-boomerish-new-age-fvcktard video back in the eighties and turn my little TV on its side to view them in their intended format. To even consider taking a five-minute chunk of this piece, modern youtube idiot style, is truly wretched. I also love the bit in the info about how it's popular with people taking "psychedelic narcotics," because no one in this spoon-fed age can imagine the possibility that your brain is quite capable of vision without supplementary chemistry.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:02:54 -0800

sonascope: indeed. And drugs classified as psychedelics are not narcotics, popular misunderstandings notwithstanding.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:04:03 -0800

Wow - purist much sonascope? I grew up with the album too dude. And it is my favorite ambient and one of my fave albums of all time. Thursday Afternoon is for me a kind of "aural" ritalin. I can put the piece on and within 5-10 minutes, my brain has been rewired and I am totally focused on the task at hand, even if that task is just taking a nap. Some people may feel the need to supplement their viewing with "psychedelic narcotics" but I assure you I am not one of them (besides, that is what reggae is for). The ambient soundscape itself is enough to turn my living room into a subliminal submarine, moving through the shallows into deep water, sailing slowly across the ancient sea-floor.

By: youarenothere

youarenothere — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:20:04 -0800

Come out and meet your doom, for we are Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:45:08 -0800

I wish it was Sunday. That's my fun day.

By: sir_rubixalot

sir_rubixalot — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:05:15 -0800

That was excellent, even if it is Friday.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:22:26 -0800

Beautiful clip. It's fairly easy to find such views on the Chiba coast (Pacific Ocean) where I go sometimes. Next time I'm bringing the video camera! Oh, and... Stormy Monday.

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:28:55 -0800

Huh, I'm a five minute drive away from where I can sit and look out over a scene like the one in the video for way more than five minutes at a time, and I don't need ambient music or hallucinogens to thoroughly enjoy it. However, I am now totally peeved at myself for NOT going out there this Thursday Afternoon. (And for not having a bunch of my own pics or video of it to show) <sarcasm> Thanks a lot, vronsky. </sarcasm>

By: Hogshead

Hogshead — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:37:30 -0800

I was just talking about Thursday Afternoon, over dinner with a friend. He'd seen the original installation of the piece in London, on a Thursday afternoon, and had gone outside the gallery and found Brian Eno sitting on a bench. And he asked Eno to sign something, and Eno was a dick to him.

By: snofoam

snofoam — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:58:12 -0800

okay, so i just posted this in the comments of the post about europeans drinking and having sex. more appropriate here, i think: that's really nice. i was recently listening to a lot of cluster, including cluster and eno and it's pretty great stuff. also, there are psychedelic narcotics? me, please!

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:49:17 -0800

Manic Monday Tuesday Morning Wednesday Morning 3 A.M. Saturday Night Sunday Morning

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:48:55 -0800

Here's Johnny Cash, with a version of Kris Kristofferson's Sunday Morning Coming Down.

By: valentinepig

valentinepig — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:59:05 -0800

Maybe microdots.

By: blue shadows

blue shadows — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:51:48 -0800

I love the video.

By: Relay

Relay — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:10:59 -0800

At first I thought, "Someone put the 72+ minute Eno video online?" But no, it's a five minute chunk of the music with some water shots ... the original video is much more interesting.

By: ymgve

ymgve — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:07:31 -0800

If iTunes prices are somewhat global, you can grab Eno's "Neroli" album for just a couple of bucks now. It's priced as a single, but is a full-hour album.

By: sponge

sponge — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:40:01 -0800

i think this piece was supposed to be background music for work.

By: sponge

sponge — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:43:58 -0800

william basinski's watermusic I and II are other hour long ambient tracks

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:18:17 -0800

And he asked Eno to sign something, and Eno was a dick to him. Asking Eno to sign something is wrongheaded. Either say or give something interesting to him that he can respond to in some way, or just politely nod. Don't just be a fan.