Wrong Way Up | ||||
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Released | 5 October 1990 | |||
Recorded | April – July 1990 | |||
Studio | Brian Eno's Wilderness Studio, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK | |||
Genre | Art rock | |||
Length | 41:30 | |||
Label | Opal/Warner Bros. All Saints/Hannibal (2005) | |||
Producer | Brian Eno, John Cale | |||
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Wrong Way Up is the sole collaborative studio album by Brian Eno and John Cale,originally released on October 5,1990 on Opal and Warner Bros. Records. The album sits between the electronic,prog-rock and art rock genres and features some of both Eno and Cale's most mainstream work.
The 2005 re-release on All Saints Records was remastered and had a different cover,but reverted to the original in 2020. It contains two bonus tracks,"Grandfather's House" and ″You Don't Miss Your Water″by Eno. Both titles only appeared on single or EP before;the latter was taken from the 1988 OST album Married to the Mob .
The album was acclaimed upon reviews by critics,whilst it is predominantly only recognized by some for the single "Spinning Away",which was notably covered by the American rock band Sugar Ray.
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Chicago Tribune | [2] |
Entertainment Weekly | A− [3] |
The Guardian | [4] |
Mojo | [5] |
NME | 7/10 [6] |
Pitchfork | 8.7/10 [7] |
Q | [8] |
Rolling Stone | [9] |
The Village Voice | A− [10] |
Trouser Press praised the album,calling it "an absolutely wonderful pop record,a subversion of Top 40 formulae to the pair's own idiosyncratic (but utterly accessible) ends." [11] In a retrospective review, Pitchfork called it "an album of contention,contrasts,cycles,and pop songs so layered and euphoric it ranks among the best albums either artist has ever made." [7]
All tracks written by John Cale and Brian Eno;except where indicated.
In the early 1990s,Warner Bros. US released a series of promotional-only 7" colored vinyl split-artist EPs called Soil Samples. Each side of these 7"ers would have unreleased tracks from the sessions of the artist's record these promos were ostensibly promoting.
Soil Samples #3 had unreleased tracks by House of Freaks on one side,and two unreleased cuts from the Eno/Cale Wrong Way Up sessions on the other side:a cover of "Ring of Fire" with vocals by Eno,and the instrumental "Shuffle Down to Woodbridge",apparently Cale solo.
To date,neither of these has been issued on CD,or anywhere else except this promotional 7".
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B Stiff is the first EP by American new wave band Devo,released in 1978 by Stiff Records.
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Conflict &Catalysis:Productions &Arrangements 1966–2006 is a compilation album by Welsh musician John Cale released by Big Beat Records in February 2012. It features twenty songs from Cale-produced albums by other artists. It includes tracks from all decades in which he worked as a producer:the sixties,the seventies,eighties,nineties and the new millennium. The last song is "Spinning Away" from Cale's collaborative album with Brian Eno Wrong Way Up (1990).