Brian Eno- Third Uncle REACTION & REVIEW

[@lukashislop5890]

So much post punk before punk had the chance to post

[@edwardmeradith2419]

Perfect

[@Libri_amore_e_fantasia]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@VedranCro]

Another banger from this album is "The True Wheel". Such a weird, but likeable track.

[@eximusic]

I love The True Wheel.

[@SteveMenardDesignDXM]

Bought this album in 1978. When I heard this song, I said to myself… "This may be the first punk song I ever heard." BTW, you've got to check out Eno's next album, "Another Green World" (highly lauded by critics). ST. Elmo's Fire in particular is excellent. 1978's "Before and After Science" is a must.

[@sammelis6777]

Yes. And if you're doing Another Green World, you MUST do it as full album listen because it mostly contains short songs that flow together well and you kinda lose the point of the album if you do the songs individually.

[@DavidImiri]

Quite agree JP should continue with the catalogue. And the first punk songs I ever heard were definitely the handful on Here Come The Warm Jets!

[@submandave1125]

@@sammelis6777 IMO AGW is a beautiful bridging work between his "commercial" music, such as TTMBS or Roxy, and his early ambient work, such as "Music For Airports."

[@jasonfrodoman1316]

I'm a 70s teenager also. If you were listening to Eno back then, like me, you didn't quite fit in. The regular kids just didn't get it...

[@Oron-n5l]

@@DavidImiri I agree. Eno's 1973 solo debut had true Punk Rock songs and energy , a year before The New York Dolls debut and two years before the Ramones debut, each of which has been said to be the first Punk Rock album. Eno is the father of some genres like Ambient / New Age, the grandfather of other genres, and the Third Uncle of yet more. --- OronOfMontreal

[@UncleErnie71]

Incredibly ahead of its time. Manzanera is a beast on the guitar.

[@jamesadkisson7510]

A couple things. This is an example of an Eno lyric song writing exercise. I’ve read Byrne and Bono mention taking the idea of an Eno “ listing “ song as a great way to start when you are struggling with ideas. Also Bauhaus who cover their idols Bowie, Bolan and Eno do a great version of this.

[@plushy9849]

Yep, came here to mention the Bauhaus cover. The original is great, I just love how Bauhaus ramps it up.

[@dickiefears5832]

Bauhaus version is Third Uncle on speed. Love it!

[@rodneygriffin7666]

Punk before Punk.

[@kenl2091]

When he got in his time machine, Eno went straight to 1978 where he listened to The Mekons 'Where Were You?', sped it up a little then brought it back to 1974. Clever bloke, Eno. And you thought it was just ambient he invented? He invented post-punk before there was even punk to be post.

[@Libri_amore_e_fantasia]

Right, not to mention Talking Heads.

[@davidchaplain6748]

This album never stops being awesome. All the times I've heard it; all the years. It never ages. It never gets tired.

[@MrPboys1]

Taking tiger mountain by strategy is just such an amazing album that just doesn't get near enough love and attention still sounds ahead of our time let alone back then

[@pleasantvalleypickerca7681]

Incredible track! This is how you kick off side two of an album. Controlled chaos. Eno's early albums are brilliant.

[@semchen9]

Brian Eno, in the 1976, 801 Live Concert, and Album, did play Third Uncle,.. however, for me, the most faithful to the original Studio Version of Third Uncle, the Band, Built to Spill, plays the best, and most frenetic of all Versions of this Proto-Punk Song.

[@greyroo]

I remember reading some time back that Eno said he never really had any sort of story associated with his lyrics. He just used words if he liked how they sounded.

[@daveg6497]

So happy this one did it for you Justin. Timeless piece

[@RayRay-ot5xd]

Wow! What a great song! If someone told me this was Eno I would have said no way. The urgency is off the charts! I can see where Joy Division got their sound. Awesomeness!!

[@wallbangerreactions]

Probably my favorite tract too. Great reaction Justin. And, yes, Another Green World is the next album and a fantastic one.

[@johndrx165]

Great version on 801 Live also. Cool tune for sure.

[@frankfertier34]

Manzanera, Simon Phillips, etc..... 801 never deceives.

[@maartenlemmens8628]

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[@richardjones4466]

Fantastic album.@@frankfertier34

[@therealtwiggyleaf]

I agree this song is "a banger" and I'm glad you like it, but in my opinion there are many excellent songs on this album, some of which you have already heard on Side One (Hey, I'm looking at you, "Fat Lady of Limbourg"). If you get a chance, you can also hear a most excellent cover of this song by Bauhaus. I'm interested to hear what you are going to think of the next song on the album - another one of my favourites - but completely different! 😎😎

[@submandave1125]

Re lyrics, Eno often chose his words for the sound more than the meaning. This was based on the idea of sound poems, a key example being German surrealist Kurt Schwitters's Ursonate (yes, "Kurt's Rejoinder" on "Before and After Science" is a direct reference to him).

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

A great track, and it's all about that rhythm. It always reminds me slightly of Pink Floyd's "One of These Days", but with the speed cranked up to "frantic".

[@sammelis6777]

I would be nice to see you doing some Bowie again. I would recommend "Outside" because it's from the 90's and you really haven't heard anything from him outside of the "classic period". It's also quite unique album with some industrial rock, jazz and dance influences and contains some of his most experimental and darkest songs he ever recorded. AND it has Eno doing some weird production stuff so it can't be nothing but amazing.

[@BigMcLargeHuge122]

It's like something off of Wire's second or third album but it came out years before their first

[@Libri_amore_e_fantasia]

Exactly what I was thinking (I’m a huge Wire fan).

[@cosmiccat6708]

Love this song. Nuff said.

[@Cires789]

Love it. So influential.

[@aderyncoch3346]

Brilliant track. As much as I like Bauhaus you can't beat the original in my opinion.

[@frugalseverin2282]

The opening bass line sounds a LOT like that of Pink Floyd's 'One of These Days' from "Meddle" 3 years earlier.

[@Elvin_Pelvin]

yes that is what I thought but the similarity ends there

[@wendellwiggins2900]

This was the brilliance of raw ENO GENIUS of his pre-Punk era. The album is GOLD & FIRE throughout. But the creativity and psychedlic punk funk power here was pure hyper adrenaline at the time. Love his vocal style and bass

[@DavidImiri]

I agree with everything you've said here about Third Uncle. I just think you've been selling the rest of it a little short. 😄 I can't help but wonder if you've given any of them second listens, and if anything changed from that? I do hope you'll continue in due course with Another Green World, Before And After Science, and the wonderful Wrong Way Up, which he did with John Cale. I would bet you'd like each of these better than Tiger Mountain, in any case.

[@lawrencekelli]

Proffpunk! lol.I love this song and album. its fing hot! I was born1970 but knew all these songs from Eno and 801 live becauses of my teenage Uncles.

[@lhermosilla1556]

Great pick! Thanks

[@deancarter9210]

Nice live version on '801 Live'-which also has loads of other stuff you might like...including a version of the Beatles' 'Tomorrow never Knows'.

[@chinard]

Love this track but I still like the Bauhaus version more Peter Murphy's vocal delivery really drives this one home

[@Elvin_Pelvin]

that maybe so but you can't have a version without an original

[@lucianoteixeira7993]

I love this track too. One of my Eno's favs. But it's funny that the song begin with sounds that remind One of These days (by Pink Floyd) and then turn to a whole different path. Wonderful! P.S.: Like otherssaid before, the Bauhaus cover is amazing too. Worth a listen. Thanks for the reaction.

[@kometryder8702]

My favorite track is "China my China" but I like most of the tracks.

[@sicko_the_ew]

I've been looking forward to this one! :D

[@martinduner1844]

Please check out the version he did with 801 on their first album. Simon Philips on drums on that one.

[@lemming9984]

❤❤. Don't pay too much attention to the lyrics. They are part of the overall sound, rather than making a statement. The next song Put a Straw Under Baby is wonderful, with strange lyrics and the atonal Portsmouth Sinfonia.

[@RichieG]

Also, check another version he did with 801 from "801 Live"

[@janetmartin-rush206]

FORWARD M O V E M E N T!!!

[@herb6677]

To me this sounds like a bunch of great musicians having the fun of their lives. The bass player doesn't even have his own wikipedia site. Phil Manzanera didn't have the restrictions here as on some Roxy Music Material. I wish you did some of his recent solo material, for it is highly underrated.

[@varsitycamplife]

This is a great 1st draft… Bauhaus recorded the ultimate version though. Check it out!

[@alanh7247]

😂 great song

[@aarongonzalez7482]

Bauhaus does an exhilaratingly overstimulated version

[@glibmedley2314]

I remember getting into Eno in the early 80s, back in college. He was such an obvious influence on other bands I liked such as Wire and Ultravox. But I don't return to Eno like those artists. (Incidentally I agree with those saying the Bauhaus cover is better.) His later anbient work Thursday Afternoon is good background for yoga. I'm looking forward to JP's take on Another Green World (where each side needs a full listen, rather than individual tracks).

[@saturninebear]

highlight of the album (soon to be followed by the low point, in my opinion, of Eno's entire career). Fantastic track, as you say... frantic.

[@eximusic]

I'm surprised you just got to this. I would have recommended 1st or 2nd for a Brian Eno song to react to. Built to Spill covered this song live a few years ago but don't think it was captured on any quality recording equipment. Percussion was timbales BTW. And the low bass note hit halfway through was an accident and Eno insisted on keeping it. Adds a lot to the whole sound.

[@s.collintuck3227]

I can see this having a similarity to "Work That Skirt" perhaps (B52's). They both have a driving froward intensity to the rhythm that doesn't stop. And the rest of the song flits about over that. I'll second "Another Green World" as a full album listen. I don't really like them, but some albums demand the attention!

[@RocketDaveA]

Bauhaus does a great cover.

[@a.k.1740]

👍Way better than Eno's original in my humble opinion!😉

[@RocketDaveA]

I won't argue with you,@@a.k.1740 !

[@nomisnestral6956]

Rat Scabies and Kevin Haskins sure got the lesson right.

[@johnniekight1879]

Yeah. This track is a real killer.

[@similimum66]

So many voices for the Bauhaus version! But since it is boring to just do the same song over again, how about doing an album reaction to Bauhaus' 'The Sky's gone out'? More such fireworks guaranteed!

[@Lwize]

The 801 Live version is the best.

[@quintinallen5937]

Bauhaus does a good cover of this.

[@stephenholberton8381]

You need to check the bauhaus cover of this

[@ppauly]

apologies in advance for "put a straw under baby"

[@peterjohnstone2877]

Isn't that Phil Collins on drums? So says the credits.

[@Zopf-international]

Eno does Devo does Eno. ❤

[@kurtkish6970]

THIS, is his best (pop-rock) album- not Here Come the Warm Jets. HCTWJ is very groundbreaking for sure- but I prefer the actual music on this album.

[@MJ1]

Brian Eno, son on Mr and Mrs Eno. Friend of himself…literally with the same DNA of composer who created the incredible Here He Comes and Backwater. That’s too easy.

[@ethelwulfmountbattenderoth2286]

This song was better than the Lisa Hartman song.

[@rydelldownward7808]

Try the cover by Bauhaus!

[@lipby]

I like the cover by Bauhaus, which is a bit more amped--though, for the most part, Bauhaus is boring.

[@jasonbrandt5504]

By far the best song on the album.

[@rdumontdebeque]

People love this song. It’s been covered often. It’s okay. Not my favorite Eno song.

[@lordofthehornets4739]

Good but I prefer the cover by Bauhaus.

[@a.k.1740]

Yep ! The Bauhaus cover easily outclasses Eno's original.

[@a.k.1740]

I don't like "Third Uncle" by its creator. I prefer the cover made by Bauhaus in 1982 on their album The Sky's Gone Out. Compare and you will hear the huge difference! I find that Eno's original is flat and messy but not aggressive and threatening, unlike the Bauhaus cover which totally surpasses this original piece.

[@jfergs.3302]

This's the first track on this disc i've not actually baulked at. However it's just ok, nothing special. A tad repetitive, and deffo overlong. After a promising start I did find my interest waining around the 3 and a half minute mark.