I already had this album on vinyl when I bought it as part of the 1989 EG Records anniversary Brian Eno boxed set (pictured below) — I didn't have the two other CDs in the box, you see.
A third mention this month (1, 2) for the 1985 NME list of the best albums of all time, where this is the highest placed Brian Eno album. And if you look at which Eno tracks get played most often by Last.fm users, those from Another Green World dominate the top 20.
But I've never been a particularly big fan of this album, at least compared with some of his others. It's the one that seems to mark Eno's transition from songs to instrumental and ambient, and I don't think the mix of tracks hangs together particularly well. Neither are the songs his best songs, nor the instrumentals his most beautiful.
The highlights of this album for me are Robert Fripp's contributions. Eno seems to draw something out of him that you don't get when Fripp's name (or his band's name) is on the cover: he seems to shake off some of that notorious discipline he has and just have fun. "Heroes" would be another case in point.
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