Wrong Way Up
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Studio album by Brian Eno & John Cale | |||||||||||||
Released | 5 October 1990 | ||||||||||||
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April – July 1990 at Brian Eno's Wilderness Studio, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK | ||||||||||||
Genre | Art rock | ||||||||||||
Length | 41:30 | ||||||||||||
Label | All Saints Records | ||||||||||||
Producer | Brian Eno, John Cale | ||||||||||||
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Robert Christgau | A− [2] |
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Wrong Way Up is a 1990 album by Brian Eno and John Cale.
The album sits between the electronic and prog-rock/art rock genres and features some of both Eno's and Cale's most mainstream work. The single "Been There, Done That" remains the only Eno single to ever reach an American chart. The cover picture is by Eno.
Track listing
All tracks written by John Cale & Brian Eno except where indicated.
Original 1990 release
- Side A
- "Lay My Love" - 4:44
- "One Word" - 4:34
- "In the Backroom" - 4:02
- "Empty Frame" - 4:26
- "Cordoba" - 4:22
- Side B
- "Spinning Away" - 5:27
- "Footsteps" - 3:13
- "Been There, Done That" - 2:52
- "Crime in the Desert" - 3:42
- "The River" (Brian Eno) - 4:23
Bonus tracks on 2005 remaster
- UK & rest of the world
- "Grandfather's House"
- "You Don't Miss Your Water" (William Bell)
- US
- "You Don't Miss Your Water" (William Bell)
- "Palanquin"
Singles
"Spinning Away" b/w "Grandfather's House" 7" Germany 1990.
"Spinning Away" (edit) b/w "Grandfather's House" / "Palaquin" 12" & CD-single Germany 1990.
"One Word" b/w "Grandfather's House" / "Palanquin" 12" & CD-single UK 1990.
"One Word" (edit) / "Empty Frame" / "You Don't Miss Your Water" / "One Word (The Woodbridge Mix)" / "Grandfather's House" CD-EP USA 1991. (You Don't Miss Your Water taken from the Eno album Married To The Mob.)
Promotional tracks
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 the group 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".
Personnel
- John Cale: vocals, pianos, keyboards, bass, harp, horn, dumbek, viola, strings, omnichord
- Brian Eno: vocals, keyboards, rhythm bed, Indian drum, guitars, Shinto bell, bass, little Nigerian organ
- Robert Ahwai: rhythm guitar
- Nell Catchpole: violins
- Rhett Davies: backing vocals
- Daryl Johnson: bass
- Ronald Jones: tabla, drums
- Bruce Lampcov: backing vocals
- Dave Young: guitars, bass
References
- ↑ Ruhlmann, William. Wrong Way Up at AllMusic
- ↑ Robert Christgau: CG: Eno/Cale
- ↑ Rolling Stone Music | Album Reviews
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