393 of 1001 Albums: Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports

To get an understanding of ambient music first I looked up the definition so I would understand what the point of the album is. You don't have lyrics to give you the meaning, but what the music provides the listener is more so in the instrumentals created by the ambient sounds. Interestingly, music that is for background play usually is there to easy and be forgotten, but ambient on the other hand looks to be peaceful, but also stimulate the mind of the listener. It's no surprise that a lot of ethereal sounds are fused in to help the listener.

History: Brian Eno had been incorporating a quieter sound into his albums for the past few years with albums like Another Green World, but in Ambient 1: Music for Airports, he steps it up by beginning a series of albums just for an ambient sound. Robert Wyatt also was apart of the album contributing to the piano. The album also fused in the anxious sounds that would have then made people think of airports, and even landed it's tunes in an airport at some point during the 80's. The album has received mostly positive reviews with the exception of Spin, which only gave it 4 out of 10 stars.

361 of 1001 Albums: Brian Eno's Before and After Science

Admittingly, Here Comes the Warm Jets and Another Green World were more preferable, but Before and After Science took a long time for Brian Eno to craft with a total of two years elapsing before he would release it. Eno had formed many connections by 1977 though that he enlisted for the album though like members from Roxy Music and Genesis. The album almost takes a sci-fi sound on, and it brings in the first of what would be a huge sound in the 80s.

Many of the sounds on this album you would hear in music not too long after including the Talking Heads as he did work closely with them. "No One Receiving" kicks off the album in a serious but, very lively manner. The interesting sounds will instantly be noticed on the album.