Brian Eno "Another Green World" [1975]

Filing down the edges of prog rock and jazz fusion, then placing it all in the precious cocoon of the recording studio with a big-label expense account, Brian Eno's "Another Green World" burns several bridges toward what might have been ways to escape the tripe of AM radio like the Doobie Brothers and the proto-disco glitz like "T.S.O.P." at the time. Eno was more interested in playing spoil-sport to anyone other than those who may have felt Joan Armatrading was too spicy or Kraftwerk too palatable. Even when he lurches -- Todd Rundgren-like -- toward pop-ditty sentiment, the effects are undermined by his watered-down sour-buttermilk voice and his Quaalude-encumbered approach to sound-scaping. His hair must have fallen out due to sheer boredom. Amazing he was able to farm out the comatose stylings of "Another Green World" for the next decade through fellow pretentious suck-asses David Bowie and Bryan Ferry. This album should be called "Cure for Insomnia," as I'm finding it difficult to stay awake even writing about this wholly forgettable record by a guy who makes Moby look like Hulk Hogan. If this is the only "Another Green World" we ever wind up finding, we'd be better off getting sucked into a black hole.