Comments on: Eno sings!

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:45:47 +0000

I like Eno’s voice very much. Right now I am listening to a live album by Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera and Eno contributes keyboards and vocals. One of my favorite vocal performances is I’ll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoes). Those albums you mentioned are simply great, I agree.

Bill

By: Tristan Tom

Tristan Tom — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:07:39 +0000

Eno wrote one of my absolute favorite essays on technology several years back in Wired magazine. It's well worth the read: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/eno_pr.html

By: Kevin Arthur

Kevin Arthur — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:21:03 +0000

Eno’s new album with David Byrne is well worth checking out if you haven’t already. Eno does a lot of backing vocals. See everythingthathappens.com. It’s stronger than Wrong Way Up or Another Day, in my opinion.

By: Amos Anan

Amos Anan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:27:55 +0000

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That’s one of the great feelings — to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
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Sorry to disagree, not with the joy of singing and the inner pleasure that can be derived from it, but with what seems to be the fundamental premise of the quoted paragraph – that group think engenders empathy.

Sure it does. That’s why Brown Shirt behavior has such a strong association with empathy. That’s why religion is so related to commonality and completely antithetical to harsh judgment of others and … holy wars.

There’s nothing that says empathy like being the proud member of a gang.

We like to portray the rare violent mad loner as emblematic of a dangerous social trait (like being a liberal) but when a group, such as a nation, is lead to wars of choice for very spurious yet shouted reasons, killing thousands and thousands and more in the process, it has nothing to do with group think and its potential for malevolence.

Grouping has little to do with empathy. It seems much closer to the opposite.