Wrong Way Up

Wrong Way Up
Studio album by Brian Eno & John Cale
Released 5 October 1990
Recorded April – July 1990
Studio Brian Eno's Wilderness Studio,
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK
Genre Art rock
Length 41:30
Label Opal/Warner Bros.
All Saints/Hannibal (2005)
Producer Brian Eno, John Cale
Brian Eno chronology
Textures
(1989)		 Wrong Way Up
(1990)		 Nerve Net
(1992)
John Cale chronology
Songs for Drella
(1990) Songs for Drella1990		 Wrong Way Up
(1990) Wrong Way Up1990		 Paris s'eveille - suivi d'autres compositions
(1991) Paris s'eveille - suivi d'autres compositions1991
Singles from Wrong Way Up
  1. "Been There, Done That"
    Released: 1990

Wrong Way Up is a 1990 album by Brian Eno and John Cale.

The album sits between the electronic, prog-rock and art rock genres and features some of both Eno and Cale's most mainstream work. The single "Been There, Done That" remains the only single on which Eno performs to ever reach an American chart (modern rock tracks #11), though Cale is the lead singer. The cover was conceived by Eno. The 2005 re-release on All Saints Records was remastered and had a different cover. It contained two bonus tracks, "Grandfather's House" and ″You Don't Miss Your Water″ by Eno. Both titles only appeared on single or EP before; the latter was taken from the 1988 OST album Married to the Mob.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Chicago Tribune[2]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[3]
NME7/10[4]
Orlando Sentinel[5]
Pitchfork8.7/10[6]
Q[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[9]
The Village VoiceA−[10]

Trouser Press praised the album, calling it "an absolutely wonderful pop record, a subversion of Top 40 formulae to the pair's own idiosyncratic (but utterly accessible) ends."[11] In a retrospective review, Pitchfork called it "an album of contention, contrasts, cycles, and pop songs so layered and euphoric it ranks among the best albums either artist has ever made."[6]

Track listing

All tracks written by John Cale and Brian Eno; except where indicated.

Original 1990 release

Side A
  1. "Lay My Love" - 4:44
  2. "One Word" - 4:34
  3. "In the Backroom" - 4:02
  4. "Empty Frame" - 4:26
  5. "Cordoba" - 4:22
Side B
  1. "Spinning Away" - 5:27
  2. "Footsteps" - 3:13
  3. "Been There, Done That" - 2:52
  4. "Crime in the Desert" - 3:42
  5. "The River" (Brian Eno) - 4:23

Bonus tracks on 2005 remaster

UK & rest of the world
  1. "Grandfather's House" (John Cale)
  2. "You Don't Miss Your Water" (William Bell)
US
  1. "You Don't Miss Your Water" (William Bell)
  2. "Palanquin" (John Cale)

Singles

"Been There, Done That" b/w ?, 1990 US ?[12]
"Spinning Away" b/w "Grandfather's House", 1990 German 7"
"Spinning Away (edit)" b/w "Grandfather's House" / "Palaquin", 1990 German 12" & CD-single
"One Word" b/w "Grandfather's House" / "Palanquin", 1990 UK 12" & CD-single
"One Word" (edit) / "Empty Frame" / "You Don't Miss Your Water" / "One Word" (The Woodbridge Mix) / "Grandfather's House", 1991 US CD-EP

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 - lead vocals (2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9), backing vocals, pianos, keyboards, bass, harp, horn, dumbek, viola, strings, omnichord
  • Brian Eno - lead vocals (1, 2, 4, 6, 10), backing vocals, keyboards, rhythm bed, Indian drum, guitars, Shinto bell, bass, little Nigerian organ, cover picture
  • 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
Technical
  • Recordings engineered by Brian Eno, except John Cale's vocals recordings, which were engineered by Dave Young
  • Rhett Davies, Bruce Lampcov, Brian Eno - mixing
  • Brian Eno, Kevin Cann - art, design

References

  1. ↑ Ruhlmann, William. "Wrong Way Up – Brian Eno / John Cale". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Kot, Greg (25 October 1990). "Simple, Soulful Album". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Robbins, Ira (16 November 1990). "Wrong Way Up". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Brian Eno and John Cale: Wrong Way Up". NME. 27 October 1990.
  5. ↑ Henderson, Bill (23 November 1990). "Brian Eno, John Cale". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  6. 1 2 O'Leary, Chris (15 October 2017). "Brian Eno / John Cale: Wrong Way Up". Pitchfork. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "Brian Eno and John Cale: Wrong Way Up". Q (50). November 1990.
  8. ↑ Handelman, David (15 November 1990). "Wrong Way Up: Brian Eno and John Cale". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 14 November 2007. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  9. ↑ Hull, Tom (2004). "John Cale". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 131–32. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  10. ↑ Christgau, Robert (7 May 1991). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  11. ↑ Grant, Steven; Green, Jim; Robbins, Ira. "TrouserPress.com :: Brian Eno". TrouserPress.com. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  12. ↑ Discogs.com only lists is a 1990 promo release in the US without a B-side: "Brian Eno/John Cale – Been There Done That" at Discogs


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