Wrong Way Up

Wrong Way Up
Studio album by Brian Eno & John Cale
Released 5 October 1990
Recorded April – July 1990
at 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)		 Wrong Way Up
(1990)		 Paris s'eveille - suivi d'autres compositions
(1991)
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 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 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]
Robert ChristgauA−[2]
Rolling Stone[3]
Trouser Pressvery favourable[4]

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."[4]

Track listing

All tracks written by John Cale & 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"
  2. "You Don't Miss Your Water" (William Bell)
US
  1. "You Don't Miss Your Water" (William Bell)
  2. "Palanquin"

Singles

"Been There, Done That" b/w ?, 1990 US ?[5]
"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

Technical

References

  1. ↑ Ruhlmann, William. Wrong Way Up at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Robert Christgau: CG: Eno/Cale
  3. ↑ Rolling Stone Music | Album Reviews
  4. 1 2 Grant, Steven; Green, Jim; Robbins, Ira. "TrouserPress.com :: Brian Eno". TrouserPress.com. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
  5. ↑ 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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