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this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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I mean it may not be his biggest accomplishment but it may be the most relevant.
Ugh, no. I've known Brian Eno and his music and the influence he had on other musicians* for decades before I learnt about this little factoid, just a few years ago.
* (U2, Devo, Talking Heads, Paul Simon, Grace Jones, Sinéad O'Connor, Robert Wyatt, Ultravox, Coldplay...)
No what?
I guess trying to make generative music hasn't been among your interests. Brian Eno is a huge part of all modern interesting music.
LOL this has nothing to do with my personal interests, it's relevant to the content of the article.
There's such a thing as cultural context. Beethoven is not known as the EU anthem composer, and Eno is not known as the Windows 95 sound composer. It's weird to refer to them this way.
Yes, you're absolutely correct, context is important. In this context, the most relevant achievement of Eno is in the title of the article.
The order of the words in the title implies Windows 95 is more culturally important than Brian Eno.
Anyway, Infected Mushroom's one is better.
Tired of arguing in the interwebs.
It doesn't