Wrong Way Up
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| Studio album by Brian Eno & John Cale | |||||||||||||
| Released | 5 October 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Recorded | April – July 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Studio | Brian Eno's Wilderness Studio, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK |
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| Genre | Art rock | ||||||||||||
| Length | 41:30 | ||||||||||||
| Label | Opal/Warner Bros. All Saints/Hannibal (2005) |
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| Producer | Brian Eno, John Cale | ||||||||||||
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| AllMusic |   |
| Robert Christgau | A− |
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| Trouser Press | very favourable |
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.
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."
All tracks written by John Cale & Brian Eno except where indicated.
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".
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