Brian Eno / Ali Click
Artist Brian Eno
Album Title: Ali Click
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Art Rock
Format CD Single
Released 09/18/1992
Label Opal Records/Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Catalog No 9 40650-2
Bar Code No 0 9362-40650-2 9
Packaging Digipack
Tracks
1. Grid Master Edit (4:49)
2. Album Edit (3:42)
3. Rural Doo Gap Mix (4:44)
4. Trance Mix - Long (7:28)
5. Darkly Mad Mix (4:11)
6. Grid Master Remix (7:13)
7. Beirut Hilton Mix (4:04)
8. I Fall Up (4:54)
Date Acquired 11/27/1992
Personal Rating
Acquired from Roadrunner Records
Purchase Price 8.00

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Review by David Ross Smith
According to several of the seven mixes on the CD EP Ali Click, "Brian's been amusing his friends by chewing on some plastic flashbulbs." "Ali Click" the tune, originally released on Eno's superb Nerve Net, is a groovy, rhythmic techno rocker perfectly suitable for creating dance mixes. Eno's sound-over-sense lyrics, presented in rap-like rhymes, heighten the composition's appeal. The closing track, "I Fall Up," is the real climax here. Originally recorded for Eno's unreleased My Squelchy Life (1993), this cut is also included on the three-CD box set, Brian Eno: Vocal. Like "Ali Click," "I Fall Up" is abundant with choice phoenetic jabberwocky ("More volts/I'm sucking the juice from the generator/Burn up/turn into a lanky housemaid/Sail up/I'm cackling off to the Congo"). The music is just as quirky, comprised of rhythms, sounds and, at times, tape effects reminiscent of Cluster/Eno's "Tzima N'arki" and Bowie/Eno's "African Night Flight." The cover of the Digipak CD case features an image from "Geological Cinema," a 1992 installation by Brian Eno.
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