Wrong Way Up
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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 Eno single to ever reach an American chart (modern rock tracks #11). 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
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Robert Christgau | A−[2] |
| Rolling Stone |  [3] |
| Trouser Press | very 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
- "Lay My Love" - 4:44
- "One Word" - 4:34
- "In the Backroom" - 4:02
- "Empty Frame" - 4:26
- "Cordoba" - 4:22
- Side B
- "Spinning Away" - 5:27
- "Footsteps" - 3:13
- "Been There, Done That" - 2:52
- "Crime in the Desert" - 3:42
- "The River" (Brian Eno) - 4:23
Bonus tracks on 2005 remaster
- UK & rest of the world
- "Grandfather's House"
- "You Don't Miss Your Water" (William Bell)
- US
- "You Don't Miss Your Water" (William Bell)
- "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
- 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
- ^ Ruhlmann, William. Wrong Way Up at AllMusic
- ^ Robert Christgau: CG: Eno/Cale
- ^ Rolling Stone Music | Album Reviews
- ^ a b Grant, Steven; Green, Jim; Robbins, Ira. "TrouserPress.com :: Brian Eno". TrouserPress.com. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ^ 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