My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [2006 Version] Image
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Universal acclaim- based on 13 Ratings

  • Summary: Twenty-five years after its original release, this groundbreaking, sample-driven collaboration between Byrne and Eno has been remastered and enlarged with seven bonus tracks.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 17
  2. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. 100
    [It] was mind-bending in its day and remains so now. [May 2006, p.122]
  2. Despite seven unessential bonus tracks, the remastered Ghosts feels haunting, hypnotic and fresh 25 years later. [14 Apr 2006, p.87]
  3. As an experimental project, it's clever and varied, and a vital chapter in the history of electronic music and sampling. As a pop record, it's tantalising, sensitive and essential; if you don't already own My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts, the reissue's extra tracks make now as good a time as any.
  4. Bush of Ghosts seems half-baked, putatively cerebral yet underthought, interesting only because somebody famous did it.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Dylan
    10
    Everyone from Duran Duran to Blue Man Group and modern electronic music owes this record more than a debt of gratitude.
  2. PeterD
    10
    One of my all time favorites even better with the aditional tracks.
  3. TobyK
    6
    Aside from "Regiment," which is incredibly kick-ass, this album is pretty lame worldbeat faire from the 80s. Which makes sense, because after 1977 Brian Eno became obsessed with musical "atmospheres" and became mind-numbingly boring. Expand
  4. mgsc
    4
    In 1981, I ran into John Hiatt in a bar in Indianapolis. He asked to what I was listening, and I told him that I was very intrigued by Bush of Ghosts. He then launched into a diatribe about how the album represented everything that was wrong with music. I disagreed at the time. In retrospect, he might have been right. Expand

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