II: Vocal

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Needles in the Camel’s Eye
  3:10
  4.6 ★
• 2
  Baby’s on Fire
  5:21
  4.8 ★
• 3
  Cindy Tells Me
  3:25
• 4
  On Some Faraway Beach
  4:36
  4.5 ★
• 5
  Blank Frank
  3:35
  4.6 ★
• 6
  Dead Finks Don’t Talk
  4:19
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Some of Them Are Old
  5:11
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Here Come the Warm Jets
  4:05
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Seven Deadly Finns
  3:10
• 10
  Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
  3:15
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Back in Judy’s Jungle
  5:18
  3.0 ★
• 12
  The Great Pretender
  5:10
• 13
  Third Uncle
  4:49
  4.4 ★
• 14
  Put a Straw Under Baby
  3:25
  3.0 ★
• 15
  The True Wheel
  5:10
  4.4 ★
• 16
  Taking Tiger Mountain
  5:30
• 17
  The Lion Sleeps Tonight
  2:52
  5.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Sky Saw
  3:28
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Over Fire Island
  1:51
  3.0 ★
• 3
  St Elmo’s Fire
  3:01
  3.0 ★
• 4
  In Dark Trees
  2:29
  5.0 ★
• 5
  The Big Ship
  3:03
  3.5 ★
• 6
  I’ll Come Running
  3:49
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Sombre Reptiles
  2:19
• 8
  Golden Hours
  4:00
• 9
  Becalmed
  3:56
• 10
  Zawinul/Lava
  3:00
• 11
  Everything Merges With the Night
  3:59
• 12
  Spirits Drifting
  2:44
• 13
  No One Receiving
  3:51
• 14
  Backwater
  3:43
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Kurt’s Rejoinder
  2:55
• 16
  King’s Lead Hat
  3:55
  4.6 ★
• 17
  Here He Comes
  5:38
• 18
  Julie With…
  6:20
• 19
  By This River
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Through Hollow Lands
  3:56
• 21
  Spider & I
  4:12
• CD 3
• 1
  R.A.F.

  Brian Eno & Snatch
  3:00
• 2
  America Is Waiting

  Brian Eno & David Byrne
  3:38
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Regiment

  Brian Eno & David Byrne
  3:59
• 4
  The Jezebel Spirit

  Brian Eno & David Byrne
  4:57
• 5
  Wire Shock
  5:26
• 6
  Ali Click
  4:20
• 7
  Spinning Away

  Brian Eno & John Cale
  5:27
• 8
  Empty Frame

  Brian Eno & John Cale
  4:26
• 9
  The River
  4:23
• 10
  The Soul of Carmen Miranda

  John Cale
  3:25
• 11
  The Belldog

  Eno, Moebius & Roedelius
  6:17
• 12
  I Fall Up
  3:42
• 13
  Stiff
  3:23
• 14
  Are They Thinking of Me?
  5:33
• 15
  Some Words
  4:33
• 16
  Under
  5:19
• 17
  Over
  3:46

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Release credits

• Andy Fraser
  drums (drum set) [16]
• Andy Mackay
  guest [4, 7], keyboard [4, 7], saxophone [7]
• Bill Laswell
  arranger [2], bass [2]
• Bill MacCormick
  bass guitar [1, 5], guest [1, 5]
• Brian Eno
  Minimoog [18], Moog [17], analog synthesizer [17-18, 18-19], arranger [3.2, 3.7, 1.6], background vocals [8], bass pedals [3], bell [18], brass [14], choir vocals [15], drum machine [4-5], electric guitar [13, 18], grand piano [10], guitar [1.1-2, 1.4-8, 2.1-4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.11, 2.14, 2.16, 3.8], keyboard [1-2, 4-8], lead vocals [1.1-2, 1.4-8, 2.13-15, 2.17, 2.19], mix [1.1-2, 1.4-8, 3.7-8], organ [3.8, 2.3, 2.8, 2.10], other instruments [7-8], percussion [3-6, 8, 16], performer [2, 4, 10], piano [3, 6, 8-9, 13-18], producer [3.1-2, 3.4, 3.7-8, 3.16, 2.1-6, 2.8-11, 1.1-2, 1.4-11, 1.13-15], recording [7-8], solo [16], synthesizer [1.1-2, 1.4-8, 2.2, 2.4-6, 2.9-10, 2.13, 2.15], tape [2, 10], vocal [2.1, 2.3, 2.6, 2.8, 2.11, 3.7-8], vocal arranger [8]
• Brian Turrington
  arranger [13], bass guitar [11], piano [11]
• Bruce Lampcov
  mix [7-8]
• Busta Jones
  arranger [6], bass guitar [4, 6], guest [4, 6]
• Chris Spedding
  guest [1], guitar [1]
• Chris Thomas
  mix [1-2, 4-8]
• Daryl Johnson
  bass guitar [7]
• Dave Hutchins
  engineer [13]
• Dave Mattacks
  drums (drum set) [15, 17]
• David Byrne
  arranger [2], performer [2, 4], producer [2, 4]
• David Van Tieghem
  arranger [2], drums (drum set) [2], percussion [2]
• David Young
  bass guitar [8], guitar [8]
• Derek Chandler
  engineer [1-2, 4-8]
• Dieter Moebius
  Rhodes piano [19]
• Hans‐Joachim Roedelius
  electric piano [19], grand piano [19]
• Jaki Liebezeit
  drums (drum set) [14]
• James Mingo Lewis
  Batá drum [4], rhythm sticks [4]
• John Cale
  co [7-8], darbuka [8], keyboard [7], other instruments [8], piano [8], viola [3.7, 2.1, 2.8]
• John Wetton
  bass guitar [2], guest [2]
• Kurt Schwitters
  spoken vocals [15]
• Lloyd Watson
  guest [7], slide guitar [7]
• Markus Dravs
  membranophone [5], mix [5]
• Marty Simon
  guest [2], percussion [2]
• Nell Catchpole
  additional [10], viola [10], violin [7, 10]
• Nick Judd
  arranger [6], guest [6], keyboard [6]
• Nick Kool & The Koolaids
  guest [5], keyboard [5]
• Paul Rudolph
  bass [1, 6, 16-18, 18], bass guitar [1.2, 1.8, 2.6], electric bass guitar [13-14], guest [2, 8], guitar [2.6, 2.10, 2.13, 1.2, 1.8], snare drum [6]
• Paul Thompson
  arranger [6], guest [6], percussion [6]
• Percy Jones
  bass [15], fretless bass [1-2, 10, 13]
• Phil Collins
  drums (drum set) [1-2, 13], percussion [10]
• Phil Manzanera
  guest [1], guitar [1.1, 2.16-17]
• Prairie Prince
  bass drum [4], other instruments [4]
• Rhett Davies
  engineer [2.1-6, 2.8-11, 2.13, 1.10-11, 1.13-15], mix [7-8], producer [3.1, 2.1-6, 2.8-11]
• Rhett Davis
  gong [13], rhythm sticks [13]
• Robert Ahwai
  guitar [7]
• Robert Fripp
  electric guitar [16], guest [2, 5], guitar [1.2, 1.5, 2.3, 2.6, 2.8], solo [16]
• Robert Wyatt
  timbales [15]
• Rod Melvin
  Rhodes piano [1, 10], piano [6]
• Simon King
  guest [1-2, 4-5, 8], percussion [1-2, 4-5, 8]
• Sweetfeed
  background vocals [4-5], guest [4-5]
• The Portsmouth Sinfonia
  strings [14]
• Tim Wright
  arranger [2], bass [2]
• Show all credits (46)

Issues

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  I
  II: Vocal

  3x CD
  21 October 1993