Wrong Way Up

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Wrong Way Up
Wrong Way Up cover
Studio album by Brian Eno & John Cale
Released October 1990
Recorded Apr 1990-Jul 1990
Genre Art Rock
Length 41:30
Label Opal Ltd.
Producer(s) Brian Eno & John Cale
Professional reviews
Brian Eno chronology
The Shutov Assembly
(1990)
Wrong Way Up
(1990)
Nerve Net
(1992)


John Cale chronology
Words for the Dying
(1989)
Wrong Way Up
(1990)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
(1991)

Wrong Way Up is a 1990 album by Brian Eno & John Cale.

Cale and Eno have both flirted with pop music on a number of occasions. Wrong Way Up is, arguably the most successful venture into such territory from either of them. Dating from 1990 it covers a wide range of styles. It lacks the greater depth of Cale's major works and the atmospherics that Eno is associated with, but is probably the most accessible album either of them has produced.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Lay My Love" (4:44)
  2. "One Word" (4:34)
  3. "In the Backroom" (4:02)
  4. "Empty Frame" (4:26)
  5. "Cordoba" (4:22)
  6. "Spinning Away" (5:27)
  7. "Footsteps" (3:13)
  8. "Been There, Done That" (2:52)
  9. "Crime in the Desert" (3:42)
  10. "The River" (4:23)

[edit] Personnel

  • Brian Eno: vocals, keyboards, rhythm bed, Indian drum, guitars, Shinto bell, bass, little Nigerian organ
  • John Cale: vocals, pianos, keyboards, bass, harp, horn, dumbek, viola, strings, omnichord
  • 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