Brian Eno – "St. Elmo’s Fire"

This tune comes from Brian’s third and quite probably most worthwhile album, and I am referring to “Another Green World.” This song is weird and majestic, the percussion is very alien. Brian always uses lyrical abstracts and as to what he is referring to exactly is beyond my tight little buttocks, and perhaps an individual somewhat more educated in the world of Eno can help me reach a worthwhile conclusion. The star of the show, so to speak, is the amazing guitar work of Young Master Robert Fripp of King Crimson and Robert Fripp fame. His guitar playing somehow sounds like a clarinet on fire having sex with a bisexual rattlesnake on the planet Boner Fart. Things are that intense in the lead guitar department on this cut, and I am shatting you not here, buster.

The little piano touches, all aspects of the composition are near perfection and let me make clear that this is one of Brian Eno’s very best songs, and that is saying a lot, especially if one thinks about all of the amazing vocal-driven material contained on “Here Come the Warm Jets.” This tune could have easily been included on the motion picture soundtrack to the Jim Henson film “Labyrinth,” it’s just that fantastical and strange. It is almost as if early Eletronica somehow mingles itself in with classic Psychedelia and with decidedly sexy results, mate.

I beg of you to rock your bottom violently as your ears greet you to the ecstasy that is Brian Eno’s “St. Elmo’s Fire.”