The Fat Lady of Limbourg

[NoTeaBaggers]

Wow! It has been 39 years since I heard this song. Thank you for the post. And thank you Brian for the music!

[blueprairiedog]

So what's a jellyfish kiss, UK people? Some kind of candy?

[TheRockingtam]

I first heard this on an ENO bootleg(giving my age away even knowing what a bootleg is/was)It was a cracking tune then and so it remains, no wonder most youngsters are asking us to let them hear "real" music, slowly but surely I'm becoming HIP again !"HEARD IT"

[KarovaMilkyBar]

na?! die gute! onkel sei danck.

[ozzyscot1]

too many mushies haha !!

[loverman123able]

LOVE THIS ! ABOUT DRUG'S !?? COKE? ??

[prodigel]

@loverman123able

wiki for it, you'll find the inspiration on the album page. Somehow I can't paste the lnk here. wonder why... ;)

[drogheda1966]

@loverman123able No, man it's real art, something looked at from an oblique angle and turned into an amazing morph. If you really like this, pick up his first 4 albums but start with 'Another Green World'. You know that phrase '...don't make 'em like they used to.'? In Eno's case they REALLY don't! He would never stoop to writing about drugs, though.

[jeanclaudearnod]

Magnifica

[stevebray55]

UNIQUE....funny ....thoughtful.....like The Goons somehow???

[woodsworkciew]

wow this song brings back memories,of not many memories,

to many mushies

[h92o]

so there are week spots?

[serger01]

Si vous n'aimez pas cela je vous hais...

If you do not like this I hate you ...

[frederick909]

Wow this is from Velvet Goldmine!!Great movie and I love the song :)

[photuwala]

ambrosia parsley rocks.

[DonFormica]

The melody from Back in Judy's jungle is the theme from and old war movie 'the Bridge on the river Kwai" Eno took the melody and slowed it down. --So I made a video of Back in judy's Jungle - using the trailer from "Bridge on the river Kwai"

[muskndusk]

Love this album. First heard it when living with boyfriend in a flat also shared with drama students who kept us awake with this LP. Started to love it and bought it! We were doing our A levels at an FE college in Stratford on Avon. Great times!

You can't beat "it was only a candle, a roman scandle, now it's a pool"!!!

[muskndusk]

@muskndusk at me..typo...should be

"scandal" !

[84gdaniel]

wonderfull song,glam rock forever

[ataksch]

brian eno touches shit and shit becomes to gold.

[papacha7]

God this takes me back

[sentinel2012]

But a link in the chain...

[daven58100]

that chick is HOT!

[drogheda1966]

@daven58100  Yum-nummmm!

[kingscott58]

babys on fire. talk about guitar strangeling they were a great team  fripp and eno!!!

[superpriestess]

which album is this from? i'm only familiar with this song because of velvet goldmine, but i have much respect brian eno.

[newchicagogirl]

Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy).

Some other songs on that album you might like:

Third Uncle

Burning Airlines Give You So Much More

Taking Tiger Mountain

The Great Pretender

and...

The True Wheel!

[EMILIOMARENGO]

@newchicagogirl

and then again, you just may go nuts over the whole album...liveitup!!

[skiffmanmike]

If we must! Her sense of taste is such that she'll distinguish (with her tounge) the subulties a spectrograph would miss!

Where can I get a damn spectrograph!

[qu1et]

not too many pop songs with the word "spectrograph" in them!

[ClassicRockSovereign]

@qu1et

And there aren't so many with "Hermaphroditus" in them, either. Have you ever heard Genesis's "Fountain of Salmacis"?

[jinksyjet1]

is that a chimney pot on her head!

[frippp66]

Great track! Identify completely with the lyrics. Isn't that Les Dawson in the photo?

[hanko2001]

We'll ditch you in the harbor if we must.

[Izzielotzafunnies]

This is hard to find, and it's my favorite Eno song!!! thank you for posting this~

~smiles~

[EMILIOMARENGO]

This's the biggest city in Ecuador and i can vouch that there isn't a single Eno, or Eno related material available, even in spite of a huge bootleg market. For those of us who swim alternate currents YOUTUBE remains the only choice. Thanks to everyone for the sharing!!

[EMILIOMARENGO]

ok all of you out there! some of us cant get any of this-thanks for posting-ENO is so fresh-just like 35 years back when i couldn't believe my ears

[luvinbuzzin]

I've loads of eno - where are you if you cannot get any???

[sedicenobufalo]

god i love eno so much i want to make out with him and im not even gay! whats my problem?

[dansk8888]

the mystique of this

the liberation of permanent limbo

the space

[luvinbuzzin]

Eno Gay??? What about the girlfriends?? He may be bi - personally I don't think so

[depechemodevilla]

I think Warm Jets was a better album.

[migomadness]

That's my aunty from Greenock, on holiday!

True! Bon fide! The Germans got the British police to come and take her away!

[stupotthe]

I've been to Greenock a few times, never saw her about though, maybe thats why? :)

[qu1et]

...but her sense of taste is such that she'll distinguish with her tongue, the subtlies a spectrograph would miss...

Fantastic lyrics!

[Ruiner10000000001]

Excellant tune. Not so keen on the video!

[MrPantucci]

My nickname betrays an insane passion for this song :D

[nomno]

...and we´ll ditch you in the harbor if we mussst...

Eno has made my life better.

[Baburote]

I think I have like 10 Eno records -

vinyl.

they are all the money worth...

Thats what you paid fore here.

[freedomsfart]

Eno is a genius. Here come the warm jets was made when he was in his mid twenties. What were you doing at that age? Me? Jack shit. Fuck.

[liamMaru]

Yeah, and look at the shit musicians in their mid 20's put out now.

[blekproductions]

@freedomsfart best comment ever

[shring7]

One of my all time favourite songs,thanks

[pigsbishop99]

Ok, I've returned to Taking Tiger Mountain again after over thirty years and am hence able to revise my earlier comment. Before I said it was one of the great albums. But I think now that it is THE greatest album ever made. I never heard a better one anyway.

[khurit]

thanks for not making this into some asinine anti-bush pro-terrorist bullcrap like most of your 'videos' !!!

[josephpoulin]

josephpoulin

 Amazing still!!!!30 some years.. and still unbelievable...As exciting as first time I played it.

[angelgan1987]

Who sang it first this song???

[farglebargle1]

It's clearly surreal but it seems to be about a quasi-legal firm and the various jobs it gets "paid for"-- brokering a deal or tracking down the fabled egg. The Fat Lady works for the firm due to her expertise involving, of all things, taste. Are the samples candy, drugs, or something worse? A Jellyfish Kiss sounds like something all women want.

[pigsbishop99]

Taking Tiger Mountain is one of the all time great albums so is Here Come The Warm Jets. Eat your heart our Brian Ferry you never were as great as Brian Eno. I'm 57 now, but I still love this stuff.

[billmossII]

Taking Tiger Mountain was my first introduction to Brian Eno, back in 1978 or so. Visiting people in Pittsburgh, away from the shelter of my backwater sleepy town. Big fan ever since. I never tire of this LP et. al.

[0793589606]

i always thought back in judy's jungle would be better with a clockwork orange theme, after all the album and the movie were around the same time and had the same artistic intentions; post glam rock decadence, mmmm.

[gollaglee123]

can anyone tell me the title of the eno track which has the lyrics. give me you answer,seems like its do it or die or i can spare two more farmhands dont ask me why.and if anyone has it could they post it.ta.

[evelyneverettgreen]

@gollaglee123 The lyrics are from Back in Judy's Jungle, a track on the same album as The Fat Lady of Limbourgh, TakingTiger Mountain. i think it's an album that, although 37 years old, always sounds like it was recorded about ten years into the future...

[nikons]

ummm..except for this duck..quack

[nikons]

I always thought the lyrics to this song were a series of descriptive 'snapshots' all losely based around a theme of espionage and spying.

[Kublakhan61]

"I assume you understand that we have options on your time" - My favorite line. Eno clearly enjoyed the sound and rhythm of words.

As for shakimaro - you may as well have asked why the horns keep repeating those short phrases... it's all just sound. Only Eno knows for sure if there is meaning. Afterall, he claims "Dead Finks" isn't about Ferry.

[shakimaro]

i hate to sound like a jackass but i really don't understand the lyrics. i like the song just for liking it but would like to know the meaning. can anyone please explain?

[AcidCoffee]

It's about record companies.

About prostitution of the "artists"

[bartonone2005]

Brian Eno has said in an interview that he wrote lyrics which complemented and "fit" the music. Words were chosen for their sound and not for their literal meaning. That being said, some lines by themselves seem to make perfect, ironic sense.

[walleyedogpk]

OMG!!!!!! i been looking all over for this song!!!!

this is AWESOME...ty ty ty for putting this out!! holy shit i cant believe it...thought i would never hear this song again!!

[floyd123]

nice 1 been waiting for someone to put fat lady of Limbourg on you tube ,,, fantastic tune!!

[johncotexas]

My favorite Eno song... Thanks for putting this out there.