Weirdo Wednesday: Brian Eno Flaunts Lead Singer Persona With “Seven Deadly Finns” Live 1974

Identifying the weirdest part of Brian Eno’s career depends a lot on your definition of “weird”. Was it his decadent and glammy Roxy Music days in the early 70s, or perhaps the inherently cerebral nature of his abstract ambient records to come later in the decade and beyond? For this writer, the answer has always lied somewhere in between, namely on his first two rock-centric solo records, the eerie and occasionally intense Here Come the Warm Jets, and the generally quirkier Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). And it’s not just because those albums are so experimental and strange. Still, they also represent an all-to-brief period where Eno was an actual frontman, singing songs and in the spotlight, which is antithetical to who Eno is as an artist. In essence, he doesn’t particularly like being the center of attention. He prefers to work in the background, which makes this solo performance of “Seven Deadly Finns” from 1974 inherently weird. Sure, his distinctive fashion at the time could be characterized as “weird” by most people. His vocal delivery here is also a bit unusual (not to mention the song’s subject matter). Still, the real peculiarity here is just witnessing Eno as a rock frontman, a period he has generally shunned over the years in spite of a lot of quirky brilliance that came out of it. Whatever the case, it is a pretty remarkable performance, all things considered: 

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