Needles In the Camel's Eye - Brian Eno

Needles in the Camel's Eye - Brian Eno

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Here Come the Warm Jets, 1974

Written by Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera

I wouldn't call this experimental, which is what you think of when you think of Eno.  I'd call it maybe glam pop.  Over a repeated and simple but effective major guitar riff, Eno's voice and synths blend into a hypnotic melody.  The lyrics are, as often with his collaborator David Byrne, apparently secondary and without much surface meaning.  "Why ask why? / For by the by and by / All mysteries are just more / Needles in the camel's eye."  Indeed, Wikipedia tells us, Eno has attempted to dissuade fans from reading too much into his words; he claims that the song "Needles in the Camel's Eye" was "written in less time than it takes to sing ... I regard [the song] as an instrumental with singing on it."