![]() ![]() Ĭhad Mossholder left a one star review: “ LOL! You can print them online for free. ![]() But his criticism was inaccurate, the cards were created in 1973, 5 years before Eno produced More Songs About Buildings and Food, and after that, Fear of Music, and after that Remain in Light. ” Three stars, said Greg Maffei, who raised an interesting point about money and how it forces people to make ugly decisions. The Talking Heads production royalties must be running out. “ It’s pretty cool, kind of expensive for what it is. Or would it? Could I afford not to purchase Oblique Strategies? I consulted the user reviews. I checked my bank account and quickly realized, it would be a financial disaster if I spent $60 on a deck of mystical cards. The Oblique Strategies cards retail for $60. Having no ideas myself anymore, and also wishing to create a masterpiece, I went on Amazon dot com and typed in Oblique Strategies. ” With an open mind, and the guidance of those cards, Eno wrote Another Green World, a masterpiece of the avant-garde. One card says: “ Abandon desire.” Another says: “ Remove the middle extend the edges. The strategies are prompts meant to spark creativity. Something like 100 cards in all, each card with a ‘strategy’ printed on it. Oblique Strategies is a system developed by Eno and the painter, Peter Schmidt. He had no ideas whatsoever, having largely abandoned traditional songwriting, and now coming into bloom as an artist ‘ playing the studio.’ He carried with him a deck of cards called Oblique Strategies. In July of 1975, Brian Eno entered Island Studios to record his third album, Another Green World. ![]()
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