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#ByrneEno6Music - help curate a David Byrne and Brian Eno-inspired playlist

Tom Robinson asks for suggestions for a special playlist inspired by David Byrne and Brian Eno via #ByrneEno6Music.

What a week for massively famous new wave acts. First of all, Talking Heads legend David Byrne is all over the network, and then - whad'ya know - 6 Music goes and announces that Byrne's old mate Brian Eno will deliver next month's John Peel Lecture.

So this, dear listener, gives you not one but TWO hugely rich seams to mine on Sunday's Now Playing. The brief is simple. Any song or artist you can think of that has an association - no matter how trivial - to David Byrne and Brian Eno. Thankfully their historical musical paths cross many times.

As well as their own collaborations on the albums My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, you could start with the two titans' many musical peers of the seventies and eighties, including Talking Heads and Roxy Music, The Ramones, Blondie, or indeed anyone who ever played at the famous CBGB club.

Veer off into prog pioneered by associates including King Crimson and Genesis, or new wave with Devo and Ultravox. Move on to other artists associated with the pair, such as Tom Tom Club, The Modern Lovers, Robert Wyatt, David Bowie and John Cale.

Eno himself has a string of mainstream production credits to his name, most notably with U2, Coldplay, Depeche Mode and James, while Byrne collaborated with Fatboy Slim, St Vincent, Caetano Veloso and X-Press-2.

And don't forget there's EVERYTHING in-between!

You pick the music, so get your David Byrne and Brian Eno-inspired suggestions to Tom via the hashtag #ByrneEno6Music to help create a playlist. Comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@bbc.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify and Rdio playlists.

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Music Played

  • David Byrne And Brian Eno

    Everything That Happens

    • Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.
    • Todomundo.
    • 4.

  • Brian Eno

    King's Lead Hat

  • Talking Heads

    Psycho Killer

    • EMI.

  • The Fiery Furnaces

    Ex-Guru

  • Caetano Veloso

    Desde Que O Samba + Samba

  • David Byrne

    Don't Fence Me In

  • James

    Sometimes

    • Fontana.

  • Birth In Reverse

  • David Bowie

    African Night Flight

  • John Cale

    Ship of Fools

  • Tom Jones & The Cardigans

    Burning Down the House

    • Smash Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Half Man Half Biscuit

    Eno Collaboration

  • Roxy Music

    Virginia Plain

    • Virgin.

  • Anna Calvi

    Desire

    • DOMINO.

  • Brian Eno And David Byrne

    The Jezebel Spirit

  • David Byrne

    I Wanna Dance with Somebody

  • X鈥怭ress 2

    Lazy (feat. David Byrne)

    • NOW.

  • The Simpsons feat. David Byrne

    Everybody Hates Ned Flanders

  • Grace Jones

    Williams' Blood

    • CD SINGLE.
    • WALL OF SOUND RECORDINGS.
    • 1.

  • Mogwai

    Teenage Exorcists

    • Rock Action Records.

  • The Portsmouth Sinfonia

    The William Tell Overture (Theme From The Lone Ranger)

  • King Crimson

    Frame by Frame

  • Talking Heads

    Life During Wartime

Broadcast

  • Sun 23 Aug 2015 18:00
    成人快手 Radio 6 Music