Wrong Way Up is a 1990

1990 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990.-Events:*January 21 – MTV's Unplugged premieres on cable television with British band Squeeze...

 album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Brian Eno

Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

 and John Cale

John Cale

John Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground....

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The album sits between the Electronic and Prog-Rock/Art Rock genres sound and features some of both Eno's and Cale's most mainstream work. The single "Been There, Done That" remains the only Eno single to ever reach an American chart. The cover picture is by Brian Eno.

Track listing

All tracks written by John Cale & Brian Eno

1. "Lay My Love" - 4:44
2. "One Word" - 4:34
3. "In the Backroom" - 4:02
4. "Empty Frame" - 4:26
5. "Cordoba" - 4:22
6. "Spinning Away" - 5:27
7. "Footsteps" - 3:13
8. "Been There, Done That" - 2:52
9. "Crime in the Desert" - 3:42
10. "The River" - 4:23

Additional tracks:

1. "Grandfather's House" (UK & rest of world)
2. "You Don't Miss Your Water"
3. "Palanquin" (US release only)

Personnel

• John Cale: vocals, pianos, keyboards, bass, harp, horn, dumbek, viola, strings, omnichord
• Brian Eno: vocals, keyboards, rhythm bed, Indian drum, guitars, Shinto bell, bass, little Nigerian organ
• Robert Ahwai: rhythm guitar
• Nell Catchpole: violins
• Rhett Davies
  Rhett Davies
  Rhett Davies is an English record producer and engineer.Rhett Davies' father was trumpet player Ray Davies; they are no relation to Ray Davies of The Kinks. Davies became a studio engineer at Island Records studios in the early 1970s, and his first session was the recording process for Brian Eno's...
  
  : backing vocals
• Daryl Johnson: bass
• Ronald Jones: tabla, drums
• Bruce Lampcov: backing vocals
• Dave Young: guitars, bass