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4.5
I own about 5 Eno albums and about 4 Harold Budd albums and several other ambient albums by other artists. This album "Ambient 2" is one of my favorites, not only as an Eno album, not only as an Ambient album, but it is one of my favorites music albums overall. I am a huge fan of ambient, and I have wasted a fair amount of money searching for good albums to listen to, so it is always so refreshing and satisfying to stumble upon an ambient album that is really good. It is hard to shop for ambient albums, because there is such a fine line between good ambient, and ambient that sounds like cheesy new-age music, or just not very good sounding ambient.I own "Ambient 1" by Eno, but I only like 2 out of the 4 songs on it. On this album "Ambient 2" I like about 95% of the songs, which is about 9 or 10 out of the 11 or 12 songs. I don't think that you will be disapointed with this collection of ambient songs.Two other albums that I highly recommend are "Thursday Afternoon" by Brian Eno, and "Songs For Lost Blossoms" by Harold Budd and Clive Wright. "Thursday Afternoon" is an excellent ambient album, and "Songs For Lost Blossoms" has at least two really amazing ambient songs in my opinion.I was not crazy about the following Harold Budd albums: "Luxa", "The White Arcades" and "The Pavilion of Dreams." Overall, I wasn't too thrilled with any of those three Budd albums, but that is just me.Another great ambient album is entitled "WEB" by Terry Thaemlitz and Bill Laswell. That is a Five star ambient album.Best of luck shopping for more ambient albums..
