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Brian Eno is remembered nowadays, when the world in which he lived doesn`t exist anymore, as the most evil person in the history of mankind. What else could you say about the man who singlehandily invented what is called "ambient music", and what reasonable people call "boring crap". Ok, I might be "a little" harsh here, but Eno`s successful attempts to compose and perform an LP by using only one finger don`t make me shake my ass and get pissed as an Irishman. Still this album was recorded way before the disastrous changes in Eno`s brain patterns that led to the global catastrophe of ambient. On HCtWJ we get some of the best songs he ever wrote. The opening "Needle in the camel`s Eye" is one of the most uplifting, energic, rocking in every aspect songs of the glam era (it was also used in the film "Velvet goldmine"). "Baby`s on Fire" is a weird poppy tune relying heavily upon synthesizers but it`s kinda nasty, kinda mean, kinda dirty, kinda super cool. "Cindy tells me" is a nice love song. And the other songs don`t deserve too many complaints either. If only Eno would have had more common sense and he had stayed this way until, say, nowadays...