''Wrong Way Up'' is a

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by Brian Eno and John Cale. The album sits between the

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and art rock genres and features some of both Eno and Cale's most mainstream work. The cover was conceived by Eno. The 2005 re-release on

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was remastered and had a different cover, but reverted to the original in 2020. It contains two bonus tracks, "Grandfather's House" and ″You Don't Miss Your Water″ by Eno. Both titles only appeared on single or EP before; the latter was taken from the 1988 OST album ''

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''.

Reception

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'' praised the album, calling it "an absolutely wonderful pop record, a subversion of

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formulae to the pair's own idiosyncratic (but utterly accessible) ends." In a retrospective review, ''

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'' called it "an album of contention, contrasts, cycles, and pop songs so layered and euphoric it ranks among the best albums either artist has ever made."

Track listing

All tracks written by John Cale and Brian Eno; except where indicated.

Original 1990 release

;Side A # "Lay My Love" – 4:44 # "One Word" – 4:34 # "In the Backroom" – 4:02 # "Empty Frame" – 4:26 # "Cordoba" – 4:22 ;Side B #

"Spinning Away" – 5:27 # "Footsteps" – 3:13 # "Been There, Done That" – 2:52 # "Crime in the Desert" – 3:42 # "The River" (Brian Eno) – 4:23

Bonus tracks on 2005 remaster

;UK & rest of the world: #

"Grandfather's House" (John Cale) # "

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" ( William Bell) ;US: #

"You Don't Miss Your Water" (William Bell) # "Palanquin" (John Cale)

Singles

:"Been There, Done That" b/w ?, 1990 US ?Discogs.com only lists is a 1990 promo release in the US without a B-side: :"Spinning Away" b/w "Grandfather's House", 1990 German 7" :"Spinning Away (edit)" b/w "Grandfather's House" / "Palanquin", 1990 German 12" & CD-single :"One Word" b/w "Grandfather's House" / "Palanquin", 1990 UK 12" & CD-single :"One Word" (edit) / "Empty Frame" / "You Don't Miss Your Water" / "One Word" (The Woodbridge Mix) / "Grandfather's House", 1991 US CD-EP

Promotional tracks

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on one side, and two unreleased cuts from the Eno/Cale ''Wrong Way Up'' sessions on the other side: a cover of "

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" with vocals by Eno, and the instrumental "Shuffle Down to Woodbridge", apparently Cale solo. To date, neither of these has been issued on CD, or anywhere else except this promotional 7".

Personnel

*John Cale – lead vocals (2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9), backing vocals, pianos, keyboards, bass, harp, horn, dumbek, viola, strings, omnichord *Brian Eno – lead vocals (1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10), backing vocals, keyboards, rhythm bed, Indian drum, guitars, Shinto bell, bass, little Nigerian organ, cover picture *Robert Ahwai – rhythm guitar *Nell Catchpole – violins *

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– backing vocals * Daryl Johnson – bass *Ronald Jones – tabla, drums *Bruce Lampcov – backing vocals * Dave Young – guitars, bass ;Technical *Recordings engineered by Brian Eno, except John Cale's vocals recordings, which were engineered by Dave Young *Rhett Davies, Bruce Lampcov, Brian Eno – mixing *Brian Eno, Kevin Cann – art, design

References

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