"King's Lead Hat"
Single by Brian Eno
from the album Before and After Science
B-side"R.A.F." (with Snatch)
ReleasedDecember 1977 (1977-12)
27 January 1978 (1978-01-27) (single remix)
Recorded1977
Genre
Length3:56
LabelPolydor
Songwriter(s)Brian Eno
Producer(s)Brian Eno
Official audio
"King's Lead Hat" (2004 Digital Remaster) on YouTube

"King's Lead Hat" is a song written by Brian Eno, released in 1977 as the fifth track from his album Before and After Science. The title is an anagram of "Talking Heads".[1] In 1978 a remixed version of the song was released as a single.

Rock critic Lester Bangs described the song "King's Lead Hat" as a track that emphasises "Eno's affinities with new wave in its rushed mechanical rhythms".[2] Eno would later produce Talking Heads' second, third and fourth albums, including Remain in Light (1980).

B-side

"R.A.F.", a collaboration with Snatch, is a standalone track that uses samples of Baader-Meinhoff terrorists recorded from a German telephone announcement. R.A.F. stands for "Red Army Faction".[3]

Cover versions

References

  1. 1 2 Tamm, Eric (1995). Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound. Da Capo Press. pp. 113–114. ISBN 978-0-306-80649-0.
  2. 1 2 Bangs, Lester (4 March 1978). "Eno Sings With the Fishes". Village Voice: 49.
  3. ↑ "Brian Eno - King's Lead Hat".
  4. ↑ Gimarc, George (1997). Post Punk Diary: 1980-1982. St. Martin's Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-312-16968-8.



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