Albums Brian Eno shaped

His own pivot from art-rock to ambience — half song, half soundscape, and a blueprint for everything he'd later do for others.

The album that named a genre. Eno set out to make music “as ignorable as it is interesting,” and invented ambient music in the process.

The first of Bowie's Berlin albums, with Eno shaping its fractured, instrumental second half — pop's boldest left turn of the 1970s.

Eno and Bowie's collaboration peaks on the soaring title track, built from layers of treated, looping sound.

Eno tightened and darkened the band's nervy art-funk, setting up the masterpiece to come.

Eno's most radical production — African polyrhythms, loops and layered grooves that reinvented what a rock band could be.

Eno produced the de-evolution band's debut, capturing their jerky, satirical new wave.

Eno and Daniel Lanois pulled U2 away from anthemic rock toward atmosphere and texture — the start of their most important partnership.

Eno and Lanois produced U2's masterpiece, the album that made them the biggest band in the world.

Eno helped U2 demolish and rebuild themselves in Berlin, trading earnestness for irony and noise.

Eno pushed Coldplay out of their comfort zone, producing their most adventurous and best-reviewed album.