- Archive Panic: Look at his already pretty substantial solo discography, then look at his credits as a sideman or collaborator, then look at his production credits. Good luck acquiring all of them.
- Awesome Music: Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Another Green World, Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks and Before and After Science, at the very least.
- Broken Base: Whether Eno's ambient albums or his rock/pop albums are better is cause for debate within the Eno fandom. Supporters of the ambient albums think that they are much more innovative and influential, while pop fans might find records like Ambient 1: Music for Airports to be boring compared to his more musically active output. Another Green World and Before and After Science, however, are beloved by almost everyone in the Eno camp, thanks to them being a perfect middle ground between "rock" Eno and "ambient" Eno.
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: His stream-of-consciousness style of writing lyrics often has him going off on weird tangents in verses and never mentioning them in the rest of the song. A good example is the line about "Juanita and Juan" in "Baby's on Fire".
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Before and After Science tends to be somewhat underappreciated by reviewers, but many Eno fans consider it one of his absolute best.
- Friendly Fandoms: With Eno's major collaborators, including Talking Heads, David Byrne, U2 and David Bowie.
- Narm Charm: There's no way the campy delivery of "Baby's on Fire" should work as well as it does, but Eno makes it ridiculously fun and Awesome Music.
- Nightmare Fuel:
- The instrumental numbers "The Secret Place", "Matta" and "Under Stars II" from Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks all have a creepy, haunting atmosphere.
- Ambient 4: On Land is effectively the Evil Twin of Ambient 1: Music for Airports. It could easily be the Trope Maker for dark ambient. Seriously, don't listen to it if you're feeling edgy.
- "Alternative 3"
from Music for Films, originally created for a made-for-television mockumentary of the same name, is one long Drone of Dread backed by an eerie beeping noise.
- Older Than They Think:
- Many people, including newer generations, are only familiar with his solo ambient work and completely forget his work with Roxy Music.
- While many people often assume that Ambient 1: Music for Airports was his first entirely ambient album due to the title, he'd been experimenting with the style for much longer than that. Discreet Music was his first entirely ambient solo album, while Another Green World was more than half ambient and the title track of Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy) was arguably his first stab at the style by himself. Before any of those, he'd recorded (No Pussyfooting) with King Crimson's Robert Fripp, which is one of the first recorded examples of the style.
- "On Some Faraway Beach" has a production full of reverb and mellifluous instrumentation, making it a precursor to Dream Pop.
- Sweet Dreams Fuel:
- His Ambient albums, like Ambient 1: Music for Airports. They all have a calm, dreamy sound, ideal for relaxing.
- The second half of "Before and After Science" has some of the most beautiful and relaxing songs ever, especially "By This River" and DEFINITELY "Spider and I".
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