Brian Eno: More Blank than Frank (1986)

For a while, I had a CD copy of this record, re-titled Desert Island Selection, which gives a better clue of what is going on with this album. I eliminated it from my collection in an effort to downsize, as I had all of the tracks on other releases anyway. There are major differences between the two releases:

The album was a compilation of many of Eno's earlier solo works, ranging from 1973's Here Come the Warm Jets to 1978's Music for Airports. The LP release contained a wider range of tunes, including a couple of darker and rock-ier songs ("The Great Pretender" and "King's Lead Hat") from his early years. The CD release in comparison contained a significantly lopsided version of Eno's earlier works, eschewing the harder, rock-ier numbers entirely for softer, "proto-ambient" pieces, concluding with a six-minute edit of his first, fully realized ambient piece "1/1", derived from Music for Airports. At the time of release in 1986 the CD version was significant in that it was the only CD version then available of any of Eno's earlier works. [source]

Oddly, the companion book that compiles the lyrics along with lithographs from Russel Mills is entitled More Dark Than Shark. That's also a good title.