To be fair, you inherited Eno's world. This is a recent article but it reflects his thoughts from the 1970s and if you look at music and the charts back then yo

To be fair, you inherited Eno's world. This is a recent article but it reflects his thoughts from the 1970s and if you look at music and the charts back then you'd see a lot of very structured 'top-down' approaches and that's how I imagine music was taught back then. Even 'freewheeling' folk, rock, and psychedelic music followed pretty simple patterns. The problem is when guys like Eno talk, we dismiss it as a little obvious and perhaps a little old fashioned, only because we're so much past that and largely due to guys like him. A bit like reading about what computer geeks were excited about in the 80s and chuckling a little how simplistic or ordinary it seems now. Back then, it was cutting edge thinking.