Can't believe Eno is getting such a soft rap here. Beyond U2, there's other crimes - The Passengers, producing James, just about everything he did after "Thursday Afternoon"... That's, of course, not to say that the work up to the early 80s wasn't completely transcendent, but nonetheless...
Cale:
working w/LaMonte Young, Tony Conrad et al in Theatre of Eternal Music
performing Satie's "Vexations"
New York in the 1960s discs on TOTE
The VU
Church of Anthrax w/T. Riley
The Academy in Peril (almost for the Warhol cover alone)
"Big White Cloud" and "Amsterdam" on Vintage Violence
Paris 1919 (contender for my favourite rec. of all time)
Fear, Slow Dazzle, Helen of Troy
Music for A New Society - "Chinese Envoy"!
Words For The Dying
Fragments of A Rainy Season (one of the best live recordings ever?)
how about that cover of "Hallelujah", people!
Let's not even get started on the fantastic soundtrack work over time
And production work: Happy Mondays first LP, the Modern Lovers, the Stooges, Nico, "Horses", "Caged/Uncaged"...
Reading about the Eno/Cale fall-out over "Wrong Way Up" in What's Welsh For Zen confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about both characters...
(Eno does deserve major props for almost erasing an entire U2 album once...)