What do we think about this type of music?

Like many other things, it depends on how it's used.

I suppose it is music to have on in the background, or maybe to meditate to.
 
Would this type of thing win awards or recognition, certainly the posts below the youtube vid are very complimentary.

If you're in the mood for it, it's wonderful. Same as any music really.

It IS called "Ambient" for a reason and Eno has, what?, 50+ albums?  (I've got 16 from him.)  Plus he's been part of several other successful efforts usually helping with sound textures.
 
I clicked on that link above then went back to work.  It was almost an hour later before I realized it was still playing.  I like that.

Shambler
Great? Inspiring? or Boring?
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0TaH7WQHBw

It can br any of the above depending upon situation one is listening to it in.  It would make for horrible music to dance or workout to but great for meditating or at a spa.

Roxy Music played a key importance in initially catapulting Brian Eno's career, not only as a performer but as a highly respected sound engineer and of course along with his art work.  
 
Thursday Morning, is cool apart from the low droning along with the very high-pitch sound (air and bow elements) that resonates throughout this track -- this particular element of the track is repetitive (overly drawn-out) although what saves Eno's butt are all the nuances he artfully weaves throughout.   
 
I guess more and more writers/musicians are delving into styles based on "Ambient" music but for example, with a fusion of Folk and dare I say; Hip-Hop, RnB and Pop yet more cleverly arranged with an ingenious sense of rhythm rather than heavily focused on 'beatz'. 
 
Anyone actually tried Eno? Apparently it's very smoothing and a relief:   

I think I would like to write pieces like this but with more variation, something that develops more over the 60 minutes.
 
I often hear people complain that pieces are too short, that a piece was just developing then ended.

Heh, I've got the Cluster & Eno album as well as three Fripp & Eno albums too.  I'm sure I've got the U2, Talking Heads, Daivd Bowie, Devo, Depeche Mode and Bauhaus albums he's involved with as well.

Beepster
Boooooooring!
 

Not if you add mushrooms and some light goggles.
 

 
(I worked with the main engineer who built this and I've got some "special" goggles that have twice the power - heh...)

There's just so little movement to it. I was quite surprised to realize that as I clicked through it to get to something interesting that what I thought was 1 minute was actually an HOUR of the exact same thing. Even blasted on hallucinogens and getting visually hammered by some freaky video I think I'd still get bored.
 
Seems like musical extremism for the sake of extremism like some of the over top cookie monster metal that's out there these days (which I also find ridiculously boring) except in the opposite direction.
 
Give me some nice mid east sitar and tabla drones or simple nature sounds and I'd have a much better time.
 
Not to say Brian Eno isn't a talented fellow but this just strikes me as silly and artistically a little self indulgent.
 
Of course I am musically hyperactive and a spazz in general so that's JMO.
 
;-)

I think you guys may like my new offering. Won't be ready for a while but I am very much enjoying the compositional freedom and ease Sonar is providing me... now that I know how to use it without having to cry to the forum for help every two seconds that is.

The structure is just getting finished up (got one little turnaround I just finished and about to shoehorn in) then the real tracking will begin. I'm going to try employing some dialogue sampling instead of vocals via the Matrix thingy and dig into some of the wacky synth patches to really turn it into a loonfest.
 
Dork Metal is about to turn into SciFi Metal. :-D

Hi, Pedro. My thing is if you are that talented then do something interesting. To do otherwise is kind of a slap in the face of whomever or whatever bestowed you with that gift.
 
However if he did it simply because he enjoyed it then that trumps all but at that point it's a personal thing and should be kept personal. Tossing it out into the public for consumption (especially if people are expected to pay for it) then it becomes fodder for the spazzy wolves such as myself to poo poo.
 
In a way though this could also be construed as punk because it is sooooo dull it's obnoxious.
 
I've been pondering this a lot lately as I try to figure out which direction I want to head musically and lyrically. I COULD go back into the snarky and politically charged lyrics again but as I step back and look at everything I've done and everything I could say and has already been said in the past 30-40 years no matter HOW uniquely I package and present it to me it would be boring. I may work more instrumentally or with samples for a few years or try out coy almost nonsensical lyrics instead that will make people deeply pontificate about what exactly I'm trying to get at... and it will be NOTHING. Absolutely nothing.
 
A musical joke. I've always tried to write my riffs to be like a set up and eventual punchline to a joke and my lyrics to be a build up and left turn to a smack with something too real or unreal to fully digest without some introspection. Now perhaps that I have the resources to write and record on my own I'll treat my own "career" in that manner with my retirement or death becoming the punchline.
 
Then again I probably think too much and nobody will really give a sh*t anyway so the joke will be on me.
 
lulz

I'm an ADHD, Type B person and a dreamer.  That makes a difference.  While I like and can appreciate a lot of metal out there, I can only take it in small doses.

Of course, I don't live all that far away from Boring.
(It's a town in Oregon.  )