Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets

Was listening to this a few days ago for the first time in a while and was amazed at just how modern it sounds still to this day considering it's 45 years old.

It definitely shows that Eno could forge ahead as an solo artist after leaving Roxy Music and you can hear traces of post punk in tracks like Blank Frank and ambient in Driving Me Backwards.

It's my joint favourite Eno album with Another Green World and also one of my favourite albums ever.

So what are your thoughts?

 

I love it.

 

His voice gets on my wick, at times.......but it's still a great album.

 

Big fan of those 4 70s vocal albums

 

One of my favorite albums of the 70s.

 

An uncanny masterpiece

 

"Baby's On Fire" is fantastic!!

 

Magnificent album. Blew me away when I first heard it. Glam-art-weirdness!

 

It's like nothing else and from a guy who people thought just twiddled knobs and looked outrageous !

 

Very underappreciated by me. I started out my Eno collection with the June 1 1974 album, which I bought as a fan of John Cale and Kevin Ayers. I adored the two Eno tracks, 'Baby's On Fire' and 'Driving Me Backwards', then I went on to Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) and Another Green World.

I loved all these records, but when I went back and got Here Come The Warm Jets, I found I liked the live versions much better than the studio ones, and the other stuff seemed to pale when held up to the other two albums.

I have since grown to appreciate the album, but it just goes to show how important that initial context is.

 

Having finally gotten a copy Of Wrong Way Up, I’d love to hear a version of “Baby’s On Fire” and/or “Blank Frank” with that gorgeous vocal choral layering — same instrumentation, but with new Eno vocals — but the originals are pretty hard to beat, no matter the decade.

 

A perfect album from the first to the last note. Eno is a genious, as a musician the same as a producer? Or is it the other way 'round?

 

Fantastic album. I had it for years before I really got into it. For a long time I only liked 2 or 3 tracks.

I have Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain and Another Green World. Which is the other vocal LP I'm missing? I also want a Seven Deadly Finns 45.

 

Before and After Science.

 

Just a thought,if Eno had stayed with Roxy,would have their 3rd album sounded like Warm Jets or do you think it would have been Bryan Ferry getting all the control no matter what and moving to a slightly more commercial direction?

 

Before and After Science.

Although you also want to try the collaboration with John Cale Wrong Way Up.

 

I'll rectify that!

 

You won't regret it, a fantastic album!

 

I can hear a lot of those ENO albums in your avatar, which, I guess, isn’t surprising!

 

Here Come The Warm Jets. Patchy, but still, his most inventive and precocious best. The one where he let it all hang out. And he never let his guard down quite like that again.

I'll not forget waiting to record four songs from it off the radio when it was first released. Played that Phillips blue and white cassette to death.

 

Also not complete without RAF. B side of Kings lead hat 7”. Marvellous

 

A masterpiece! I'm generally not excited when artists perform a particularly album in concert, but I would spend a pretty penny to see Here Come The Warm Jets performed in its entirety. Love this album. Just cleaned out the garage to this record last week, remains fascinating and thrilling.

 

Absolutely, love all those 77-80 albums with Bowie,Eno and Talking Heads!

 

Another Day on Earth.
the Eno half of Wrong Way Up

 

I was aware of Eno but was not at all familiar with his music. Until I was borrowing some CDs from my cousin in the early 2000s and grabbed his DSD Warm Jets CD. I had no clue when the album was made or anything about it. I played it and loved it. I also thought it must be a more modern album. I was pretty surprised to find out that it was his '74 debut solo album.