Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets

I still play it every few years. Songs from that and 'Taking Tiger...' regularly pop up on my ipod's 'shuffle'. Been in love with it since its week of release. Older work colleagues thought it was ****e!
Funny though...... songs that I never really rated at first, 'Baby's On Fire' and 'Driving Me Backwards', 40 years later I'm enjoying a lot more.
It is full of instant classics though. 'Seven Deadly Fins' should have been included.

 

Don't think I've ever spoken to a messenger of doom and destruction before.

Is that on your CV?

 

I'm with you. Like a fine wine, it has not only aged well, but might indeed have taken years to really appreciate.

Oh, that Fripp guitar work!

 

I keep quiet about that bit, accentuate the positive'n'that. Unless applying for a job requiring dire news spreading, of course.

 

This album has been with me since 73/74? It and "The Seven Deadly Finns" 45 were real game changers for me, no more chart/pop music after hearing them! I only had the album on cassette initially, recorded in real mono from a mic in front of the family Dansette. Took a year or so to finally own the LP and it still sounds as innovative as ever.

 

You have some competition it would seem...

 

When I hear this record, I feel like I'm hearing Eno invent the sound of 80's music, seven years early. Which is pretty cool.

But it's also more understandable, when I remember how he later produced a few bands whose sounds would help define the 1980's.

 

The guys at Discord and Rhyme did a brilliant podcast about Here Come The Warm Jets, well worth a listen 031: Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets (1974) — Discord & Rhyme: An Album Podcast

 

I've had various copies,vinyl and CD, of this one since it was issued and still find it highly entertaining.
Along with Taking Tiger Mountain an exceptional start to a solo career.

 

Brian Eno demonstrates his intelligence by just showing up and speaking words that come out of his mouth. I never have found him arrogant or a show off. I don’t share some of his views and beliefs, but he doesn’t strike me as pretentious.

 

Brian Eno Quotes (Author of A Year With Swollen Appendices)

 

I love Tiger Mountain and Before and After Science. Another Green World, less so. Have never heard Warm Jets.

 

Eno had a cameo as a priest in Father Ted, hardly the actions of someone pretentious!

 

I got my (non-remastered) CD copy almost exactly 20 years ago.

"Cindy Tells Me" is pure Velvet Underground, even the backing vocals sound like Lou Reed

The non-remastered cd's were a bit more dynamic, but also sounded noisier.

I got the impression that he is one of the musicians that are easier to work with, and considering how many collaborators there have been it may be true.

 

He’s the opposite of pretentious, he talks about very difficult ideas in an accessible, not pompous way

 

What an excellent point ! I have heard/read more than one musician say that they used to time their studio meal breaks around Monty Python (pre VCR of course),
Jimmy Page being one (Roy Harper incorporated "it's your laugh!" in his epic `Burn The World' as this was one of Jimmy's favourite Python quotes)

 

Thanks! Neat about the Harper quote, I'll have to listen for that now. Recall hearing about Bowie watching Python as well during studio breaks. For a time the Python influence was very apparent in Phil Collins' on stage goofiness.

 

On the subject of British musicians being influenced by British comedy, see also Bowie and Eno spending loads of time pretending to be Peter Cook and Dudley Moore during their times in the studio together, much to the bemusement of the US musicians in the band. Also Carlos Alomar remembers watching Bowie’s very early video tape copies of Fawlty Towers with David Bowie during the Low sessions. And later, Bowie was a huge fan of Ricky Gervais’ groundbreaking The Office.

And the links ran the other way too - without monetary backing from George Harrison the Pythons could never have made Life Of Brian, and the earlier Monty Python film, the Holy Grail, had financial input from Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin I believe.

 

"In the name of burning spirit
the passenger on the planet
the guinea pig chasing sunset
to the last laugh he'll ever get hahahahahahaha

The last laugh
Your laugh
My laugh ??"

Saw Roy a few times when he'd just written this piece, and he explained the Page connection

 

Go find a copy immediately (physical medium, download, stream, whatever) and bask in the brilliance of my theme tune!

 

My favorite is Plateaux of Mirror but this is a brilliant debut. On Some Far Away Beach is beautiful.

 

Was listening to Jets the other week and realized Baby’s On Fire is a 3 1/2 minute Fripp solo with some bits stuck on each end. Not a complaint, BTW.

p.s. Not an album, but it kinda feels like one, the Fractal Zoom maxi-single has become one if my Eno go tos.

 

Some people (myself included) thought for years that it was only Fripp performing the solo, but some of it is also Paul Rudolph. I don't know which is which, but I should.

 

Whelp, I just learned somethin’ new.

 

Personally speaking, I love the album No Pussyfooting.