Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets Poll ~ Oh no Oh no Oh no Oh no Oh no!

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I listened to this album in the car for three days straight last week.

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This was precisely what prompted me to poll it, randomly grabbed the cd out of a box and played it on the road for a couple of days. A week later my appreciation for it was completely revived and upgraded.
Shame someone brought Zappa into this, he's the last person on my mind when thinking about Eno. Always though of 'Baby's On Fire's lyrics as a critique on gossip/press/voyeurism/celebrity cult.

Perfect album, impossible to vote in my own poll, but will give it to the title track.

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wow, interesting spread, everything got at least one vote

I didn't realize the title track was as widely loved as it is. I always thought of it as a gem tucked away behind needle and baby's on fire.

Me neither! Expected Needles to walk this tbh. But the title track is such an immense anthem. One of the best album closing tracks I know.

(great turnout btw ty ilm)

The chaotic drums falling into place suddenly is a glorious moment.

^ Top 5 moments in art rock or pre-punk or whatever this is imo

Always though of 'Baby's On Fire's lyrics as a critique on gossip/press/voyeurism/celebrity cult.

I don't think this contradicts the idea that there is a misanthropic element in there. (Zappa critiqued those things too, tbf, not that it was the first comparison that came to mind for me either.)

Anyway, I didn't expect the title track to win either but it is also really satisfying.

Like, I think he's pretty scornful/misanthropic towards the laughing boys and the photographers but I also don't get a lot of compassion towards the woman from the narrator.

very satisfying results! my top 4 is the same as the results, it just depends on the day and listening context.

Providence-based brass band What Cheer? Brigade covers the title track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuL6yEHv7xA

I rarely vote, but voted title track.

On Some Faraway Beach sounds quieter than the rest of the album, which irritates me. Does anyone else get this?

Nope. Not on my cd at least.

how did i miss this?
i love the whole album for many of the reasons mentioned above, overstuffed exuberance included (driving me backwards is the only song i find genuinely irritating)
one of my bands covered warm jets too
if i had voted it would have been for "some of them are old" because of how it leads into title track, they are like one song to me <3
"baby's on fire" is probably my emotional favorite but i don't feel it needed my vote.

i didn't vote either but would've voted for dead finks to make sure it got at least one vote. surprised paw paw negro blowtorch got so few votes tbh. i def prefer all the weird rockers to the more melodic ballady stuff, though it's all great.

Maybe it's the way the drums are kept in the background that makes it sound quiet to me. It jars oddly.

Interesting to compare to the 2008 results from POLL: Favorite Track on Eno's "Here Comes the Warm Jets"

Needles In The Camel's Eye 21
Baby's On Fire 17
On Some Faraway Beach 11
Here Come The Warm Jets 11
Cindy Tells Me 9
The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch 9
Dead Finks Don't Talk 5
Blank Frank 4
Driving Me Backwards 2
Some Of Them Are Old 2

Same top 4 sequence, except that the title track shot forward from fourth to become the dominating favorite. Rest also looks the same, except TPPNB collapses from a nine-vote constituency to a lone voter. No idea what to make of either development but against an otherwise unchanging background it'd be interesting to think about reasons why.

One vote for Paw Paw is ludicrous. I didn't vote for it either, mind you. Almost did.

I also forgot to vote, love it all - when there was that ilm 70s rock poll a few years ago I had this album #1, it is easily my favourite "rock" album

if i had voted it would have been for "some of them are old" because of how it leads into title track, they are like one song to me <3

this was the reasoning behind my vote! :)

Blank frank is the siren, he's the air-raid, he's the crater
He's on the menu, on the table, he's the knife and he's the waiter

Eno: underrated singer and lyricist.

not underrated by me
i love his lyrics, they span the spectrum from ridiculous to poignant and are super fun to sing
and tbh i have never disliked his singing, though it probably isn't for everyone

blank frank is the messenger of your doom and your destruction

not underrated by me

Underrated by Eno for sure! Singing and particularly writing lyrics are among the things he's done the least in the past few decades.

Spider and I sit watching the sky
On a world without sound
We knit a web to catch one tiny fly
For our world without sound
We sleep in the mornings
We dream of a ship that sails away
A thousand miles away.

At least as of a few years ago — he talked about it on the Colbert Report and elsewhere — he was getting together with friends to sing on a weekly basis, an exercise in pure pleasure that he meant to keep fun and fresh by saying no recordings allowed. I don't think not doing something for public consumption necessarily means that he undervalues it. Maybe yes maybe no.

He loves singing! He does gospel, etc. Like this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_72UC9npjg

Just clearly he loves doing it more than he loves releasing albums with vocals and lyrics.

Some of them are old but it would help if you could smile
To earn a crooked sixpence you'll walk many crooked miles
And as you do, remember me, remember me.

one of my favorite bit of Eno lyrics.

"Driving Me Backwards" from the June 1, 1974 release is far superior to that on the proper album -- Ayers' cascading basslines add some real punch to the track.

favorite Eno lyric is still "Splish splash, I was raking in the cash/The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface BUHHHHH"

It was his 70th birthday today, and I'm listening to the Warm Jets record and thinking, as much as I love his ambient work,that I would love to hear more of his singing and (lyrical) songwriting. That said, the 6-disc ambient set he released this year is great too.

Happy Brian Eno Day, all.

Happy belated birthday, Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno!

favorite Eno lyric is still "Splish splash, I was raking in the cash/The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface BUHHHHH"

Belated happy birthday, Brian!

so this was news to me

"Brian Eno recounts how he (allegedly) pissed in 'Fountain,' Marcel Duchamp's famous urinal, in his 1995 diary A Year with Swollen Appendices"

Brian Eno recounts how he (allegedly) pissed in 'Fountain,' Marcel Duchamp's famous urinal, in his 1995 diary A Year with Swollen Appendices pic.twitter.com/oUqGuB3TRb

— priscilla page (@BBW_BFF) May 16, 2018

in b4 Warm Jets joeks

warm jets jokes must have been going on for decades already?

Yeah hard to get inb4 anything here, this album title famously refers to piss and eno has two separate piss anecdotes in his diary, he’s a piss guy

Yeah I am new to Eno’s sexual proclivities sorry

Damn it, I knew I shouldn't have changed my dn this morning.

Yeah hard to get inb4 anything here, this album title famously refers to piss and eno has two separate piss anecdotes in his diary, he’s a piss guy

The album cover features a photograph of a woman peeing!

"Driving Me Backwards" is my fave (not sure if I voted here). never knew it wasn't rated/liked by others. and although I do love it Warm Jets is my least fave of the '4 vocal albums'.

as for sex, "ooo what to do in a tiny canoe" (Backwater) is my fave playful Eno sex lyric

Correct answer is some of them ate old

brutal