Maybe it's the way the drums are kept in the background that makes it sound quiet to me. It jars oddly.
― Duke, Monday, 17 April 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
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 21Baby's On Fire 17On Some Faraway Beach 11Here Come The Warm Jets 11Cindy Tells Me 9The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch 9Dead Finks Don't Talk 5Blank Frank 4Driving Me Backwards 2Some 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.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:19 (seven years ago) link
One vote for Paw Paw is ludicrous. I didn't vote for it either, mind you. Almost did.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link
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
― briscall stool chart (wins), Monday, 17 April 2017 21:50 (seven years ago) link
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! :)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 17 April 2017 22:50 (seven years ago) link
Blank frank is the siren, he's the air-raid, he's the craterHe's on the menu, on the table, he's the knife and he's the waiter
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 12 May 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
Eno: underrated singer and lyricist.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 May 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
not underrated by mei love his lyrics, they span the spectrum from ridiculous to poignant and are super fun to singand tbh i have never disliked his singing, though it probably isn't for everyone
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 12 May 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
blank frank is the messenger of your doom and your destruction
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 12 May 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 May 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
Spider and I sit watching the skyOn a world without soundWe knit a web to catch one tiny flyFor our world without soundWe sleep in the morningsWe dream of a ship that sails awayA thousand miles away.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 May 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
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.
― WilliamC, Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 May 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
Some of them are old but it would help if you could smileTo earn a crooked sixpence you'll walk many crooked milesAnd as you do, remember me, remember me.
one of my favorite bit of Eno lyrics.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 13 May 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
"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.
― bodacious ignoramus, Monday, 14 May 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
favorite Eno lyric is still "Splish splash, I was raking in the cash/The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface BUHHHHH"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 13:37 (six years ago) link
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.
― davey, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 07:42 (six years ago) link
Happy belated birthday, Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno!
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 09:19 (six years ago) link
Belated happy birthday, Brian!
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 18 May 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
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
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Friday, 18 May 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link
in b4 Warm Jets joeks
warm jets jokes must have been going on for decades already?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
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
― type your stinkin prose off me, ur damned qwerty uiop (wins), Friday, 18 May 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
Yeah I am new to Eno’s sexual proclivities sorry
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Friday, 18 May 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
Damn it, I knew I shouldn't have changed my dn this morning.
― Now I know my ABCs. Next time won't you scream at me? (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 May 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
The album cover features a photograph of a woman peeing!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 May 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
"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
― Paul, Friday, 18 May 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
Correct answer is some of them ate old
― Exit stage left (Ross), Friday, 18 May 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
brutal
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Friday, 18 May 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link