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

"Still The Same", yeah! I'm drunkish

Baby's On Fire was tempting, but it's a little too too. Same for a lot of the (wonderful) tracks on this album. Needles, more than many things he did, is just an odd dream that appears and disappears before you can really come to grips with it.

xxxp Well it is sort of radically earnest, which can strike random soberminded colleagues as vulgar. Not unlike Still the Same which I also love unabashedly.

Never quite warmed to this one. It strikes me as vulgar at places. Like a bunch of Disney melodies with some Zappa-like scorn over it. The title track in particular reminds me of Hot Rats. Went with Needles in the Camel's Eye cause it's a good take on Bowie's take on the Velvets. Love Another Green World completely.

Uh what?!?!? Even mentioning Zappa in the same breath as Eno is 0_o

"Cindy Tells Me" is a little scornful.

I really love this album, though. Voting "Baby's on Fire", not least for the Fripp solo.

Title track probably. When it comes down to it. Love this album though, I even like "Driving Me Backwards", although Kevin Ayers' "Song from a Bottom of a Well" did it first and better. "Cindy Tells Me" is a bit sneery, true.

Yeah, I like "Driving Me Backwards" too.

I don't. Other than that, this is one of my favorite solo Eno records and this poll is impossible. At least half a dozen I could pick.

probably just gonna vote "Some OF Them Are Old" for the drones and slide guitar

sleeve, my kind of people

also gotta disagree with Alfred here, side 2 >> side 1 although Fripp does kill it on that solo

the Dead Finks-Some Of Them Are Old-HCTWJ run is maybe my favorite half-LP-side out of all of his work

It's tough but I went with Needles. The immediate runners up are Paw Paw, Finks, Cindy, and Baby -- but they're all pretty damn great.

For me it's between Needles and Blank Frank. The former is just a great driving pop song with careening guitars while the latter has that weird calliope thing in the middle that is just too demented.

I didn't like Velvet Goldmine much, but "Needle" was used to perfect effect in it. That's kind of the only way I can elevate one of the first four songs above the rest - they're all excellent

"dead finks don't talk" for paul thompson's wonderful drum pattern and the hand claps that come in after the guitar solo in the "bless my soul" section. and yeah, the sequencing at the end is lovely. title track could be looped for hours; when the drums finally sync up it's a really nice moment.

regarding vulgarity, i once read an eno interview wherein he confirms that the title is a reference to urolagnia. but that's rather oblique in my opinion and i simply can't understand where the zappa comparisons are coming from

What can we say? The man loves his piss. Literally.

thinking about it, this album really should be ranked in terms of moments rather than songs. i agree that the blipping, chirping slide guitar on "some of them are old" is one of the strongest parts of this record. but i also think the song itself lacks momentum ("remember me" part goes on forever it seems like), and then BOOM title track kicks in and it's total bliss (similar effect when the lyrics to "baby's on fire" come in, after that interminable intro). part of me thinks that the songs being boring or hackneyed or kind half-assed in terms of pop artistry is what makes the cool moments feel so sublime. the technique is more or less inverted on "another green world" -- the long droney bits make a song like "i'll come running" feel magical, in much the same way that i'll do backflips for some bottom-of-the-barrel 1960s top 40 single after a four-hour brötzmann binge or whatever

the title track because of how the drums sneak up on you

i don't think this album is nearly as good as the two that followed it.

actually idk. i am listening to it again and some of the tracks i thought i didn't like are sounding very good.

Treats me good just like an armchair

i really think that the lines people point to that seem to suggest some kind of unsavory sexual politics on eno's part are best read in context. everybody knows the lyrics on this LP are total dada word salad free association and coupled with eno's sort of androgynous self-presentation, stuff like that "armchair" bit read more like an accidental satire of big macho rock lyrics, rather than some kind of sly pseudo-poetic misogyny-but-i'm-an-artist-haha, y'know?

Huh i always thought it was "just like an object"

Either way I always heard that libe as eno being the object/armchair

Now I've found a sweetheart
Treats me good, just like an armchair

xpost that's kind of a cool reading.

anyway, here's chrissie hynde interviewing eno in NME:

"Mexican pornography is an interesting island of thought because they seem to be heavily into excretory functions. The traditional American view is that anything issued from the body is dirty. It's incredibly puritanical and it resents bodily fluids, so if one is trying to debase a woman, you cover them with that and hence you get the fabulous term 'Golden Showers' - the term for pissing on someone, which some well- known rock musicians are said to be very involved in . .

"Here come the warm jets?"

"That's certainly a reference."

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/nmetxt.html

huh. he seems really gross and weird in that interview.

lol yeah

"the limp handshake (handshake?)"

in fairness, chrissie hynde doesn't come out looking particularly good either

20 year old me would want to kill me for saying this but:

I actually prefer Stranded to Here Comes The Warm Jets.

That being said, there are a few good tunes on here (the first two especially), but it is the weakest of his 70s vocal albums.

I voted for the title track.

Even mentioning Zappa in the same breath as Eno is 0_o

I just remembered that Adrian Belew ended up working with Bowie because Eno saw him playing at a Zappa gig in Germany. Though I believe Eno had just got free tickets and thought, what the hell I'm not doing anything else tonight.

I love Driving Me Backwards, had no idea it would be considered a weak link.

Voting for Baby's On Fire though. Intense!

Voted Dead Finks, because his Bryan Ferry impression (which sounds like he's doing Elvis) cracks me up

Listening to this now. You're all wrong about Driving Me Backwards, it's probably the best song on Side A, opening track possibly aside

Obviously TTM is the better album but you all knew that already

i had a really hard time deciding between 'some of them are old' and the title track. it's hard for me to separate the two since they work so well together.

xxp if I want overwrought howling I'll listen to a Peter Hamill record ;)

Driving Me Backwards is some crazed misanthropic ahead-of-its-time goth vamp with exceptional sonics and a thickening plot

I like it too but wouldn't single it out

Threw my vote at DMB in the end as it is so bad and hated but the bookends deserve it as much idk w/e

On Some Faraway beach is A warped version of " Still The Same" by Bob Seger

concerning the warm jets, they are on the cover. there is this game card with the policeman next to the woman in an obvious position on the beach on the left of the eno photograph.

another small little detail concerning "on some faraway beach". it was released in 1973, "still the same" is from 1978. go figure who influenced whom...

There's lots of great stuff on here. While I would choose most other tracks over Driving Me Backwards I don't consider it weak either.
It was a tie for me between On Some Faraway Beach and Dead Finks Don't Talk, went for the mighty Beach.

i see the Eno/Zappa connection. both were 70s misanthropic studio wizards that enjoyed making mutant deconstructions of rock n roll/doo wop.

What? Eno has never ever been misanthropic.

allmusic: a "self-described non-musician [...] Eno championed theory over practice, serendipity over forethought, and texture over craft"

i think eno's theory of the "study as instrument" and his reliance on people who were competent enough to actually play guitar, drums, etc. distinguish him from zappa, who was a multi-instrumentalist and very much a control freak. whereas eno's well-documented use of chance methods sort of put him an a spot that's less studio-creep, more open to improvisation or at least input from the musicians he worked with (zappa almost always got full songwriting credit right from the start -- HCTWJ, at least, is different in that respect). it's also hard to imagine eno telling his band how to behave, what drugs not to take, etc.

as for the music, i guess you can call it misanthropic? you could point me to where that is, but i've never heard it. eno himself never comes off as such in interviews. he seemed / seems to be genuinely interested in humans and all the world has to offer. isn't that so? can you even imagine zappa being involved in something like the long now foundation? eno's politics are pretty right on.

i'll give you "mutant deconstructions" i guess, but i'd argue that's being generous to zappa. more like tasteless parodies. dude had zero sense of humor and, as has been discussed at length on other threads, his lyrics are full of just super gross sexism, homophobia, and machismo that is super direct and unpleasant.

eno's music is the opposite of misanthropic

yeah budo jeru OTM - Zappa and eno are not in the same wheelhouse.

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