Here Come The Warm Jets

I know this album is a little challenging or odd for some listeners, but it’s actually one of Brian Eno’s more accessible albums. He’s working with a pop and rock palette but using his more avant-garde sensibility to push at the seams of what we’re used to hearing. It's 1973, a couple of years after T.Rex first put out Electric Warrior, same year as Queen's debut album and as Aladdin Sane. Eno is fresh off his time in Roxy Music. He fits in well into that art-prog-glam context, building on his work with Roxy, but he's pushing our comfort levels even more. Musically it rocks, it struts, it grates, it twists, it veers off key, it wanders from the noisy back into the lovely and sublime. It’s never boring. I love the anecdote that Eno chose the musicians for the album based on the idea that they were musically incompatible. He fully expected that there would be conflict and competition, resulting in musical “accidents.” It’s a creative risk that pays off with some of the more unusual and interesting rock songs from the past half century. The musicians he collaborates with are all top caliber, including several of his bandmates from Roxy Music. Robert Fripp’s and Phil Manzanera’s brilliant, far-ranging guitar work is worth the price of admission, they’re so good at what they do. The lyrics are whimsical, campy, and largely nonsensical, on purpose. I've said this before about Eno when I reviewed Before and After Science. It's not about understanding the lyrics, which are just a delivery method for the vocal instrument. And Eno’s vocals are always great, posh, aloof and wry but also emotionally affecting at times. “On Some Faraway Beach” is a good example of this, with a sweetness and a pathos you aren’t really expecting. I like that he jumps from that song into “Blank Frank,” which is such a noisy and jarring tonal switch. I think this is totally intentional, keeping us on our toes as listeners. This is one of my favorite albums by one of my favorite artists. I’ve been listening to it for the better part of 40 years, and it never ceases to delight me. It’s a great entry into his earlier “rock” oriented phase of the 70s. But don’t stop there if you like it. He has a whole career of adventurous and compelling music to explore, both in his own work and as a producer. Fave Songs: Needles in the Camel's Eye, On Some Faraway Beach, Some Of Them Are Old, The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch, Here Come the Warm Jets, Dead Finks Don't Talk

When I was a kid I would see a piano or keyboard and just play meaningless shit. I wish I had the know with all like Brain to record it and make it an album. Album cover gives me some serious Silence of the Lambs Vibes. "Put the lotion in the basket." Here Come the Warm Jets. Is that a reference to peeing in the pool?

Went very quickly from "What...is this" to "Yeah I can dig it." Super creative, musically enjoyable, and the details are amazing when you notice them. I'd definitely give this another listen to see what else I pick up on.

It is here that you can find the origins of the sound of Talking Heads.

4.7 + Immediately I'm hooked from the grimy guitars and that first shriek on "Needles...". So many strange images and sounds crammed into these 42 minutes. Just listen to the layers of sound in "Baby's on Fire" - the drum track alone warrants a deep dive. There's the analog synth sound in the middle "Cindy Tells Me" that I can only describe as a cicada flying by my head. It's heady, amphetamine-fuled fun.

Experimental and beautiful. Eno crafted a masterpiece of an album for his solo debut.

First heard Baby's on Fire when I was in high school and Robert Fripp became a legend to me from then on. But it was only after discovering Eno through Another Green World that I realized the true genius behind that song. It was only after falling under the spell of the masterpiece AGW that I returned to Here Come The Warm Jets and discovered another Eno masterpiece. I love his way with a melody and his quirky musical genius. 5 🌟 is due just for Fripp's iconic guitar solo on Baby's on Fire, but there's so much more .

Highlights: Cindy Tells Me, Blank Frank, Dead Finks Don't Talk Which came first? The Eno, The Iggy, or The Bowie? It doesn't matter...I don't think any of them would exist without each other. Certainly Here Come The Warm Jets is half-serious throughout but glammy goofiness and artsy irreverence throughout, referencing colorful characters (I want to meet Cindy, but probably want to avoid Blank Frank). There is a lot of experimentation going on musically, but it's sure-footed and confident. Dead Finks Don't Talk is a haunting masterpiece that I can't stop listening to. There isn't a boring moment on here until the sendoff with the eponymous track that sort of can't wait to end but gets a bit dragged out.

Eno was a very busy man around this time. But before he worked with Bowie, Genesis, Devo, and the Talking Heads, he released Here Come The Warm Jets. Also notably before his ambient works, this leans more into the art/glam rock that he would also help produce with Bowie. Let's call a spade a spade: Eno is a goddamn genius. He's experimental approach to production means he's not afraid to take risks and try new things. I truly believe his music acts as a blueprint for others, as we can see elements of the songs here get incorporated into future songs and albums. Even if I don't like all the songs on here, I think it's an important album that's worth visiting at least once. Worthy of being on the list, no doubt.

Loved it-early alt/punk. Weird and delicious. Starred nearly every song.

10/10

One of the best albums ever - 5 stars is not enough. :-)

Stunning, exciting and funny. And the music is brilliant.

No idea what to expect here. Brian has such huge range in his work. 😊 Enjoyed this. You wouldn't think it was the same guy who wrote music for airports!

Here Come The Warm Jets is an interesting album whose genius may not be fully explored in one day. It heavily -and naturally- recalls Talking Heads or Bowie’s albums and feels like their experimental cousin. Eno’s HCTWJ is brave and every song has its own idea way too big to be completely listened to in a day.

Amazing Paw paw is a great track as is Finks don’t talk

i particularly loved The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch, which is almost the least-played track on this album, according to spotify. i thought it was one of the best, along with Here Come The Warm Jets, and Baby's On Fire. TL;DR: enough is cool.

Stone cold classic- love it.

A great album , I didn´t knew this existed but It sounds like a bowie album on his glam era .

I need to remember to listen to Eno's albums more often! "Here Come The Warm Jets" is Brian Eno's debut album after leaving Roxy Music and is described as blending glam and pop with avant garde approaches. I would agree with that and maybe have used experimental (same thing). Eno used 16 guest musicians from Roxy Music, Hawkwind, Matching Mole, Pink Fairies, Sharks, Sweetfield and King Crimson. He got together these musicians which he thought incompatible to see what may happen. Needless to say, he liked the results. The songs vary from fairly simple pop to very experimental and a lot going on musically. Instruments used/listed include a simplistic piano, snake guitar and electric larynx. For me, the guitar riffs and solos stand out. Interestingly, Eno would sing random vocals r during the writing enetually putting in lyrics at the end. This begins an incredible stretch of great albums in the 70's for him. There's a lot of great songs and moments to highlight. As I mentioned, I gravitated towards the unique guitar songs. "Needles in the Camel's Eye" starts the album off with a great driving guitar riff courtesy of Phil Manzanera. The music has a 60's pop feel and great vocals which are almost in the background. "Baby's on Fire" has "Shaft-like" constant top hat drumming with a absolute blazing guitar solo from Robert Fripp. Eno's nasally vocal delivery tells the fantasy/dream of a baby on fire at a photography session with unthinking/laughing observers. Or so I read. Another song inspired by a dream, "On Some Faraway Beach" romantisizes lying on a beach and is the pretty much a piano pop song. "Here Comes the Warm Jets" ends the albums with a surf or jet-like guitar throughout and is what the album is named for. The drumming and eventually lyrics slowly build toward the end. This album is near the top of Eno for me and is definitely worth its praise.

Delightful balance of glam rock grooves and mad scientist experimentation. A mysterious concoction, where you're not exactly sure what the ingredients are, yet it still manages to go down fairly easily. There is definitely a sinister edge to many of the songs, but it comes across more as mischievous spine tingling than actually being menacing or disconcerting. All part of its charm. I like his ambient albums and all, but I wish he'd stuck with these more rock oriented albums throughout his career. He has a gift for wordplay that I feel he largely abandoned after '77. And I like his voice, even when he is openly mocking Bryan Ferry's affectations.

I had a little experience with this album, as my partner got it and really liked a few songs off of it, so I was pretty sure I was gonna like it. Even so, it blew me away. It's saying something to make an album that still sounds like nothing you've heard despite being fifty years old. This was awesome. My favourite songs were The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch, Cindy Tells Me, and Some Of Them Are Old.

Quirky, noisy, artsy rock brimming with ideas whilst still having a pop sensibility underneath.

Enjoyed that a lot more than I though I would. Very creative.

First track absolute classic. You can hear the elements here that will appear in future Eno production work Cindy Tells Me - Cannibal Ox sample So many good ideas Title track is a top 10 track of all time for me

I think this album was my first introduction to Eno (if I’m remembering right, my brother put Baby’s on Fire on one of the many comp tapes he made me). The presence of Needle in the Camel’s Eye on the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack renewed my interest. The experimentalism pushes against listenability at some points but this is a great album.

My heart dropped when I saw it was Eno again after the Music for Airports debacle. But I was pleasantly suprised and my heart soared on the 'Here Come the Warm Jets' title track. Its a solid 3 but I'll give it a 4 for that alone.

'On Some Faraway Beach' is such a great song, as are a few others on this album - 'Needles in the Camel's Eye', in particular. A lot of really weird ones, too - very avant garde

Here Come the Warm Jets is the debut solo album by British musician Brian Eno, released on Island Records in January 1974. It was recorded and produced by Eno following his departure from the band Roxy Music, and blends glam and pop stylings with avant-garde approaches. Eno enlisted sixteen guest musicians to play on the album, who were invited on the basis that Eno thought they were musically incompatible with each other.

A fun listen - didn't grab me nearly as hard as "Before and After Science", though. Fave track - not sure - quite like "Baby's on Fire", but the oddness of "Dead Finks Don't Talk" appeals, as does the triumphant almost kazoo-ness of "Here Come The Warm Jets"

Interesting, some nice parts to it

Too off-kilter and experimental for me.

Disco maravilhoso! Não conhecia, e hoje, um dia depois de o conhecer já sei várias músicas de cor!

Love love love. The arrangements are standouts for sure. They really allow the track and album to breathe. Great use of space and textures. Will be coming back to this one often

Primer disc d'Eno en solitari després de sortir de Roxy Music. És un d'aquells àlbums que tot i tenir pràcticament 50 anys segueix sonant potent, actual i excitant. El tractament sonor de les guitarres en general i d'alguns efectes electrònics en particular li donen una àura hipnòtica. Imprescindible.

Obra de arte.

4.54 It's bad to compare but it was like listening to a crazier and wackier Bowie. I'm glad to have been able to discover this artist. Needles In The Camel's Eye is a road trip song if I ever heard one, Cindy Tells Me is an opening song for an '80s romantic comedy while On Some Faraway Beach is my new The Cure's Plainsong.

Deceptively 70s rock until it isn't anymore. Songs like 'On Some Faraway Beach' sound almost as if they could've been written by Arcade Fire or Neutral Milk Hotel. Though not as experimental and ambient as Eno's later work, this album challenges the notion of what popular music is.

This album is really dope

Amazing album.

Really solid glam/electric/guitar rock.

A record that I love and consider one of the best of the 70s - which is the best decade of music ever. So...

Oh, he’s playing the classics. (Some time in Poughkeepsie at 146)

Sheer brilliance from start to finish. It remains amazing to me how fresh the album sounds after 50 years (ask me again in another 50 years and I expect to say the same thing). Biting, humorous, and satirical, with a wondrous sense of experimentation in sound and composition. If this 1001 list were put in order, I'd easily put this record in the top 10.

Probably one of my favorite albums of all time-no question. So much stuff that Brian Eno was WAY ahead on in the 70s that became staples for pop music in the decades to come

strange

I love shit like this! This album really surprised me because the last Brian Eno album I listened to I gave it 1 star. His sound is so diverse

I absolutely love Brian Eno's early solo albums. So many great songs on this album, and the sounds and experimentation work so well.

Love it.

Eno's first solo album after leaving Roxy Music. A one of a kind artist, can do almost anything.

baby's on fire

Kinda Prog. Kinda Glam. It's Pram.

So gloriously weird

Some experimental sounds especially for the era

Excelent, I really like it

I'm totally biased, but I love Eno, and I think I even prefer this arty pop rock to his ambient works.

Love it. 50% out there rock and 50% just a man writing the most savage break up letter of all time to Brian Ferry. The whole album is great, but the home stretch of Dead Fink's, Some of Us are Old and Here Come the Warm Jets is as good as any album can hope for.

So here's one I've never listened to before despite being a big Roxy Music fan and liking a lot of his ambient and production work. This is a definitely an out there listen, but it is never short of interesting. Eno will never be mistaken for an ideal rock vocalist, but I do think his vocals mix well with the bizarre but musical pop tunes. I love the collage of sounds and how one minute we have a freak out, then a pretty melody and then a mix of strange and exciting sounds. Influence-wise, I can hear how a heck of a lot of alternative/rock music of the late 70s, 80s, and 90s was influenced by this work. This is quite in my wheelhouse and I'm here for it.

Yes 5/5

Pretty out there. Sounds ahead of it's time

One of my favourite albums of all time!!! Could listen to it over and over again. I'd give it more than 5 stars if I could..

After standing on the sidelines being in one of the more important glam rock groups of the day, Brian Eno decided that the wheels of his ever curious mind needed to start spinning. He'd grown too big and too much for Roxy Music and there was much more vast and wider terrains for him to roam. Thus, Here Come the Warm Jets. This album belongs on the lists of greatest debut solo albums of all time and the forty-two minutes given to this record and the unique creativities of the participants involved is a testament to the fact. Nearly fifty years on, this album remains stimulating, exciting, a world-building feat, monumental and inventive as all hell. This is experimental pop at its epochal finest and it's utterly insane to think that it was only the beginning for Ol' Sourpuss. Love this album. Love, love, love this album!

very bowie-esque. instrumentals hella fun. can't get a grasp of the lyrics but generally giving me a good vibe.

Eno’s best for me, probably due to the relatively standard song structures here, closer to his Roxy work than most of his solo output. It holds the oddness together. The sounds here are also some of his more interesting sonic experiments. The guitars particularly, but the loops sneak around a lot if these tracks, both holding them together and taking them to other places.

What a classic! It influenced so many artist that you can’t name them all

one of the coolest albums I’ve heard all year too good to rate I’ll definitely be revisiting this several more times

Few musicians fascinate me more than Brian Eno; I’m forever in his corner, and shit like this is why.

Music.

Very cool! This album feels super interesting, because it has the over the top ostentatiousness of a hair metal rock opera, but is edgy and forward looking like an art-house album. I find the way he plays with sounds and voices to be quite intersting. For example in, "Baby's On Fire", Brian takes on this weird nasally voice which slides between notes before abruptly stopping on sharp words. Similarly, Driving Me Backwards sounds like a drunk parlor son with the detuned pianos, yowling echoed vocals, and distorted guitars. The tonal range is quite incredible. I think what I love most about the album is the hints of sounds-to-come in every song. Here Come the Warm Jets reminds me of the feel good nostalgic trip 00's alt-rock, while Dead Finks Don't Talk sounds like Yeasayer decades before they even came on the scene. This is so cool as an album, and I love how every song is an evolutionary journey. Nice!

5/5. A pretty wild album with such unique songs and ideas that I have to give it a 5. Each song is awesome and also so silly, I just love the energy. I was never bored throughout the album, and I went back and listened to individual ones for the fun of it. Good stuff.

There is a reason this man is a legend. Amazing debut solo album. This man gets avante-garde.

One of the greatest solo debuts of all time.

This feels like the Beatles and The Beach Boys had a baby who’s into alternative and borderline punk. I like it a lot and the instrumentation is exquisite.

There more Eno I listen to, the more I like him. This is such an interesting album. I love the vocal doubling on the guitars on the eponymous track. You're trying to evoke an experience "On Some Faraway Beach"? Then record your instrumentation like it's 20 miles away. These compositions featuring rock instrumentation have a lot you can dig into, if you're willing to give it a chance.

Genius

I have not listen to an Eno record in years and I loved it this is a re-mastered version so its sounds fresher then the original from the 1970's

Being a fan of prog and art rock as well as anything punk adjacent, I'm surprised I've never heard this album with the exception of maybe 'Cindy Tells Me'. In all it's oddness, and perhaps harsh elements, I found this album pleasing and even calming. This really blends the experimental, pop, and ambient together very nicely to the point that even if I didn't like some songs as much as others, it's all very unique and worth digging into.

I could use some warm jets during these cursed ice cold grey nothing months. Anyway this is niiiiice

That was awesome

I remember buying this album because I was a Roxy Music fan, but this album was unlike anything else that I'd ever heard. Eno was "out there". A great album. A bit controversial back in the day because of the cover.

Loved it, creative funky and warm

First time through, I thought, well, there are some hits and some big misses here. Second time through, I thought, where did the misses go??? An interesting and entertaining listen. Eno takes me by surprise again.

I continue to find myself drawn deeper into the musical world of Brian Eno. Great album!

geðveik

I'm not going to be able to be impartial when it comes to Brian Eno. His debut is filled with so many diverse sounds and textures, especially the final few tracks. 4.5/5

I wondered what I was getting with a solo Brian Eno album but this a surprising classic that seems to have eluded me until now.

Innovative, delightful, eclectic, and marvellous. Listening to this album is like have musical honey dripped into your ears by a mischievous forest nymph. How I've not heard this before is criminal, but now that I have, it won't be the last time, that's for sure. You can clearly hear where many artists over the years have been influenced by this legend of a geezer. And rightly so.

Eccentric brilliant. Music from a genius

Wonderfully weird. I continue to be impressed by the breadth of Eno’s work.

Art rock, glam rock, experimental rock. With what little I know of Brian Eno, I was expecting something electronic. Definitely not anything as crazy as this. I really enjoyed it, just very bizarre rock, but not weird just to be weird. There's a science to it. Would love to revisit. Strong 4.5/5

Brian Eno is one of those artists I can't help but love due to his hand in the work of so many artists I enjoy as well as his influence on countless others. Of his solo work, I am more familiar with Before and After Science and always find myself listening to that. So it was nice to be made to listen to an album I can't recall having played in full. It was near perfect. The only downside is it felt over too soon.

Quirky and experimental in all the right ways

I couldn't stop thinking about how annoying it must have been to live with this guy when he was working on all the weird noises he liked to make. Great album though.

Filled to the brim with wildly imaginative and flailing rock and roll. It hits a great balance between the avant garde and familiar rock practice of the 70s. Every song has a really unique character to it, and the frequently absurd lyrics on top of it all really seals the deal. The production process for this album is super neat too.

When I was a teenager, it was hard to expand your musical horizons. I couldn't afford many records, and in any case, my shopping was largely restricted to the Kmart or the Hercules Street Record Bar in Ashfield and mail order from the World Record Club. I hadn't discovered the world of alternative record shops, record fairs or second hand yet. So, while I would read about whatever I could, the best ways to try and hear more music was constant radio listening (especially late night Triple J), taping albums from friends or borrowing cassettes from the local library at Campsie. When I was 14 or 15, I borrowed 'More Frank Than Blank', a compilation drawn from Eno's 73-77 song-oriented albums. I had some awareness of his name, but didn't know his music. I confess, I did not get it at the time, but in the 40- years since I have learned to love his tangential approach to song-writing and production. Truth be told, I prefer these, his early more-rock albums (see also Before and After Science. That is a banger). There is a murderer's row of interesting musicians playing on this album, all doing really interesting things. And the (sometimes tenuous) connection to rock gives it a framework I can understand and enjoy. There is still a desire to write (and sing) actual songs, even if they are weird and chaotic and unnerving, which is pretty rock and roll. He was too curious to make many more records like this himself, but he left the doors of possibility open, and many followed through after him. I still listen to this pretty regularly. When I spin albums on vinyl, I usually spin a single side, and this album gets a spin on the deck from time to time, usually side 1. It was fun to listen to the whole thing through today. I also have a really long spotify playlist (>24 hours) that my son Hal and I curated together for long car drives, and it has a few tracks from this album; Needles in the Camel's Eye and Baby's On Fire. I'm pretty sure I added them, but now Hal likes them too. That's top class parenting, there.

Do I like it, is it any good, should it be here? I find Brian Enos ambient work to be some of the purest and most satisfying music and beyond compare. It's the best I know. He captures a core or ambience like no other. Back to this. This is clearly a seminal album and sound from a time where this was significant. I don't however connect with it but admire it has quality production.... There are bits that are very good. Like the 2nd half of Some Faraway Beach .... How did he do that? A champion of originality. Or. There are some people who convey otherworldly things as music. He has that talent. Rounding it up as a 4 due to its ability to work as an album if you let it okay in the background .... Or maybe a 5 as I do want to hear it again. Hmmmm ....

Me sorprendió este álbum. No lo conocía y ha sido todo un descubrimiento. Algunas canciones me encantaron, como Needles In The Camel's Eye, The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch y mi favorita que fue On Some Faraway Beach.

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Eno’s first solo record and he’s already surpassing most of Roxy Music’s output. It’s enigmatic, it’s exciting, it’s catchy, unusual, unpredictable, fun. Challenging but accessible, arty but not pretentious, weird but cool. Eno proves he quite possibly could’ve been the next Bowie if he hadn’t chosen another path, to build upon the genre of ambient music and produce some of the finest albums of the past 40 odd years.

Almost one time out of three, everytime I want to write "Brian Eno" in reviews for this app, I go a little too fast on my keyboard and write "BRAIN Eno" instead. I always have to double-check. And the funny thing is that I've seen that uncorrected typo at least a couple of times in this review section. 😉 In a sense, this tells you a lot of what you need to know about the guy's mad genius. Apart from that, well, the review about this solo debut currently topping this section is pretty informative as well if you want to understand why his early discography is so important for quite a few music fans. Sad that I don't have the time today (and am probably unable) to write anything half as good. There are some people who are definitely talented to shine at what they do. That reviewer and Brian share that, in a way. Before I go, check out French band Marvin's cover version of the immense title-track. It proves -- once again -- that the original was decades ahead in the game. Number of albums left to review: 47 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 410 (including this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 239 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 305