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Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

1974

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Here Come The Warm Jets
Album Summary

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 Roxy Music, and blends glam and pop stylings with avant-garde approaches. The album features numerous guests, including several of Eno's former Roxy Music bandmates along with members of Hawkwind, Matching Mole, Pink Fairies, Sharks, Sweetfeed, and King Crimson. Eno devised unusual methods and instructions to coax unexpected results from the various musicians.Here Come the Warm Jets peaked at number 26 on the United Kingdom album charts and number 151 on the US Billboard charts, receiving mostly positive reviews. It was re-issued on compact disc in 1990 on Island Records and remastered in 2004 on Virgin Records, and continued to elicit praise.

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  • Rock

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Nov 23 2021
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5

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

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Jul 15 2021
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2

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?

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Jun 23 2023
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4

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

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Oct 14 2021
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4

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.

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Apr 30 2021
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5

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.

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Jun 27 2021
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5

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 .

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Jun 15 2021
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5

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

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Oct 06 2021
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4

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.

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Mar 31 2021
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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.

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Oct 12 2021
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5

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

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Sep 07 2021
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5

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

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Jan 23 2021
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5

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

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May 14 2021
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4

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.

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Feb 10 2021
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4

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!

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Jun 14 2024
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5

Quirky and experimental in all the right ways

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Jan 20 2023
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5

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.

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Jun 20 2022
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5

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.

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Jun 10 2022
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5

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.

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Oct 02 2021
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5

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

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Aug 02 2021
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5

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.

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Feb 05 2021
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5

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

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Nov 28 2024
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4

The name Brian Eno should sound familiar to anyone who has spent a considerable amount of time with this list. Or anyone who has explored various spaces of experimental rock through the 70s and 80s. The amount of absolutely iconic music that has sprung from his countless contributions and collaborations is innumerable. And this doesn’t even factor in his solo work, which is just as essential. He basically created the namesake for ambient music, which I think says a lot. The man has had nothing short of a storied career, and I love seeing so much of his work represented on this list. This is his second solo release. And there is a rather star-studded list of people who were working behind the scenes, including members of his former band Roxy Music, and even Robert Fripp. All of the background info surrounding this and the way it was made is incredibly interesting. Eno specifically chose people he thought would not work well together, and deserved to them what he wanted them to play using body language and dancing. He essentially made the creative process be based on interpretation and emotion rather than critical thinking. He then took everything they made and mixed, or altered, the recordings heavily, which resulted in the final product. Mind you, this was all recorded in less than two weeks as well. So from the beginning, Eno was already showing his prowess and ability to push the musicianship in a different direction. This is probably the best place to start for his catalog, but it also sets the precedent that his music is the least bit ordinary. This feels like a really well packaged experimental rock album that draws from a variety of different places. It challenges the listener, but in a very palatable way. And you can hear how bringing together musicians from such different places can lead to wildly unique results. Crazy that he hadn’t even really become acquainted with Bowie yet. Pandora’s box had yet to be opened. This isn’t my first experience with the work of Brian Eno, but it does work as a great view into his mindset and creative talents. Rating: 7/10

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Jan 14 2022
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4

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.

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Nov 13 2021
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4

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.

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Oct 09 2021
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4

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

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Sep 07 2021
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4

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

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Sep 02 2021
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4

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

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Dec 01 2024
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3

Not terrible. I kind of even enjoyed some of the songs

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Nov 24 2024
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3

Some of this is really good, but some not so much.

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Nov 22 2024
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3

I don’t feel as though I can give this album a fair rating at this time. I did not immediately dislike it, didn’t love it either. But I found it really interesting, and some parts were definitely enjoyable. There was so much going on within this album that I feel compelled to revisit it soon. Either to see what I may have missed, or to see if anything really sticks the second time around.

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Jun 23 2023
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3

Interesting, some nice parts to it

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Apr 21 2021
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3

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"

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Jul 14 2021
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3

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.

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Feb 11 2021
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3

'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

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Jul 05 2024
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2

Too off-kilter and experimental for me.

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Nov 28 2024
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5

I've always loved it. I'll continue to love it

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Nov 20 2024
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5

Unbelievably good. So ahead of its time, so clever and catchy and just weird enough without being totally repellent. Love love loved it.

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Nov 19 2024
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5

Eno at his very best. One of my favorites EVER!

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Nov 06 2024
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5

Just a cool album front to back.

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Nov 06 2024
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5

So great when you find an album you’ve never listen to that aligns so well with what you find to be interesting in music. Definitely hear his influences across so many other artists over the years.

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Nov 06 2024
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5

Incredible. Needle in the Camel's Eye and Baby's on Fire are great songs. On Some Faraway Beach may be the ideal song for rolling movie credits.

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Nov 03 2024
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5

You can hear how he had his hand in so many other bands’ work in this album. It’s just those sounds but…more.

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Oct 28 2024
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5

This is that very rare thing, a 5 star album that I'd never heard before that clicked on the first listen. I despise glam rock, but the lush and quirky production here ascends to the point where the music defies genre. If I wasn't already going to give this 5 stars, I would have added an extra star for having most of King Crimson, Simon House, and other diverse artists making guest appearances. I can't believe this album was made over 50 years ago, as it sounds so fresh that it could have come out last year.

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Oct 26 2024
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5

Still fresh af 50 years later, which is something! Some absolutely amazing guitar work on this album IMHO, and... Well, I really just like off-beat and/or "out there" pop music. This fits the bill. Hadn't heard it in years, but I definitely feel like this one has aged like wine. Love it.

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Oct 23 2024
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5

i'm just curious why i haven't heard any of these songs in a coming of age movie

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Oct 21 2024
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5

It often feels like I repeat myself with these reviews; and it’s hard not to. I could list off how the amount of variety in Brian Eno’s ‘Here Come The Warm Jets’ is absolutely astounding. And it is, and I have certainly said it about enough albums so far. But that doesn’t really sell this particular LP or do it justice. This album is the absolute definition of an artist who is simply putting whatever comes into his head to tape via a collaborative effort and simply does not give a flying fuck if you like it or not. The action packed opener ‘Needles In The Camel’s Eye’. The extremely catchy and weird-as-hell ‘The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch’. The mid-tempo and and almost urgent atmosphere of ‘Cindy Tells Me’. ‘Blank Frank’, which walks a fine line between psychedelic and prog rock. The gospel-esque and haunting ‘Some Of Them Are Old’. And the noisy, chaotic finisher title track ‘Here Come The Warm Jets’. All legitimate highlights that keep the album’s momentum going strong. If you’re familiar with Brian Eno for the works he was involved with as a producer, then you would be happy to know that this is where the album shines the most. Having listened to this masterpiece twice now, it almost felt like a totally different project both times; as there are layers upon layers of different noises and sounds that you can pick up on. It adds so much replayability to the tracklist. Brian Eno has always found a way to make what I like to call ‘accessible avant-garde’ music. He finds ways to take melodies that are easy on the ears, yet fill them with artistic elements; playing around with time signatures and creating sounds that make the listener wonder what equipment he is using and how exactly is he using it. If you can’t tell, I absolutely loved this album. This is something Eno went into with an artistic vision in mind and followed through with it on every second presented on the tracklist. It’s punk in spirit, yet almost pretentiously artistic in execution. But for me, personally, it’s an LP with almost endless layers of discovery just waiting to be found. 5/5

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Oct 15 2024
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5

Some amazing tracks, a fantastic sound. Overall, this is an incredible album.

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Oct 04 2024
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5

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

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Sep 19 2024
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5

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.

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Sep 15 2024
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5

Tog mig et enkelt nummer at komme ind i den og så elskede jeg hvert minut derefter

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Sep 04 2024
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5

Wasn't expecting such a good album from someone looking like a combination of every character from The Rocky Horror picture show.

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Jul 24 2024
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5

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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Jul 23 2024
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5

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 ....

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Jul 23 2024
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5

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.

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Jul 10 2024
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5

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.

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Jun 27 2024
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5

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.

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Jun 13 2024
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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.

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Jun 12 2024
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5

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

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May 17 2024
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5

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

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May 03 2024
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5

Eccentric brilliant. Music from a genius

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May 03 2024
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5

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.

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May 03 2024
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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.

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Mar 27 2024
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5

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

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Feb 26 2024
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5

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

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Feb 26 2024
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5

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.

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Feb 25 2024
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5

Loved it, creative funky and warm

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Feb 04 2024
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5

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.

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Jan 17 2024
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5

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

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Jan 17 2024
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5

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.

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Dec 11 2023
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5

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

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Nov 09 2023
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5

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.

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Oct 20 2023
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5

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.

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Oct 20 2023
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5

One of the greatest solo debuts of all time.

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Oct 18 2023
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5

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

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Oct 11 2023
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5

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.

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Oct 04 2023
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5

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!

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Aug 18 2023
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5

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

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Aug 14 2023
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5

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

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Jun 21 2023
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5

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

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Jun 14 2023
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5

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.

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Jun 08 2023
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5

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

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May 31 2023
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5

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!

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May 03 2023
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5

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..

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Mar 15 2023
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5

Pretty out there. Sounds ahead of it's time

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Feb 02 2023
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5

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.

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Jan 13 2023
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5

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.

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Dec 07 2022
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5

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

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Oct 04 2022
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5

Some experimental sounds especially for the era

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Sep 23 2022
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5

Kinda Prog. Kinda Glam. It's Pram.

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