How was Here Come The Warm Jets received upon it's release?

it's not as 'pleasant' a listen as "another green world", but i think it has a similarly playful approach to arrangements and guitar tones

jamming this now on a Saturday morning

bass solo in Needles rules

substitute that rhymes with dissolute = prostitute?

hmm maybe that is a synth solo in Paw Paw, not gtr

love the cymbal-ticking light touch drums on Baby's On Fire

Fripp guitar solo is one of his most undeniable

For years I assumed that was Manzanera doing that solo. Someone here set me straight.

I was pretty baffled by this record when I first heard it about 20 years ago; all I knew of Eno was his brilliant Roxy work and my unfair view of "that hissing shit on those Bowie records" (a view I have since revised considerably). I did not expect the melodic power-pop herein. Love it.

I also love the move of putting a 2 1/2 minute freakout gtr solo into the middle of a 3 minute song

lovely treated gtr solo by Manzanera on Cindy Tells Me, I've always liked the backing vocals too

Driving Me Backwards is the only song here I will not vehemently defend, kind of a monochromatic downer

Tarfumes otm

aside from On Some Faraway Beach being incredibly goddamn beautiful, I love the way everything else in the mix slowly overtakes the piano line as the song progresses

side 2 of this is maybe my favorite side of the 4 vocal records

onslaught of Blank Frank, the density of the bass really helps, the wall of gtr scree freakout (Manzanera?) one minute in is really something

speaking of lyrics there are some particularly good ones in Blank Frank

"the only time he speaks is in incomprehensible proverbs"

Driving Me Backwards is the only song here I will not vehemently defend, kind of a monochromatic downer

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I dig the warbly piano, but yeah, if Warm Jets has a failing, it's this song. If it has a failing.

yeah the piano is my favorite part as well

oh perfect masters

they thrive on disasters

they all look so harmless

TILL THEY FIND THEIR WAY UP HERE

all the weird little backing vocal details in Dead Finks, love it

aside from all the gorgeous melody in Some Of Them Are Old, it has that sweet little slide solo

so many moments like that hidden in this record

I just realized that I've probably passed the 30-year mark on listening to this record (less than others posters itt)

still holds up

remember me, remember me...

can someone who owns the lyric book tell me what the actual words to the title track are?

nothing to saaaay, nothing to saaaaay

that's all I know

Driving Me Backwards is a fav for me

I signed out Enobox 2 from the library when I was 12 and for whatever reason (track title curiosity?) started with Taking Tiger Mountain instead of with Warm Jets, "Burning Airlines" cemented itself as the best song I'd ever heard and would ever hear. Returning to Warm Jets afterwards, I was somewhat disappointed with the comparative un-adventurousness of the instrumentation, more of a standard rock record than the endless funhouse of Tiger Mountain. Didn't warm to it until adulthood. Realize now that Tiger Mountain while awesome is jokey and ridiculous and obv sounded better to the ears of an adolescent, "Judy's Jungle" is basically a kid's tune

here come the warm jets is basically my dream of a ziggy stardust album - an alien using all of pop/rock's little musical and recording tricks and hooks to try and seduce listeners but from a slightly askew perspective. by comparison same-era bowie feels earthbound and stagebound, decent but more pretentious than actually surreal. I love it more with every passing year, but if it doesn't amuse a listener in the slightest after two spins i have no interest in trying to convince them of its charms. they obv don't like this kind of voice or this kind of sound and that's fine but ffs it's a canonical, 40 year old classic album, if you need convincing of its worth fucking consult your local library. google a review, jesus.

xpost tiger mountain has individual tracks that blow me away, but Warm Jets is more consistently rockin to my ears

Do not get dislike for 'Driving Me Backwards'. Its wooziness is integral.

It's the best track on the album imo

i mean if it's a "everyone is so reverent to this thing, but i don't get what the big deal is, i wasn't sent to mars, it was just goofy '70 UK Phil-Collins-in-the-liner-notes shit, and I don't even like Roxy Music anyway" well yeah it's a Roxy Music spin-off and you're an adult, music's not gonna make you shit your pants like you're 14 once you've got a general sense of what's out there. But just as Dylan made more sense to me once I stopped resenting that every sentence wasn't the promised-by-boomers pearl and sometimes this guy's just telling jokes and making it rhyme, it shouldn't be too hard to step back and realize "john cale with the muppets" could actually be an AWESOME thing.

yeah but all the grand claims people make for eno in the 70s are actually true

especially that muppets thing

availing myself of the opportunity to say da croupier otm

i was always disappointed that ziggy bowie wasn't more of a blast-you-into-space kind of thing, just a dude with an acoustic guitar poncing around

once a grown-up colleague of mine heard me playing 'warm jets' and he seriously had to inquire how someone could like 'serious music' and also this sophomoric junk (not his words), like there was a complete disconnect

"john cale with the muppets" could actually be an AWESOME thing.

could? yeah i guess VU were pretty good
geez who would disagree with john cale and the muppets?!

da croup otm
although I need a little convincing that Another Green World is as classic as the other 70s vocal records, to me it's just a collection of almost-but-not-quite-as-good-as-Cluster instrumentals and the annoying "Tie Your Shoe" song

y'all I don't dislike Driving, but it is my least favorite here

da croupier otm, ha xp

the annoying "Tie Your Shoe" song

*glare*

key to AGW is St Elmo's Fire/Big Ship imo

That shoe song is the should-be-erased musical-linguistic link between Eno's songwriting style and Rice/Webber imo, never was a fan

Love I'll come running, also whatever the version on the peel sessions is called

da croupier OTM

Another green Eno-nostalgia post: the second-longest relationship I've ever been in was with a girl I met at an Eno tribute night. She wore a black dress and had a goth band and smoked and sang through perfect versions of "Needles" and "Cindy". I was smitten and asked her out and we were together two years.

awesome

yeah that's tender

so who/what is 'Sweetfeed'—backing vocals:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/288423-Sweetfeed ?

I saw Jon Brion back in 2007 or so, and as part of the set he did a spontaneous three-song "Jets" tribute the consisted of "Dead Finks Don’t Talk," "Some of them Are Old" and the title track. I'll try to find some audio. And then he segued to "Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet," which of course is also connected to Eno.

How was Here Come The Warm Jets received upon it's release?

They would say "Here comes 'Here comes the warm jets' "

bass solo in Needles rules

Bass solo?!?! Where? Have I lost my mind here or what?

For years I assumed that was Manzanera doing that solo. Someone here set me straight.

Fripp

OK maybe it is a gtr solo mostly played very low? the part right after he sings the title of the song, there is a cool solo, I am not a musician.

Ah, it's a gtr

I was somewhat disappointed with the comparative un-adventurousness of the instrumentation, more of a standard rock record than the endless funhouse of Tiger Mountain.

I don't think the two albums are all that different really, my one tiny tiny minsicule insignificant complaint about "Tiger Mountain" would be that some of the songs are a bit longer than they need be

nahhh

TTM is for me an entire step up, whether in terms of songwriting or sonic ingenuity

P. surprised Hurting 2 doesn't like the "Baby's on Fire" solo!

I listened to Baby's On Fire like 6x because of this thread and that guitar solo remains one of the most sizzling ever. How else to describe? Honestly I have no idea.

some of the songs are a bit longer than they need be
agree!! i love true wheel and mother whale eyeless but they could both stand to be at least a minute shorter imo

"sizzling" is right. fripp really knew how to make the most of a guest spot back then. tho manzanera does the solo justince in the 801 live version...