POLL: Favorite Track on Eno's "Here Comes the Warm Jets"

title track

"Faraway Beach".

paw paw - just for the ridiculously great synth solo

"Cindy Tells Me"

Tough choice! I went with "Baby's on Fire"

"Baby's On Fire."

There's a song in the Sims 2 that rips "Paw Paw" synth very well :)

About half the tracks on that album are among my favorite songs by anyone ever, but I gotta go with the title track. It's been known to make me misty with its messed-up beauty.

are you sure it isn't the stream of Eno's hot piss?

Father, we've spent days on our knees
Gone in a year, for we've no where to be
Nowhere to be
Nowhere to be

Father stays, we're all on our knees
Down on our words and we've nothing to be
Nothing to be
Nothing to be

Father, down, we're all on our sails
Hail to our keys, but we've nothing these days
Nothing these days
Nothing these days

Father, give them straw men of faith
We're down on our knees and we've nothing to say
Nothing to say
Nothing to say

i'll rep for dead finks

I always say On Some Faraway Beach and I do so now

Baby's On Fire - is it Eno's most famous/highest charting glam-era song?'s been covered heaps.

are you sure it isn't the stream of Eno's hot piss?

Misty, not just hot and wet.

Cindy Tells Me! Though that was a tough choice.

Needle's in the Camel's Eye. Best pure-scale guitar solo ever.

That Metropolitan Express cover linked to a few posts above is AWESOME! The Superpitcher cover is pretty good too.

Title cut for me - save "Baby's On Fire" for the "Best Robert Fripp Solo" poll

I have this CD. I used to play it in the car a lot when I worked as a courier. But I'm afraid I don't remember much of it now. The one I remember as being the best was "Dead Finks Don't Talk" though so I'll vote for that.
I'll give another listen in full tonight and see if I change my mind.

Meanwhile, can we talk about Eno's streaming (misty??) hot piss some more?

here come the warm jets
needles in the camels eye
cindy tells me
pawpaw negro blowtorch
on some faraway beach
dead finks dont talk
blank frank
babys on fire
driving me backwards
some of them are old

both the first and last song are probably in my top ten songs ever, though, and the whole album is great

No love for "Some of them are old" yet...I know that one tends to fly under the radar when discussing this album, but I think it's an underrated tune.

Had to go with "Needle." A couple of years ago they blasted it through the PA before a Wilco show at Brown University. It was the best thing I heard all night by far.

No love for "Some of them are old" yet...I know that one tends to fly under the radar when discussing this album, but I think it's an underrated tune.

Not underrated by me. All tracks great, can't choose.

yeah the results for this should be interesting.

needles just over the title track

what, no love for blank frank?

Cindy Tells Me

Right now "Baby's On Fire".

fuck it:

1 Baby's On Fire
2 On Some Faraway Beach
3 Here Come The Warm Jets
4 Needles In The Camel's Eye
5 Cindy Tells Me
6 Blank Frank
7 Driving Me Backwards
8 Some Of Them Are Old
9 Dead Finks Don't Talk
10 The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch

I totally hate "The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch". Both on this and the second record Eno went with a chump track second, and it kills the momentum both times.

Jesus, someone should of really mentioned "Dead Finks Don't Talk" by now.

"Needle" is really well used in Velvet Goldmine.

Mine would be:

On Some Faraway Beach
Here Come the Warm Jets
Needles in the Camel's Eye
Baby's on Fire
Some of Them Are Old
The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch
Blank Frank
Driving Me Backwards
Dead Finks Don't Talk
Cindy Tells Me

baby's on fire

what, no love for blank frank?

-- Edward III, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:53 AM (1 hour ago)

Plenty of love for "Blank Frank," but There Can Be Only One.

Does anyone else unfortunately have Elton Johns Can You Feel the Love Tonight stuck in their head after listening to Here Come The Warm Jets (the song)?

Mm, no. I used to always have My Bloody Valentine stuck inmy head after listening to "Here Come The Warm Jets". No, really.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Fuckin' "Needles..." of course (although "Baby's On Fire" is a close second).

"Cindy Tells Me" is perfect.

hard to choose but lets say Paw Paw

Had to go with 'Baby's on Fire' - damn thing just makes me smile.

Everything's a close second, but "Needles".

I love me Tall Dwarfs but they pretty much owe a lot of their sound to this song alone.

I have it in my head that I really like this album but picking songs off it seems to somehow diminish it. Taking Tiger Mountain would be a TOUGH poll though.

Cindy Tells Me

Baby's On Fire, obv.

Blank Frank could have used someone like Helmet covering it in the mid-90s.

Or Quicksand

Voted On SOme Faraway Beach so it gets some action

More action, I guess. Could've been any of them

I'm not telling what my choice was but I bet every track here gets at least one vote.

This is the hardest one yet! I voted "Baby's On Fire" just over the title track but every song is great.

"Some of Them Are Old," for the slide guitar solo.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I'm surprised to see "Blank Frank" come in as low as it did, though I didn't vote for it myself.

Blank Frank was my second choice. a genius of pre- post punk song

surprises me that Some Of Them Are Old isn't up at like 5 or 6, but these are nicely varied.

I chose "On Some Faraway Beach".

question:

i have read conflicting accounts about who recorded the solo in "baby's on fire" and i would like to know whether it is fripp or manzanera?!

That is definitely Fripp.

Ok thank you very much!
I thought so, but for some reason I felt like I read in the book I just read (the Sheppard one) that there was a dispute? Is there a name for that style of guitar playing other than Fripp-like?

But is it pop?

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