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

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...

Fave Fripp guest spot can't not be the last minute of A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers tbh

there's probably already been a fripp guest spot poll?

Ha, I never knew that was Fripp on "Lighthouse Keepers"!

Tbh I wouldn't put it past Banton to extract that fearsome solo from one of his organs, but yeah, Fripp.

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.

this is really otm - I like Ziggy a lot but it only felt like 10% as "out there" as advertised. Warm Jets does a lot of really crazy things in some fairly normal contexts which IMO is what makes it so fascinating. It's not easy to do that!

True wheel could be longer, agree re mother whale eyeless tho. Latter has some of my fave lyrics ever

This is for the fingers
This is for the nails
Hidden in the kitchen
Right behind the scales

^if Scott walker sang this it would be horrifying and obviously about torture; when eno sings it it's not obviously not about torture, and unnerving.

Then there's the "in my town" sequence which is just funny.

Slightly off-topic, but the new one, with Karl Hyde, "Someday World" is streaming here:
http://www.npr.org/2014/04/27/306161810/first-listen-brian-eno-karl-hyde-someday-world

I didn't really OTM him because he'd been OTMed a lot but yeah, croup hitting it out of the park on this one.

Um, the internet thinks it might have been Banton after all xps

there's probably already been a fripp guest spot poll?

― tylerw, Monday, April 28, 2014 11:41 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Even if we did a poll already, would make a sweet Spotify playlist especially since there's 0 crim on there.

and if we ain't polled it we should

This thread deserves to have ITS title fixed.

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

― nerve_pylon, Saturday, April 26, 2014 6:33 PM (2 days ago)

http://www.spectropop.com/FrontPorch/

I was the only one to continue with music. I moved to London in 1971 and stayed for ten years. I had some success as a guitarist-singer-songwriter. I had a group that went by the name of Sweetfeed and also Roberts, Rice, Bandell and Scott. We recorded with Roger Daltrey on his solo album "Ride A Rock Horse", and also with Brian Eno on his album "Here Come The Warm Jets". We never had any of our own recordings released or achieved commercial success, but our fans included David Bowie, Rod Stewart, Gary Glitter, Bryan Ferry, the Supremes and all of London high society, including members of the royal family.

but no actual punters.

(soz)

xpost Pretty sure that is Fripp on the VdG album. I know he pops up a couple of places on "Pawn Hearts."