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

yeah, hearing this record was like hearing something like gainsbourg where you think "oh here's where [band x] got pretty much their whole thing"

the title track is the perfect example of that -- it sounds like ground zero for basically everything i thought sounded super cool at the time i heard it
i also loved this album the first time i heard it, and seeing all that stuff upthread is kinda…i dunno, i stopped reading after a while because i don't honestly care about whether or not eno was flipping the bird at feminism or w/e.

Hah I didn't read any of the rest of the thread. I just didn't get the idea that there isn't much going on/notable regarding the record. Glad that it is not the case for me, it just rules.

yeah i dunno re: feminism -- i mean, eno probably had a lot of weird ideas at the time. he was a weird dude!

he was a weird dude and honestly i don't care what he thinks about feminism then or now

there's a part in "baby's on fire" that has been stuck in my head for 14 years

I like Another Green World and Before and After Science, but somehow I just can't get into this record.

all four of those vocal records are so great that it makes me upset that he didn't continue banging them out. I know its not really like Eno to continue doing the same thing but it's such a great run and all those records are unparalleled in their own way

it is my third favorite of the enorawk quadrilogy after Tiger and Green but I do love it and I LOOOOOOOVE Needles

i think what Green and Tiger have over Jets is the sound of them is so distinctive and spatial and pleasing and Jets does have that garage psych feel which is fine but not what Eno would end up being ~about~

It ws wt he ws abt at the time tho

yeah that was a dumb comment on my part.

Every song title on this album is great too. The songs are also ridiculously fun to sing. All the way through!! Great album for words IMO.

Blank Frank is the messenger of your doom and your destruction!

And the whole approach to recording/making this rec ws v Eno, really

Some of them lose, and some of them lose

FYI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paw_Paw_Negro_Blowtorch

"Dead Finks Don't Talk" was my favorite. That bit that sounds like an Elvis impersonation is gold. I loved Eno's approach to writing lyrics - "The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface" is one of my favorite lines. You have to really strain for it to mean anything but it flows so nicely!

That bit that sounds like an Elvis impersonation

think eno was going for something else here

maybe it's just hard to hear with hindsight (hindhearing?) but HCTWJ just doesn't seem all that sonically interesting to me. Maybe I need to listen to it on really killer speakers or something.

Have you seen Velvet Goldmine?

think eno was going for something else here

probably! but I can't figure what? is it Ferry?

Yup

It's not sonically interesting so much as it's arrangement/production interesting

its interesting how eno and ferry were both singing in that snotty quavery style they'd abandon so hard p soon

wrt ferry the order in which i heard roxy and his stuff means that i learned early on that his purpose was to ensheath me in comfort and luxury so i can't help hearing early roxy singing as "sounding like Warm Jets" even though it's vice versa

I hate that style, xp

I guess in retrospect I can tell, but I heard Eno before Roxy, and for the longest time I thought it was Eno singing "Mother of Pearl."

given the chaaance
I'll die like a baaaaabyyyyy

and that's what baby's been reduced to

this album is good but TTT(BS) has somewhat devalued it in my mind by being so utterly, phenomenally brilliant

*TTM(BS)

Reading through this thread, since I'm currently reading David Sheppard's Eno book, and I had never even heard about the Black and White Minstrel Show.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Black_and_White_Minstrel_Show.jpg

jfc, this went on until 1978?

6:27:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cYbU_dOYHI#t=368

i like this album a lot, but i feel where you're coming from, hurting, for awhile i couldn't stand eno or cale vocalwise.

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