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Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Posted by Steve Hill on 21 February 2010 - 7:36pm.
I've just joined my local library which has a cd section. Picked up Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets. Hear of it but never heard it before. I've been playing it whilst cooking this evening - it sounds bloody great. Where has this album been all my life? Can anyone recommend any more Eno? I wouldn't know where to start. Ta, Massive.
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Pure filth
of course, with its image of a lady urinating on the cover, but it's my favourite Eno album by miles. After that you could complete the rock albums with Taking Tiger Mountain, Another Green World and Before And After Science, but by the release of the latter he'd invented ambient music and don't get me wrong, I love his ambient stuff, but it doesn't quite stir the blood like Baby on Fire.
Ive had the sleeve framed for so many years, Ive had to
change the frame several times.
Funny how it has now become an 'aesthetic' retro cool object when, as a nipper, it was just blu tacked up to remind how me much I loved it.
As a compromise with Mrs G it is up in the bog in our latest place - apt considering the image.
The album just about holds on to the Roxy stuff. By 'Another' I think the Roxiness had dissipated but Im still a fan of that album too.
'Warm Jets' is quite simply one of my desert island lot.
Another Green World is one I'm partial to.
And the track Another Green World was the Arena theme music which impressed at least me.
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts is extremely tremendous.
well since you asked...
.. the Eno and David Byrne albums are both superb, especially My Life in a Bush of Ghosts.
For Eno by himself there is a run of albums comprising the one you have along with Taking Tiger Mountain, Another Green World and Before and After Science where I reckon if you love one you will love all. They cover about four years after he left Roxy and in the days when he still used to sing.
After that you can explore the whole ambient thing if you wish - but really quite different. The Apollo Soundtrack is the most quoted I think.
In addition to the above
the Cluster albums are good and the ambient stuff with Harold Budd
His last album
Another Day on Earth (2005) is fab.
My LIfe in the Bush of Ghosts...
...is simply one of the greatest records ever made.
Another Green World was the first CD I bought - along with Hounds of Love, from Sleeves Records on Cow Wynd, Falkirk. As already mentioned, any of the 'rock' albums and you can't go far wrong. I'm assuming you already have Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings and Food, Fear of Music and Remain in Light, as well as the Bowie 'Berlin' trilogy?
There's a stonking live version of Baby's On Fire on June 1, 1974...
Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks may suffer from overfamiliarity these days, but that doesn't stop it being astonishingly beautiful.
Talking Heads...
Yeah, I have Eno's Talking Heads collaborations. Great albums all. Thanks for your other tips though. Ta.
Eno and Cale
Wrong Way Up is one of my all time faves.
What were they thinking when they designed that cover though?
I think it's
a not so veiled comment on the fact that they fell out during the making of the album..stemming (according to Cale in "What's Welsh for Zen?") from the incident of Cale walking in on Eno and Mrs Eno going at it like knives.
They changed it when they reissued it.
Agree with all of the above comments - all of his vocal albums are worth a listen.
A few oddities worth collecting
801 Live - for his funkiest version of Baby's On Fire and a storming Miss Shapiro.
After The Heat - A team up with Cluster, and the perfect companion piece to Before and After Science
Dig about here - for some hard to find Eno oddities and obscurities
http://planetmondo.blogspot.com/search/label/Brian%20Eno
Apart from this Another Green World is a must...and check out his African funk production Edikanfo
Neroli
One of his most minimal ambient pieces, running time of 1 hour, can be bought for 69 pence on iTunes. This would be ideal if you want to dip your toes into the ambient waters.
Mojo review
I remember it said 'Is this the new Brian Eno album, or is the fridge broken?'
Hilarious but completely wrong
It is gentle, and musical. No discordance.
Agreed
...
that said
I'd be interested to hear what Eno could do with a broken fridge.
I recall Reeves Gabrels, axe-slinger with Tin Machine (DBNHMs - Dave Bowie Non-Hit Makers) saying that he was more influenced by the sound of fridges than he was by any other guitarist. It was in Making Music, a freebie mag in the 80s/90s from music shops - much missed.
Making Music
I have a pile of back issues somewhere. Worked in a musical instrument shop in the 80s and remember its launch.
Top tip and, may I say, top moniker there Mavis
Got it last night. 69p from Amazon vs 79p at iTunes - either way, a steal.
My fridge sounds nothing like it but my washing machine does do ambient sometimes.
If you like
Warm Jets try to find his long-lost single "Seven Deadly Finns" which is competely nuts and fades with some splendid yodelling. Around the same time, possibly inspired by said yodelling, there was a fine version of "Wimoweh" which, had there been any justice, would have given him the number one which Tight Fit eventually and rather undeservedly had.
Both of these were available on a rather fancy pair of box sets which came out around 17 or 18 years ago, one featuring all his vocal stuff, the other all the instrumental malarkey.
I think he actually toured the Warm Jets album with a band called The Winkies but ended up with a collapsed lung part way through which was attributed partly to the wear and tear of vocal duties but no small contribution to his ill-health was said to have been made by the prodigious amount of horizontal relations he was enjoying with the rock n'roll ladies of the road at the time.