Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7962 in Music
• Released on: 2004-06-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Album Description
Limited Edition Japanese "Mini Vinyl" CD, faithfully reproduced using original LP artwork including the inner sleeve. Features most recently mastered audio including bonus tracks where applicable.

Amazon.com essential recording
In 1973, fed up with Bryan Ferry's domineering in Roxy Music, Eno leapt into a solo career that would find him championing the "art" in "artifice." This record is a who's who of the then-burgeoning English art-rock scene, featuring Robert Wyatt, Robert Fripp, and every member of Roxy Music except its leader (thus answering the musical question, "What if Eno had helmed the third Roxy record instead of Ferry?"). Warm Jets sports a lightheartedness that was a refreshing antidote to the pomposity of Yes and ELP on the dark side of art-rock's spectrum, with nonsensical, sound-based couplets such as "Oh headless chicken / How can those teeth stand so much kicking?" This debut is a milestone not just for Eno, but for all rocking music. Listen to Fripp's furious guitars on "Baby's On Fire" and "Blank Frank." It's incredible, Velvet Underground-inspired rock in a scene that had forgotten what rocking meant. --Gene Booth

Customer Reviews

Essential Eno
Brian Eno has quietly been one of the most influential pop stars of the century.. The brains behind some of the biggest movements in 70's, 80's,90's and current popular music - Eno does not get half the credit he deserves and is kind of in the shadow of glam stars such as David Bowie..

Here come the Warm Jets was his first solo attempt after leaving the popular 70's group roxy music.. It is one of his best albums and shows a very experimental and yet highly accessible stage in his career..
Laced with bizzare lyrics and even stranger electronic instrumental moments, Here come the warm Jets is one of the most original experiences of 70's glam.. with songs like baby's on fire and needles in the camels eye - eno proved there was life after roxy music..

I would highly recommend this album along with the first 2 roxy albums as a fine introduction to the early stages of his career.. After that you might want to check out his work with David Bowie and the classic talking heads albums he helped to produce.

Don't Say No to Eno
Early Eno albums have a strange feel. Vocally he is not as strong as his contemporaries. He is no Bowie. Lyrically, his songs are quite silly. Musically he strove to get as much as he could out of the technology of the times. Others have been able to do more now because of the technology, but have not done more creatively. So even though individual aspects of his work are not always that strong, there is still something capitivating about these recordings. They make great listening, and what else do you want?

Pop Revolution
"Tyler B." gets it so wrong it isn't funny. The songs on HCTWJ are quirky, catchy, funny, inventive, and fresh, even after 30 years.

There are more ideas on this album than in most bands' entire body of work. The nice thing, though, is that you can ignore all the word games, genre-jumping, and clever studio tricks. and just rock out.

If you are familiar with Eno's later work, know that his first two solo albums are far from ambient.

Play loud.