Here Come The Warm Jets
	Produced by Eno
	Released on January 1974
	UK CHART POSITION #26 . . . US CHART POSITION #151
	Find it at GEMM
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Eno skipped down from the high tower of pseudo-intellectualism (No Pussyfooting) to the cluttered basement of exhibitionist art rock for his first true solo album, Here Come The Warm Jets. The title may sound like the third installment of his collaboration with Robert Fripp, but the record sounds like the second coming of Roxy Music (minus that self-involved bore of a singer, what’s-his-name…). Eno isn’t much of a singer (or a musician, or even much of a looker for that matter), but he chooses his bandmates wisely, drawing from Roxy Music’s ranks (while being careful not to have any two members appear together on the same song), available legends (Fripp, Chris Spedding) and talented sidemen (Paul Rudolph, Busta Jones). The record contains a remarkable assortment of defiantly quirky rock songs (“The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch,” “Dead Finks Don’t Talk”), feedback-drenched yet often melodious mutations (“Blank Frank,” “Driving Me Backwards,” “Cindy Tells Me”), and some wistful moments that show the artist’s sensitive side (“On Some Faraway Beach,” “Some Of Them Are Old”). The opening “Needles in the Camel’s Eye” and the closing “Here Come The Warm Jets” are wonderful melodies rendered into merely good songs because of Eno’s intentional remoteness; they’re a window into the double-edged sword of Eno’s creativity, which pulls him in the directions of pop auteur and saboteur simultaneously. Not every song on Here Come The Warm Jets is successfully realized, but the restless energy and experimentation are bound to delight Roxy Music fans and other conventioneers of the unconventional.

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TRACK LISTING

1. NEEDLES IN THE CAMEL'S EYE    (Eno/Phil Manzanera)    3:25
2. THE PAW PAW NEGRO BLOWTORCH    (Eno)    3:00
3. BABY'S ON FIRE    (Eno)    5:15
4. CINDY TELLS ME    (Eno/Phil Manzanera)    3:30
5. DRIVING ME BACKWARDS    (Eno)    5:15
6. ON SOME FARAWAY BEACH    (Eno)    4:40
7. BLANK FRANK    (Eno/Robert Fripp)    3:35
8. DEAD FINKS DON'T TALK    (Eno, arr. Paul Thompson/Busta Cherry Jones/Nick Judd/Eno)    4:20
9. SOME OF THEM ARE OLD    (Eno)    4:40
10. HERE COME THE WARM JETS    (Eno)    4:00

CREDITS

ENO -- vocals, simplistic keyboards, snake guitar, electric larynx, synthesizer, treatments, mixing
Robert Fripp -- guitars (3,5,7)
Busta Cherry Jones -- bass guitar (2,4,6,8)
Nick Judd -- keyboards (4,8)
Simon King -- percussion (1,3,5,6,7,10)
Nick Kool and The Koolaids -- keyboards (7)
Bill MacCormick -- bass guitar (1,7)
Andy Mackay -- keyboards, saxophone sextet (6,9)
Phil Manzanera -- guitars (1,2,4)
Paul Rudolph -- guitars, bass guitar (3,5,10)
Marty Simon -- percussion (2,3,4)
Chris 'Ace' Spedding -- guitars (1,2)
Sweetfeed -- backing vocals (6,7)
Chris Thomas -- extra bass (2), mixing
Paul Thompson -- percussion (8)
Lloyd Watson -- slide guitars (9)
John Wetton -- bass guitar (3,5)
Denny Bridges -- mixing engineer
Derek Chandler -- engineer
Phil Chapman -- mixing engineer
Paul Hardiman -- mixing engineer

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