Brian Eno Here Come The Warm Jets CD

 Precursor to future greatness
I find the opinion that this is one of his best releases to be waaaay off the mark. Some like to lump this one in with "Tiger Mountain", however the high points of that record are in a different stratosphere of artistic majesty than the best moments found here. "Dead Finks Don't Talk", "Driving Me Backwards", "Baby's on Fire" -- these 3 songs save this record from outright mediocrity. They stack up favorably with the lesser moments on "Tiger Mountain" and had Eno only released "1" album in 1973-1974 (removing the "filler" tracks found on the B-side of Tiger Mountain & replacing them with these 3), a composite of the two records would've approached the hallowed status of the masterpieces that followed ("Another Green World" & "Before & After Science"). As is, I would call this a middle-of-the-pack release for Eno and only a precursor to the greatness that immediately followed.
Submitted by Chris (Winnipeg, Canada)
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 The first and best!
Of Eno's vocal albums, this is my hands down favorite. A wild concoction mixing glam, art-rock, doo-wop, film scores and a whole mess of found noises into a brilliant stew. When I first heard this on LP in 1979, it blew my mind. For the first 10-15 years of listening to it I tended to prefer side 1. I now find that the (now) second half of the CD is really where the pay-off lies. A classic.
Submitted by Jack Smith (W-S, NC) 
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 really interesting
i found this piece of work really interesting for such efforts in sound experimentalism and strange lyrics .in these tracks you can recognize the sound that shaped the 80's new wave and new romantic.really good listening!
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 Something For Everyone
Brian Eno's work is an aquired taste. You really have to take the time to listen closely to what is being presented. "Here Come The Warm Jets" is Eno exposing himself as the consumate composer, musician and social observer. The album is populated with strange characters both describing their worlds, as in "Cindy Tells Me" or being described in the creepy "Blank Frank". In this album Eno tells stories about people and situations with an amazing variety of musical textures and moods. Sometimes the mood is a cynical take on fame and destruction as in the tale of "Baby's on Fire" and the lyric, "Look at her laughing/like heifer to the slaughter", yet he switches gears as rapidly and seemingly seamlessly to sentimental thoughts of love and remembrance as in "Some of them are Old". On the title cut, "Here Come the Warm Jets"(the last song on the album) synthesizers soar in a comfortable felt overlaying some odd bells. On "Some Faraway Beach" the entire tune is predicated on simple piano notes in a simple progression. One would be hard pressed to find musical exotica and eccentricities, talent and pure imagination in any other contemporay artist as you will find in Brian Eno's work. "Here Comes the Warm Jets" is second only to Eno's "Before and After Science" in bringing to the world the possibilities of music, technology, and observation of 20th century western civilization. Eno's first claim to fame was as Roxy Music's keyboard player. If one follows Eno's career after that, one will find a man who actually makes music an intimate part of the human whole, a multitalented engineer, musician and person for whom SOUND is his life. The way it is arranged, where it is and where it isn't is what makes it a part of life
Submitted by catdan5 (Austin, Texas) 
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