Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets

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I had a dream last night that I owned this album on vinyl, and the LP displayed a tear in its upper right hand corner, rather like a "cutout" in the old used bins we used to traverse. I was both alarmed and amused in my dream at this tear in the LP cover.

Tonight I play it on CD and gasp at the brillance.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to be an early 70's glamour whore, too.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"some of them are old"

― this is cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:28 (seventeen years ago) link

my first copy of this came from the secretary at my mom's company when i was in h.s., her name was men1na and she said 'we used to do SO MUCH COKE when we listened to that album, DAMN' and my mom was a little nonplussed. she actually gave me the vinyl of 'taking tiger mountain' too but that was warped so badly we couldn't play it.

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Found myself listening to Baby's On Fire the other day. Fucking brillance.

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a theory that the album's one huge obvious flaw (rhyming "maracas" with "tobaccos" instead of "Caracas") is like the one obvious flaw that Persian rugmakers used to leave in their creations, so as not to compete with Allah.

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i like this theory a lot

― friday on the porch (lfam), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:10 (seventeen years ago) link

and the album isn't bad either

― friday on the porch (lfam), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:10 (seventeen years ago) link

"Baby's On Fire" was playing as I started this thread.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Bauhaus' version of "Third Uncle"...you think no one could outdo them...until you hear the original...

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh you headless chicken...

― clotpoll (clotpoll), Sunday, 24 December 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Bimble's been cozying up to his old records lately.

I like how this album makes Ultravox irrelevant ;)

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 December 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

if i was somehow limited by law to only listen to brian eno albums, i could totally live with that.

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Sunday, 24 December 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

eno didn't think Ultravox was irrelevant, at least their first record

― bliss (blass), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

"I have a theory that the album's one huge obvious flaw (rhyming "maracas" with "tobaccos" instead of "Caracas") is like the one obvious flaw that Persian rugmakers used to leave in their creations, so as not to compete with Allah."

masons do this too. they always include a flaw in whatever they are building cuz only god is perfect. is eno a mason?

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 24 December 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

ILM: IS ENO A MASON?

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahahaha

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Monday, 25 December 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Thought I loved this album -- 'til I started questioning my allegiance to Eno, this weltanschung wunderkind. What did I come up with?

1) The very title itself, Here Come the Warm Jets, what is Eno getting at? The white hot plumes of a Concorde jet (bryan) ferrying him to another studio production date? Or is it a sly reference to the whirlpool streams of his penthouse hot tub pummeling his asscrack?

2) "The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch". Oh how I enjoyed you until I inspectged your liner notes. I've come to the conclusion that you are simply a crypto-racist etude for the dull-witted. If anyone can explain away what a "Paw Paw Negro" is without coming off like a David Duke protege, I'd like to hear it;

― Chad Bouche (Wrinklepaws), Thursday, 28 December 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude, the Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch was some kid who set fire to his bedclothes with his breath or something.

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Thursday, 28 December 2006 05:49 (seventeen years ago) link

That was what he was actually known as; Eno didn't come up with the name.

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Thursday, 28 December 2006 05:49 (seventeen years ago) link

the Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch was some kid who set fire to his bedclothes with his breath or something

so I guess people just assumed he was black>?

― Chad Bouche (Wrinklepaws), Thursday, 28 December 2006 05:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know as that anyone assumed anything. He was black.

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Thursday, 28 December 2006 05:55 (seventeen years ago) link

WRINKLEPAWS "WARM JETS" MEANS "WARM JETS OF URINE" A.K.A. "PISS ON ME" (NOT A DICKS COVER THO CLOSE - STILL +5 FOR SUBVERSIVENESS) C'MON GET WITH THE PROGRAM mAAAAAAAN

― 1/2 paleontologist 1/2 basketball player (teenagequiet), Thursday, 28 December 2006 07:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch was an actual documented Fortean-type event, yes the kid was black ffs. I learned that years after I first became enthralled with this album, of course.

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 28 December 2006 08:52 (seventeen years ago) link

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/HCTWJlyrics.html

"warm jets" was a reference to how the guitars sounded; "paw paw negro blowtorch" was in fact a guy in paw paw michigan, who was black. the page points out that "negro" was not a perjorative in the UK at the time.

― akm (akmonday), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

cutty otm

― a_p (a_p), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I like how this album makes Ultravox irrelevant

I've made this argument, except I replaced "Ultravox" with "David Bowie."

― m1cc1o (m1cc1o), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Doesn't make anything irrelevant, and certainly not Bowie. It is, however, the best album ever made, especially on headphones, especially on airplanes.

Pills are good, too.

― adam beales (pye poudre), Thursday, 28 December 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I stand corrected.

― Chad Bouche (Wrinklepaws), Thursday, 28 December 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^^^^^^
The Great Pretender

― bliss (blass), Friday, 29 December 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link

What does that playing card look like? I've never seen a close-up of it.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 29 December 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

White man's guilt, etc.

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

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