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

“some of them are old”

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.

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

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.

i like this theory a lot

and the album isn’t bad either

“Baby’s On Fire” was playing as I started this thread.

Bauhaus’ version of “Third Uncle”...you think no one could outdo them...until you hear the original...

Oh you headless chicken...

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

I like how this album makes Ultravox irrelevant ;)

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

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

“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?

ILM: IS ENO A MASON?

Hahahaha

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;

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

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

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>?

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

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

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.

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.

cutty otm

I like how this album makes Ultravox irrelevant

I’ve made this argument, except I replaced “Ultravox” with “David Bowie.”

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.

I stand corrected.

^^^^^^^^

The Great Pretender

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

White man’s guilt, etc.