Here Come the Warm Jets
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| Studio album by Brian Eno | ||
| Released | 1973 | |
| Recorded | September 1973 at Majestic Studios, London | |
| Genre | Art Rock Glam Rock |
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| Length | 42:01 | |
| Label | E.G. Records | |
| Producer(s) | Brian Eno | |
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| Brian Eno chronology | ||
| Fripp & Eno (No Pussyfooting) (1973) |
Here Come the Warm Jets (1973) |
June 1, 1974 (1974) |
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Here Come the Warm Jets is the first solo album by Brian Eno (although credited simply as "Eno"), recorded in a few weeks shortly after he left Roxy Music.
The album's musical styles range from aggressive garage rock ("Blank Frank") to serene Beach Boys-style reverie ("On Some Faraway Beach"). Eno enlisted a large number of guest musicians to play on the album, including three members of Roxy Music, guitarist Robert Fripp and bassist John Wetton of King Crimson and members of Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies. One of the most notable performances from these guests is the cacophonous three-minute-long guitar solo by Fripp on the song "Baby's On Fire".
"Warm jets" is used by Eno to describe the distorted guitar in the title track, which evokes the sound of a jet engine.[1] Eno himself claims that he often chooses words for their sound.
The album provided Eno with modest success in the UK album charts, and would in fact be his only album to chart for the remainder of the 1970s apart from 1979's Music for Airports.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 436 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Brian Eno except where noted.
- "Needles in the Camel's Eye" (Eno/Manzanera) – 3:11
- "The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch" – 3:04
- "Baby's on Fire" – 5:19
- "Cindy Tells Me" (Eno/Manzanera) – 3:25
- "Driving Me Backwards" – 5:12
- "On Some Faraway Beach" – 4:36
- "Blank Frank" (Eno/Fripp) – 3:37
- "Dead Finks Don't Talk" (Eno [arr. Thompson/Jones/Judd/Eno]) – 4:19
- "Some of Them Are Old" – 5:11
- "Here Come the Warm Jets" – 4:04
[edit] Personnel
[edit] Technical staff
- Brian Eno – producer, mixer
- Chris Thomas – mixer
- Derek Chandler – recording engineer
- Denny Bridges, Phil Chapman, Paul Hardiman – mixing engineers
- Arun Chakraverty – mastering
[edit] Production
Here Come the Warm Jets was recorded at Majestic Studios, London during September, 1973 by Derek Chandler. It was mixed at Air and Olympic Studios by Brian Eno and Chris Thomas. Album cover photography was by Lorenz Zatecky with design supervision by Carol McNicoll and artwork by C.C.S. Associates. 2004 Original Masters re-design by Andrew Day of The Red Room/EMI. Mastered at DSD by Simon Heyworth at Super Audio Mastering. Ampex ATR 2Ch Tape playback with ARIA electronics by David Hill.
[edit] Performance
- Nick Kool & the Koolaids – keyboards (track 7)
- Nick Judd – keyboards (track 4, 8)
- Andy Mackay (of Roxy Music) – keyboards (track 6, 9), saxophone septet (track 9)
- Robert Fripp (of King Crimson) – guitar (track 3, 5, 7)
- Phil Manzanera (of Roxy Music) – guitar (track 1, 2, 4)
- Paul Rudolph (of the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind) – guitar (track 3, 10), bass guitar (track 3, 5, 10)
- Chris Spedding – guitar (track 1, 2)
- Busta Cherry Jones – bass guitar (track 2, 4, 6, 8)
- Bill Macormick – bass guitar (track 1, 7)
- John Wetton (of King Crimson) – bass guitar (track 3, 5)
- Simon King (of Hawkwind) – percussion (track 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10)
- Marty Simon – percussion (track 2, 3, 4)
- Paul Thompson (of Roxy Music) – percussion (track 8)
- Lloyd Watson – slide guitar (track 9)
- Sweetfeed – backing vocals (track 6, 7)
- Chris Thomas – extra bass guitar (track 2)
- Brian Eno – vocals, simplistic keyboards, "snake" guitar, "electric larynx", synthesizer
[edit] Charts
USA
| Year | Chart | Peak Position |
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| 1974 | Pop Albums | #151 |
