Brian Eno Here Come The Warm Jets (1973)

• Brian Eno – needles in the camel's eye
• Brian Eno – the paw paw negro blowtorch
• Brian Eno – baby's on fire
• Brian Eno – cindy tells me

• 1. needles in the camel's eye
• 2. the paw paw negro blowtorch
• 3. baby's on fire
• 4. cindy tells me
• 5. driving me backwards
• 6. on some faraway beach
• 7. blank frank
• 8. dead finks don't talk
• 9. some of them are old
• 10. here come the warm jets

Baby's on Fire - literally! Needle in the Camels Eye, Blank Frank... tune after tune on this seminal album.

In 1973, fed up with Bryan Ferry's domineering in Roxy Music, Eno leapt into a solo career that would find him championing the "art" in "artifice". This record is a who's who of the then-burgeoning English art-rock scene, featuring Robert Wyatt, Robert Fripp, and every member of Roxy Music except its leader (thus answering the musical question, "What if Eno had helmed the third Roxy record instead of Ferry?"). Warm Jets sports a lightheartedness that was a refreshing antidote to the pomposity of Yes and ELP on the dark side of art-rock's spectrum, with nonsensical, sound-based couplets such as "Oh headless chicken / How can those teeth stand so much kicking?" Listen to Fripp's furious guitars on "Baby's On Fire" and "Blank Frank": it's incredible, Velvet Underground-inspired rock in a scene that had forgotten what rocking meant.