Classic Track of Day – Brian Eno

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Here’s another beauty from Brian Eno’s first solo album.   Dig the feel and the sound and the consider the year of the release. Both simple and complex, a testament to the years ahead where, he would record and produce several platinum groups – U2,  ColdPlay,  Talking Heads, and  subterranean cousins:  Devo.  ‘Baby’s On Fire’  lyrics are quite messed up, just as well.  HappyParts take:  a dark comedic slant of paparazzi, and those who ‘stop traffic” or cash in, minding other people’s business.  (Rubbernecks to Hills to TMZ)  “Baby’s on fire! and all the instruments agree that  her temperature’s rising,  but any idiot would know that. ”

Babys On Fire

Classic Track of Day – Brian Eno

1973 Island IPS-9268

HappyParts is in the process of completing the pressing work  for Sir Lord Von Raven‘s record – “Please Throw Me Back in The Ocean” – Earlier in the week,  I  was struggling to provide the track sheet/bio reference point from which to draw from – as the songs will be unlike anything the hipster set has  heard in about 25 years-  I rested  somewhere between Lou Reed’s Transformer,  and Brian Eno’s Here Come  the Warm Jets.  Both exceptional recordings.  Songs that are rooted in classic rock and roll – dolled up in glam heels.  Recordings that were classic solo efforts after exiting subterranean  outfits  – For Lou Reed it was Velvet Underground,  and for Brian Eno – it was Roxy Music.

The piano melodies found on Here Come The Warm Jets – flip back and forth, from piano to synthesizer instrumentation- and as Robert Christgau noted in his original ‘A’ review back 1974 – “Minimally differentiated variations on the same melody recur and recur” –  Eno’s  solo debut was a blue print for the future of rock and roll.  Listening to the entire record, as I write this tonight – it sounds so f*%cking contemporary- as if it should be on everyone’s  top 10 year end list,  along side Deerhunter.

Needle In The Camel’s Eye