Here Come the Warm Jets

Eno made his debut in twelve days at Majestic Studios in London in September 1973, with Derek Chandler engineering. He invited sixteen guests, among them Robert Fripp, on the grounds that he thought they were musically incompatible, and he steered them with body language and dancing as well as words. His own credits read "snake guitar", "simplistic piano" and "electric larynx". He said the title came from his description of the treated guitar on the title track, "warm jet guitar", and not from slang. Carol McNicoll, his girlfriend at the time, supervised the cover, which shows one of her teapots.

Eno sang nonsense syllables over the backing tracks and then shaped them into words. "The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch" is about A. W. Underwood of Paw Paw, Michigan, and Eno said "Needles in the Camel's Eye" was written in less time than it takes to sing. Baby's on Fire carries a long Robert Fripp solo, and the drum rhythm of "Blank Frank" comes from Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love?". The album reached number 26 in Britain on 9 March 1974 and number 151 on the Billboard chart. A planned tour with the Winkies ended when Eno was diagnosed with a collapsed lung, and on 1 June 1974 he played an Island Records concert with Nico, Kevin Ayers and John Cale.

Robert Christgau gave it an A and Lester Bangs called it "incredible" in Creem. Rolling Stone placed it at 436 in 2003 and 308 in 2020, and Pitchfork ranked it 24th among the albums of the 1970s in 2004. Virgin reissued it as a remastered digipak on 31 May 2004.