The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch

[PatrickLeonDotCom]

click this 1:08

[freudastaire]

this song invented The Talking Heads

[801liveable]

@freudastaire i can see where ENO, plays a partial part in the invention of TALKING HEADS but most of it goes to BRYAN FERRY/ROXY MUSIC. BRIAN ENO'S roots are with ROXY MUSIC, likewise TALKING HEADS..

[801liveable]

@freudastaire one more thing..i think ROXY MUSIC'S "VIRGINIA PLAIN" had a big influence on TALKING HEADS.

[Oldbmwr100rs]

I feel so lucky to have an older brother who loved "alternative" music in the '70s. Bands like the stooges,Bowie,Eno,and Sparks. I was listening to a college radio station in the late '70s when punk and new wave started,and for a few short years, there was so much new and weird great music! Sometimes when I play some of my old records I remember when I bought them,and how I felt listening to them for the first time. That was a great period in music,the mid '70s through the mid '80s

[MelvinWren]

how the fuck does he do that?, damn.

[ScarlethCMerlo]

MY,MY, MY... xD Amo la voz de Eno!!! Y su picaro Sarcasmo!!!

[btreefingers]

synchronicity

[ScarlethCMerlo]

Very Sexual!!!! Jajajaja... Send for an ambulance!!!!!

[Wanderlustus]

Thanks mate. And the twistedd covers.

[comeonboeltsy]

2:19 shit gets real.

[clumpft]

Best flange guitar I've ever heard.

[number7gracestreet]

@clumpft

yeah, but 'Primary' by the Cure comes pretty close, right --or is that a bass?

[clumpft]

@number7gracestreet ha ha, you got me there, that is definatley supreme quality flange guitar/bass.

[jacksatease]

Perfect guitar treatments a la Eno...send for an ambulance!

[jacksatease]

Perfect guitar treatments a la Eno...

[idealtypical]

By this time,

I got to looking for a kind of substitute

I can't tell you who I found

Except that it rhymes with 'dissolute'

[clive66swimworldwide]

One of top 10 albums of all time..

[dvargashell]

this is like getting stoned

[vunderground1]

he be the shizzle my bizzle!

[daven58100]

"Here Come the Warm Jets" and "Taking Tigre Mountain", 2 of the greatest underrated albums ever

[pipiero2]

@daven58100 don't forget "another green world"

[daven58100]

@pipiero2 Absolutely

[number7gracestreet]

@daven58100

yeah, but the listeners of those albums sit on the index of some of the greatest (pop) music of the decade, right?

[daven58100]

@number7gracestreet Absolutely. People who know these albums and so many other bands of that time are very lucky.

[kilroywuzhere1]

Brian eno is fo shizzle!?!?!!?!

[BrickstoneStudios]

The guitar work in this song is what Eno used to shape the sound of U2. Eno is my all time favorite artist.

[vaf88]

1:45

[EricakaJaceII]

I furiously love Brian Eno. I so, so do.

Puzzled as to why some people aren't so happy with his vocal stuff than with his other, more ambient stuff. All of it kicks major arse to me. <3

[ToscanoRomano]

I love this song!

[kilroywuzhere1]

eno is god

[abbazabba626]

what a transition into babys on fire

i love it

[mobile513]

So I'm not the only one that thinks "GI Joe" when they hear Blowtorch, Monkey Wrench, or Baroness?

[halfcabdisaster7]

A song about a black man from Michigan who can breath fire! Whoa!

[Annamandabella]

@halfcabdisaster7 Or Reggie Watts!

[halfcabdisaster7]

@Annamandabella Good gracious.

[judyjudyjudy57]

I am Brian Eno and David Bowie's love child.

[mrfudgeyhead]

@judyjudyjudy57

I like to think there's a little Brian Eno and David Bowie in all of us.

Presumably because there is a good chance they've fucked all our mums.

But also, metaphysically too.

But my god did they fuck our mums. Like so hard, I'd wager.

[phlypped]

My My My indeed!

[starspace]

Eno and is music is the real thing

[Annamandabella]

My My My

[deSadetheImpaler]

good shit

[ImShopRat25]

returnofbeaux <----- I thought this was the only version.

Brian Eno has been so far ahead of his time they are just now starting to catch up to his style of music.

[returnofbeaux]

yay ive never heard this version!

[Annamandabella]

Damn I love this song

[niklespikles]

Thanx you guys who put all this obscure vintage GOLD on Y/T,I have llost all my vinyl and its great to hear these masterpeices!!!

[iching1111]

Brian Eno is the shit!

[rophowells]

the shit, not shit! - what's with the negative thumbs? lost in translation...

[jonnivvvvvvvvvvvv]

@iching1111 u don't know who was Eno in 70'....

[deadbeatdynamo]

1:10 - Years ago {decades, actually!} my stepdad walked in right at this bit and gave me the dirtiest look! he didn't understand...

[Arkhigoul]

heh heh heh I've been there-

listening to Pritchard and same deal with people walking in at wrong time and they DONT EVEN KNOW

[enossified]

I had exactly the same experience when my friend's parents were driving us to a Jam concert: Dead Finks Don't Talk was on the radio, they surfed by it, I excitedly demanded they go back, and all that was left was the last few seconds of noise.

[unmegaface]

its the best bit, eno makes the bes sounds, his later stuff is probably better but when you consider the times, wow

[milk115]

roxy at there finest even without ferry

[vulpecula999]

what ?

[FaithsInMyChest]

The squealing synth a minute into the song gets me hard.

[phlod79]

Seconded.

[hyarke]

masturbating furiously

[ALoveEternal]

XD  -_-

[SupperOfTheMightyOne]

@hyarke

Sounds like a regular pastime for Eno in 1973/74.

Ah, yes, the glory years of sarcastic, crude, experimental glam-pop, no fruitless synthesizer-twaddling on mainstream Roxy Music records, shaved genital glands, fixations with sex, and willingness to show your stuff to the editors at NME.

This is a great album.

[Wanderlustus]

@hyarke go mate. Everyone seems to be rooting for yer

[bartleby2007]

My favorite Eno song of all time. Thanks for posting it.

[LEANDERSSON11]

where i was in 1974? in my cradle, probably.

[Kidgalaxie]

were you there in '74? It's still better than anything today!

[MusicJew158]

MY  MY MY

[vaf88]

i love the bridge at 2:20. awesome

[dogonaut]

I'm sure his synth 'chat' in the middle sounds like the track title. I reckon he made the synth line, thought it sounded like a bunch of cool words, and for a laugh named the track after it. God knows how to explain it otherwise!!

[pentlandski]

Well I never! Is there no end to this man's creative genius?

[Timmybear]

According to the Eno biography that just came out, ON SOME FARAWAY BEACH, it's based on some person in Paw Paw, Michigan who could supposedly breathe fire.

[iching1111]

What the hell is a paw paw Negro blowtorch?? This has always been a favorite song of mine, but I have no idea how to explain it to people.

[DoctorCal]

He was a guy in Paw Paw, Michigan who could supposedly catch things on fire with his breath.

[OUTOFTHEboxyness]

.. we always knew Eno always was a talented, very clever musician :)

[enoisgodd]

ENO IS GODD!!!

[nikons]

Eno is 2,000 years ahead of his time.....send for an ambulance

[MikkiMetalLuvsBrianJ]

TOTALLY! LOVE ENO!!!!!