Album
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
1974 · Electronic, Rock
34 collectors on Gatefold own this
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is a Rock album by Eno, originally released in 1974. On Gatefold: 95 pressings tracked, owned by 34 collectors.
About
As wild as Brian Eno’s 1974 debut had been, <i>Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)</i>—released at the end of that same year—was even more ambitious. Working with his former bandmates in Roxy Music, as well as a team of forward-looking adventurers that included Phil Collins and Robert Wyatt, Eno apparently had the goal of packing an album’s worth of ideas into each individual song. This was a notion that resulted in many of his peers making bloated and obtuse prog-rock, but <i>Tiger Mountain</i> remains impressively lean despite its kaleidoscopic concepts. Above all, it’s great fun. Eno gave many rock listeners their first taste of the avant-garde, but “Burning Airlines Give You So Much More,” “The True Wheel,” and “Mother Whale Eyeless” are proud pop songs—eccentric and sometimes elusive pop songs, but pop songs nonetheless. While Eno’s music often had a cheerful glow that was missing from most self-serious early-'70s rock music, it should be noted that <i>Tiger Mountain</i> incorporates passages of menace and rage. He forces you to experience the danger of “Third Uncle” and “The Great Pretender” before being rewarded with the tranquility of “Taking Tiger Mountain.”
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Burning Airlines Give You So Much More3:15
- A2Back In Judy's Jungle5:14
- A3The Fat Lady Of Limbourg5:05
- A4Mother Whale Eyeless6:00
- A5The Great Pretender5:10
Side B
- B6Third Uncle5:01
- B7Put A Straw Under Baby3:28
- B8The True Wheel5:20
- B9China My China5:45
- B10Taking Tiger Mountain6:00
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Art Rock
- distorted
- chaotic
- psychedelic
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Brian EnoLEAD VOCALS, ELECTRONICS, GUITAR, KEYBOARDS VOCALS, ELECTRONICS, GUITAR , KEYBOARDS VOCALS, ELECTRONICS, GUITAR , KEYBOARDS, WRITTEN-BY
- Brian TurringtonBASS BASS GUITAR
- Fred SmithDRUMS
- Phil ManzaneraGUITAR
- Polly EltesVOCALS GUEST , VOCALS GUEST, VOCALS
- Robert WyattPERCUSSION, BACKING VOCALS VOCALS, PERCUSSION
- Andy MackayBRASS GUEST , BRASS GUEST, BRASS
- Phil CollinsDRUMS GUEST , DRUMS GUEST, DRUMS
- Portsmouth SinfoniaGUEST , STRINGS GUEST, STRINGS STRINGS
- Randi & The PyramidsBACKING VOCALS
- The SimplisticsBACKING VOCALS
34 collectors on Gatefold own this · 95 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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