Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (studio album) by Brian Eno

Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) by Brian Eno
Year: 1974
Overall rank: 1,061st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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80/100 (from 327 votes)
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Award Top 20 albums of 1974 (17th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (226th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,061st)
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Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is ranked 5th best out of 51 albums by Brian Eno on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Brian Eno is Another Green World which is ranked number 176 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,233.

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70/100
From 05/30/2023 17:27
Not for me..
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From 10/15/2022 19:02
It's great! Love his ambient work but kinda wish he went back to his more experimental pop glam sound more often. He's brilliant so it's cool he has different albums for different moods. Not many artist can do what he does successfully. You kinda have to separate his pop stuff from the ambient because they're so different which makes it hard to rank his catalogue.
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From 04/07/2022 10:00
An album with a lot of potential but he isn't there yet and would master his skills on later releases and they are his better records. At times on this album it sounds to similar to Roxy Music and like he was trying to keep hold of that sort of style of music. You can see snippets of his unique style throughout but he isn't consistent enough in maintaining this. However, there are a lot of great songs on here which are a lot of fun. The highlights for me are Third Uncle, The Time Wheel and Burning Airlines Give You So Much More. All of these, just like the whole album, are produced to such a high level and the quality of the music sounds insanely fresh considering the age of the record. It is also a very nice record to put on and just listen to in the background as it is so smooth and clean that it makes for great listening. Overall, a little bit behind his other releases in experimentation but there is still a lot to love on this album.
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From 04/03/2021 17:27
Yet another Eno album that i've really enjoyed. Not quite on par with AGW or HCTWJ, but it's definitely one I'll revisit.
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From 02/18/2021 17:33
One of Eno's best. Pretty much every song is really great.
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85/100
From 07/21/2019 11:51
Favourite track: "The True Wheel"
Least-favourite track: "The Great Pretender"
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From 02/28/2019 02:56
Favorite album by Eno
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From 01/18/2019 07:16
Maybe she will do a bit of spying, with micro-cameras hidden in her hair.

This has long been my favorite album. I love the pacing of it, like a meal with some appetizers and soup up front, the main courses later, some dessert, and a cigar. The surrealism in the lyrics, the systems (Oblique Strategies, etc) used to generate words and sounds, the playing, the rich pallete of sounds, the natural sounds from electronic sources, the cynical/romantic archness. It's obviously a masterpiece, but not everybody has to like it, it's only for those looking for a certain ratio. What you believe is what you see.
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From 09/26/2016 15:22
At the first listen or two, I was not immediately taken with this album. Certainly good, with some memorable songs, but I didn't think it could hold up next to Here Come the Warm Jets.
However, after rather compulsively listening to this album for a number of months, I continue to be taken in by the wealth of sounds and, more notably, rhythms. Eno incorporates all kinds of different percussion instrumentation; it's often hard to even be sure what is making the sound.
Conceptualized as some sort of reflection on communist China (or something), the lyrics are, as should be expected of Eno, rather obtuse in meaning. I do definitely believe that, listened to straight through, one can feel a logical progression of music and lyrical imagery from one song to the next.
All in all a fantastic album, every bit the equal of Here Come the Warm Jets (shoot me but I prefer these to Eno's later ambient work).
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65/100
From 05/04/2016 02:18
Considering his first albums, this is clearly the less inspired. Even though it has some good moments and Back in Judy's Jungle is a really good stupid song :)
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Best Albums of 1974
1. Red by King Crimson
2. On The Beach by Neil Young
3. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis
4. Crime Of The Century by Supertramp
5. Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt
6. Court And Spark by Joni Mitchell
7. Sheer Heart Attack by Queen
8. Here Come The Warm Jets by Brian Eno
9. Diamond Dogs by David Bowie
10. A Tábua De Esmeralda by Jorge Ben
11. Queen II by Queen
12. Mirage by Camel
13. Radio City by Big Star
14. Autobahn by Kraftwerk
15. Pretzel Logic by Steely Dan
16. Kimono My House by Sparks
17. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) by Brian Eno
18. I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight by Richard & Linda Thompson
19. No Other by Gene Clark
20. Country Life by Roxy Music
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