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

From Jboy56 05/30/2023 17:27

Not for me..

From ExTeaSea 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.

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.

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.

From teague 02/18/2021 17:33

One of Eno's best. Pretty much every song is really great.

From santropez 07/21/2019 11:51

Favourite track: "The True Wheel"
Least-favourite track: "The Great Pretender"

Favorite album by Eno

From OldToad 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.

From Caesar01 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).

From JoaoMoreira 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 :)