- Audio CD (Aug 13 2009)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Original recording remastered, Import
- Label: Astralwerks
- ASIN: B00015TOCY
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. Burning Airlines Give You So Much More |
| 2. Back in Judy's Jungle |
| 3. Fat Lady of Limbourg |
| 4. Mother Whale Eyeless |
| 5. Great Pretender |
| 6. Third Uncle |
| 7. Put a Straw Under Baby |
| 8. True Wheel |
| 9. China My China |
| 10. Taking Tiger Mountain |
Product Description
Album Description
Japanese reissue of 1974 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Virgin. 2004.
Album Details
Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase. The Music is Not 'remastered' but Instead Has Been Re-transferred by Simon Heyworth from the Original Analogue Masters, as They Are Not Technically Re-eq'd but Transferred to the Digital Domain Using the Best Technology Currently Available.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A bizarre little masterpiece
Jun 7 2004
Format:Audio CD
This is an odd one all right. To the vast majority (myself included), who came to Brian Eno via his later albums, in which he pretty much invented the whole ambient thing, it doesn't make all that much sense right off the bat. If you're coming at Eno from the other direction, having listened to the 2 albums he did with Roxy Music (that band's high point, in my personal opinion), and then to his first solo album, this may be a little more comprehensible.
Or not - this is an odd album. Ten rather obscure tracks - each containing the germ of a pop song, absolutely buried in layers of weirdness. You can hear Eno playing more and more with non-conventional/non-musical sounds - i.e. the typewriter solo on 'China My China. I suppose you could say this foreshadows his later work.
Lyrically, this is close to incomprehensible - I recall reading somewhere that Eno took, as his starting point, a collection of old Chinese poems - this may or may not be true and makes little difference - the hallucinatory quality of his images is quite effective, even if it makes no sense.
Phil Manzanera's guitar work is uniformally excellent - perhaps not so frantic as his output in early Roxy Music, but more than suited for the songs. This album is also your one and only chance to catch Phil Collins in a context that is not utterly unbearable (should you care) - contributing drums on 'Mother Whale Eyeless.'
This is, as I've said, an odd album. It might not be for everyone - I could certainly understand coming to this as a fan of Eno's ambient output and being confused and disgusted. On the other hand, it's an unclassifiable little relic that shouldn't be forgotten. Odd bits like this make the world worthwhile.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Another oddly endearing masterpiece from Eno
Jun 2 2004
Format:Audio CD
"Taking Tiger Mountain" has all the trappings of glam rock thrown into a blender full of prog rock. The results gets your attention with its glitter surface but stays with you long after the musical meal is finished. Although not Eno's best album, it's a strong follow up to "Here Come the Warm Jets". Eno works with the usual suspects here including his former Roxy Music cohorts Phil Manzanera (guitar)and Paul Thompson (drums) as well as Robert Fripp, Robert Wyatt and--gasp--Phil Collins (well, he was after all still in Genesis at this stage and it was before he found his second career as a radio staple). Imagine King Crimson crossed with Roxy Music with a hint of Zappa and Beefheart (and, yes, The Beatles) thrown in for good measure and you'll have an idea as to what this album sounds like.
The production by Rhett Davies (Roxy Music's "Avalon" among many others) and Eno combines the atmospheric texture and sound of his first great album with some really odd, angular melodies. This isn't as catchy nor but it is as funny as "Jets" with its odd, off beat lyrics (you'll discover if you don't already know that Eno uses lyrics for the sound they make together vs. any inherent meaning to them). Nonsense lullabies these aren't by any stretch of the imagination.
"Burning Airlines Give You so Much More" breaks the dam open with it's odd, Asian sounding guitar riff. It sets the pace for the rest of the album--strange strangled guitar riffs delievered like the best comedy bits--straight faced. No problems with the sound here and, unlike "Another Green World", none of the discs have missing words, music etc. that I can tell.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Tiger Mountain...gives you so much more
Nov 12 2001
Format:Audio CD
Lyrically Eno plays little narrative games,"...and the opium farmers sell dreams to obscure fraternities...down in the orchard monkeys and uncles p-laying their games like it seems they always have done....China my China I wandered around for years and you're still here"(China my China).
Musically the sounds are a mix of the familiar Manzanera guitar and Mackay sax(his two old Roxy Music chums)but also unfamiliar Eno synthesizers which make some very appealing noise and various other unfamiliar aural delights from all manner of unidentifiable sources.
There are so many lyric devices and different sounds that this album feels like a catalogue or manual. Perhaps the Eno equivalent of the Little Red Book.
The beautiful synthesizer phrasings on the closing number Taking Tiger Mountain could easily fit on Another Green World.
Other songs are pure pop heaven though, when Eno sings "Looking for a certain ratio-o-o-o" you can hear that he has learned something from Bryan Ferry. A vocal style Talking Heads' David Byrne will also use.
Fat Lady of Limbourg is perhaps the star of the show but not by much as every song is a winning combination of odd verse and even odder backing noises. Though its experimental its also fun and listenable as any pop record if not more so. There is plenty here to challenge the playful mind that always is looking for something new, Enos sound terrains are always intriguing, and also there is humor, especially in the words, and a great sense of wandering into the unknown because logical thinking and music making patterns have been left behind. Although familiar things keep popping up, like references to Japan or China, and cold war spy apparatus like microcameras and spectrographs, they are merely there to add drama and a touch of reality c.1974, but only a touch. Tiger Mountain is not to be located on a map.
Musically the sounds are a mix of the familiar Manzanera guitar and Mackay sax(his two old Roxy Music chums)but also unfamiliar Eno synthesizers which make some very appealing noise and various other unfamiliar aural delights from all manner of unidentifiable sources.
There are so many lyric devices and different sounds that this album feels like a catalogue or manual. Perhaps the Eno equivalent of the Little Red Book.
The beautiful synthesizer phrasings on the closing number Taking Tiger Mountain could easily fit on Another Green World.
Other songs are pure pop heaven though, when Eno sings "Looking for a certain ratio-o-o-o" you can hear that he has learned something from Bryan Ferry. A vocal style Talking Heads' David Byrne will also use.
Fat Lady of Limbourg is perhaps the star of the show but not by much as every song is a winning combination of odd verse and even odder backing noises. Though its experimental its also fun and listenable as any pop record if not more so. There is plenty here to challenge the playful mind that always is looking for something new, Enos sound terrains are always intriguing, and also there is humor, especially in the words, and a great sense of wandering into the unknown because logical thinking and music making patterns have been left behind. Although familiar things keep popping up, like references to Japan or China, and cold war spy apparatus like microcameras and spectrographs, they are merely there to add drama and a touch of reality c.1974, but only a touch. Tiger Mountain is not to be located on a map.
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The Least Satisfying
of his remasters from the early to mid seventies, this is essentially Roxy Music without Ferry. Or at least a Manzanera and Eno project. Read more
Published on Jun 22 2004 by o dubhthaigh
Pop-Eno
Cet album est définitivement ce qu'Eno a fait de plus "catchy" durant sa longue et fructuesue carrière. Read more
Published on May 24 2004 by Claire Paquet
Unmapped territory
"Back in Judy's Jungle" goes places that I've never heard music go before. Unfortunately, it doesn't come back. There's the rub.
Published on May 7 2004 by wordnat
Climb The Mountain
This is album is so good that it intimidates me to speak of it. So how can I encourage you to investigate it? Read more
Published on April 22 2004 by George a Pletz
Spy Games
Amid all the discussion of Eno's innovations, people sometimes forget that he has the one quality that REALLY matters for a musician: personality. Read more
Published on April 4 2003 by Greg Cleary
Weird (of course)
Anyone who is reading this review is probably already familiar with what the album sounds like, so I'll skip to an odd Experience I had once with the track "The True... Read more
Published on Jan 4 2003 by rubidium84
The Eno of Yesterday Was the Tricky of Today (Two Gods)
All of Eno's 1970s pop albums were unique and charming, and this one's probably the best. Eno imagined "Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)" as a very loose "concept" album. Read more
Published on Nov 15 2002 by C. Gardner
Strong Evidence...
This album rates. High. The format may be more "pop" than his other works, but I disagree with assertions that this record is a toss-off because it predates his more influential... Read more
Published on Jun 6 2002 by T. Carnahan
Pop Oddity
After his guitar-fuzz-coated solo debut, 1973ï¿s Here Comes the Warm Jets, Brian Eno washed away the distortion and worked within a clear, fluid sound for his second album,... Read more
Published on April 14 2002 by P. Nicholas Keppler
One of the top 5 albums of all time
A mystical potpourri of styles and rhythms, absolutely in my top 5 desert island collection of all time!
Published on Dec 30 2001 by Paul R. Bizzigotti
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