Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)

After buying and enjoying Here Come the Warm Jets, the obvious next step was to get Taking Tiger Mountain. So that's what I did a couple of weeks later, from the same place, for the same price. And I enjoyed it to a similar degree; maybe not quite as much (it's tempting to put this down to an absence of Fripp, edging his way towards retreat later in 1974, but who can really say?).

I don't think there are any two consecutive albums in the Eno discography quite as similar as Warm Jets and Tiger Mountain: I've nothing to add to what I said before, so I'll just point you to some interesting detail in the Wikipedia entry for this album, and towards this video which combines the seeds of Eno's later video work with some period detail (warning: the soundtrack is corrupted, making it a difficult listen at times).

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Comments

[Plastic Billionaires]

Perhaps you might enjoy our reworking of same:

http://musariada.mus.uea.ac.uk/~mattr/royallyvague/pb/tigermountain.html

[David]

Thanks, I did enjoy it, and it highlighted several elements of the album that I like, in a different way from the original. Whether it's interesting enough to listen to more than once, I'm not sure.

In case the long address gets truncated in some browsers, it ends
/pb/tigermountain.html