Taking Tiger Mountain By a Poll - Eno

oh I like the whole vibe of it - the plucky British lads going off to a foreign land to be massacred, whistling all the while. Its like a psychedelic war movie.

still hard to argue that anything is better than the True Wheel on this one

right now I'm thinking "Great Pretender" or "Third Uncle," need to give this one a full relisten though. Awesome album.

True Wheel which has the greatest lyrics ever.

^^^ cosign

the true wheel easy

The True Wheel

I played air piano to it at a bar!

wow!

"China My China", 'cause you can sit at your computer keyboard and play along during the typewriter solo. But I can't overlook "Third Uncle" (Velvets add a 2nd drummer and go prog) or the engulfed-and-consumed-alive-by-aphids climax of "Great Pretender" or Phil Manzanera.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I was just listening to this album! This is really hard. So many good songs. But "Burning Airlines" it is.

I voted for Third Uncle, which I didn't even realise was a Brian Eno song til I heard this album - I have the Bauhaus cover but didn't know it was a cover.

"didn't even realise was a Brian Eno song til I heard this album "

ahead of it's time,like many other eno songs from that period.
nobody sounded like that in the early 70s.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Wow, 67 votes is about twice what I expected.

sratisfying results at last.

Results like this make me question my typical deference for the ILM crowd.

You pollsters and your faith in "results."
So what?
I voted for Mother Whale Eyeless.

Too late to change my vote now. "Mother Whale Eyeless" and "Taking Tiger Mountain" both deserve far more than 4 votes.

Other favorites now that the results are in are obv. "Burning Airlines" but also "China My China" and "Great Pretender." What a great album.

props to everyone that voted 'fat lady of limbourg'!!

I agree with the top 2, but "Mother Whale Eyeless" should have been higher.

if u think "cyndi tells me" is the best in "warm jets" you will love "tiger mountain" more - cause it's a little poppier and lighter,like "cyndi" is.

This is true in my case.

"Taking Tiger Mountain" – 5:33 3 votes

somedays (like today) i like it more than "the true wheel"

wow, Sabbath Vol. 4, Pisces Iscariot, now this...ILM has been all about my favourite albums lately..

Was gonna post some predictable shit about how MWE deserved more votes but the True Wheel def. was the winner, but that seems to be consensus around here, so...

True Wheel sounds like Kyuss to me.

WTF does Tizer taste like, anyway?!?

i decided to practice "the true wheel" for my drum teacher
hope he knows it
True Wheel sounds like Kyuss to me.
no idea what this is about

aww @ no votes for "put a straw under baby"

I mean I wouldn't have voted for it as the best track either but I do really like it

Fifteen was chosen because he was dumb
Seven because he was blind
I got the job because I was so mean
While somehow appearing so kind

I'm a sucker for any song that says "This is the sound that they heard" before a big melody. See also Genesis "Lurker"

Lol I meant Third Uncle and I was talking about the tone if the lead guitar, tho listening to it again perhaps the first QOTSA album mught be more appropriate as a comparison point

Xp to La Lechera

This is another album where I p much love every song

Ding ding!
We are the 801.

(I've listened to this song probably 12x today?)

ILM got this one right fer sure. Eno's best song? Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy crap I haven't listened to this in at least a decade (I can tell because I've never imported it to iTunes...)

can't believe mother whale eyeless only got 4 votes

that might be my favorite eno song.

the second half of this song is so addictive, such an amazing maelstrom drawing me in. third uncle is almost as good. just a little more free-flowing. and the tune isn't quite as strong. one of his best albums, that's for sure. haven't listened to it for ages as well. why the hell? life is too short to listen to rubbish.

we saw the lovers, the modern lovers
and they looked very good
they looked as if they could

fuck this record is incredible

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Have you got Another Green World?

yeah heard it and it's not so much for me even though I appreciate that its charms may be even more refined

this is simply a total fucking headrush

toooo make percuss-ion over so-los

Love the bored way he intones that

fuck this record is incredible

OTM

I listened to "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More" this morning and it was indeed great

"Taking Tiger Mountain" – 5:33 3

this is sick and wrong!

I still listen to this all the time, but this thread revival has inspired me to listen to it again.

Everything getting a vote except "Put a Straw Under Baby" = OTM

mother whale eyeless still takes it for me. maybe the most roxy-sounding thing on here. nothing beats the switchup 2 minutes in ("In my town, there is a raincoat under a tree..."), which i've raved about elsewhere on ilx i think. one of eno's career best moments imo

it really blows my mind that this is from 1974 - same year as like Relayer, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Rock Bottom, etc. etc...just sounds like it's from a totally different world

put a straw under baby is great and deserves at least a few votes

yes, if only for the Robert Wyatt backing vocals

So was it ever unveiled who Randi and The Pyramids are? (credited w/ (backing) vocals on 'The True Wheel' ["we are the 801!"]? I know he named her/the lot after a girl he was seeing back then and says he dreamt up the name, but who is the woman singing that?

Multitracked Polly Eltes?

Could be! We know she's on Mother Whale Eyeless, but I've never come across any source attributing the True Wheel vocal to her?

it really blows my mind that this is from 1974 - same year as like Relayer, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Rock Bottom, etc. etc...just sounds like it's from a totally different world

― frogbs, Tuesday, November 1, 2016 11:41 AM (two years ago)

Spot on! Feel like this album is its own genre.

eno was a massive jerk for abandoning that genre tbrr

ooh look at me i invented ambient

otm

xp have you heard "Wrong Way Up"? also some stuff on "My Squelchy Life" is a bit similar, none of it is as bonkers and multilayered though

title track, bitches

was just thinking about this album yesterday because i was super feeling the lyrics to "mother whale eyeless"
his pop songs have more replay value for me than, say, the apollo soundtrack

Not heard xxp! Thanks...