Taking Tiger Mountain By a Poll - Eno

This was always my favourite Eno "song" record. It was also the first one I heard! He caught me with the electric piano entrance on "Burning Airlines" and killed me whistle solo in "Judy's Jungle"

In another country
With another name
Maybe things are different
Maybe they're the same

This record is killer. Kinda sad that "Straw Under Baby" got no votes. Robert Wyatt + Brian Eno gimme more!

So so so so good. Am enjoying humming the Bat Out Of Hell solo under Mother Whale Eyeless' bridge though. The record's making me a bit sad, in the way that all cosmic art does

title-track is the saddest song. actually crying right now. fuck

keep it together man

it's just kinda ridiculous how at the end of an album with 9 tracks of unrelenting joy he just blasts you with the saddest fucking thing you've ever heard

i'm a mess

this might be one of the greatest albums ever made

I've always found it quite uplifting...

imago is a true man

i find not uplifting nor sad. just beautiful.

I find the effect more, well, affecting on the second side of "Before and After Science." "Spider & I" ...

x2

ending the album with that track is incredible. a stroke of incredibility.

mother whale eyeless is the underrated gem on this album though.

treesh i feel we have similar sincerities if unsimilar insincerities

I find the effect more, well, affecting on the second side of "Before and After Science." "Spider & I" ...

― Josh in Chicago,

this song slays me

<3 to you from america, imago. i'm sorry you're having a hard time.

cheers fella. it's getting better every day ^_^

let's see who can finish their book first k

spider & i was lovely but ttm (the song) is fucken cosmic. can't even begin

The title track is so great EXCEPT for when that guitar line does that annoying chromatic descending melody rather than the part where it blends magnificently into the piano melody.

no way

I've been enjoying the living hell out of Mother Whale Eyeless lately. I never gave it much of a chance because of all the other great songs on this album but it's so great. This whole album has pleasantly odd/never boring lyrics.

There's a pie shop in the sky

Ha I just listened to mother whale yesterday. It's my favorite on the record. When the boppy organ barges in my happiness is unstoppable.

Try listening to Mother Sky --> Mother Whale Eyeless. It's my new recipe for exuberance.

no i might break something

Back in Judy's Jungle and True Wheel for me

she clutches the tray
and then we talk just like a kitchen soufflé
nothing ventured, nothing gained

When my colleagues from Shenzhen were here last month we took them walking around Chelsea and when we went into the hipster artist flea market mother whale eyeless was playing

that's awesome. did it add to everyone's enjoyment of the flea market?

i have been listening to this album on repeat in my car for at least a week and i have a new appreciation for 'the great pretender' and also decided that 'third uncle' was so named because of its relationship to mother sky. it sounds kinda like robot mother sky on speed.

Is it kitchen soufflé or kitchen-sink play?

i have no idea -- that's why i posted it
it totally sounds like kitchen soufflé to me and i enjoy the lol wut eno-ness of it

I've never managed to catch half the words in that song and I've listened to it a billion times

i have listened to it a billion times too and only just now heard kitchen soufflé
i love how he uses the sound of words rather than their meaning and STILL manages to write songs that kinda make enough sense
it's a technique that is close to my <3

just relistened to this, I loove the part where it goes "and this is the sound that they heard..." on "Back in Judy's Jungle"

are there any other albums remotely like this one?

There are moments in the first 4 Kevin ayers that sound akin. Also search "A Stitch in Time" off one of Anthony Moore's solo records, very very tiger mtn

were I to vote now it would probably be for BIJJ

but there is not one track here that is anything other than excellent

argh who am I kidding, title track

idk

pulled this out tonight for the first time in years. i'm usually an AGW guy. i'd forgotten just how awesome this disc is. pretty sure i voted for the fat lady of limbourg in the poll. tonight, maybe mother whale eyeless or china my china.

Now we're on the telephone
Making final arrangements
ding ding

"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?