Taking Tiger Mountain By a Poll - Eno

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

i listened to "the true wheel" as i walked out of the house to go to work on this sunny fall day and it felt like my personal theme song

ding ding!

row row row

Thanks a lot, now I have to play this. Not that it isn't awesome.

Robert Wyatt's entrance in "Put a Straw Under Baby" gets me every time. It's made me laugh out loud on the tube before now; can't believe no-one voted for this track.

on my third consecutive listen-through having never heard this before

:-D

have lived with it for 10 years, love it unreservedly. This revive forced me to listen to it again

hidden Tilt lyric

this is for the fingers
this is for the nails

Always loved ANG + Here Come The Warm Jets more, but hey time for another listen.

have you heard warm jets imago? prefer it to this but imperial phase eno, not much in it

xp!

Cindy tells Me is such a blast.

oh actually I know you have, you posted about driving me backwards in the 70s rock poll iirc?

man that seems a long time ago

xp

I've not heard HCTWJ in one connected sitting, maybe, but I've heard it all and consider it a blast

Another Green World poll would be more difficult to pick from to me. The top 3 results in this thread is my exact same ranking.

we climbed
and we climbed
oh how we climbed

well that and here comes the warm jets... i'd probably end up voting for needle but title track and baby's on fire are awesome too.

Not heard xxp! Thanks...