Taking Tiger Mountain [Import]

Product Description
Japanese reissue of 1974 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Virgin. 2004.

Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy),Eno,Virgin Music,Experimental,Experimental Rock,Glam Rock,Prog-Rock/Art Rock,Proto-Punk,Rock,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: Remastered not always better Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain second greatest album of all time... Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy a good place to start for new Eno listeners

Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy Eno Manufacturer: Astralwerks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Proto Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Glam | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Here Come the Warm Jets Another Green World Before and After Science Roxy Music For Your Pleasure ASIN: B00015TOCY Release Date: 2004-06-01

Tracks:

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

Customer Reviews:

Remastered not always better.......2007-02-04

They removed the "noise" at the beginning of Third Uncle.
It was definitely part of the song. I'm very glad I held on to the unremastered version in the cheap plastic case.

I would say this is his best album (including all the ambient records)

Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain.......2007-01-10

I stumbled on this album because it bore the same title (in English) as a revolutionary opera from 1960s China. Eno's album might be called a post-modern English pop album because of this. I read someone somewhere describe this music as a little cold. But I don't think that's it. Eno's music and lyrics here are strange and quirky in a wonderful way that people used to attribute to "wit." At turns comical, macabre, sarcastic, and flippant, this album is a very difficult to describe. It certainly doesn't sound like anything else produced in the 1970s (or since).

second greatest album of all time..........2006-10-24

...right behind robyn hitchcock and the egyptians' "queen elvis". 1974 and you just can't believe it. the new remastered edition is monumental listening. many will say his "here come the warm jets" is the pedistal piece, but i think this is a much more accomplished work. "burning airlines..." could be recorded today, and you can't turn your head without hearing "the fat lady of linbourg" in a movie these days. a must for anyone who cares where good music comes from.

Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy.......2005-12-17

Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy~ Eno is a quite quirky fellow (and I mean this in a good way) whom does not let the rules of convention run his creative mind and will not let the music industry dictate his creativity. This album sounds like nothing that I have heard so far in my life and the closest that I can even compare it with is Smile (Brian Wilson), but it also has hints of Bowie. Eno is an acoomplished lyricist and has very accomplished vocals. I love the book-let but the decision not to include the lyrics is odd and confounding.

a good place to start for new Eno listeners.......2005-09-18

Wonderfully expressive and totally unconcerned with the concurrent musical output of its peers, this sounds as fresh now as it did decades ago. Listening to this record has always left me musically sated and somehow cheered in the chaotic face of daily events. A great place to start exploring Eno's music if you're new to it. Accessible pop/rock with some truly twisted, almost creepy moments that effortlessly mesh with a musical vocabulary culled from all over the world.

Average customer rating: Remastered not always better Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain second greatest album of all time... Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy a good place to start for new Eno listeners

Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy Brian Eno Manufacturer: E.G. Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Proto Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Glam | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Progressive | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Here Come the Warm Jets Another Green World Before and After Science Roxy Music For Your Pleasure ASIN: B000003S0R Release Date: 1990-08-31

Tracks:

1. Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
2. Back In Judy's Jungle
3. The Fat Lady Of Limbourg
4. Mother Whale Eyeless
5. The Great Pretender
6. Third Uncle
7. Put A Straw Under Baby
8. The True Wheel
9. China My China
10. Taking Tiger Mountain

Customer Reviews:

Remastered not always better.......2007-02-04

They removed the "noise" at the beginning of Third Uncle.
It was definitely part of the song. I'm very glad I held on to the unremastered version in the cheap plastic case.

I would say this is his best album (including all the ambient records)

Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain.......2007-01-10

I stumbled on this album because it bore the same title (in English) as a revolutionary opera from 1960s China. Eno's album might be called a post-modern English pop album because of this. I read someone somewhere describe this music as a little cold. But I don't think that's it. Eno's music and lyrics here are strange and quirky in a wonderful way that people used to attribute to "wit." At turns comical, macabre, sarcastic, and flippant, this album is a very difficult to describe. It certainly doesn't sound like anything else produced in the 1970s (or since).

second greatest album of all time..........2006-10-24

...right behind robyn hitchcock and the egyptians' "queen elvis". 1974 and you just can't believe it. the new remastered edition is monumental listening. many will say his "here come the warm jets" is the pedistal piece, but i think this is a much more accomplished work. "burning airlines..." could be recorded today, and you can't turn your head without hearing "the fat lady of linbourg" in a movie these days. a must for anyone who cares where good music comes from.

Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy.......2005-12-17

Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy~ Eno is a quite quirky fellow (and I mean this in a good way) whom does not let the rules of convention run his creative mind and will not let the music industry dictate his creativity. This album sounds like nothing that I have heard so far in my life and the closest that I can even compare it with is Smile (Brian Wilson), but it also has hints of Bowie. Eno is an acoomplished lyricist and has very accomplished vocals. I love the book-let but the decision not to include the lyrics is odd and confounding.

a good place to start for new Eno listeners.......2005-09-18

Wonderfully expressive and totally unconcerned with the concurrent musical output of its peers, this sounds as fresh now as it did decades ago. Listening to this record has always left me musically sated and somehow cheered in the chaotic face of daily events. A great place to start exploring Eno's music if you're new to it. Accessible pop/rock with some truly twisted, almost creepy moments that effortlessly mesh with a musical vocabulary culled from all over the world.

Average customer rating: The Jellyfish Kiss Pointless and inferior The love's evident, but more individuality would have helped remarkable, just absolutely remarkable Remake/Remodel It?

Brian Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy Doug Hilsinger with Caroleen Beatty Manufacturer: Dbk Works ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: A Year With Swollen Appendices: The Diary of Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound Maarifa Street: Magic Realism, Vol. 2 Another Day on Earth ASIN: B0001XALS2 Release Date: 2004-05-18

Tracks:

1. Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
2. Back In Judy's Jungle
3. The Fat Lady Of Limbourg
4. Mother Whale Eyeless
5. The Great Pretender
6. Third Uncle
7. Put A Straw Under Baby
8. The True Wheel
9. China My China
10. Taking Tiger Mountain

Customer Reviews:

The Jellyfish Kiss.......2007-04-24

Remaking a famous album, note-for note? Sounds tedious in the extreme, no? Well, it's not -- for two very good reasons. First and foremost, this is Eno we're talking about, and his music has become part of the lives of millions of us. His music is crying out for re-examination, re-evaluation and re-integration.

Second, that's pretty much what Hilsinger & Beatty provide -- although this is a faithful note-for-note recreation, the instrumentation is changed around substantially, some of the moods are markedly different, and the drumming has a harder edge, bringing the 1974 masterpiece into an up-to-the-minute sound. Eno is reborn as indy rock circa 2004, and it serves the material well, very well indeed.

Maybe this is the first* of a series of re-examinations of Eno's body of work. Maybe he will get his due among younger musicians who speak the languages he developed without knowing the founder. Maybe Hilsinger & Beatty will go on to remake the other three classic song-oriented albums. Maybe somebody will will be turned onto Brian's work through this release. Hey, we can hope.


* - Technically this may be the THIRD re-examination I suppose, if you consider Bang on a Can's "Music for Airports" and Arturo Stalteri's "coolAugustMoon."

Pointless and inferior.......2005-12-04

I was quite excited by the idea and ambition of this album, but it fails to meet even my lowest expectations.

It has zero imagination, as the arrangements are exactly the same as the original, but each and every song is markedly inferior to the original, more poorly performed, and lacking any of Eno's humour and flair.

It takes some real skill to make great songs and arrangements sound so tired and lame.

Perhaps I'm missing the joke here, but I'd advise anyone who likes Eno not to waste their money on this tired facsimile.

The love's evident, but more individuality would have helped.......2005-08-14

The original ranks in my top five favorite albums ever, so I wondered what Beatty's vocals and Hilsinger's one-man-band would add to Eno's original. I thought of Petra Haden's recent a-cappella take on The Who Sell Out, which has likewise received mixed reviews. Well, the duo here do stretch out to good effect later in the album, especially on The True Wheel, but like Haden on her reworking of a classic l.p., not much replaces or surpasses the original inspiration. I usually prefer remakes of songs that change intelligently rather than studiously replicate the original, and there's not enough musical experimentation that opens up Eno's melodies to hear them anew. Perhaps the limitations, as in Haden's own adaptation, prevent Hilsinger, having to take on all of the instruments himself, from fully realizing that he could have departed from Eno's sound to give an update and a re-interpretation on it over thirty years on? Beatty's vocals do imitate Eno's own rather laid-back delivery, but they run the risk of seeming too detached from the intricately textured soundscapes as a result.

Having memorized the original album decades ago, I may or may not be the best critic of a new approach to it. Why, however, do so many musicians today ape rather than create new tunes based on the admittedly magnificent originals? The technology, the added decades of listening and learning, and the passage of time should all add to the richness that rethinking fine albums can bring. I agree that more artists could benefit by not bothering with their own half-baked tunes but by reworking and enriching past, often overlooked, standards, as happens more today not in alternative rock but in jazz and classical realms!

But, while the affection for Tiger Mountain that Beatty, Hilsinger, and I share certainly remains, I do wish that the pair had taken more of a risk and re-arranged rather than repeated so much of this wonderful album. Still, perhaps this tribute will inspire a new generation to listen to the original. As the two thoughtfully urge on the back of their disc, "please listen to his [Eno's] music as well."

remarkable, just absolutely remarkable.......2005-06-23

About 2/3rds of this CDs were really astonishing.

I was utterly transported. The materiel was carefully rethought and expanded.

I would describe their interpretaions as...expert marksmen in a target-rich environment. The melodies were greatly evolved, developed, enlarged. The music is dense, layered. Great headset music.

Re: the instrumentalist:

Some cuts feel as if his focus shifted. Maybe he rushed thru those cuts, or they weren't his favorites. They weren't mine, so maybe we have the same taste. But even his thinner cuts are VERY interesting. Well worth relistening.

Overall, I found it REMARKABLE.

It is so #@$*ing RARE to see such INTELLIGENCE. Or, rather, HEAR it. Just remarkable. It was like listening to Mozart. The themes flowed and moved and developed so naturally, as if streams of water. 1,2, 3, my gosh 5, 6?!? layers of guitars? Seemed like it!! I was overwhelmed! All playing counterpoint to each other, doing variations of the theme! Just amazing.

I would love to hear these two (her voice is great too, and she uses it as well as he uses his guitar--I shd be writing as much about her as him, but he did all the tracking...but don't disregard her work!!!) ANYWAY, I wd love to hear them reinterpet ALL my fave music, from Mozart to the Beatles to, I dunno, Sub-Arachnoid Space (yeah, I know you never heard of them. Get wise, I'm telling yuh! get wise!)

THANK YOU both for a transforming musical experience! I enjoyed listening to your remake MORE than I enjoyed listening to the oringinal. And THAT is REALLY saying something. If yr an Eno fan, you know what I mean.
Bless you all. My best.

Remake/Remodel It?.......2005-06-08

For those that who have made it this far. it's a good bet you are either an Eno fan or doing a term paper on post-revolutionary Maoist rock opera, a genre that would probably not exist in most realities if not for Eno. Personally, I would like to see all of Eno's early works sliced, diced and served with a good spud. This particular outing by Hilsinger and Beatty, previously unknown to me, is a very fine rock interpretation of Eno's experimental 1974 classic. Caroleen Beatty sounds a bit like Debra Harry; the guitar and percussion work are well thought out. This is as close to a perfect remake of Tiger Mountain as we will likely ever see. At present it takes 7 weeks for Amazon to deliver this jewel. It will probably be out of print soon. If you can part with $15, buy it now. Worse case scenario, it will go out of print and be a hot commodity on ebay. I mean, no one else is writing music based on militaristic-cartoono-operatic playing cards anymore. This may be your last chance.

Average customer rating:

Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy Brian Eno Manufacturer: EMI Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Alternative Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002VERCY Release Date: 2004-09-14

Average customer rating:

Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) Eno Manufacturer: Virgin Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Proto Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Glam | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000228X2I Release Date: 2004-08-02

Tracks:

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

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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