Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
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Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is a 1974 rock album by Brian Eno. The album continued the experimental, lyrically cryptic music Eno had made on his previous album, Here Come The Warm Jets.
Many of the songs contain references to China or Chinese culture. Eno said that the title of the album was originally the name of a Maoist opera, which he encountered in San Francisco in the form of postcards advertising a performance. He had no interest in seeing the opera, but its title (which he felt sounded at once medieval and modern, romantic and practical) fascinated him.
You can see the postcards here (http://parslow.com/TigerMountain/).
Track listing
- "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More"
- "Back In Judy's Jungle"
- "The Fat Lady Of Limbourg"
- "Mother Whale Eyeless"
- "The Great Pretender" (not the Platters song)
- "Third Uncle"
- "Put A Straw Under Baby"
- "The True Wheel"
- "China My China"
- "Taking Tiger Mountain"