Brian Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Over the long tenure of Sound Opinions, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot mentioned Brian Eno countless times. They think it's time to tackle a classic album dissection of his 1974 record Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy.) They discuss Eno’s career before and since the album, as well as hear a bit of Eno himself from their 2011 interview with him.

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Featured Songs:

Brian Eno, "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More," Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Island, 1974

The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967

Roxy Music, "Re-Make/Re-Model," Roxy Music, Island, Reprise, 1972

Brian Eno, "Needles in the Camel's Eye," Here Come the Warm Jets, Island, 1974

Brian Eno, "Back In Judy's Jungle," Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Island, 1974

Brian Eno, "Mother Whale Eyeless," Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Island, 1974

Soft Machine, "Priscilla," The Soft Machine, Probe, Command, ABC, 1968

Brian Eno, "Put a Straw under Baby," Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Island, 1974

Brian Eno, "China My China," Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Island, 1974

Brian Eno, "The Great Pretender," Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Island, 1974

Brian Eno, "Third Uncle," Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Island, 1974

Brian Eno, "The True Wheel," Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Island, 1974

Brian Eno, "The Fat Lady of Limbourg," Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Island, 1974

Brian Eno, "Taking Tiger Mountain," Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Island, 1974

Brian Eno, "Fullness of Wind," Discreet Music, Obscure, 1975

Brian Eno and David Byrne, "Regiment," My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Sire, E.G., 1981

Roxy Music, "Editions of You," For Your Pleasure, Island, Warner Bros., 1973

BODEGA, "Tarkovski," Tarkovski (Single), Chrysalis, 2024

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0:00.0	Hey Sound Opinions listeners, if you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast,
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0:08.0	One, two, three, squatters. Oh, You're listening to sound opinions and this week we're doing a classic album dissection of taking Tiger Mountain by strategy
0:36.8	by Brian Eno.
0:38.4	I'm Jim De Regott.
0:39.7	And I'm Greg Cot.
0:40.7	Let's jump right in.
0:41.7	When I got back home, I found a message on the door.
0:50.0	Sweet Regina's God to China,
0:54.0	Crossicked on the floor.
0:58.0	All the burning jet that's smoothly flying.
1:03.0	Burning air lies give you so much more.
1:19.8	Greg it must be said that it was not my insistence that we do this as a classic album the producers all said hey you know, we mentioned you know a lot. We've never done one of his records. Why not?
1:26.7	And you know one answer to why not, Greg, is because it's hard to choose just one. I don't mean that as a slavering
1:36.6	Eno super fan. There were four key albums that he dropped generally called by fans the pop albums
1:45.0	between 1974 and 1977. He had broken with Roxy Music, you'll fill us in on that in a
1:52.3	second and released the first record,
1:54.7	here come the Warm Jets in 74. Later that same year, taking Tiger Mountain by strategy,
2:01.9	another Green World in 75 75 before and after science 77, when the
2:06.5	producer said, hey, why don't you boys do a classic album dissection on Eno?
2:11.2	The question wasn't, no or yes, it was like, well, which one?
2:15.4	Because we could do all four, but then that would be a four hour, you know,
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