Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

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Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

Studio album by Brian Eno
Released	November 1974
Recorded	September 1974
Genre	Art Rock
Length	48:14
Label	E.G. Records
Producer(s)	Brian Eno
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Brian Eno chronology
Here Come the Warm Jets (1973)	Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1974)	Another Green World (1975)

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[1]. 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.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Brian Eno except where noted.

"Burning Airlines Give You So Much More" – 3:15
"Back in Judy's Jungle" – 5:15
"The Fat Lady of Limbourg" – 5:05
"Mother Whale Eyeless" – 5:46
"The Great Pretender" – 5:10
"Third Uncle" (Eno, arr. Brian Turrington) – 4:50
"Put a Straw Under Baby" – 3.25
"The True Wheel" (Eno, Phil Manzanera) – 5:11
"China My China" – 4:44
"Taking Tiger Mountain" – 5:33

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The British gothic rock band Bauhaus covered "Third Uncle" on their third album The Sky's Gone Out, released in 1982 on Beggars Banquet Records. On that album, "Third Uncle" is the opening track and, unlike the Eno's version, it features a guitar solo, performed by Daniel Ash.

In 2004 the entire album was covered by Caroleen Beatty and Doug Hilsinger as Brian Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy, using the first of the postcards the album was named for as a cover art. This version runs ten minutes longer than the original verison.[2]