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• Continuing the twisted pop explorations of Here Come the Warm Jets, Eno’s sophomore album, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), is more subdued and cerebral, and a bit darker when he does cut loose, but it’s no less thrilling once the music reveals itself. It’s a loose concept album — often inscrutable, but still playful — about espionage, the Chinese Communist revolution, and dream associations, with the more stream-of-consciousness lyrics beginning to resemble the sorts of random connections made in dream states. Eno’s richly layered arrangements juxtapose very different treated sounds, yet they blend and flow together perfectly, hinting at the directions his work would soon take with the seamless sound paintings of Another Green World. Although not quite as enthusiastic as Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain is made accessible through Eno’s mastery of pop song structure, a form he would soon transcend and largely discard.
  

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• Artist: Brian Eno Label: Astralwerks Format: LP Units: 1 Country: US Genre: Pop & Rock Style: Art Rock

• A1 Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
  A2 Back In Judy’S Jungle
  A3 The Fat Lady Of Limbourg
  A4 Mother Whale Eyeless
  A5 The Great Pretender
  B1 Third Uncle
  B2 Put A Straw Under Baby
  B3 The True Wheel
  B4 China My China
  B5 Taking Tiger Mountain