TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN (BY STRATEGY)

Brian Eno

Progressive Electronic

3.70 | 214 ratings

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ZowieZiggy
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I am still looking for great and inventive stuff that were available on the superb debut Roxy album (which is one of my five per cent five stars album on this site).

What I am listened to is merely average pop music from the seventies. To call this prog electronic is beyond my abilities. But I don't decide if a band should belong to this or that on PA. Still!!! I only I could have been asked a couple of times?

This album does not even hold any electronic music part. Some decent but grotesque and funny feel during "Back In Judy's Jungle" and that's it. This sophomore "Eno" album is just on par with his first one: somewhat of a gigantic hype.

He was great with Roxy (or is it reverse?). But as a solo artist, he couldn't really thrill me so far. OK, this is only his second effort. I guess that I have to leave him some more time. And I will of course, since my reviewing process is working towards the clock.

Still the weak, repetitive and totally boring "The Fat Lady of Limbourg" is of no good indication as far as the whole of this album is concerned; nor is the dreadful "Great pretender" which is just a wonderful "press next" piece of stuff as far as I am concerned.

Some freshness though can be heard during the good "Mother Whale Eyeless". Very much upbeat and Roxy oriented. No wonder that I like it so much! But the whole of this release is quite poorly balanced. A noisy "Third Uncle", and then an insipid and folkish "Straw Under Baby" which is really one of the bottom lows here. What else??? IMHHO, this album is, at best, premonitory of the new wave scene ("True Wheel") but it has nothing to do in the prog electronic genre. The music that one can experience is rather difficult to categorize. And I won't try.

But the whole of this listening doesn't peak higher than two stars in my book.

ZowieZiggy | 2/5 | 2011-1-25

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