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This song just popped into my head and it struck me that this is seriously the GREATEST ROCK SONG EVER!! everything i want from a song - insane guitar, nonsense lyrics that somehow still require close attention, dynamics, propulsive momentum - it's all there. i luv me some early eno, but TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN has always been my fav - perhaps this song is the one that puts it above all....... i have never heard the Bauhaus cover, i'm sure it's ok...... what do you think??

― gershy, Sunday, 1 April 2007 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Thers a good version of it at the "801 live" lp (Eno + Manzerra live)

― Zeno, Sunday, 1 April 2007 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link

i just got into Eno days ago after years of avoidance, because i thought it was just some lame electronic crap

i really love his early catchy tunes, where he actually sings. but i still maintain that everything else is just pretentious computer crap

― theoreo, Sunday, 1 April 2007 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link

wow.

― hstencil, Sunday, 1 April 2007 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link

This song rules. The bass! Those drums! That guitar!

The Bauhaus cover isn't quite as perfect, but it also rules.

theoreo wayyyyy OffTM

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 1 April 2007 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

theoreo:
really? pretentious computer crap? are you one of those people that finds themselves feeling "old" pretty often?

― Bus Driver Stu, Sunday, 1 April 2007 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

The live Zongamin cover of this floating around P2P networks is pretty damn great.

― Telephone thing, Sunday, 1 April 2007 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Curiously, Eno doesn't seem so relevant these days, even if his greatness is undisputed. I don't think that's a contradiction. He was just too much his own genre.

― Rich Smörgasbord, Sunday, 1 April 2007 06:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i've heard a live bauhaus tape, where they came on to "jupiter" from holsts planets & then went straight into "third uncle". it worked really well, almost mashup like.

― :( x 1,000,000, Sunday, 1 April 2007 07:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Are you sure you don't mean mars? Because mars kind of has that same beat.

― Rich Smörgasbord, Sunday, 1 April 2007 07:40 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yeh. mars.

― :( x 1,000,000, Sunday, 1 April 2007 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I once almost got myself in real trouble by dancing to this in the music room in high school (with hardly anyone around), while swinging a really long wooden plank. (I don't know what it was doing there, but it seemed like something you would use in construction.) The plank came close to hitting the stereo itself.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 1 April 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Third Uncle? Yeah, I put it on a mix for a friend, and this was easily his favorite. After that I sent him all the Eno pop albums, and I think he was a bit disappointed that there wasn't more material at the level of Third Uncle. We both agree that Taking Tiger Mountain takes the prize for best Eno pop album.

― professor ganson, Sunday, 1 April 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

manzanera's guitar near the end is terrifying. it sounds like he's ripping sheetmetal or something!

i probably prefer 'the true wheel', to be honest.

― haitch, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I have to buy this album on CD some time. (It will be the third format I've bought it in. *sigh*)

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

(The drumming on the Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana version of Shiina Ringo's "Ishiki" reminds me of the drumming on Taking Tiger Mountain.)

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

(No I never shut up about her. Maybe another year or so and it will be out of my system. But that track really does remind me of Taking Tiger Mountain.)

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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