6. Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Why this one over Here Comes The Warm Jets? Well, the obvious thing would be to go with stuff like that. Everything Eno does is great, but I like this one because it’s a poppy record. It’s a bit of a progression from Here Come The Warm Jets, which is a bit tied to glam – it’s a bit of a hangover from Roxy Music. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) moves away from that a little bit, and it’s just completely bonkers. I think his singing and his lyrics are brilliant. It’s also where A Certain Ratio got their name from – and that made me think, ‘Ah, A Certain Ratio, they must be alright’. It’s just lovely. It’s sinister glam rock; there’s nothing terribly glamorous about it. It’s more like glam rock in Korea or China – I just like the idea of him using little Communist party references in there. Glam rock was basically seedy anyway, there’s no getting away from that, but this was putting it in an interesting context.
