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King Crimson: Discipline

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Label: Sanctuary Records
Released: 1981
Time:
 37:55
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.king-crimson.com
Appears with: Robert Fripp, Tony Levin
Purchase date: 2002.07.10
Price in €: 10,99



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[1] Elephant Talk (Belew/King Crimson) - 4:43
[2] Frame by Frame (King Crimson) - 5:09
[3] Matte Kudasai (King Crimson) - 3:47
[4] Indiscipline (King Crimson) - 4:33
[5] Thela Hun Ginjeet (King Crimson) - 6:26
[6] The Sheltering Sky (King Crimson) - 8:22
[7] Discipline (King Crimson) - 5:13
[8] Matte Kudasai [Alternative Version] (King Crimson) - 3:50

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ROBERT FRIPP - Guitar, Keyboards, Mastering, Remastering, Devices, Producer
TONY LEVIN - Bass, Stick, Vocals, Photography, Producer
ADRIAN BELEW - Guitar, Vocals, Producer
BILL BRUFORD - Bass, Drums, Bateria, Producer

RHETT DAVIES - Producer
TONY ARNOLD - Remastering
SIMON HEYWORTH - Mastering
NIGEL MILLS - Assistant Engineer
PETER SAVILLE - Assistant Engineer
GRAHAM DAVIES - Assistant Engineer
STEVEN BALL - Logo

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1991 CD EG EGCD-49
1991 CS EG EGMC-49
1981 LP Warner Brothers 3429
1990 CD Warner Brothers 3629
1990 CS Warner Brothers 3629
2001 CD Caroline 10123
2001 CD Plan 9/Caroline 1592

Discipline showcases the revitalized King Crimson line-up of Robert Fripp, Andian Belew, Tony Levin and ex-Yes drummer Bill Bruford. The combination of Belew's futuristic guitar playing the textured guitar approach of Fripp works magically to create what many consider to be the band's best album since In The Court Of The Crimson King. 8 tracks. 2001 release. Standard Jewelcase.



When King Crimson leader Robert Fripp decided to assemble a new version of the band in the early '80s, prog-rock fans rejoiced, and most new wave fans frowned. But after hearing this new unit's first release, 1981's Discipline, all the elements that made other arty new wave rockers successful (i.e., Talking Heads, Pere Ubu, the Police, etc.) were evident. Combining the futuristic guitar of Adrian Belew with the textured guitar of Fripp doesn't sound like it would work on paper, but the pairing of these two originals worked out magically. Rounding out the quartet was bass wizard Tony Levin and ex-Yes drummer Bill Bruford. Belew's vocals fit the music perfectly, sounding like David Byrne at his most paranoid at times (the funk track "Thela Hun Ginjeet"). Some other highlights include Tony Levin's "stick" (a strange bass-like instrument)-driven opener "Elephant Talk," the atmospheric "The Sheltering Sky" and the heavy rocker "Indiscipline." Many Crimson fans consider this album one of their best, right up there with In the Court of the Crimson King. It's easy to understand why after you hear the inspired performances by this hungry new version of the band.

Greg Prato, All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2002 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



Having completed his "drive to 1981" with both a "Frippertronics" LP, Let the Power Fall, and a "Discotronics" disc, The League of Gentlemen, Robert Fripp has launched a new three-year plan he calls the "incline to 1984." "The next step is discipline," he concluded on Let the Power Fall, and, fittingly, the debut album by Fripp's "new" band, the reconstructed King Crimson, is called Discipline. After a long, semireclusive, arty and admirably anti-pop star solo career (and in sharp contrast to the punky simplicity of the short-lived League of Gentlemen), Fripp has decided to step out a bit. The name King Crimson evokes big sounds, big concerts and big sales. Also, this regrouping marks Fripp's calculated reinterpretation of the meaning of those large-scale expectations. Emerging from the Brian Eno-Talking Heads-David Bowie-Peter Gabriel axis, Fripp and cohort Adrian Belew are new guitar technocrats. Yet, as with Jimi Hendrix, it's neither technique nor equipment but the creative world of electric sound that's the essence of their visionary approach to guitar playing. Only the brief ballad "Matte Kudasai," (which recalls "North Star" from Fripp's first solo record) and the heavy, abrasive "Indiscipline" sound at all like the old King Crimson in any of their incarnations. And even these songs, like the bulk of the LP, combine elements from Fripp's post-Crimson career and from such related artists as Talking Heads. In Discipline's longest cut, "The Sheltering Sky," Bill Bruford's gentle, tapped-out African slitdrum pulsations and Tony Levin's growling bass drones combine with sinuous guitar-synthesizer lines into something like Jon Hassell and Brian Eno's "Fourth World" music. In most of the tracks, Fripp introduces étude-like guitar figures, which he repeats, à la Philip Glass, as he did in Under Heavy Manners' "The Zero of the Signified." The band weaves in and out of these patterns in complex polyrhythmic countermovements, with Belew offering spoken documentary and guitar sound effects on top. Such obsession with formal difficulties and arty content limits the group's formidable lyrical resources. Only in "The Sheltering Sky" and briefly in "Matte Kudasai" does Robert Fripp soar the way he has on the Fripp and Eno collaborations and as a lead soloist for Gabriel, Bowie, Eno, Blondie, the Roches and Talking Heads. And only in the vigorous "Thela Hun Ginjeet" (anagram for "Heat in the Jungle") does Adrian Belew's speech content seem viable. Here's hoping that, unlike every other King Crimson lineup, this band of virtuosos stays together long enough to transform all of their experiments into innovations.

JOHN PICCARELLA - RS 363
© Copyright 2002 RollingStone.com
 

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ELEPHANT TALK

Talk, it's only talk
Arguments, agreements, advice, answers,
Articulate announcements
It's only talk

Talk, it's only talk
Babble, burble, banter, bicker bicker bicker
Brouhaha, boulderdash, ballyhoo
It's only talk
Back talk

Talk talk talk, it's only talk
Comments, cliches, commentary, controversy
Chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat, chit-chat,
Conversation, contradiction, criticism
It's only talk
Cheap talk

Talk, talk, it's only talk
Debates, discussions
These are words with a D this time
Dialogue, dualogue, diatribe,
Dissention, declamation
Double talk, double talk

Talk, talk, it's all talk
Too much talk
Small talk
Talk that trash
Expressions, editorials, expugnations, exclamations, enfadulations
It's all talk
Elephant talk, elephant talk, elephant talk


FRAME BY FRAME

Frame by frame (Suddenly)
Death by drowning (from within)
In your, in your analysis.

Step by step (Suddenly)
Doubt by numbers (from within)
In your, in your analysis.


MATTE KUDASAI

Still, by the window pane,
Pain, like the rain that's falling.
She waits in the air,
Matte Kudasai.
She sleeps in a chair
In her sad America.

When, when was the night so long,
Long, like the notes I'm sending.
She waits in the air,
Matte Kudasai.
She sleeps in a chair
In her sad America.


INDISCIPLINE

I do remember one thing.
It took hours and hours but..
by the time I was done with it,
I was so involved, I didn't know what to think.
I carried it around with me for days and days..
playing little games
like not looking at it for a whole day
and then.. looking at it.
to see if I still liked it.
I did.

I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat..
The more I look at it,
the more I like it.
I do think it's good.
The fact is..
no matter how closely I study it,
no matter how I take it apart,
no matter how I break it down,
It remains consistant.
I wish you were here to see it.

I like it.


THELA HUN GINJEET

Well, first of all,
I couldn't even see his face.
I couldn't see his face.
He was holding a gun in his hand.
Umm... I was thinking...
This is a dangerous place..
This is a dangerous place..

I said, "I'm nervous as hell from this stuff.
I thought those guys were going to kill me for sure.
They ganged up on me like that.
I couldn't believe it.
Look, I'm still shakin'.
Weird.
There out in the streets like that.
It's a dangerous place.
It's a dangerous place."

So, suddenly, these two guys appear in front of me.
They stopped.
Real aggressive.
Start at me, you know.
"What's that?" "What's that on that tape?"
What do you got there?"
I said, "huh?"
They said, "What are you talking into that for?"
I said, "It's just a tape, you know"
"Well play it for me"
I said "oh, no"
I put it off as long as I could.
And finally they turned it on, you know
They grabbed it from me.
Took it away from me.
Turned it on.
And it said, "He held a gun in his hand. This is a dangerous place."
They said, "What dangerous place?" "What gun?" "You're a policeman!"
And the deeper I talked, the worse I got into it.
I talked, I told him... I said, "Look man, I'm not talkin'...."
It went on forever.
Anyway, I finally unbuttoned my shirt, and said,
"look, look... I'm in this band, you know, I'm in this band you know,
and we're makin' a recording, you know.
It's about New York City, it's about crime in the streets..."
The explanation was going nowhere, but,
Finally, they just kinda let me go, I don't know why.
So I walk around the corner,
and I'm like shakin' like a leaf,
and I thought, "This is a dangerous place"

Who should appear, but two policeman.


THE SHELTERING SKY

(Instrumental)


DISCIPLINE

(Instrumental)

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