Frame By Frame: The Essential King Crimson | ||||
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Released | December 1991[1] | |||
Recorded | 1969-1984; 1991 (overdubs) | |||
Genre | Progressive rock | |||
Length | 256:46 | |||
Label | Caroline | |||
Producer | King Crimson | |||
King Crimson chronology | ||||
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Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson is a 4-CD box set by the band King Crimson, released in 1991.
Track listing
Disc 1: 1969-1971
- "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfield) - 7:20
- "I Talk to the Wind" (McDonald, Sinfield) - 6:05
- "Epitaph" (Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield) - 8:44
- "Moonchild" (Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield) - 2:26
- Abridged version, omitting the improv section of the song
- "The Court of the Crimson King" (McDonald, Sinfield) - 9:25
- "Peace: A Theme" (Fripp) - 1:16
- "Cat Food" (Fripp, McDonald, Sinfield) - 2:45
- "Groon" (Fripp) - 3:31
- Previously unreleased on CD; also featured on the 2-LP compilation A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson (1976)
- "Cadence and Cascade" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 4:10
- New mix, replacing Gordon Haskell's original vocals with vocals performed by Adrian Belew, July 1991
- "The Sailor's Tale" (Fripp) - 7:27
- Abridged version, removing approximately 3.5 seconds' worth of the cymbal introduction
- "Ladies of the Road" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 5:31
- "Bolero" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 6:45
- New mix, replacing Gordon Haskell's original bass guitar with bass guitar performed by Tony Levin, June 1991
- Tracks 1-5 from In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
- Tracks 6-7 & 9 from In the Wake of Poseidon (1970)
- Tracks 7-8 released as the single "Cat Food/Groon" in 1970
- Track 12 from Lizard (1970)
- Tracks 10-11 from Islands (1971)
Total Running Time - 67:47
Disc 2: 1972-1974
- "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part I)" (Bill Bruford, David Cross, Fripp, Jamie Muir, John Wetton) - 10:53
- Abridged version
- "Book of Saturday" (Fripp, Richard Palmer-James, Wetton) - 2:53
- "Easy Money" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 7:55
- "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)" (Fripp) - 7:09
- "The Night Watch" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 4:40
- "The Great Deceiver" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 4:03
- "Fracture" (Fripp) - 6:57
- Abridged version
- "Starless" (Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 4:38
- Abridged version
- "Red" (Fripp) - 6:17
- "Fallen Angel" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 5:59
- "One More Red Nightmare" (Fripp, Wetton) - 7:09
- Tracks 1-4 from the album Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973)
- Tracks 5-7 from the album Starless and Bible Black (1974)
- Tracks 8-11 from the album Red (1974)
Total Running Time - 69:08
Disc 3: 1981-1984
All tracks on disc 3 written by Adrian Belew, Bruford, Fripp and Tony Levin, unless otherwise indicated.
- "Elephant Talk" - 4:42
- "Frame by Frame" - 5:08
- "Matte Kudasai" - 3:48
- "Thela Hun Ginjeet" - 6:26
- "Heartbeat" - 3:54
- "Waiting Man" - 4:22
- "Neurotica" - 4:48
- "Requiem" - 6:36
- "Three of a Perfect Pair" - 4:11
- "Sleepless" - 5:22
- "Discipline" - 5:05
- "The Sheltering Sky" - 8:16
- "The King Crimson Barber Shop" (Levin) - 1:31
- Also featured on the compilation Heartbeat: The Abbreviated King Crimson (1991), subsequently featured on the reissued version of the album Three of a Perfect Pair (1984)
- Tracks 1-4 & 11-12 from the album Discipline (1981)
- Tracks 5-8 from the album Beat (1982)
- Tracks 9-10 from the album Three of a Perfect Pair (1984)
Total Running Time - 64:08
Disc 4: Live 1969-1984
- "Get Thy Bearings" (Donovan Leitch) - 9:21
- "Travel Weary Capricorn" (Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield) - 4:23
- Recorded at Plumpton Racetrack (at the Ninth National Jazz and Blues Festival), Streat, UK, 9 August 1969
- Subsequently featured on the live 4-CD set Epitaph (1997)
- "Mars" (Gustav Holst) - 8:09
- Recorded at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, United States, 14 December 1969*
- subsequently featured on the live 4-CD set Epitaph
- "The Talking Drum" (Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Muir, Wetton) - 8:30
- Recorded at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 23 November 1973;
- subsequently featured on the live 2-CD set The Night Watch (1997)
- "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield) - 9:15
- Recorded at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 23 November 1973
- subsequently featured on the live 2-CD set The Night Watch
- "Asbury Park" (Bill Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Wetton) - 6:52
- Recorded at the Casino, Asbury Park, New Jersey, 28 June 1974; previously featured on the live album USA (1975)
- "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part III)" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 2:35
- recorded at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984; excerpt version from the afternoon show. A complete performance from the evening show was subsequently featured on the live 2-CD set Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal (1998)
- "Sartori in Tangier" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 4:08
- "Indiscipline" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 5:26
- Recorded at the Arena, Fréjus, France, 27 August 1982; subsequently featured on the live album (King Crimson Collectors' Club release) Live at Cap D'Agde (April 1999)
Total Running Time - 61:20
(*) The Frame by Frame booklet incorrectly lists the date as 10 December 1969.
References
- ↑ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. p. 460. ISBN 9780862415419.
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