[Album Review] King Crimson / Frame by Frame

The Essential King Crimson: Frame By Frame (4 CD box set )
Originally released: 1991

 

 

The Essential King Crimson Vol. 1 (91) - King Crimson

 

 

Robert Fripp - Guitar
Adrian Belew - Guitar, Voice, Words
Trey Gunn - Touch Guitar
Pat Mastelotto - Acoustic and Electronic Percussions

Tracks:

CD one: King Crimson 1969-71

7'20 21st Century Schizoid Man (Fripp, Sinfield, McDonald, Lake, Giles)
6'05 I Talk to the Wind (Sinfield, McDonald)

8'44 Epitaph (Fripp, Sinfield, McDonald, Lake, Giles)
2'26 Moonchild (Fripp, Sinfield, McDonald, Lake, Giles)
9'25 The Court of the Crimson King (Sinfield, McDonald)
1'16 Peace - a Theme (Fripp)
2'45 Cat Food (single version) (Fripp, Sinfield, McDonald) =>Review
3'31 Groon (Fripp) =>Review
4'10 Cadence and Cascade (remix) (Fripp, Sinfield) =>Review
7'27 Sailor's Tale (abridged) (Fripp) =>Review
5'31 Ladies of the Road (Fripp, Sinfield) =>Review
6'45 Bolero (remix) (Fripp)

CD Two: King Crimson 1972 - 4

10'53 Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part one (abridged) (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Muir)
2'53 Book of Saturday (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James)
7'55 Easy Money (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James)
7'09 Larks' Tongues in Aspic: Part Two (Fripp)
4'40 The Night Watch (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James)
4'03 The Great Deceiver (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James)
6'57 Fracture (abridged) (Fripp)
4'38 Starless (abridged) (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Palmer-James)
6'17 Red (Fripp)
5'59 Fallen Angel (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James)
7'09 one More Red Nightmare (Fripp, Wetton)

CD Three: King Crimson 1981 - 4

Music by King Crimson; words by Adrian Belew (except The King Crimson Barber Shop)

4'42 Elephant Talk
5'08 Frame by Frame
3'48 Matte Kudasai
6'26 Thela Hun Ginjeet
3'54 Heartbeat
4'22 Waiting Man
4'48 Neurotica
6'36 Requiem
4'11 Three of a Perfect Pair
5'22 Sleepless
5'05 Discipline
8'16 The Sheltering Sky
1'31 The King Crimson Barber Shop (Levin)

CD Four: King Crimson Live 1969 - 84

Plumpton Festival, England; August 9th, 1969:

9'33 Get Thy Bearings (Donovan, / variations Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles)
4'30 Travel Weary Capricorn (Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles, Sinfield)
Fillmore West, San Francisco; December 10th, 1969:
8'42 Mars (Holst, arranged Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles)
Amsterdam Concertgebouw; November 23rd, 1973:
8'29 The Talking Drum (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Muir) =>Review
9'19 21st Century Schizoid Man (Fripp, Sinfield, McDonald, Lake, Giles)
The Casino, Asbury Park; June 28th, 1974:
6'50 Asbury Park (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford)
Le Spectrum, Montreal; July 11th, 1984:
2'35 Larks' Tongues in Aspic: Part Three (excerpt) (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin)
4'13 Sartori in Tangier (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin)
The Arena, Frejus; August 27th, 1982:
7'02 Indiscipline (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin)