My New Favourite King Crimson Album

I don't know, I'd never listened to it before. I'm blown away. Truly just amazed. Adrian Belew's voice is everything David Byrne should be but never archived. This trilogy of albums (Discipline [1981], Beat [1982], and Third of a Perfect Pair [1984]) totally go where the Heads should have gone, but ten years earlier. I guess it helps to have a band of the four best musicians in the entire universe (Fripp, Belew, Bruford and Levin) to do it. Fripp dissolved King Crimson in '74 and didn't regroup for seven years, so there's a very distinct line between the two periods. After these three albums, the band didn't record again in the studio until ten years later, making these early 80's Crimson records a very unique island (not to be confused with Islands) of prog.

Some of the work on these records is borderline XTC, but XTC if Rachmaninoff played really kick ass electric for them. You simply MUST MUST MUST listen.
- posted by Mason @ 11:30 AM