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- #1
- Posted: 08/20/2014 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1365): Discipline by King Crimson
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Today's album of the day
Discipline by King Crimson (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1981.
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Overall rank: 760
Average rating: 78/100 (from 160 votes).
Tracks:
1. Elephant Talk
2. Frame by Frame
3. Matte Kudasai
4. Indiscipline
5. Thela Hun Ginjeet
6. Sheltering Sky
7. Discipline
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Mdemauri
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Age: 59
Location: Michigan 
- #2
- Posted: 08/20/2014 20:19
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Best KC album of the 80's era with Adrian Belew on vocals/guitar. A little bit less progressive and a little more new wave, like a cousin to The Talking Heads but still retaining the King Crimson sound.
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- #3
- Posted: 08/20/2014 21:40
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| Mdemauri wrote: | | Best KC album of the 80's era with Adrian Belew on vocals/guitar. A little bit less progressive and a little more new wave, like a cousin to The Talking Heads but still retaining the King Crimson sound. |
Have you heard "Beat"? 3 times better, in my opinion.
Also the second part of "Three of a Perfect Pair" is better, only the second part, though.
Most people think "Discipline" still keeps a prog vibe, only because there is a great guitar work by Fripp on most songs, but that work is repetitive and serves as a rhythm for the singed parts. Nothing to do with the experimental awesome guitar work of the classic period, nothing really progressive.
The only track we could define progressive is, I think, "Indiscipline", and it's great but nothing new for them: it's a sort of remake of what they did with "Red" and LTIA. While I'd say the only track really interesting of the whole album is "The Sheltering Sky": it's more near in style to what Fripp did with Eno in the previous years, but it has a unique mood we can't even find in SABB.
The singed songs (Elephant Talk, Frame by Frame) are not that good, and don't take me as a "only-instrumental-prog-guy", cause I love, f.e., the singed songs contained in Beat. They're quite good and have a good rhythm, but that's all I can say about. Not only rhythms keep the same through those songs, but also those songs themselves keep the same structure and vibe. And that's definitely not a very original vibe: it's something similar to Talking Heads, to think positive, or The Police, to think worse. Without to mention "Mate Kudasai": that's just boring, and prob my least favourite song by KC ever.
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- Posted: 08/21/2014 00:42
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Incredible.
Not really bothered by how prog it is or not. Might be their strongest song for song work (even if I probably prefer Red as a whole piece just a bit overall) ranging from the gorgeous Frame By Frame to the catchy Thela Hun Gingeet to the great Sheltering Sky.
I think the lineup of Belew, Levin, Bruford and Fripp is one of the strongest in any band ever in terms of virtuosity and complimenting but distinct styles.
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Mdemauri
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Age: 59
Location: Michigan
- #5
- Posted: 08/21/2014 15:22
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| Mies wrote: | Have you heard "Beat"? 3 times better, in my opinion.
Also the second part of "Three of a Perfect Pair" is better, only the second part, though.
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Yes and I like this entire era of KC, these three albums are almost of one piece. I would put Beat just below Discipline and I agree about the second part of Three of a Perfect Pair.
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