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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 05/12/2025 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#5258): 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.
Country: 
Overall rank: 565
Average rating: 80/100 (from 612 votes).
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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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MadhattanJack
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- #2
- Posted: 05/12/2025 22:19
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I actually think this is Crimson's best album, but because In the Court... was released in 1969 and most of my favorite albums weren't released in the 60s, I'm actually giving that one more ranking points here than this one. Meanwhile, Red is ranked #2 among Crimson albums on BEA, but I'm not sure I'd even put that one in the top ten.
On an obscure tangentially-related note, another thing I noticed just now is that BEA has the two-disc retail version of the Epitaph box set ranked as KC's #28 album, and then has "Volume 3" listed separately (and ranked dead-last at #93), and "Volume Four" not listed at all. Discogs is no help here, because it lists vols. 3 and 4 as separate versions of the box set, which is clearly wrong. This is a somewhat unique situation because KC sold the Vol. 3 & 4 discs separately, but included two "open slots" for them in the original box, presumably intending them mostly for completists. Later they also released both discs together as "Volumes 3 and 4," no doubt just to deliberately confuse things even further.
My solution would be to add the tracks from Vols. 3 and 4 to the main box-set entry and delete the separate Vol. 3 entry (and disallow a future Vol. 4 entry), but since I can't imagine anyone reading this far without having fallen asleep, I probably shouldn't worry about it.
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albummaster
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- #3
- Posted: 05/13/2025 13:04
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| MadhattanJack wrote: | On an obscure tangentially-related note, another thing I noticed just now is that BEA has the two-disc retail version of the Epitaph box set ranked as KC's #28 album, and then has "Volume 3" listed separately (and ranked dead-last at #93), and "Volume Four" not listed at all. Discogs is no help here, because it lists vols. 3 and 4 as separate versions of the box set, which is clearly wrong. This is a somewhat unique situation because KC sold the Vol. 3 & 4 discs separately, but included two "open slots" for them in the original box, presumably intending them mostly for completists. Later they also released both discs together as "Volumes 3 and 4," no doubt just to deliberately confuse things even further.
My solution would be to add the tracks from Vols. 3 and 4 to the main box-set entry and delete the separate Vol. 3 entry (and disallow a future Vol. 4 entry), but since I can't imagine anyone reading this far without having fallen asleep, I probably shouldn't worry about it. |
Gaps in discographies are fairly common on BEA as people aren't normally setting out to add complete discographies. I'm bit wary of intervening to plug the gaps as it sets a a precedent for other artists, but there's nothing to stop somebody else adding volume four as a separate release (noting it was released separately) and keep everything else on the site in situ. Apologies if I'm misunderstanding but that would then mean vol. 3 & 4 would be listed here separately, plus the boxset including the first two volumes).
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Johnnyo
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Location: London Town 
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- Posted: 05/14/2025 17:39
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This and Red would be my favourite crimson albums.
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Fischman
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- #5
- Posted: 05/17/2025 20:00
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I Love King Crimson, especially when they're particularly adventurous.
But I just can't get into this album. The sound and the vibe of this seem all wrong to me. While this is more highly rated than later albums, I see it as a big dip in their output.
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