Discipline
by King Crimson

The influences are obvious (Talking Heads, Brian Eno) ane it is more experimental side of King Crimson, but enjoyable nonetheless.

A great album for having come after a lengthy break. A good mix of their classic prog sound and some more easy to access stuff!

From Jboy56 03/31/2022 08:14 | #283632

A prog album per day saves the day!

I can hear in this album the evidence for influencing later bands (my ear hears elements that would later emerge from Primus and Alice In Chains). I suppose that makes Discipline an important record, but I’m not convinced the influence makes it a great record.

The spoken word lyrics are so, so dumb. And the lack of continuity from song to song makes it tough to truly enjoy.

Their best output during the '80s. Unbelievable how they radically changed their sound but remained King Crimson. Despite the fact that only Fripp and Bruford stayed.

Again KC paved the way for others to follow. Just listen to Elephant Talk and then to Jerry was a Racecar Driver from Primus. KC did it better though.

King Crimson shows how you can stay relevant as a 70's dinosaur. They simply pushed the music forward in another direction.

From VictorVale 02/26/2021 22:20 | #266716

Pra falar a verdade eu não entendi bem esse álbum. Um new wave frenético? Um progressivo funkiado?

Been diggin this album for 40 years. Timeless, and awesomely weird.

From OldToad 07/01/2019 20:01 | #238760

I saw Adrian Belew play a bar in Iowa City in...had to be...1981 or 82. So, he had been on Sheik Yerbouti, Remain In Light, this album which everybody seemed to love...and there were maybe 300 people there, and he was playing with a recorded rhythm track so when we got him to do an encore, he just played the first two songs on the tape again. He said, "Who here remembers their first acid trip?" and we whooped and hollered. Amazingly small-time performance for a guy who could play arenas with three different world-class bands at the time.

His vocals and his whole personality just transformed what King Crimson was capable of--Americanized the whole operation, and for the good.

This album was completely on trend at the time, with the talky prose poem over music like Laurie Anderson etc, the Talking Heads-style funk on the opening track, the anagram song title like Eno had done, this was working out iterations of ideas that were in the air at the time. But Fripp was working out his own ideas musically, and his output in these years was very diverse, from his Frippertronics stuff to the album with Daryl Hall and the League of Gentlemen album.

He had done the spiritual study with JG Bennett, and he was coming out with all this diverse product, plus the alternate tuning, and pretty soon he started giving holistic guitar clinics to...anybody who wanted to sign up. Every interview he gave was like words from an oracle, and every album was an important statement. Discipline, for the crowd I was hanging with, was a monolithic, landmark album, we didn't so much listen to it as study it. Stands up pretty well after all these years.

From santropez 04/15/2019 23:33 | #235043

Best track: "Frame By Frame"
Weakest track: "Indiscipline"

It's the most underrated and underappreciated album of its time. Once again, King Crimson draws the blueprint for about a half dozen subgenres of music with a mammoth release that takes a few cutting-edge musical ideas and runs with them. 1969's ITCOTCK forged a new genre out of The Moody Blues and Pink Floyd; 1981's Discipline forged a new genre out of Talking Heads, David Bowie, and The Police. It could very well feature some of the best musicianship and the most creative songwriting on any rock album, regardless of subgenre.