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King Crimson - Discipline Audio CD

A fair review of the King Crimson "Discipline" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all King Crimson reviews here, or go back to the King Crimson tabs.

King Crimson Band: King Crimson
Title: Discipline
Rating:
Release Date: 2001-05-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Elephant Talk 2: Frame by Frame 3: Matte Kudasai 4: Indiscipline 5: Thela Hun Ginjeet 6: Sheltering Sky 7: Discipline 8: Matte Kudasai (alternative version)

smoking album
Elephant talk is a song that scared me when I first heard it but now I dig it. This album is terrific and frightening at the same time. It starts off with fast arpeggios that get faster and faster until they feel like a cyclone. Chapman stick is also used in this track to play a contagious groove that's repeated throughout.

Fripp's guitar playing is astounding on all tracks and very unique, and there are quite a few time signature changes.

The song titled Discipline is one hell of a track. There are pulses and accents on off beats. There are lots of unexpected chord changes, the end result is you get a feeling of 'shifting' or cyclicality.

Thela Hun Ginjeet is also another killer track. Its has lyrics in semi-spoken style. Some of the dialogue synergizes with the music so well, especially the bits where Belew says 'what what's that, what you got there. ' .


Seriously incredible, demented and inventive Prog/Art rock
I dug into this when it came out --- I was in a metal band playing Sabbath and Priest, but we were into everything from Sinatra to Sex Pistols and rediscovering all the 60's groundbreakers like Robert Fripp, et al. .


When Discipline came out we just about shat ourselves. . . the musicianship, dynamics, vision, and skill level is out-of-this-world. Wild guitar playing, endlessly inventive, seriously demented percussive and melodic structures, themes and lyrics. Incredible high-tech engineering and in-your-face effects and synth-like guitar and bass work. Very New York street vibe. You can taste and smell the city streets, underground clubs, and avant garde art events in the music.

If you don't know about Robert Fripp (guit) , Adrian Belew (guit/vox), Tony Levin (bass) , Bill Bruford (drums) you gotta check this stuff out. . . intense! It'd freak people out if it came out now.


Great Show
Was contracted to provide a sound system to King Crimson at the Warner Theatre in DC and thought "Oh Christ" some poser band trying to relive its previous heyday . Used to work as an Audio Engineer in the 80's and would provide Live Audio Production to small venues on the East Coast. . . It was one on the most amazing live shows I ever saw and I saw thousands during the late 70's and 80's . . . Belew was incredible and Levin was and is one of the most accomplished bass players and the only guy I have ever seen get anything worth a lick out of the stick. The opening of Matte Kudesai was one of the most haunting guitar cadenzas I ever heard . . .
Went and bought the album the next day . . . During the sound check the lighting company kept trying to focus a couple of PAR lamps on Fripp so they would have something to illuminate him during the show. . . they would finish focusing and as soon as they finished Fripp would move his gear over about 5 feet . . . they would get back to the lighting console turn up the lights they just focused and Fripp would no longer be in them. . . They would go back up on the truss, refocus the lights come down and Fripp would move again. . . went through this cycle about three times before it finally dawned on them that maybe Robert didn't want to be in the lights . . . the grand daddy of NERD ROCK. .


Some groovy instrumentals and effects don't mask the repetition.
This album gives me some mixed feelings. To be fair, I like the band, as I have essentially stated in my review of "In the Court of the Crimson King", but, I have to be honest. Portions of the album are nothing short of groovy, others nothing more than repetitive. All in all, this album is better listened to under the influence, though I must admit that for some reason I'm quite fond of "The Sheltering Sky". If I had to rate the song, it may have gotten three or more stars; but, I'm rating the album, all the worse songs included. You are likely to be more impressed with "Red", or else "In the Wake of Poseidon", or the aforementioned album.


awsome
especially the song,"indiscipline". this album rocks. im glad i found this on amazon. big loss for i tunes for not putting this on their catalog. .


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