King Crimson?

[lingcod]

I've been trying to some old King Crimson stuff (the Adrian Belew / Robert Fripp early 1980s stuff, not the older artsy English stuff), particularly the album that had Heartbeat, Talk, Two Hands, etc. I lost about 3000 albums ten years ago when I had a "flood" in my new home. A life's work washed away, and most of it completely out of print. They put on an absolutely astonishing show in Seattle at the Paramount in 1983. Anyway this one was a great record, can't find any KC on iTunes. Any suggestions, even obscure CD sources?

[lingcod]

Well, hey, shit, nothing a simple little Google didn't solve. I was confusing two different albums anyway: Beat and Discipline. Never mind. That is all. Move along. Nothing to see here. As you were.

[snowsprite]

Discipline is one of my all-time favorite albums. I love "The Sheltering Sky." I listen to that in my car a lot. They're a fantastic band, so diverse and interesting to listen to.

Sprite

[Tippster]

Don't forget Three of a Perfect Pair - some of Belew's finest singing and picking on that record.

[StokeSmack]

I also saw the fripp/belew/bruford/levin lineup around '83 at Toad's Place in New Haven - it was transcendent. (When Adrian Belew would get into his feedback reveries some dumb chick I was with kept saying "Why is he DOING that"?)

Discipline is right up there with my all - time faves, and I think it stands up better then the others released during that period. The original CD version doesn't sound very good, but maybe it's out in SACD or something.

That being said, don't be too quick to dismiss the earlier "artsy" stuff. "Red" has great structure and contains some of the most intense music ever created. "Lark's Tongue" is a bit less accessible, but just as badass. I find myself going to these more than the later stuff because I seem to always discover something new which each listening.

"Circus" is a good live set that covers different periods.

[cdlv]

Larks Tongue and Red both kick major ass.

[mojorisin]

although In the Court of King Crimson is "way overplayed", it still blows my mind every time I listen to it (like right now)

[DocDuke]

[QUOTE=StokeSmack]I also saw the fripp/belew/bruford/levin lineup around '83 at Toad's Place in New Haven - it was transcendent. (When Adrian Belew would get into his feedback reveries some dumb chick I was with kept saying "Why is he DOING that"?)

I would have left that girl on the spot if a date of mine said that.

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[The AD]

I lost about 3000 albums ten years ago when I had a "flood" in my new home.

So how exactly does a flood damage a vinyl LP?

[snowsprite]

humidity + vinyl/record cover = mold and damage you can't repair



Sprite

(and don't store your old records in plastic bags in a basement, ever)