| Frame By Frame: The Essential King Crimson | ||||
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| Released | December 1991[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1969-1984; 1991 (overdubs) | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 256:46 | |||
| Label | Caroline | |||
| Producer | King Crimson | |||
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Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson is a 4-CD box set by the band King Crimson, released in 1991.
Track listing
Disc 1: 1969-1971
- "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfield) - 7:20
 - "I Talk to the Wind" (McDonald, Sinfield) - 6:05
 - "Epitaph" (Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield) - 8:44
 - "Moonchild" (Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield) - 2:26
- Abridged version, omitting the improv section of the song
 
 - "The Court of the Crimson King" (McDonald, Sinfield) - 9:25
 - "Peace: A Theme" (Fripp) - 1:16
 - "Cat Food" (Fripp, McDonald, Sinfield) - 2:45
 - "Groon" (Fripp) - 3:31
- Previously unreleased on CD; also featured on the 2-LP compilation A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson (1976)
 
 - "Cadence and Cascade" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 4:10
- New mix, replacing Gordon Haskell's original vocals with vocals performed by Adrian Belew, July 1991
 
 - "The Sailor's Tale" (Fripp) - 7:27
- Abridged version, removing approximately 3.5 seconds' worth of the cymbal introduction
 
 - "Ladies of the Road" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 5:31
 - "Bolero" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 6:45
- New mix, replacing Gordon Haskell's original bass guitar with bass guitar performed by Tony Levin, June 1991
 
 
- Tracks 1-5 from In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
 - Tracks 6-7 & 9 from In the Wake of Poseidon (1970)
 - Tracks 7-8 released as the single "Cat Food/Groon" in 1970
 - Track 12 from Lizard (1970)
 - Tracks 10-11 from Islands (1971)
 
Total Running Time - 67:47
Disc 2: 1972-1974
- "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part I)" (Bill Bruford, David Cross, Fripp, Jamie Muir, John Wetton) - 10:53
- Abridged version
 
 - "Book of Saturday" (Fripp, Richard Palmer-James, Wetton) - 2:53
 - "Easy Money" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 7:55
 - "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)" (Fripp) - 7:09
 - "The Night Watch" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 4:40
 - "The Great Deceiver" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 4:03
 - "Fracture" (Fripp) - 6:57
- Abridged version
 
 - "Starless" (Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 4:38
- Abridged version
 
 - "Red" (Fripp) - 6:17
 - "Fallen Angel" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 5:59
 - "One More Red Nightmare" (Fripp, Wetton) - 7:09
 
- Tracks 1-4 from the album Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973)
 - Tracks 5-7 from the album Starless and Bible Black (1974)
 - Tracks 8-11 from the album Red (1974)
 
Total Running Time - 69:08
Disc 3: 1981-1984
All tracks on disc 3 written by Adrian Belew, Bruford, Fripp and Tony Levin, unless otherwise indicated.
- "Elephant Talk" - 4:42
 - "Frame by Frame" - 5:08
 - "Matte Kudasai" - 3:48
 - "Thela Hun Ginjeet" - 6:26
 - "Heartbeat" - 3:54
 - "Waiting Man" - 4:22
 - "Neurotica" - 4:48
 - "Requiem" - 6:36
 - "Three of a Perfect Pair" - 4:11
 - "Sleepless" - 5:22
 - "Discipline" - 5:05
 - "The Sheltering Sky" - 8:16
 - "The King Crimson Barber Shop" (Levin) - 1:31
- Also featured on the compilation Heartbeat: The Abbreviated King Crimson (1991), subsequently featured on the reissued version of the album Three of a Perfect Pair (1984)
 
 
- Tracks 1-4 & 11-12 from the album Discipline (1981)
 - Tracks 5-8 from the album Beat (1982)
 - Tracks 9-10 from the album Three of a Perfect Pair (1984)
 
Total Running Time - 64:08
Disc 4: Live 1969-1984
- "Get Thy Bearings" (Donovan Leitch) - 9:21
 - "Travel Weary Capricorn" (Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield) - 4:23
- Recorded at Plumpton Racetrack (at the Ninth National Jazz and Blues Festival), Streat, UK, 9 August 1969
 - Subsequently featured on the live 4-CD set Epitaph (1997)
 
 - "Mars" (Gustav Holst) - 8:09
- Recorded at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, United States, 14 December 1969*
 - subsequently featured on the live 4-CD set Epitaph
 
 - "The Talking Drum" (Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Muir, Wetton) - 8:30
- Recorded at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 23 November 1973;
 - subsequently featured on the live 2-CD set The Night Watch (1997)
 
 - "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield) - 9:15
- Recorded at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 23 November 1973
 - subsequently featured on the live 2-CD set The Night Watch
 
 - "Asbury Park" (Bill Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Wetton) - 6:52
- Recorded at the Casino, Asbury Park, New Jersey, 28 June 1974; previously featured on the live album USA (1975)
 
 - "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part III)" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 2:35
- recorded at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984; excerpt version from the afternoon show. A complete performance from the evening show was subsequently featured on the live 2-CD set Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal (1998)
 
 - "Sartori in Tangier" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 4:08
 - "Indiscipline"  (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 5:26
- Recorded at the Arena, Fréjus, France, 27 August 1982; subsequently featured on the live album (King Crimson Collectors' Club release) Live at Cap D'Agde (April 1999)
 
 
Total Running Time - 61:20
(*) The Frame by Frame booklet incorrectly lists the date as 10 December 1969.
References
- ↑ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. p. 460. ISBN 9780862415419.
 
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