"Sleepless" by King Crimson....

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...is so fucking great, that being caught furiously "air bassing" to it should not only be excused but also commended.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you twiddle your right-hand fingers with appropriate enthusiasm when air-bassing to this song?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

But of course.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The version on Absent Lovers > studio version

(this goes for all 80s King Crimson songs, I think)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything on Absent Lovers is fucking superb, yes!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know a whole lot about Crimson, but I do remember this one being really, really good.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it possible to "air Stick" a la Tony Levin?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

It is, but it simply doesn't look quite as dignified....as if dignity had anything to do with it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The other one I remember liking a lot was "Matte Kudasai".

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I've listened to this twice in the last week, coincidentally .. after a long dry spell ... That stickin' is great & always has been, but lately I have noticed the guitar phrasing (or whatever you call it) at the chorus (All right, get ahold of yourself - don't fight it, you're over your head ...) sounds a bit like Frame by Frame in a (literally) warped way.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

all that 80's belew guitar playing sounds like that! I wish he still played that way.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably not an accident. All they're work between Discipline through Three of a Perfect Pair sounds virtually interchangeable...in a good way, though, like it's one long bizarre piece of work.

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i play the francois k. extended mix all the time.

― noizem duke (noize duke), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Lark's Tongue in Aspic pt III is usually the reason I ever put on 3 of a perfect pair

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

He shouldn't sing though. Sorry.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i love this

― chaki in charge (chaki), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

All they're work

Jesus, that's pathetic of me. All THEIR work.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, when the bass kicks in on "Thela Hun Gingeet," I just want to bust the craziest dance moves the world has ever seen, like some crazed hybrid of old school breakin' and Shawn Kerri Circle Jerk skankin' that makes Twyla Tharp look like Stephen Hawking. TONY LEVIN IS THE BASS MESSIAH!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it "elitism" to correct someone who is wrong about something? If someone was at a street corner and telling their child "red means walk, green means stop," would it be elitist of me to point out that they were feeding that child woeful misinformation?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Goddamn, that was posted on the wrong thread. Ignore that, please, Crimbo-fans.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Utterly fantastic.

I remember that this got quite a bit of KROQ airplay back in the day. Enough airplay that Showtime booked Crimson on their Rock Palace dance show. Absolutely hilarious seeing Fripp & co. playing to a bunch of dancing LA new wave hipsters.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I like this stuff and it's way complicated and all, but I really rather prefer Wetton--both his vocals and bass playing, which was, in fact, extraordinarily violent (he'd break low 'E' strings!)

Also, the Belew KC is seldom apocalyptic, which is what I come to Crimson for.

― igrey, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't start me on Discipline-era Crimson. Utterly sublime. Last week, for the first time in about a year, I listened to all three back-to-back and once again was blown away.

And now, as a result of this thread, I am left with no choice but to play Three of a Perfect Pair again.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Due to Repeat 1 being selected on my MD player I just heard the opening track four times without noticing. Is it that kind of album?

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Is he using an E-bow in the solo? Whammy bar?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dig Me" is the feel good hit of the Summer!

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The Neal and Jack and Me DVD is really great, almost as great as Absent Lovers. There's one Fripp solo where he loses himself to the point where he almost stands up. And it's great for seeing how Belew got a lot of his sounds.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

where he loses himself to the point where he almost stands up

hahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

And the bass isn't even half of it! Those airstrike guitar-zooms are what -really- makes the song for me, particularly in combination with the catchy little Friff-ripp.
Best part of 80s-KC is that if you're going to do sad chair-movements while listening to it, you really have to start pretending you're in Morris Day & The Time and have all sorts of shoulder-movements etc to fit in the twitch-shifts in the beats.

Absent Lovers on headphones is a real treat when you hit these tracks ( Sleepless and Sartori In Tangier, the latter which I probably like even better for KC-prunk)

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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One buttock up...

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Two! Two buttocks off the stool. Ha ha! (/The Count)

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And even an "I'm coming" face!

These are all from Larks' III, by the way.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

The Neal and Jack and Me DVD is really great, almost as great as Absent Lovers. There's one Fripp solo where he loses himself to the point where he almost stands up.

LOL.

I watched this last night. It was really funny seeing Fripp actually *rocking out*. Well, for Frippic values thereof, anyway.

Holy shit, what an amazing gig it is (the 84 one - havent watched the other half with the 82 gig yet). I adore this era of Crimson, having only come to it in recent times. And Ive seen some people diss Belew's vocals which always suprises me - I think he has a fantastic voice.

― Trayce, Sunday, 2 November 2008 02:26 (seventeen years ago)

Adrian Belew's solo career has some incredibly low points. SRSLY.

― Suggest Bank (libcrypt), Sunday, 2 November 2008 03:52 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah Ive heard one solo album and there were some good tracks on it, but some of them absolutely blew, they were very cheesy.

But this gig in Melbourne he's apparently gonna do Crimson songs at, so that seems worth the money.

― Trayce, Sunday, 2 November 2008 22:09 (seventeen years ago)

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