Comments for King Crimson, Discipline

Discipline is an ABSOLUTE "must own". Intense, reposed, very definitely one of the most "liquid" works out there.

This was great & quite influential (although it took quite a while for listeners & the marketplace to absorb this). The music mixes various ethnic influences together into a very fluid and formed stew, mixed with the post-Hendrix guitar-distortion-as-powerful force motif inherent in both Belew & Fripp's playing, the jazz-randomness in Bruford's percussion, & the probing fluidity of Levin's stick/bass. Comes out of what Talking Heads & Police were up to, but much more intense & jazz-like. & what Fripp had been working on. "Thela hun Ginjeet" is my favorite - by the way the narration is actually Belew telling the others about what happened that day when he went into an unsafe area with a tape recorder trying to get some impressions down for lyrics while he walked, & was accosted - being surreptitiously taped by Fripp.

Thela Hun Ginjeet is a classic, but I never hear enough about Under a Sheltering Sky, a great instumental.

Great disc from the re-invigorated King Crimson.