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Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson

Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson is a 4-CD retrospective box set by the English progressive rock band King Crimson, released in 1991.

Track listing
Disc 1: 1969–1971 • "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald, Greg Lake, Michael Giles, Peter Sinfield) - 7:20 • "I Talk to the Wind" (McDonald, Sinfield) - 6:05 • "Epitaph" (Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles, Sinfield) - 8:44 • "Moonchild" (Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles, 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 • :Single version • "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)" (David Cross, Fripp, John Wetton, Bill Bruford, Jamie Muir) - 10:53 • :Abridged version • "Book of Saturday" (Fripp, Wetton, Richard Palmer-James) - 2:53 • "Easy Money" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 7:55 • "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)" (Fripp) - 7:09 • "The Night Watch" (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James) - 4:40 • "The Great Deceiver" (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James) - 4:03 • "Fracture" (Fripp) - 6:57 • :Abridged version • "Starless" (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Palmer-James) - 4:38 • :Abridged version • "Red" (Fripp) - 6:17 • "Fallen Angel" (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James) - 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 • :Recorded at Plumpton Racetrack (at the Ninth National Jazz and Blues Festival), Streat, UK, 9 August 1969 • :subsequently featured on the live album (4-CD set) Epitaph • "Travel Weary Capricorn" (Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles, 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" (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Muir, Bruford) - 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, McDonald, Lake, Giles, 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" (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford) - 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 • :recorded at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984 • :subsequently featured on the live album (2-CD set) Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal • "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==
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