Discipline

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-11-08 rating:
must buy
possibly the best cd i've heard in the last YEAR. you must buy it if you like music. beware, though, it's not for common people who like commercial music, only for freaks.

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review by: date: 2008-01-11 rating:
A radical shift or seamless progression?
This album has at times been rather unfairly and rather lazily named the best album Talking Heads never made-it isnt!-its actually one of the best King Crimson albums ever made.

After the last line up of Crimson split in 1974 all former members continued working but Robert Fripp in particular collaborated with a number of other eclectic artists such as David Bowie,Peter Gabriel,David Byrne,Brian Eno and most famously Daryl Hall.

As well as all the above being influenced in part by the Post Punk/New Wave mania that was prevelant between 1979-1981 a rather more subtle influence was that of African music-in particular the rhythmic aspect-and this all combined to form the template for Discipline.

Once Fripp re-configured King Crimson in 1980 with previous member Bill Bruford and new recruits Adrian Belew and Tony Levin who both,by no coincidence,had worked with all the arforementioned artists between 1979/80 then perhaps inevitably the end result might be compared with other releases of this time when in fact it should be considered in the context of the above influences.

This album together with Lodger(David Bowie),Remain in Light(Talking Heads)and the incomparable My Life in the Bush of Ghosts(Brian Eno,David Byrne)still sound as fresh and radical today as in 1980/81.

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review by: Good music should be celebrated, not cast to the Top 75. date: 2007-08-15 rating:
A new direction for a musical chameleon.
I've only recently become interested in King Crimson, and I have to say that their earlier albums, particularly 'Islands' and 'Lizard', are great. They made exciting prog-rock, and more importantly, it still sounds as good now as it probably did a good decade or so before I was born.

Because of this, I imagine die-hard fans were probably less than enthused by 'Discipline', which was almost King Crimson's attempt at a pop album, but I don't quite see why. You've got catchy dance tracks like 'Frame by Frame' and a really good ballad in the form of 'Matte kudasai'.
Yes, gone is the bizarre lyrical ramblings and almost never-ending guitar sections (which to be honest, does make their earlier stuff very entertaining), but here instead is a fresh, funky, kind of cool pop group.

This is a great album, and what followed was two more equally great pop albums. Give this a go, then give 'Three of a Perfect Pair' a spin. KC put most 80s pop groups to shame, and that's quite an achievement considering pop wasn't exactly their longsuit.

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review by: kevin21549 date: 2006-12-04 rating:
The First of an Almost Perfect Trio
I had been talking to a friend, in the early 1980s, about bands and music we liked. He was a big King Crimson fan and recommended Starless and Bible Black and Red which I really liked when I heard them and I started to listen to other KC stuff. Then I read about a new Robert Fripp project with Bill Bruford, Adrian Belew, and Tony Levin. I was really into music that all of these people had been involved with prior to this so I was excited. When I heard that Fripp had decided that this new band represented a new King Crimson I had mixed feelings. On the one hand I thought brilliant a new version of this fantastic music but on the other I was worried that it would not live up to expectations.

I needn't have worried, this was everything I hoped it would be and more. I know that Fripp was a bit concerned that Belew's lyrical stylings and vocal delivery had become a bit too influenced by David Byrne's in places but Belew had been evrywhere from Talking Heads/Tom Tom Clube via Zappa and Bowie around this time so it was unsurprising that he picked up some influences along the way. From the opening bars of Elephant Talk this is just a fantasic rock album, and the people would get all shirty about prog rock should just get out more. The moaning of the punks who still go on and on and on and on........ about how prog rock went on.... (you get the picture) are more boring than the longest of gutar/keyboard noodlings/ drum solos I have every heard.

This album does none of that though it just delivers.

The follow up Beat was equally as good with the third installment, Three of a Perfect Pair, nearly hitting the mark but not quite (a four rather than five star effort)

The next reawakening of the Crimson Dinosaur, Thrak, where the entire KC history is distilled into one album. If you want to hear more after this these are the places to go.


review by: date: 2006-09-16 rating:
"The Sheltering Sky" - one of the greatest pieces of music
King Crimson's first album after the reunion - a fascinating work influenced by Talking Heads and Minimal Music. But for me, this disc is also noteworthy for containing one of the greatest pieces of music ever written: The hypnotic "The Sheltering Sky", a much more fascinating and congenial hommage to Paul Bowles than The Police's "Tea in the Sahara". This track alone is worth the whole disc!

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