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Essential 80's Tracks, Part 49

Posted about 5 years ago
1984's "Three Of A Perfect Pair" was the last of three records the reunited band of Tony Levin, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, and Bill Bruford put out (Discipline and Beat being the other two) and tellingly, it was simultaneously the band's most commercial and most abstract record of the three. Side one was (for the most part) Crimsonized pop songs. They even did a video for "Sleepless" which got played on MTV(!) People who discovered the band via this video and purchased the LP based on the side one tracks must have had panic attacks when they flipped the record over. So In honor of this, I'm going to kick a little double essential 80's post - first the MTV played "Sleepless" video, and then King Crimson on tour in Japan in 1984, playing "Dig Me" from side two of the album "Three Of A Perfect Pair" - two essential 80s tracks!
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  1. Kid Kilowatt
    Kid Kilowatt says "Sleepless" is one of my favorite tracks from that incarnation of Crim. What was really wonderful was seeing the double-trio dust it off on the Thrak tour. Do we want to talk about shredding wallpaper at 500 feet? Holy shit. They had to scrape my ass off the ceiling after that one.
    Permalink posted 01/07/2007
  2. ebuzzmiller
    ebuzzmiller says Yeah, I saw them a bunch of times over the past 10 years - with the double trio and as a quartet. Saw them on Broadway at The Longacre in 1995 (?) and a few years ago in Madrid, which was funny - never saw so many women at a King Crimson concert!
    Permalink posted 01/07/2007
  3. Kid Kilowatt
    Kid Kilowatt says Actual females, huh? Well, I s'pose they must have done something for their rock grrrl cred when they toured with Tool. Go figure.
    Permalink posted 01/07/2007

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