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. A follow-up 4-CD box set, The Great Deceiver, appeared the next year, followed by the 1-CD compilation album Sleepless: The Concise King Crimson in 1993.
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.
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