KING CRIMSON — Three Of A Perfect Pair (review)

KING CRIMSON — Three Of A Perfect Pair album cover Album · 1984 · Non-Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
Warthur
Whilst I do agree that Three of a Perfect Pair does not meet the high standards of Discipline - and it's certainly not as easy to like as the accessible Beat - I also think it's been rather underrated over the years. The plan of arranging the album to include all the avant-garde material on one side and all the accessible stuff at the front of the album sounds good in theory, but in practice it means that the album doesn't flow at all well; the improvisations on the second side may be a little overlong, but listened to in isolation they aren't so bad; what really makes the second side drag is the fact that there's one dense Frippian soundscape after the next without any rhythmic New Wave rave-ups to split them up. But the songs on the first side are all wonderful - I particularly like Sleepless, which has an absolutely killer bassline from Tony Levin - and I think if you listen to the album in a different order, shuffling the accessible and experimental pieces together, you can get a much more satisfying listen. So, a decent piece altogether, hampered a little by misguided decisions about the running order.
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Warthur wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I think there's been a miscommunication somewhere - I wasn't saying they'd changed the running order, I'm saying the running order they went with (on the original and in current releases) doesn't quite work for me because I think the album would flow better if the experimental pieces that were originally on the second side were interwoven between the poppier pieces on the first side.
Nightfly wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Hadn't realised they'd messed with the running order. Glad I've still got the original vinyl version.

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