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Sono arrivati gli anni ottanta anche per i Crimson che sfornano probabilmente il miglior disco della loro intera carriera, "Discipline".
Il nuovo sound mescola perfettamente il progressive rock alla forte influenza New Wave di quegli anni. E' una svolta drastica per la band che abbandona del tutto le vecchie sonorità riuscendo però a realizzare un vero e proprio capolavoro superiore a qualsiasi altro lavoro fatto prima.
Il riff di chitarra schizofrenico di Elephant Talk e le ottime prove vocali in Frambe By Frame e Matte Kudasai rendono omaggio al talento di Adrian Belew e seppur Fripp sia sempre stato indubbiamente sia la mente che il braccio dei King Crimson, il risultato stupefacente che ottenne il disco va attribuito proprio a Belew.
"Discipline" non ebbe importanza solo nel contesto in cui si trovò ma acquisto valore anche per la forte influenza che diede in futuro, Indiscipline suona infatti quasi come un pezzo Noise Rock sempre perfettamente amalgamato tra New Wave e Progressive.
Lo stesso "Discipline" prese però a sua volta ispirazione dal suono eclettico dei Talking Heads di "Remain In Light", registrato un anno prima proprio con la collaborazione di Adrian Belew. Di conseguenza Thela Hun Ginjeet suona proprio come un brano di "Remain In Light", caratterizzato dai tipici cori enfatici adottati già in precedenza dalla coppia Byrne - Eno.
L'effetto di pura New Wave dura poco però, infatti The Sheltering Sky rappresenta forse l'apice sperimentale di Fripp mentre Discipline è un brano strumentale che riprende un po' tutto il sound del disco aggiungendo un lavoro di chitarra ancor più sofisticato del solito.
I Crimson a partire dagli anni ottanta furono davvero insuperabili e registrarono altri ottimi dischi come "Beat","Three Of a Perfect Pair", "Thrak" o "The ConstruKction Of Light", ma "Discipline" per me resterà sempre la vetta.
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01 Elephant Talk (04:42)
Talk, it's only talk
Arguments, agreements, advice, answers,
Articulate announcements
It's only talk
Talk, it's only talk
Babble, burble, banter, bicker bicker bicker
Brouhaha, balderdash, ballyhoo
It's only talk
Back talk
Talk talk talk, it's only talk
Comments, cliches, commentary, controversy
Chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat, chit-chat,
Conversation, contradiction, criticism
It's only talk
Cheap talk
Talk, talk, it's only talk
Debates, discussions
These are words with a D this time
Dialog, duologue, diatribe,
Dissention, declamation
Double talk, double talk
Talk, talk, it's all talk
Too much talk
Small talk
Talk that trash
Expressions, editorials, explanations, exclamations, exaggerations
It's all talk
Elephant talk? Elephant talk? Elephant talk!
02 Frame by Frame (05:10)
Frame by frame (Suddenly)
Death by drowning (from within)
In your, in your analysis.
Step by step (Suddenly)
Doubt by numbers (from within)
In your, in your analysis.
03 Matte Kudasai (03:48)
Still, by the window pane
Pain, like the rain that's falling
She waits in the air
Matte Kudasai
She sleeps in a chair
In her sad America
When, when was the night so long
Long, like the notes I'm sending
She waits in the air
Matte Kudasai
She sleeps in a chair
In her sad America
04 Indiscipline (04:33)
I do remember one thing.
It took hours and hours but..
by the time I was done with it,
I was so involved, I didn't know what to think.
I carried it around with me for days and days..
playing little games
like not looking at it for a whole day
and then.. looking at it.
to see if I still liked it.
I did.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat..
The more I look at it,
the more I like it.
I do think it's good.
The fact is..
no matter how closely I study it,
no matter how I take it apart,
no matter how I break it down,
It remains consistant.
I wish you were here to see it.
I like it.
05 Thela Hun Ginjeet (06:26)
Thela hun ginjeet thela hun ginjeet
Qua tari mei thela hun ginjeet
Qua tari mei heat in the jungle street
"Well, first of all,
I couldn't even see his face.
I couldn't see his face.
He was holding a gun in his hand.
Umm... I was thinking...
This is a dangerous place..
This is a dangerous place.."
Thela hun ginjeet thela hun ginjeet.
Qua tari mei thela hun ginjeet.
Qua tari mei heat in the jungle street.
I said, "I'm nervous as hell from this stuff.
I thought those guys were going to kill me for sure.
They ganged up on me like that.
I couldn't believe it.
Look, I'm still shakin'.
Weird.
There out in the streets like that.
It's a dangerous place.
It's a dangerous place."
So, suddenly, these two guys appear in front of me.
They stopped.
Real aggressive.
Start at me, you know.
"What's that?" "What's that on that tape?"
"What do you got there?"
I said, "huh?"
They said, "What are you talking into that for?"
I said, "It's just a tape, you know"
"Well play it for me"
I said "oh, no"
I put it off as long as I could.
And finally they turned it on, you know
They grabbed it from me.
Took it away from me.
Turned it on.
And it said, "He held a gun in his hand. This is a dangerous place."
They said, "What dangerous place?" "What gun?" "You're a policeman!"
And the deeper I talked, the worse I got into it.
I talked, I told him... I said, "Look man, I'm not talkin'...."
It went on forever.
Anyway, I finally unbuttoned my shirt, and said,
"look, look... I'm in this band, you know, I'm in this band you know,
and we're makin' a recording, you know.
It's about New York City, it's about crime in the streets..."
The explanation was going nowhere, but,
Finally, they just kinda let me go, I don't know why.
So I walk around the corner,
and I'm like shakin' like a leaf,
and I thought, "This is a dangerous place once again, you know."
Who should appear, but two policeman.
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Altre recensioni
Di Egli
Un disco, insomma, magari non proprio capolavoro, ma decisamente bello e consigliabile.
Elephant Talk, ove Belew si mette in mostra facendo barrire la propria chitarra.
Di Elephantalk
Il rapporto si basa sull'interazione fra chitarre, che assume: rete dialogale, dialoghi tipo "Botta e Risposta", sovrapposizioni ed incisioni.
Senza dubbio, non è un capolavoro Discipline, ma è a mio parere l'album più bello dei King Crimson anni '80.
Di Giammotto
"Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end."
"Il lato oscuro della disciplina, l'indisciplina 'I LIKE IT!' come dice l'urlo finale di Belew."
Di Caspasian
"La disciplina indispensabile per allenarsi al salto, e il lavoro risulta necessariamente rigoroso."
"Robert sa che solo col lavoro (e tanto lavoro) si ottengono i risultati."
