Dusty Chalk Wrote:
Gone to Earth is still one of my favourite albums by him. After First Day, definitely put this on.
Which version of GtE is this? The only one that should be listened to is the recent expanded, retracked remaster that puts the album back in the order that was intended, spread over two discs (in a freakin' GORGEOUS digipak, I might add.) Disc two is all the instrumental stuff, and it's really beautiful sequenced like this. If you only have the one disc (and if this guy is as big a fan as he seems, I'm doubting that he doesn't have the two-disc one) then listen to it, but know that it's so much better in the expanded form.
Dusty Chalk Wrote:
Damage is the concert that Fripp and Sylvian did after First Day.
There are also two versions of this. The original was mixed by Fripp and is much harsher and edgier, and came in a very cool box slip-case with a big booklet of artwork from an installation the two of them did. Sylvian went back a couple years ago and remixed it more to his liking, and it's more typically Sylvian-sounding. This comes in a regular jewelcase and has scribbly artwork that doesn't do the music justice like the original did. The mixes are so different I actually can think of them as two different albums (each also has a song that the other does not.)
Dusty Chalk Wrote:
Everything and Nothing is a career retrospective, just to give you some idea how you may want to fit those in.
E&N is a very
different kind of retrospective, however - many of the songs have been remixed and some even have extra parts added in. However, I really like this tactic - it makes the whole thing have a real personality and even a sort-of narrative flow. It's tremendously beautiful. Don't think for a minute that if you own all his albums that you don't need this - you do! (And track down the 3-disc version - the third disc is the only place the studio version of "The Blinding Light of Heaven" exists. A live version of this is on
Damage and that had been the only place you could get this until E&N.)
Dusty Chalk Wrote:
I like your co-workers taste in music a lot. I love Tweaker, Fripp, Sylvian, etc.
Yeah, me too! Why the hell can't I work with someone like this? The people I work with, if they care about music at all, listen to crap like Blink-182 (this is a 32 year old guy I'm talking about here, not a just-out-of-college kid!)
Dusty Chalk Wrote:
Wow, Blemish? Good Son vs. Only Daughter? You have a really slanted view of what he's capable of.
Blemish is undoubtedly a really different project for him, but I think you can get a good feel for what the guy's about. I haven't heard
Good Son vs. Only Daughter - is it worth getting?
I really wish he and Fripp would get together again, if only to put together a DVD of the Japanese Laserdisc of the
First Day tour. I have a crappy old VHS bootleg of that and it's AMAZING. That's half of the then-upcoming King Crimson right there - Pat Mastellotto drumming, Trey Gunn on 12-string Stick (getting to see him in action is fascinating - he is responsible for a LOT more of the music than you realize,) and Fripp on guitar, plus glimpses of Michael Brook weaving his beautiful infinite guitar sounds in between it all. Even better than the
Damage live set.