Beat (King Crimson album)

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Beat is an album by the band King Crimson, released in 1982.

Its title is partly inspired by the writings of the beat generation:

Track 1, "Neal and Jack and Me", is the track on the album most obviously inspired by beat writers. The 'Jack' of the title is beat writer Jack Kerouac, and the 'Neal' of the title is Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady.
Track 3, "Sartori [sic] in Tangier", also derives its title from beat influences including the Jack Kerouac novel Satori in Paris, and the city of Tangier in Morocco, where a number of beat writers resided and which they often used as a setting for their writing. Writer Paul Bowles was associated with the beats, and his novel The Sheltering Sky, which provided the title for a track on King Crimson's previous studio album, Discipline, is partly set in Tangier.
Track 7, "The Howler", may refer to the beat poem Howl by Allen Ginsberg.
According to the Trouser Press Record Guide, the album focused on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Kerouac's On the Road.
The Chapman Stick introduction to "Sartori in Tangier" is featured in the first scene of the premiere of the MTV show "The Maxx."
Of King Crimson's thirteen main studio releases, this is the only album that does not have a title track

Contents

Track listing

"Neal and Jack and Me" (Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin) – 4:22
"Heartbeat" (A Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 3:54
"Sartori in Tangier" (A Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 3:54
"Waiting Man" (A Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 4:27
"Neurotica" (A Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 4:48
"Two Hands" (A Belew, Margaret Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 3:23
"The Howler" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 4:13
"Requiem" (A Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 6:48

Original studio albums
King Crimson
Robert Fripp \| Adrian Belew \| Tony Levin \| Pat Mastelotto Former members \| Guest musicians
In the Court of the Crimson King \| In the Wake of Poseidon \| Lizard \| Islands \| Larks%27 Tongues in Aspic \| Starless and Bible Black \| Red \| Discipline \| Beat \| Three of a Perfect Pair \| THRAK \| The ConstruKction of Light \| The Power to Believe
Other records
Cat Food/Groon \| Atlantic Sampler \| The Night Watch/The Great Deceiver \| Epitaph/21st Century Schizoid Man \| Matte Kudasai \| Elephant Talk \| Thela Hun Ginjeet \| Heartbeat \| Three of a Perfect Pair/Man With an Open Heart \| Sleepless \| VROOOM \| Dinosaur \| People \| Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream \| Level Five \| Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With
Live albums
Earthbound \| USA \| The Great Deceiver \| *' \| THRaKaTTaK* \| Epitaph \| The Night Watch \| ' \| ' \| Live in Mexico City \| The ProjeKcts \|** ' \| The Beginners' Guide to the King Crimson Collectors' Club \| Heavy ConstruKction \| VROOOM VROOOM \| Ladies of the Road \| \| The Power To Believe Tour Box
Compilations
A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson \| The Compact King Crimson \| ' \| ' \| \| The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson - Volume One - 1969-1974 \| The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson - Vol. 2 - 1981-2003
Side projects and guest appearances
ProjeKct One \| ProjeKct Two \| ProjeKct Three \| ProjeKct Four \| ProjeKct X

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