Discipline (album)

Encyclopedia : D : DI : DIS : Discipline (album)

Discipline is an album by the band King Crimson, released in 1981.

The original release of Discipline featured only one version of "Matte Kudasai", with a guitar part by Robert Fripp that was removed from the track on a subsequent release of the album. The latest version of the album to be released contains both versions of the song - track 3, "Matte Kudasai", without Robert Fripp's original guitar part; and track 8, "Matte Kudasai (alternative version)", with the guitar part included.

The lyrics of track 4, "Indiscipline", were based on a letter written to Adrian Belew by his then wife Margaret. The letter concerned a sculpture that she had made.

The title of track 5, "Thela Hun Ginjeet", is an anagram of 'heat in the jungle'.

When track 5, "Thela Hun Ginjeet", was first performed live, some of its lyrics were based on an illicit recording made by Robert Fripp of his neighbours having a vicious argument when he was living in New York. (This recording is featured on the track "NY3", on Fripp's solo album Exposure.) While "Thela Hun Ginjeet" track was being recorded for the Discipline album, Adrian Belew, walking around Notting Hill Gate in London with a tape recorder looking for inspiration, was harassed first by a gang and then by the police. On returning to the studio, he gave a distraught account to his bandmates of what had just happened to him. This account was illicitly recorded, and is featured on the Discipline version of the track, in place of those earlier lyrics that were based on Fripp's New York recording.

Track 6, "The Sheltering Sky", is named after and partially inspired by the 1949 novel of the same name by Paul Bowles. Bowles is often associated with the Beat generation, which would be an inspiration for King Crimson's subsequent studio album Beat. That album's instrumental track "Sartori in Tangier" is also inspired at least in part by Bowles.

Track listing

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

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.