# Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson

Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson is a 4-CD retrospective box set by the band King Crimson, released in 1991.

## Track listing
### Disc 1: 1969-1971

* "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald, Greg Lake, Michael Giles, Peter Sinfield) - 7:20
* "I Talk to the Wind" (McDonald, Sinfield) - 6:05
* "Epitaph" (Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles, Sinfield) - 8:44
* "Moonchild" (Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles, Sinfield) - 2:26
    Abridged version, omitting the improv section of the song
* "The Court of the Crimson King" (McDonald, Sinfield) - 9:25
* "Peace: A Theme" (Fripp) - 1:16
* "Cat Food" (Fripp, McDonald, Sinfield) - 2:45
    Single version
* "Groon" (Fripp) - 3:31
    Previously unreleased on CD; also featured on the 2-LP compilation A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson (1976)
* "Cadence and Cascade" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 4:10
    New mix, replacing Gordon Haskell's original vocals with vocals performed by Adrian Belew, July 1991
* "The Sailor's Tale" (Fripp) - 7:27
    Abridged version, removing approximately 3.5 seconds' worth of the cymbal introduction
* "Ladies of the Road" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 5:31
* "Bolero" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 6:45
    New mix, replacing Gordon Haskell's original bass guitar with bass guitar performed by Tony Levin, June 1991
    Tracks 1-5 from In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
    Tracks 6-7 & 9 from In the Wake of Poseidon (1970)
    Tracks 7-8 released as the single "Cat Food/Groon" in 1970
    Track 12 from Lizard (1970)
    Tracks 10-11 from Islands (1971)
Total Running Time - 67:47

### Disc 2: 1972-1974

* "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part I)" (David Cross, Fripp, John Wetton, Bill Bruford, Jamie Muir) - 10:53
    Abridged version
* "Book of Saturday" (Fripp, Wetton, Richard Palmer-James) - 2:53
* "Easy Money" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 7:55
* "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)" (Fripp) - 7:09
* "The Night Watch" (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James) - 4:40
* "The Great Deceiver" (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James) - 4:03
* "Fracture" (Fripp) - 6:57
    Abridged version
* "Starless" (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Palmer-James) - 4:38
    Abridged version
* "Red" (Fripp) - 6:17
* "Fallen Angel" (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James) - 5:59
* "One More Red Nightmare" (Fripp, Wetton) - 7:09
    Tracks 1-4 from the album Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973)
    Tracks 5-7 from the album Starless and Bible Black (1974)
    Tracks 8-11 from the album Red (1974)
Total Running Time - 69:08

### Disc 3: 1981-1984

All tracks on disc 3 written by Adrian Belew, Bruford, Fripp and Tony Levin, unless otherwise indicated.
* "Elephant Talk" - 4:42
* "Frame by Frame" - 5:08
* "Matte Kudasai" - 3:48
* "Thela Hun Ginjeet" - 6:26
* "Heartbeat" - 3:54
* "Waiting Man" - 4:22
* "Neurotica" - 4:48
* "Requiem" - 6:36
* "Three of a Perfect Pair" - 4:11
* "Sleepless" - 5:22
* "Discipline" - 5:05
* "The Sheltering Sky" - 8:16
* "The King Crimson Barber Shop" (Levin) - 1:31
    Also featured on the compilation Heartbeat: The Abbreviated King Crimson (1991), subsequently featured on the reissued version of the album Three of a Perfect Pair (1984)
    Tracks 1-4 & 11-12 from the album Discipline (1981)
    Tracks 5-8 from the album Beat (1982)
    Tracks 9-10 from the album Three of a Perfect Pair (1984)
Total Running Time - 64:08

### Disc 4: Live 1969-1984

* "Get Thy Bearings" (Donovan Leitch) - 9:21
    Recorded at Plumpton Racetrack (at the Ninth National Jazz and Blues Festival), Streat, UK, 9 August 1969
    subsequently featured on the live album (4-CD set) Epitaph
* "Travel Weary Capricorn" (Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles, Sinfield) - 4:23
    Recorded at Plumpton Racetrack (at the Ninth National Jazz and Blues Festival), Streat, UK, 9 August 1969
    Subsequently featured on the live 4-CD set Epitaph (1997)
* "Mars" (Gustav Holst) - 8:09
    Recorded at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, United States, 14 December 1969*
    subsequently featured on the live 4-CD set Epitaph
* "The Talking Drum" (Cross, Fripp, Wettonm Muir, Bruford) - 8:30
    Recorded at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 23 November 1973;
    subsequently featured on the live 2-CD set The Night Watch (1997)
* "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles, Sinfield) - 9:15
    Recorded at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 23 November 1973
    subsequently featured on the live 2-CD set The Night Watch
* "Asbury Park" (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford) - 6:52
    Recorded at the Casino, Asbury Park, New Jersey, 28 June 1974; previously featured on the live album USA (1975)
* "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part III)" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 2:35
    recorded at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984; excerpt version from the afternoon show. A complete performance from the evening show was subsequently featured on the live 2-CD set Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal (1998)
* "Sartori in Tangier" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 4:08
    recorded at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984
    subsequently featured on the live album (2-CD set) Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal
* "Indiscipline" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 5:26
    Recorded at the Arena, Fréjus, France, 27 August 1982; subsequently featured on the live album (King Crimson Collectors' Club release) Live at Cap D'Agde (April 1999)
Total Running Time - 61:20
(*) The Frame by Frame booklet incorrectly lists the date as 10 December 1969.