Three of a Perfect Pair
by King Crimson
- Type: Album
- Released: 27 March 1984
- Label: E.G.
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:08:18
- Community rating: 3.65/5 from 14 ratings
Artists on this release: Tony Levin, Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The final album of King Crimson's highly rhythmic 1980s incarnation explicitly divides its tracklist between accessible, new wave-inflected art pop and deeply complex, industrial-leaning progressive rock. Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew weave intricate, interlocking guitar patterns over incredibly technical polyrhythms and Chapman Stick textures. It is an anxious, abstract, and mechanically precise conclusion to the band's remarkable synthesizer-era trilogy.
Genres
Descriptors: complex, technical, rhythmic, progressive, experimental, guitars, virtuosic
Tracklist
- Three of a Perfect Pair (4:10)
- Model Man (3:49)
- Sleepless (5:24)
- Man With An Open Heart (3:05)
- Nuages (That Which Passes, Passes Like Clouds) (4:47)
- Industry (7:04)
- Dig Me (3:17)
- No Warning (3:29)
- Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. III (6:05)
- The King Crimson Barber Shop (1:37)
- Industrial Zone A (1:44)
- Industrial Zone B (4:33)
- Sleepless (Tony Levin Mix) (7:28)
- Sleepless (Bob Clearmountain Mix) (5:24)
- Sleepless (Francois Kevorkian dance mix) (6:18)
Credits
- King Crimson - primary artist, music by, producer
- Timothy Eames - artwork, cover [cover art]
- Tony Levin - bass, chapman stick, synthesizer, backing vocals
- Peter Willis - design [cover symbol]
- Bill Bruford - drums [acoustic, electric]
- Brad Davis - engineer
- Tony Arnold - engineer
- Nick James - engineer [assistant]
- Peter Hefter - engineer [assistant]
- Ray Niznik - engineer [assistant]
- Robert Fripp - guitar
- Paddy Spinks - management
- Tex Read - other [social services]
- Adrian Belew - vocals, guitar [fretted, fretless], lyrics by
- Bob Clearmountain - mixed by