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  • I always thought a good car chase scene's soundrack (ala Bullitt) should start from the 2:52 mark.

  • One of the few compositions that I cannot play on guitar. It is not that it turns out sloppy when play it but I PHYSICALLY cannot play it.

  • im not even a fraction gay but i would blow fripp... hes fuckin god

  • king crimson, mahavishnu orchestra and mars volta are the only bands i can dance to

  • this song invented math rock

  • The heaviest 70's guitar sounds come from Robert Fripp and Tony Iommi.

  • @TheGreaterGood80 two of the most underrated guitar players in the history of the guitar!

  • Mclaguhlin´s face when listen to this at first O.o then :o and finally \m/

  • @zappfripp I don't think McLaughlin would be dazzled that much :) .

  • I love this version a whole lot more than the one on the "ConstruKction of Light" album.

  • I remember I was in the Sixth Form in 1983. I had this music and liked it. No one can say anytime but maybe some day.

  • This is a CLINIC. Period.

  • what time signature is this song in, 9/8 12/8?

  • @victormugabe It doesn't have to be in just one time signature. The way I hear it is that sometimes it's in 4/4, 3/4, 5/8, ... . Correct me if I'm wrong. Sometimes I have issues with signatures myself.

  • @dayvenkirq hehe same.....sometimes there are so many switches...

  • @victormugabe whatever bill bruford says at the time haha

  • There's only one thing better than this: FraKctured

  • Lyrics: Whoo!

  • Simply Great!

  • King Crimson were an awesome proto jam band.

  • While you are all lauding Fripp, who no doubt deserves praise, it is Bill Bruford who steals the show in this tune.

  • Epoque géniale ! Génial Fripp !

  • hoboy the composition to end all compositions.....I made point of listening to this at least once a day during gr. 11 second semester in '81. For those who truly revere this tune - I'm sure we all remember when we first heard the blast-off at 7:42, and it's like - WOW - the power! And then in subsequent listenings that part is like - ok - time to REALLY smoke half my body weight in chronic and pull out the ol' Bruford air-drumming, or air-bass from 9:14 - 9:58. Ya gotta love the "woot!" at 8:27.

  • resurrezione dei morti

  • This is a the Best album of King Crimson

  • @Kissingspell So true! Half of the songs are pure improv; what makes Crim everlasting! :)

  • Phénoménal!

  • This song was created the year I was introduced into the world...what an introduction! Along with the title track to the album!

  • who needs metal?

  • genesis, yes, rush and similars can go to the wc and drink some water from it

  • Jesus God Almighty! Fripp's right hand is one of those miracle mutations of humanity! Can you picture the guy jerkin' off? I'll bet he could light a fire with his palm & his pud! Add that spooky catatonic stare of his to the equation, and you've got yourself a regular Evil Owlish Master Of Avant-Voodoo Guitar & Pud-Smackin' Techniques. That's Robert Fripp right there, you bet. Wait, what?

  • @alexmortland lol :D .

  • @alexmortland well done sir. couldn't have said it better myself. Won't even try. :D

  • Yes, you're right, this is vile noisy pointless garbage

  • I love Robert Fripp! He reminds me of a progressive Tony Iommi. Also, Bill Bruford is a better drummer than I had once expected (when I first listened to his work with Yes, I thought he kinda sucked!); he reminds me of a cross between Buddy Rich and Keith Moon. Anyways, amazing band, one of the greatest not just of the 70s, but of all time in general! Long live the King!

  • I love the part from 0:00 - 11:15

  • @u2bbbbbb Eh, that part's alright XD

  • @u2bbbbbb .... me too !

  • @u2bbbbbb whats wrong with the last second eh?!

  • Lol the reactions xD

  • @1wertyuiop1wertyuiop ...... me too.

  • Frakture>fracture

  • @MrAdrianbelew You mean "Frakctured"? And I would have to disagree.

  • @andreseh87 Yup, FraKctured, I just think it has a cleaner structure to it.

  • @MrAdrianbelew Definitely cleaner.  But why does that make it better? ;)

  • @MrAdrianbelew Also IMO it's much colder, as well. Fracture has warmth, enthusiasm and energy, while Frakctured has a delicate, icy beauty to it.

  • wow, makes me cry every time...

    i saw this particular band at least six times...

    they were total magic.

    music came to visit this band over and over again...

  • «Fracture» c'est comme l'Apocalypse. Des petites inquiétudes qui se multiplient avec le temps. Des petits répits et une avalanche de chaos qui se termine par un calme crispant qui dévoile une désolation planétaire. Je ne sais comment dire, mais cette œuvre a quelque chose de tellurique. Une énergie brute émanant de la Terre qui se transforme en interférences psychiques.

  • @VladimirPoussy Fantastique! (that's how it's spelled?) You couldn't have said it better.

  • @VladimirPoussy EXACTEMENT...... une explication parfaite

  • This is perhaps Fripp's most brilliant piece, next to LTIAP. It's so dark, so energetic. Every section is perfectly structured. And that payoff at the end- goosebumps, man.

  • O_O These sounds fill my head with odd thoughts. AWESOME.

  • What really surprised me about this cut is that, after years of listening to (and loving) it on the studio album (yup, 33-1/3), I found that this is actually a LIVE recording. Don't believe it? Check out the Amsterdam live CD "Night Watch", with some interesting crowd interplay by RF. My brother (the BIGGEST KC fan ever before his untimely passing in '01) turned me on to the fact - wow! My favorite tune of all time. BRUFORD!!

  • Last time I saw KC, RF was in his chair doing what he does best and I was tripping really hard, not on acid, but just in the music flowing thru me, like someone mention in an earlier post, KC music must be felt and listen to, hearing sometimes is not enough!!

  • @inkards1 Regarding "RF in his chair", one of my most memorable moments was at the Discipline tour '81 at Painters Mill in MD, my avid KC fan buddy nudged me at one point and exclaimed "Fripp's up!!" after he popped off his stool for a moment. :)

  • @inkards1 ..... correcto mundo.. KC must be felt and experienced !

  • nobody left the band, Fripp was, is and always be the center piece/catalyst that always kept and keeps KC going, he is smart enough to pick and choose those that are capable of perform his intricate compositions, many stay for two or more albums but many others come for one album only and they left a mark as is the case of Muir and many others, IMHO nothing but genius!!!

  • to UFOGEAR and booscout34, one says "experimental art rock, brilliant" the other "this is ballsy and intelligent" you miss the point you can not time art "7:42-11:10 or 9;15 to 10:05, if you really have those high comments to make about one of the greatest bands, or person as is Robert Fripp, of progressive rock that pave the road to many others, should always be from zero to infinity, if not all I can recommend is for you to go back put the CD back on and LISTEN to it all over again!!

  • Like one person on yt said about Starless, so I'll say it about Fracture

    My favorite part is from 0:00 to 11:16  : )

  • They reach beyond the known. Even if someone duplicates their time signatures, or employs the diabolus in Musica as often as they do. its just not the same.

  • When someone doesn't like this music, i think its because they cant feel it. It draws you to a place where you can feel it though, if you let it. So its too bad that so many don't give it that chance. its so so sad that so many people see it as "dry" or too mathematical, because it really is one of those extremely rare instances where the complexity of the arrangement and executions are needed. Not grandstanding pyrotechnics, but utterly appropriate. That is why they draw me in.

  • Beyond all the music theory (i don't understand anyway) the feelings sustained by this piece, if you follow it that way, evokes rarified states of consciousness. By this i mean that they have entered terrain where art attempts to give form to ideas and states of being for which words have not yet been found. Or at least remain extremeley uncommon. . Which is what separates art from expository writing. its the point of art. If something is inarticulable by other means.

  • @foreverolf

    You just said everything i was thinking..

    That's the reason i love music.

  • The lyrics are touching.

  • whew is right!

  • 2:48 I really think this is the hardest guitar part ever made...

    Fripp isn't human.

  • To me, this is one of the greatest peices of music ever recorded.

  • @JohnLRice Indeed.

  • @CydoniaKnight I've been doing some quick search on this guy's youtube activities and i don't think he's just trolling. Instead,he's just an arrogant prick who is REALLY frustrated at some bullshit real-life issues and comes to the internet to demeanor and humiliate everyone in an attempt to feel important. He's just like 70% of the youtube demographic,ignore him and he'll be gone soon.

  • i think i know what im learning on bass tomorrow (:

  • Thanks OriginalSelector of the amazingness. Just listened track-by-track to this album. Hadn't in a long while. Thanks.

  • @MikeLamb24

    Dragonforce and Slipknot ARE NOT PROGRESSIVE. If it were not for this band, bands like Dragonforce and Slipknot wouldn't exist in the first place. This band set the ground for Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal, even Drum and Bass and Electronica at least 15 years before anybody else. This music isn't all fun and games, it's genuine Experimental rock from the 70's that requires thinking, not your boredom to overcome.

    Oh, and understand your genres better you fucktard troll.

  • @SolidGoldEliteODST I'm pretty sure this guy's just trolling :P

    I've seen him on some other vids :P

    Don't feed the trolls

  • @MikeLamb24 I'm getting tired of seeing your negative comments. You have to realise that some of us enjoy music that requires a degree of thought and interpretation in the listening. If you don't like it, that's fine, don't listen to it.

  • @MikeLamb24 Obvious troll is obvious

  • @CydoniaKnight1 Yes, indeed.

  • @MikeLamb24 No one here believes your lies, and stop making up band names.

  • @MikeLamb24 How can you say that? :O This music is just much more experimental then music you listen to. You need to listen a few times to get it! Robert Fripp uses a lot of Polyrhytmic, A and bitonality and other musical means, wich i think makes the music much more interessting! You cannot say that this is shit! After listening to it some times you COULD say : ''i don't like it'' or ''this is not my '' taste. ( But if you gave it a chance, you wouldnt) ;)

  • @MikeLamb24 -

    Hahahahahahaha (continued maniacal laughter)

    Slipknot? Dragonforce? Progressive? And I suppose that Donnie Osmond is (was?) jazz, and Merle Haggard is krautrock?

    Have a nice time on your little planet, you clearly have no comprehension of music except as a poor substitute for the caffeine patch ...

  • @MikeLamb24 Wait, it's having sex with bathroom music? I don't understand... is that possible? Also, how can shit suck when it doesn't have a mouth?

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  • It's just the best progressive song ever made!

  • i remember that i was amazed by 21st century,but with fracture was when i realised what the hell was fripp about,i spent time finding out information about this piece,because i couldn't belive that what i was hearing,was only one guitar,this is my favorite piece,THANK YOU ROBERT FRIPP!!

  • Crimson / Fripp are on a higher astral plane than all other bands. No matter how much I admire psychedelic groups like Doors or Floyd, Crimson is way beyond them. This is much more than musicianship + intellectualism, I think it is like staring into an abstract-expressionist painting translated into music.

  • @vittorioabr genesis is in the same astral plane, genesis whit peter gabriel of course

  • Jamie had left the band.

  • Do you know this was recorded live in the Netherlands?

  • i dont get it

  • eroina

  • WOW. Why am I just now realizing how awesome this track is?! I'm listening to it for the third time in a row!

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  • these guys influenced Tool big time

  • @80stvguy ... Listen to their album Discipline... it almost makes Tool seem like their cover band...

  • PARA TIOS CON SUERTE Y LISTOS JAJA BUENA MUSICA COMO NINGUNA

  • pARA TIOS CON SUERTE

  • FINALLY! At last someone has uploaded one of the classics of experimental art rock.

    Bless you! The build ups and crescendos on this piece are peerless. Fripp is probably my all time favorite guitarist. I love the part at 7:42-11:10. Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Cross and Muir, all of them just brillant!

  • @UFOGEAR lol. I bin listening to Fripmeister for 40 years now and he just gets better and better. Jeez, the guy is nearly as old as me now. If you look at the history of who he has played with it's fantastic.

  • @UFOGEAR i guess there is no muir man, as far as i know he just did the lark's album

    still great tough

  • @UFOGEAR Man, you said it. The time you referenced is really what it's all about with this song. Bad ass.

  • @UFOGEAR Muir wasn't there anymore!!

  • I agree with ramonster1972, what do people listen to these days? This is ballsy and intelligent. Not just stomping around looking for a fight. 9:15 to 10:05 kills me. Whew.

  • The Top of the Progs ! Húúúúú !!!

  • brill !!!!!

  • Overwhelmingly powerful, powerfully overwhelming.

  • This is one of the scariest pieces of music of all time ~8:30 they lose it, music takes over.

  • Where is everyone??? 305 views, that can't be! One of the greatest bands of the 70s.

  • @ramonster1972 80's and 90's lol.

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