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    Posted: July 29 2020 at 14:47
Believe it or not I never heard this album until I listened to it for the very first time last night(I just recently orded it online on cd). Wow, I definitely waited too long. It's not quite on par with their earlier albums although it might be better than islands and beat at least. 

I had actually heard some of these songs before because someone made me a mixed King Crimson tape back in the very early 2000's and some were on it. Also, I saw the tour back in 1995 with my brother(who was maybe a moderate KC fan at best although he did enjoy the show from what I remember). 

So over all this is a very good disc. I'll maybe spin it again this weekend. I can't say it's better than the final two albums because I need to hear those again also actually but it's probably at least better than TCoL.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Believe it or not I never heard this album until I listened to it for the very first time last night(I just recently orded it online on cd). Wow, I definitely waited too long. It's not quite on par with their earlier albums although it might be better than islands and beat at least. 

I had actually heard some of these songs before because someone made me a mixed King Crimson tape back in the very early 2000's and some were on it. Also, I saw the tour back in 1995 with my brother(who was maybe a moderate KC fan at best although he did enjoy the show from what I remember). 

So over all this is a very good disc. I'll maybe spin it again this weekend. I can't say it's better than the final two albums because I need to hear those again also actually but it's probably at least better than TCoL.


Sweet Bro!!! I rather like the album.......

Don't fret too much over not hearing till now, I have never heard any Beatles albums in full, only snipets on the radio then I change the station. Clap
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LOL

Yeah, I know how you feel about the Beatles or the "not so fab four" as you might call them. ;)
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I am a big fan of the Fripp-Belew-Levin-Bruford quartet before and love all their three albums Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair. I rate Thrak a bit below them, but that's still very high (I know some people hate the Discipline period and particularly Beat, but in this post my own reference frame rules). 

Actually I believe Thrak was a good step at the time, a development of their concept that made sense. The double trio had a distinctive own sound and was well connected to both the Discipline lineup and the earlier material from the seventies. It's a quite adventurous album but has rather catchy highlights, too. Dinosaur is still a winner.



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I can’t read this album title without picturing Mike Tyson trying to say “Track”
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Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

I can’t read this album title without picturing Mike Tyson trying to say “Track”

Oh man, now I'm picturing that in my head. LOL 
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

I am a big fan of the Fripp-Belew-Levin-Bruford quartet before and love all their three albums Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair. I rate Thrak a bit below them, but that's still very high (I know some people hate the Discipline period and particularly Beat, but in this post my own reference frame rules). 

Actually I believe Thrak was a good step at the time, a development of their concept that made sense. The double trio had a distinctive own sound and was well connected to both the Discipline lineup and the earlier material from the seventies. It's a quite adventurous album but has rather catchy highlights, too. Dinosaur is still a winner.


Well, I have a longer history with those three(the 80's albums)although for some reason I never listened to Beat as much as I should. 

Thrak might be middle of the pack KC but even that means it's pretty darn good. 

Anyway, I'm in the process of buying(or in some cases)rebuying the KC catalog. I regrettably sold many cds years ago and so now am trying to go back and undo the damage so to speak. I picked up the first two again several years ago and now have my work cut out for me. I skipped to this one early on in my rebuying endeavor since I never heard it before. I'll probably pass on most of the live albums though.


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THRAK is potentially my favorite KC record. Finally listened to it when Fripp put his stuff on streaming services last year. I enjoyed the last two studio albums as well.
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

I am a big fan of the Fripp-Belew-Levin-Bruford quartet before and love all their three albums Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair. I rate Thrak a bit below them, but that's still very high (I know some people hate the Discipline period and particularly Beat, but in this post my own reference frame rules). 

Actually I believe Thrak was a good step at the time, a development of their concept that made sense. The double trio had a distinctive own sound and was well connected to both the Discipline lineup and the earlier material from the seventies. It's a quite adventurous album but has rather catchy highlights, too. Dinosaur is still a winner.


My opinion exactly! I personally love those 3 early 80's KC albums. THRAK never clicked. I think I have an irrational bias towards bands from the 70's releasing sh*t in the 90's, IDK why. It always has that "this is late to the party" feel that ruins it for me, lmao.

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Better than Islands? No way. I've never understood the lack of love for Islands.

Better than the 80's trio of albums? Certainly better that TOAPP and Beat, at least on a par with Discipline. Thrak is a solid album. I prefer it to Power to Believe.
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My least favorite KC, but I'd still give it a 3.25. In a way I wish the double trio made more albums to work on the concept a bit. 
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Don't know if it's "better" or not, and I don't care (music is not an absolute science, anyway). But on my list of all KC-albums it ends high in preference. Sometimes I prefer to listen to THRAK, other times I prefer to listen to Red (or another album). Islands and Discipline are the albums that I listen less frequently to, but that doesn't mean I don't like them.
Beat, Three of a Perfect Pair and The Power to Believe get also regular spins. I like that more song oriented material alternating with those dinosaurs...

Regarding Belew, I suppose you know his Side One, Two & Three albums. If one likes ThRAK, I think he will also like these albums (several dinosaurs hopping around through them...).

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