VROOOM

VROOOM Artist: King Crimson
Label: Discipline Us
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: EP
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 782284940127
EAN: 0782284940127
ASIN: B000005OO6


Release Date: 1994-11-08

VROOOM


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Tracks:

  1. Introduction
  2. VROOOM
  3. Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream
  4. Cage
  5. Thrak
  6. When I Say Stop, Continue
  7. One Time

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This 31-minute set of improvs and live sessions reunites the awesomely tight Fripp/Bruford/Belew/Levin axis with additional sonic assault from bassist Trey Gunn and percussionist Pat Mastelotto. Belew bellows three whacked-out songs ("Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream" is the keeper) and the ensemble's avant garde grit is showcased to great effect on the furious title track. <I>--Jeff Bateman</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars If you liked Thrak.......2007-02-17

This CD is completly worth your time. I was worried that this would just be an inferior teaser to thrak when I bought it, but it turns out to be a wonderful compliment to thrak. THis CD is rawer and grittier, which is in a way absolutly refreshing if you are used to all their polished studio LPs. Thrak is a little better mixed and is longer and somewhat more satisfying. I can listen to thrak and be done, but this leaves me wanting more King Crimson. I prefer the song Thrak on here as oppossed to on the CD Thrak, since it has an extended middle section. This is significantly different from thrack to warrent music fans a listen.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent.......2006-11-13

When thios came out, I was comletely blown away. I owned some old Crimson stuff and I had liked Discipline a lot but this was so much better. As the other reviews point out, it is a rather expensive EP with a slightly different sound from the long playing CD that would follow (Thrak) but I prefer this one sonically. It is very brutal and comes over really well). I saw them in Massachusets later I think in 1996 and it was simply great as well. A great band.

5 out of 5 stars Too Little, WAY too Late; MORE, MORE!.......2003-01-11

The wait for this EP was BY FAR WAY TOO long, and at about 29 minutes, this thing is WAY TOO short, especially for the hefty price, but it was still a godsend. 29 minutes of bliss a lot of us thought we might never experience again unless we did it ourselves. Thank you, Mr. Fripp, greatest TQM facilitator rock has seen so far! It wasn't worth the wait or the list price in the micro-economic sense, but in macro-ProgRock artistry terms, the timing was perfect and VROOM is priceless intellectually, emotionally, and physically, during the time of the false Nirvana! AT ONCE, ALL 29 minutes (or 34 minutes? My fact checker has the day off) better than the entire 80's Crimson output, even better than the 1974 lineup you disbanded (Cross included). And there was indeed much more to come. Ah, Peace! Bliss! Living Crim! Was the start of a superb decade, and by the looks of it, dare I say, perhaps TWO decades? We can only hope, encourage, support, participate.

5 out of 5 stars A concise but defintive statement for 90s King Crimson.......2001-09-19

I actually find this short CD a more direct and more rewarding listening experience than the official Thrak album. The sound is a bit rawer, but you can litterally feel the high energy fields flowing between the six players, in a way that is so unique to Crimson.

The title track is a reworking of "Red", from a different perspective : with its coda it reaches an unbelievable intensity, but then it pales in comparison to the track "Thrak" which is the sonic equivalent of a volcano eruption. "One time" is certainly one of the most beautiful songs ever written by Belew ; "Cage" is like a strong and quick uppercut in your jaw.

The balance between sonic assault, experimental improvisation and songs is striking and makes this CD filable along the best of Crimson. Too bad the "Thrak" album did not live up to such high standards.

4 out of 5 stars

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