Nearly but Not quite right Andy, couple of things. First off, it was Darryl Hall that sang on that track on the original release and North Star, Peter Hammill did the others except a Roaches did Mary and Gabriel on Here comes the flood. There is a version with Hall singing all the tracks except Flood but that's not the original. Yes it was originally part of an mor trilogy with Peter Gabriel 2 and Daryl Hall Sacred Songs both of which he produced and played on, with the delay of Exposure and Sacred Songs not release until a couple of years later he decided to make it part of his own trilogy, as such. I say as such because it was partnered with God save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners, which was one album but with two distinct sides. Side one was his Frippertronics ambient music, side two was his new York dance music with David Bryne on vocals. Two distinct projects. It was called the drive to 1981 and finished with The League of Gentlemen but that was not part of Exposure. Exposures is an excellent box set with all versions of Exposure, plus tracks never released, as well as God save/Under Heavy Manners, all his live Frippertronics from that period were he toured in unexpected places, which is excellent, plus The League of Gentlemen. It's a great box set for a great group of albums. Then came the incline to 1984 which was Discipline who did their first show at Moles in Bath, they then became King Crimson but that's another story.
Fripp also produced The Roches is the eponymous debut album by the Roches, released on the Warner Bros. Records in April 1979. The album was produced and features electric guitar parts by Robert Fripp; also playing on the album are percussionist Jimmy Maelen and Fripp's future King Crimson bandmate Tony Levin. 😮
I bought Exposure when it was first released and was absolutely blown away by the diversity, intensity and quality of the album. Not so long ago I lent a copy of the original version of the CD to somebody who I thought would appreciate the album. A week later he handed it back to me saying "it's dated". I was flabbergasted. I made no comment. I couldn't even begin to understand why anybody would say that about Exposure. To me, Exposure is still as fresh and exciting as it was when first released. Yes, it's a masterpiece.
I was in high school when this came out; Crimson was my favorite band and they were broken up… this was a sacred object to me! Still is. Most of my friends at the time dragged it hard.
Wow, Andy, this truly was a remarkable album and shows how those great 80's crimson albums cane about. And such great ragged vocals within those magnificent soundscapes.
OMG Andy you won me over. I’ve imagined myself studiously aloof from Prog but when this album came out it bowled me over and yes I still hear it as the most definitive, and most FUN, album of Fripp’s career. Love hearing you rave about it!
When "Exposure" came out in 1979 I first found it unfocused with the mix of musical styles. However, I soon reassessed and it really is an excellent album with many great musicians. Another album which deserves more recognition is "Kneeling at the Shrine" by Sunday All Over the World. That band includes both Robert Fripp and his wife Toyah Willcox.
Ahh memories. Sitting in the car at work just before my shift, Exposure blaring away. Me puffing on a jazz cigarette to get ready for the 8 hours of horror I was about to endure. Thank you Mr Fripp for getting me through it.
I really do enjoy Fripp's solo works and his collaborations, with Eno especially. Do Check out the 1st 3 Ultravox! albums with John Foxx as the singer,
Fripp visited Hall on the Live from Daryl's House RUclips channel almost a year ago. They did You Burn Me Up I'm a Cigarette. A good time was had by all.
The most extraordinary thing has just happened: I do believe that I agree with every word, including your comments on Breathless. The Exposures box set, as others have said, is magnificent.
Yep - plus Hammill on Chicago (original version and 2nd or 3rd edition too) and on “I may not have enough of me, but I’ve had enough of you “. There was something contractual / label involvementvof Hall’s versions not on the original.
Couldn't agree more. Used to say that to fellow KC fan friends 30 years ago, that Breathless is the the best line up. Walden.. forget about it. Jesus, what a ride that song is.
Bought the box set with a ton of loops, extras and all sorts. It's an expensive bit of kit but worth it if you are a fan of the album. Had it two years nearly and nowhere near finishing it. More please Andy :)
This is an excellent album. The cover photography is by Blondie's Chris Stein. As well as being part of a trilogy with the Hall and Gabriel albums, "Exposure" was the first project for Fripp's "Drive To 1981". This was another trilogy that included the "God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners" album of Frippertronics/Discotronics (yes, Fripp was exploring Disco) and "Let the Power Fall: An Album of Frippertronics". 1981 would then see the fourth evolution of King Crimson with "Discipline".
ah yes, the drive to 81, Fripp's know it all-isms catching up with him. If the wrong guy got elected we were all toast, but the wrong guy did and we weren't. Time is a flat circle, we're doing it again.
Yes, sir! I will immediately go out and listen to this. I also will also make sure to listen to this whilst driving into a sunset… loud enough to split my brain open…
"Breathless" is epic! An absolute masterpiece of dark Mahavishnu influenced King Crimson music with certainly the most virtuosic, explosive and proggy-avantgardistic drumming of our beloved Narada... 🙏
I discovered Exposure about two years ago in the record collection of my sister's boyfriend, and by wonderful coincidence the deluxe edition came out shortly after, because I had to snatch that right up. I love how the album is all over the place yet never comes across as incoherent, but rather bracing and varied. My favorite tracks include "Disengage", "North Star", "NY3", "Mary", and "Exposure", but every last bit feels like it has its own place. Watching this video, I just had to put it on again.
Great album. Preferable to any KC except perhaps the first one. There is also an expanded 2LP vinyl edition that came out a few years ago as well as a Steven Wilson remix (4th edition). For some reason I really only discovered this about 15 years ago when I purchased a used copy mainly due to the PG2 connection. It shares some material with the later.
Bless you for championing this gem of a being, just learned that joanne Walton coined the term 'Frippertronics' someone had too, thats a defininition of onomaapoeia if ever there was one, and consequently i am listening to the album as i write, ta Andy.
It's curious that the tracks Here Comes the Flood and Exposure are both featured on Gabriel's albums but bettered here. Same recordings but better mixes?
Not the same with different mixes, they are completely different recordings. Gabriel's Here comes the flood was recorded around 16 months before produced by Bob Ezrin, Fripp's version was recorded during Exposure sessions in America. Exposure was recorded around the same time in America but it's a completely different version not just mix.
I can only agree: this is Robert Fripp's greatest achievement ever, King Crimson included. It's one of my top ten favorite albums of all time and I am therefore very happy about this video. I've always loved that "Exposure" begins with a door opened and ends with a door closed which proves that is a concept album in the best sense of its meaning. This is strange because the records consists of so many different parts with various contributors but it becomes a unity in the end. Peter Hammill never sung better than on "Chicago" and "Disengage" (I saw him many times live and I shall never forget how he sang "Chicago" a-cappella as his last encore in a concert of 1980). As others have remarked: the box set which was published a few years ago is the box set to end all box sets and also includes the fantastic records with the "League of Gentlemen".
Great album! I had the vinyl for a while before I left NZ. He did a lot of interesting stuff around then - his 'New York Phase' must have been quite liberating, popping up on the Blondie album, Darryl Hall (they recently got back together on a 'Live at Darryl's House' RUclips clip) League of Gents was fun but the band were a bit hit and miss. I'm still a big fan of the stuff he did with David Sylvian and I have a handful of his solo Frippertronic improvs on CD which I used to listen to AT VOLUME in my studio - jaw droppingly amazing, sometimes unsettling! I'm really happy to see him having fun with Toyah these days - if anyone deserves a bit of a light-hearted break I reckon Robert does . . .
Indeed - since around 1980 I loved this album , discovering it as a huge Peter Hammill / Van der Graaf PHan at 18 - Hammill singing on 3 tracks; the 2 Punky ones (Disengage and I may not have enough of me but…) Andy talkes briefly about and the gorgeous Chicago. And indeed his vocals esp. on Chicago imho are amongst PH’s best ever! Apparently, being an old pall of Fripp, Peter just showed up, had his brandy (or 2) looked at the lyrics, and just did two takes of Chicago. But the non-PH singing tracks on my fave Fripp album are at least as good, if not even better still.. The alternative versions of North Star and also Chicago (/w Daryll Hall instead of Hammill) are amazing too. And I love all versions of Mary!
Great record. I have the original but I picked up the recent double LP of this with the original version and a different version from 1985 that had been re-mixed in 1983. I think I may like the re-mix better.
I agree. I think it’s a masterpiece. I love Joanna Walton’s lyrics. Apparently a lot of the tracks had music by Fripp and lyrics by Walton, but no actual pre-prepared melody. The singers were given the words on a piece of paper and had to improvise their melodies. This is really obvious on a track like North Star.
Hi, much enjoy your videos, thank you. Thanks for bringing back this record from my memories, at the time it sounded inexplicably boring, now it sounds obviously boring. What’s with the Fripp?
Is this really prog, or some strange concoction of post punk/prog and musique concrete? This has more in common with Pere Ubu than KC. It’s certainly a great listen!
Btw: not sure if this quote from an Amazon review is correct: “Joanna Walton, Fripp's good friend and former girlfriend, had died in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Joanna was the gifted lyricist for 6 of the Exposure tracks, (including North Star - a love song about themselves). RIP Joanna - this album stands as a fine tribute to your memory.”
There was a couple of cool Hall songs. Don't forget the two "Roches" albums he produced. And "The league of Gentleman." !!! Then the two he did with Andy. I'm sure there's a lot more. Peace on earth.
Should give Daryl Hall more credit. Hes the main vocalist on this record and his solo album was also great. Fripps guitars on Babs and Babs were killer
Since you're a fan of both Robert Fripp and Andy Summers, what do you think of their collaberative album I Advance Masked? Would be interested to hear your thoughts.
Breathless is genius - where I think any follow up to Red as KC would definitely have gone. Levin playing on the offbeats here just adds to the menace...
The League Of Gentlemen is my favorite Fripp album but it seems it is not much liked by him as it has still to this day never been re-issued in its original form as far as I can tell. Luckily I have managed to hang on to my original vinyl copy.
Jesus I’m 66 and don’t know this record- ate a gummy an hour ago put on the headphones Tony Levin on Breathless great. Remember seeing Hall do a live version with think Cheap Trick Burn Me Up I’m a cigarette didn’t know from this record
Never saw this coming. As an old Cream Kingson fan, I hade to pick up his solo albums …. but hey wait! What about Fripp’s Let The Power Fall?! And God Save The King. I had an album, not full length with songs from God Save The King, but cannot identify it on Wiki.
@@Soundbrigade God save the King was a reconstruction album with some tracks from The League of Gentlemen, Under Heavy Manners and the track God save the King which was a version of God save the Queen. It wasn't an original album that's probably why you can't find it on wiki.
@@Soundbrigade God save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners were not released on cd until a couple of years ago when the box set Exposures was released. A remix of each of the original albums was also released on cds. I think they are still available, not sure.
@@stuartraybould2574 It was a vinyl, that together a bunch of other vinyls were stolen, soon 30 years ago. My son who is making and remixing electronic discopop, or whatever it’s called did like the GSTK album because it is rather goofy.
@robbiecox not sure what you mean. Personally I have no use for vinyl. The 2006 remastered edition contains a bonus disc with the Daryl Hall sessions. Essential listening.
Sorry you have to have this explained. When this came out there was vinyl or cassette. On one track at the end it sounds as if the tonearm has been knocked right across the record making me leap in the air and look for the cat to blame. I can't help it if you haven't heard it on vinyl, and I'm sure your version is superb. Cheers.
@@ericarmstrong6540 There's no organ. There are some sustaining sounds which are Fripp's guitar put through a fuzz box and looped by two reel-to-reel tape recorders, which he called Frippertronics.
@@Emlizardo I recognize the Frippertronics loops, but what about the soloing instrument (organ) that plays the shifting ostinato lines beginning at 2:11 and ending at 3:35 in the song?
@@ericarmstrong6540 The ostinato part panned right is guitar, I don't know what the high one doubling it and panned left is. It could be a keyboard of some kind, but to my knowledge Andrews isn't credited anywhere with playing on this track.
Yeah Hall was lead vocal on the Cigarette track. Imagine seeing this whole album live on stage? Hmmm, so the whole thing is completely untrue…… a big hoax. Ha ha ha
Odd you don't mention title track, another Gabriel overlap and also co-composition. If we're doing Crimson analogues with this LP, a KC album with Gabriel on all vocals would have been a gamechanger, as post-Lake vocalists were always the band's weakest link
Adrian Belew is the best singer, songwriter Crimson ever had and decades of output says so- as it's all quality. No Love Beach or extended runs of nothing or being Gordon Haskell. And I'd add I'd rather listen to Adrian 10 out of 10 times over a guy like Gabriel solo. This old head take that only Greg Lake was any good in Crimson is a dated and now obviously wrong take.
I'll ignore the 'dated' thing. Belew certainly an improvement on other post-Lake. My point was that there was a path not taken that could have been a gamechanger. It became moot because of the 'small mobile intelligent unit' ethos.
@@somethingyettocome How can you say that? Daryl Hall sings on it, Peter Gabriel sings on it, Peter Hammill sings on it, One of the Roche sisters, Phil Collins plays drums on some of it! Alternative Rock BEFORE Alternative Rock!
@@froggy556 I kinda realize you re being ironic. Let s put it this way. I love Phil Collins, I know Peter Hammill (thou just like Andy I don t really get what he s doing). I love almost all that Crimson did before (esp. the Wetton/Fripp/Bruford/(Cross)(Muir) Lineup), and certainly the three 80Ies albums that came after. But "Exposure" just feels like a totally disjointed affair. The title track, which kinda is the highlight for me here is already on Peter Gabriel II, all the other stuff kinda passes me by, with an occasional "That s not bad" Moment maybe. Plus this album just has no flow at all, and don t get me started on the piano version of "Here comes the Flood" Does Fripp even play on it, or did he just record it? Even thou the song is kinda good, this has got to be one of the most overplayed songs in music history for me. And Gabriel keeps playing it in this form at every concert he gives til this day, while simultaneously ignoring so much of his other great early material (I have the touch anyone?) Anyways. To me "Exposure" comes across like a orientation phase for Fripp, which is fine, but just not a very good album I think. For me the weakest he s done.
It will be OK folks. I have a tendency to be a bit OCD/anal myself, but Andy has so much knowledge in his brain machine that he’s bound to stumble on occasion - as are we all.
Completely wrong. Cigarette is sung by Mr. Hall. Mr. Edwards seems to be a bit shy of things Hammill and Fripp. They do need a couple of listenings though. Nothing for the nervous sort.
I really like Breathless and Water Music II on this album. The rest is kind of meh. The vocal tracks are pretty jarring and annoying. Breathless sounds like it an outtake of Red and Water Music II sounds like an outtake from No Pussyfooting. Those are two of my favorite Fripp albums so no surprise why I like those cuts. To each their own.
At a party in the mid-70s, a remarkable woman and I were talking, when she said to hold on...then came back with a copy of "Meetings with Remarkable Men" by Gurdjieff, which set me on a path that included this album, trips to Claymont, and friendship with JG's daughter in law. At it turns out, I share birthdays with both Gurdjieff and King Crimson, which is also the death day of James Joyce and my dear father. A pregnant day. But it was this album that alighted me to the climate destruction about which he was exposing with "Exposure". You and I knew about the terrors by 1980, and some folks still don't get it. Well, come to North Carolina and see what it is doing to us. Great important timely album, by a real king.
Is this the one where Fripp makes Daryl Hall squeal like a pig? Embarrassing. I'll take Fripp and Eno over that. Or Red. It spun on my turntable only a few times in 1979. I gave up trying to like it. And Talking Heads was out by that time, time to move on. More Songs About Buildings and Food and Fear of Music much better.
Sucks to be YOU! North Star is some of Daryl's Best vocals! The Deluxe edition has a bonus disc of how the album was originally meant to be heard. With Daryl Hall singing on every track except "Here Comes The Flood!"
@@froggy556 yes, I was joking. Not really interested. I bought the album the week it came out, tried really hard to like it and finally filed in my record cabinet for good. I like Hall and Oates just fine. But if the extra Hall tracks on that Fripp album even sounded twice as good as the one I heard, they would still suck.
@@eximusic It is a shame you can't think outside the box. RF refused to allow himself to be pigeonholed by Progressive Rock. This album was very influential to bands like Joy Division, Killing Joke, Sonic Youth, and even Nirvana.
@@froggy556 That's irrelevant to whether he can play well. But, I'm not impressed with his guitar playing. Steve Howe is and always has been much better. Fripp has always been one of the least skilled musicians in every King Crimson lineup. And I'm a better guitarist than him too.
Nearly but Not quite right Andy, couple of things. First off, it was Darryl Hall that sang on that track on the original release and North Star, Peter Hammill did the others except a Roaches did Mary and Gabriel on Here comes the flood. There is a version with Hall singing all the tracks except Flood but that's not the original. Yes it was originally part of an mor trilogy with Peter Gabriel 2 and Daryl Hall Sacred Songs both of which he produced and played on, with the delay of Exposure and Sacred Songs not release until a couple of years later he decided to make it part of his own trilogy, as such. I say as such because it was partnered with God save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners, which was one album but with two distinct sides. Side one was his Frippertronics ambient music, side two was his new York dance music with David Bryne on vocals. Two distinct projects. It was called the drive to 1981 and finished with The League of Gentlemen but that was not part of Exposure.
Exposures is an excellent box set with all versions of Exposure, plus tracks never released, as well as God save/Under Heavy Manners, all his live Frippertronics from that period were he toured in unexpected places, which is excellent, plus The League of Gentlemen. It's a great box set for a great group of albums.
Then came the incline to 1984 which was Discipline who did their first show at Moles in Bath, they then became King Crimson but that's another story.
Spot on! You've saved me from having to type all of that.
The "Exposures" Box Set is a must have for all RF fans! It contains everything he did between 1979 to 1983!
It really is astonishing
Fripp also produced The Roches is the eponymous debut album by the Roches, released on the Warner Bros. Records in April 1979. The album was produced and features electric guitar parts by Robert Fripp; also playing on the album are percussionist Jimmy Maelen and Fripp's future King Crimson bandmate Tony Levin. 😮
I bought Exposure when it was first released and was absolutely blown away by the diversity, intensity and quality of the album. Not so long ago I lent a copy of the original version of the CD to somebody who I thought would appreciate the album. A week later he handed it back to me saying "it's dated". I was flabbergasted. I made no comment. I couldn't even begin to understand why anybody would say that about Exposure. To me, Exposure is still as fresh and exciting as it was when first released. Yes, it's a masterpiece.
Yes, I agree, it's one of my favourite albums. Loads of wonderment
Damage together with David Sylvian is one of my Fripp-non-King-Crimson albums.
I was in high school when this came out; Crimson was my favorite band and they were broken up… this was a sacred object to me! Still is. Most of my friends at the time dragged it hard.
Yes, Andy. This is a personal favorite, and I got it when I was 18. I thought it was absolutely amazing 😊
OK, Andy....you've really hyped this one. I'm going to listen to it as soon as this video is over......
Wow, Andy, this truly was a remarkable album and shows how those great 80's crimson albums cane about. And such great ragged vocals within those magnificent soundscapes.
OMG Andy you won me over. I’ve imagined myself studiously aloof from Prog but when this album came out it bowled me over and yes I still hear it as the most definitive, and most FUN, album of Fripp’s career. Love hearing you rave about it!
When "Exposure" came out in 1979 I first found it unfocused with the mix of musical styles.
However, I soon reassessed and it really is an excellent album with many great musicians.
Another album which deserves more recognition is "Kneeling at the Shrine" by Sunday All Over the World. That band includes both Robert Fripp and his wife Toyah Willcox.
Ahh memories. Sitting in the car at work just before my shift, Exposure blaring away. Me puffing on a jazz cigarette to get ready for the 8 hours of horror I was about to endure. Thank you Mr Fripp for getting me through it.
I really do enjoy Fripp's solo works and his collaborations, with Eno especially. Do Check out the 1st 3 Ultravox! albums with John Foxx as the singer,
Thank you, Andy. I have to get this album. Thank you!
Bought it the day it came out, loved it, still do. The League albums are very good too.
Yeah, they burn like a cigarette.
Definitely a musical masterpiece.....
Fripp visited Hall on the Live from Daryl's House RUclips channel almost a year ago. They did You Burn Me Up I'm a Cigarette. A good time was had by all.
North Star is Daryl Hall's best performance since Abandoned Luncheonette. Exposure is an extraordinary showcase - "masterpiece" also works.
One of my all time favorites.
Thanks Andy
The most extraordinary thing has just happened: I do believe that I agree with every word, including your comments on Breathless. The Exposures box set, as others have said, is magnificent.
You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette has Daryll Hall on vox. Disengage has Hammill.
depends on which edition you have (there are 4 different editions of it)
Yep - plus Hammill on Chicago (original version and 2nd or 3rd edition too) and on “I may not have enough of me, but I’ve had enough of you “. There was something contractual / label involvementvof Hall’s versions not on the original.
Couldn't agree more. Used to say that to fellow KC fan friends 30 years ago, that Breathless is the the best line up. Walden.. forget about it. Jesus, what a ride that song is.
Great one -cool Lemon Kittens connection . Enjoyed the review
Bust video so far very informative thanks very much Andy keep up the great work 👍👍👍
Agree with every word of this Andy, a classic record
Bought the box set with a ton of loops, extras and all sorts. It's an expensive bit of kit but worth it if you are a fan of the album. Had it two years nearly and nowhere near finishing it. More please Andy :)
This is an excellent album. The cover photography is by Blondie's Chris Stein. As well as being part of a trilogy with the Hall and Gabriel albums, "Exposure" was the first project for Fripp's "Drive To 1981". This was another trilogy that included the "God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners" album of Frippertronics/Discotronics (yes, Fripp was exploring Disco) and "Let the Power Fall: An Album of Frippertronics". 1981 would then see the fourth evolution of King Crimson with "Discipline".
ah yes, the drive to 81, Fripp's know it all-isms catching up with him. If the wrong guy got elected we were all toast, but the wrong guy did and we weren't. Time is a flat circle, we're doing it again.
Yes, sir! I will immediately go out and listen to this. I also will also make sure to listen to this whilst driving into a sunset… loud enough to split my brain open…
Listened and enjoyed it.
"Breathless" is epic! An absolute masterpiece of dark Mahavishnu influenced King Crimson music with certainly the most virtuosic, explosive and proggy-avantgardistic drumming of our beloved Narada... 🙏
I just bought that record at my local record store a couple months ago. Big score = I couldn’t believe nobody else was buying it.
You didn't talk enough about the utterly fantastic singing of Daryl Hall on this album!
Have had one of these couple years ago. Love it. Made me appreciate Daryl hall
10,492 wow! Congratulations! Never heard this album... Getting it now. Thx!
Have it! ❤️🎶
I discovered Exposure about two years ago in the record collection of my sister's boyfriend, and by wonderful coincidence the deluxe edition came out shortly after, because I had to snatch that right up. I love how the album is all over the place yet never comes across as incoherent, but rather bracing and varied. My favorite tracks include "Disengage", "North Star", "NY3", "Mary", and "Exposure", but every last bit feels like it has its own place. Watching this video, I just had to put it on again.
"MARY" is my favourite tune on the album!
Great album. Preferable to any KC except perhaps the first one. There is also an expanded 2LP vinyl edition that came out a few years ago as well as a Steven Wilson remix (4th edition). For some reason I really only discovered this about 15 years ago when I purchased a used copy mainly due to the PG2 connection. It shares some material with the later.
My fave LP from the late 70’s
excellent album.
Couldn't agree more.
Solid pull.
Bless you for championing this gem of a being, just learned that joanne Walton coined the term 'Frippertronics' someone had too, thats a defininition of onomaapoeia if ever there was one, and consequently i am listening to the album as i write, ta Andy.
The exposure track reminds me of mliabushfoghosts
It's curious that the tracks Here Comes the Flood and Exposure are both featured on Gabriel's albums but bettered here. Same recordings but better mixes?
Not the same with different mixes, they are completely different recordings. Gabriel's Here comes the flood was recorded around 16 months before produced by Bob Ezrin, Fripp's version was recorded during Exposure sessions in America.
Exposure was recorded around the same time in America but it's a completely different version not just mix.
Agreed , good choice.
Robert's magazine articles from this time period are pretty amazing, especially from Musician magazine
I can only agree: this is Robert Fripp's greatest achievement ever, King Crimson included. It's one of my top ten favorite albums of all time and I am therefore very happy about this video. I've always loved that "Exposure" begins with a door opened and ends with a door closed which proves that is a concept album in the best sense of its meaning. This is strange because the records consists of so many different parts with various contributors but it becomes a unity in the end. Peter Hammill never sung better than on "Chicago" and "Disengage" (I saw him many times live and I shall never forget how he sang "Chicago" a-cappella as his last encore in a concert of 1980).
As others have remarked: the box set which was published a few years ago is the box set to end all box sets and also includes the fantastic records with the "League of Gentlemen".
His work with David Sylvian especially "The First Day" is top notch too, I think.
I've never heard Exposure, there I've said it!
Don't know what you're missing. Also, I recommend the deluxe edition which has the Daryl Hall sessions!
@@froggy556 Cool I'll investigate thanks for the tip!
I'm glad he came along makes the music a little different
Even for Fripp, he really Fripps his wig on this one. - to ultra-glorious results.
Good job there......
Great album! I had the vinyl for a while before I left NZ. He did a lot of interesting stuff around then - his 'New York Phase' must have been quite liberating, popping up on the Blondie album, Darryl Hall (they recently got back together on a 'Live at Darryl's House' RUclips clip) League of Gents was fun but the band were a bit hit and miss. I'm still a big fan of the stuff he did with David Sylvian and I have a handful of his solo Frippertronic improvs on CD which I used to listen to AT VOLUME in my studio - jaw droppingly amazing, sometimes unsettling! I'm really happy to see him having fun with Toyah these days - if anyone deserves a bit of a light-hearted break I reckon Robert does . . .
Indeed - since around 1980 I loved this album , discovering it as a huge Peter Hammill / Van der Graaf PHan at 18 - Hammill singing on 3 tracks; the 2 Punky ones (Disengage and I may not have enough of me but…) Andy talkes briefly about and the gorgeous Chicago. And indeed his vocals esp. on Chicago imho are amongst PH’s best ever! Apparently, being an old pall of Fripp, Peter just showed up, had his brandy (or 2) looked at the lyrics, and just did two takes of Chicago. But the non-PH singing tracks on my fave Fripp album are at least as good, if not even better still.. The alternative versions of North Star and also Chicago (/w Daryll Hall instead of Hammill) are amazing too. And I love all versions of Mary!
I just bought the latest release of this on LP. Can't believe I never got it before.
Great record. I have the original but I picked up the recent double LP of this with the original version and a different version from 1985 that had been re-mixed in 1983. I think I may like the re-mix better.
I agree. I think it’s a masterpiece. I love Joanna Walton’s lyrics. Apparently a lot of the tracks had music by Fripp and lyrics by Walton, but no actual pre-prepared melody. The singers were given the words on a piece of paper and had to improvise their melodies. This is really obvious on a track like North Star.
That's standard practice in rock music. It's really only in choral music that singers have to follow precise charts.
Anyone who hasn't heard the live album Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx doesn't know what the League of Gentlemen were capable of.
Saw them live. Awesome.
Thank you Andy ! Have you heard the 2006 double CD with an entire alternative version of the album ?
Hi, much enjoy your videos, thank you. Thanks for bringing back this record from my memories, at the time it sounded inexplicably boring, now it sounds obviously boring. What’s with the Fripp?
Love that album.
Wath a line up ❤
By the way...The BEAT show was sublime ...
It's Starless & Bible Black. No 'the'!
I loved the first version of this album (original singer)
Is this really prog, or some strange concoction of post punk/prog and musique concrete? This has more in common with Pere Ubu than KC. It’s certainly a great listen!
Btw: not sure if this quote from an Amazon review is correct: “Joanna Walton, Fripp's good friend and former girlfriend, had died in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Joanna was the gifted lyricist for 6 of the Exposure tracks, (including North Star - a love song about themselves). RIP Joanna - this album stands as a fine tribute to your memory.”
There was a couple of cool Hall songs.
Don't forget the two "Roches" albums he produced.
And "The league of Gentleman." !!!
Then the two he did with Andy.
I'm sure there's a lot more.
Peace on earth.
M O R in this case is Mood Oriented Rock. If you buy the reissue cd it has all the Daryl Hall versions which would have been on Sacred Songs.
Should give Daryl Hall more credit. Hes the main vocalist on this record and his solo album was also great. Fripps guitars on Babs and Babs were killer
Since you're a fan of both Robert Fripp and Andy Summers, what do you think of their collaberative album I Advance Masked? Would be interested to hear your thoughts.
I’m not familiar with this collaboration. I will have to check this out. Thanks for the tip.
Breathless is genius - where I think any follow up to Red as KC would definitely have gone. Levin playing on the offbeats here just adds to the menace...
The League Of Gentlemen is my favorite Fripp album but it seems it is not much liked by him as it has still to this day never been re-issued in its original form as far as I can tell. Luckily I have managed to hang on to my original vinyl copy.
@@pjrove It was released, remixed and remastered when the Exposures box was released, I think it's still available and it's in the box set.
@@stuartraybould2574 Yes, but without the tracks Indiscreet I, II, & III, Pareto Optimum I & II, and with Danielle Dax's vocal removed from Minor Man.
Jesus I’m 66 and don’t know this record- ate a gummy an hour ago put on the headphones Tony Levin on Breathless great. Remember seeing Hall do a live version with think Cheap Trick Burn Me Up I’m a cigarette didn’t know from this record
I wish the movie with Debbie Harry had been made.
Never saw this coming. As an old Cream Kingson fan, I hade to pick up his solo albums …. but hey wait! What about Fripp’s Let The Power Fall?! And God Save The King.
I had an album, not full length with songs from God Save The King, but cannot identify it on Wiki.
@@Soundbrigade God save the King was a reconstruction album with some tracks from The League of Gentlemen, Under Heavy Manners and the track God save the King which was a version of God save the Queen. It wasn't an original album that's probably why you can't find it on wiki.
@@stuartraybould2574 OK … So maybe it’s the Under Heavy Manner I once had but today is missing …. 🤔
@@Soundbrigade God save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners were not released on cd until a couple of years ago when the box set Exposures was released. A remix of each of the original albums was also released on cds. I think they are still available, not sure.
@@stuartraybould2574 It was a vinyl, that together a bunch of other vinyls were stolen, soon 30 years ago. My son who is making and remixing electronic discopop, or whatever it’s called did like the GSTK album because it is rather goofy.
Bought it when new. First time I played it I thought the boody cat had jumped on the turntable!
Don't know what YOU'RE talking about, musically, it's a prediction of the future!
Play it, the joke only really works if you're listening on vinyl.
@robbiecox not sure what you mean. Personally I have no use for vinyl. The 2006 remastered edition contains a bonus disc with the Daryl Hall sessions. Essential listening.
Sorry you have to have this explained.
When this came out there was vinyl or cassette. On one track at the end it sounds as if the tonearm has been knocked right across the record making me leap in the air and look for the cat to blame. I can't help it if you haven't heard it on vinyl, and I'm sure your version is superb. Cheers.
@robbiecox the cd does that too.
How can you review this and not mention North Star?
Phil Collins plays drums on some tracks as well.....
I believe there is a fourth member of "King Crimson" on "Breathless": Barry Andrews is playing organ.
Barry Andrews does not play on Breathless
@@Emlizardo who is playing organ?
@@ericarmstrong6540 There's no organ. There are some sustaining sounds which are Fripp's guitar put through a fuzz box and looped by two reel-to-reel tape recorders, which he called Frippertronics.
@@Emlizardo I recognize the Frippertronics loops, but what about the soloing instrument (organ) that plays the shifting ostinato lines beginning at 2:11 and ending at 3:35 in the song?
@@ericarmstrong6540 The ostinato part panned right is guitar, I don't know what the high one doubling it and panned left is. It could be a keyboard of some kind, but to my knowledge Andrews isn't credited anywhere with playing on this track.
Yeah Hall was lead vocal on the Cigarette track. Imagine seeing this whole album live on stage? Hmmm, so the whole thing is completely untrue…… a big hoax. Ha ha ha
Odd you don't mention title track, another Gabriel overlap and also co-composition. If we're doing Crimson analogues with this LP, a KC album with Gabriel on all vocals would have been a gamechanger, as post-Lake vocalists were always the band's weakest link
Adrian Belew is the best singer, songwriter Crimson ever had and decades of output says so- as it's all quality. No Love Beach or extended runs of nothing or being Gordon Haskell. And I'd add I'd rather listen to Adrian 10 out of 10 times over a guy like Gabriel solo. This old head take that only Greg Lake was any good in Crimson is a dated and now obviously wrong take.
I'll ignore the 'dated' thing. Belew certainly an improvement on other post-Lake. My point was that there was a path not taken that could have been a gamechanger. It became moot because of the 'small mobile intelligent unit' ethos.
An unfocused mish mash of ideas. Didn’t get it in 1979, still don’t get it now
Second that. Boring as Fxxx I think, but I m gonna give it another try...
@@somethingyettocome How can you say that? Daryl Hall sings on it, Peter Gabriel sings on it, Peter Hammill sings on it, One of the Roche sisters, Phil Collins plays drums on some of it! Alternative Rock BEFORE Alternative Rock!
I don't think it's that, but the idea that it's on par with a good chunk of the Crimson catalogue, no, it's not.
@@froggy556 I kinda realize you re being ironic. Let s put it this way. I love Phil Collins, I know Peter Hammill (thou just like Andy I don t really get what he s doing). I love almost all that Crimson did before (esp. the Wetton/Fripp/Bruford/(Cross)(Muir) Lineup), and certainly the three 80Ies albums that came after. But "Exposure" just feels like a totally disjointed affair. The title track, which kinda is the highlight for me here is already on Peter Gabriel II, all the other stuff kinda passes me by, with an occasional "That s not bad" Moment maybe. Plus this album just has no flow at all, and don t get me started on the piano version of "Here comes the Flood" Does Fripp even play on it, or did he just record it? Even thou the song is kinda good, this has got to be one of the most overplayed songs in music history for me. And Gabriel keeps playing it in this form at every concert he gives til this day, while simultaneously ignoring so much of his other great early material (I have the touch anyone?) Anyways. To me "Exposure" comes across like a orientation phase for Fripp, which is fine, but just not a very good album I think. For me the weakest he s done.
@@colinburroughs9871 who said it was?
You keep saying "Starless And The Bible Black"
There's no "the" there.
I know, so funny. It's The Starless and The Bible The Black. Everyone knows that.
It will be OK folks. I have a tendency to be a bit OCD/anal myself, but Andy has so much knowledge in his brain machine that he’s bound to stumble on occasion - as are we all.
@@ccujohn Andy also like The The, so there's that.
@@eximusic I happen to like the the as well. Helpline operator.
@@ccujohn me too
Completely wrong. Cigarette is sung by Mr. Hall. Mr. Edwards seems to be a bit shy of things Hammill and Fripp. They do need a couple of listenings though. Nothing for the nervous sort.
I really like Breathless and Water Music II on this album. The rest is kind of meh. The vocal tracks are pretty jarring and annoying. Breathless sounds like it an outtake of Red and Water Music II sounds like an outtake from No Pussyfooting. Those are two of my favorite Fripp albums so no surprise why I like those cuts. To each their own.
At a party in the mid-70s, a remarkable woman and I were talking, when she said to hold on...then came back with a copy of "Meetings with Remarkable Men" by Gurdjieff, which set me on a path that included this album, trips to Claymont, and friendship with JG's daughter in law. At it turns out, I share birthdays with both Gurdjieff and King Crimson, which is also the death day of James Joyce and my dear father. A pregnant day. But it was this album that alighted me to the climate destruction about which he was exposing with "Exposure". You and I knew about the terrors by 1980, and some folks still don't get it. Well, come to North Carolina and see what it is doing to us. Great important timely album, by a real king.
Is this the one where Fripp makes Daryl Hall squeal like a pig? Embarrassing. I'll take Fripp and Eno over that. Or Red. It spun on my turntable only a few times in 1979. I gave up trying to like it. And Talking Heads was out by that time, time to move on. More Songs About Buildings and Food and Fear of Music much better.
Sucks to be YOU! North Star is some of Daryl's Best vocals! The Deluxe edition has a bonus disc of how the album was originally meant to be heard. With Daryl Hall singing on every track except "Here Comes The Flood!"
@@froggy556 the deluxe edition or the super duper remastered deluxe edition? Is YOU an acronym?
@eximusic deluxe edition came out in 2006. 40th anniversary edition came out in 2022. Both contain the Daryl Hall sessions.
@@froggy556 yes, I was joking. Not really interested. I bought the album the week it came out, tried really hard to like it and finally filed in my record cabinet for good. I like Hall and Oates just fine. But if the extra Hall tracks on that Fripp album even sounded twice as good as the one I heard, they would still suck.
@@eximusic It is a shame you can't think outside the box. RF refused to allow himself to be pigeonholed by Progressive Rock. This album was very influential to bands like Joy Division, Killing Joke, Sonic Youth, and even Nirvana.
Not Prog…
Robert Fripp is pretentious.
You think YOU can play better?
@@froggy556 That's irrelevant to whether he can play well. But, I'm not impressed with his guitar playing. Steve Howe is and always has been much better. Fripp has always been one of the least skilled musicians in every King Crimson lineup. And I'm a better guitarist than him too.
@@barrybarrett-k9vPlease direct us to your albums.
@@barrybarrett-k9v that's funny
@@colinburroughs9871 He's undeniably pretentious.
This album is absolutely awful, all of the vocals bar Gabriel are horrific - ruins this as an album.
It's not that bad, but it isn't good enough to get "you must know about this record" status.