The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson – Volume Two – 1981–2003

The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson – Volume Two – 1981–2003 is a compilation album by the highly influential English progressive rock band King Crimson, containing the best-known songs from the group's 1981–2003 phase. No material from the album the construKction of light (2000) was included in this box set. It was released in 2005.

Disc One: In the Studio: 1981–1984
All songs written by Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp, and Tony Levin, except where noted.


 * 1) "Elephant Talk" – 4:44
 * 2) "Frame by Frame" – 5:08
 * 3) "Matte Kudasai" – 3:46
 * 4) "Thela Hun Ginjeet" – 6:26
 * 5) "The Sheltering Sky" – 8:23
 * 6) "Discipline" – 5:02
 * 7) "Heartbeat" – 3:54
 * 8) "Waiting Man" – 4:26
 * 9) "Neurotica" – 4:49
 * 10) "Requiem" – 6:36
 * 11) "Three of a Perfect Pair" – 4:10
 * 12) "Sleepless" – 5:24

Bonus tracks: 1983–2004

 * 1) "The King Crimson Barber Shop" (Levin) – 1:36
 * 2) "Form No. 1" (Fripp (???)) – 3:03
 * 3) "Bude" (Belew) – 0:25
 * 4) "Potato Pie" (abridged) (Belew, Fripp, Trey Gunn, Pat Mastelotto) – 4:33
 * 5) "Clouds" (Belew) – 0:33
 * 6) "Einstein's Relatives" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 3:08
 * Tracks 1–6 from Discipline (1981)
 * Tracks 7–10 from Beat (1982)
 * Tracks 11–12 from Three of a Perfect Pair (1984)
 * Bonus track 1 from Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson, Heartbeat: The Abbreviated King Crimson (both from 1991), and the 2001 reissue of Three of a Perfect Pair
 * Bonus tracks 3–6 from the Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With EP (2002)
 * Bonus track 2 previously unreleased (2005)

Disc Two: Live: 1981–1984
All songs written by Belew, Bruford, Fripp, and Levin.


 * 1) "Entry of the Crims" (Live at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984) – 4:42
 * 2) "Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part III" (Abridged) (Live at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984) – 2:47
 * 3) "Thela Hun Ginjeet" (Live at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984) – 5:54
 * 4) "Matte Kudasai" (Live at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984) – 3:40
 * 5) "The Sheltering Sky" (Live at the Arena, Fréjus, France, 27 August 1982) – 10:32
 * 6) "Neal and Jack and Me" (Live at the Arena, Frejus, France, 27 August 1982) – 5:39
 * 7) "Indiscipline" (Live at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984) – 8:10
 * 8) "Sartori in Tangier" (Live at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984) – 4:21
 * 9) "Frame by Frame" (Live at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984) – 3:55
 * 10) "Man with an Open Heart" (Live at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984) – 3:40
 * 11) "Waiting Man" (Live at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984) – 6:00
 * 12) "Sleepless" (Live at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984) – 6:11
 * 13) "Three of a Perfect Pair" (Live at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984) – 4:24
 * 14) "Discipline" (Live at Le Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11 July 1984) – 4:52
 * 15) "Elephant Talk" (Live at the Arena, Cap D'Agde, Agde, France, 26 August 1982) – 5:02
 * Tracks 1–4 & 7–14 from Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal (1998)
 * Tracks 5–6 from Neal and Jack and Me (2004)
 * Track 15 from Live at Cap D'Agde (1999)

Disc Three: In the Studio 1995–2003
Tracks 1–8 written by Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, and Mastelotto and tracks 9–18 written by Belew, Fripp, Gunn, and Mastelotto, except where noted.


 * 1) "VROOOM" – 4:48
 * 2) "Coda: Marine 475" – 2:41
 * 3) "Dinosaur" – 6:37
 * 4) "Walking on Air" – 4:38
 * 5) "B'Boom" – 4:11
 * 6) "THRAK" (Abridged) – 0:43
 * 7) "Fearless and Highly THRaKked" (Abridged) – 3:50
 * 8) "Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream" – 4:44
 * 9) "Radio II" (Abridged) – 0:43
 * 10) "The Power to Believe I: A Cappella" (Belew) – 0:43
 * 11) "Level Five" – 7:15
 * 12) "Eyes Wide Open" – 4:10
 * 13) "Elektrik" – 8:00
 * 14) "Facts of Life: Intro" – 1:38
 * 15) "Facts of Life" – 5:05
 * 16) "The Power to Believe II: Power Circle" – 7:44
 * 17) "Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With" – 3:30
 * 18) "The Power to Believe III: The Deception of the Thrush" – 4:12
 * 19) "The Power to Believe IV: Coda" (Fripp) – 2:24
 * Tracks 1–6, 8–9 from THRAK (1995)
 * Track 7 from THRaKaTTaK (1996)
 * Tracks from 10–19 from The Power to Believe (2003)

Disc Four: Live: 1994–2003

 * 1) "VROOOM VROOOM" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) (Live at the Metropolitan Theater, Mexico City, Mexico, August 1996) – 5:03
 * 2) "Neurotica" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) (Live at the Metropolitan Theater, Mexico City, Mexico, August 1996) – 3:39
 * 3) "Prism" (Abridged) (Pierre Favre) (Live at the Metropolitan Theater, Mexico City, Mexico, August 1996) – 2:54
 * 4) "One Time" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) (Live at Prix D'Ami, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 29 September 1994) – 6:53
 * 5) "Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part IV" (Including "Coda: I Have a Dream") (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) (Live at the 328 Performance Hall, Nashville, Tennessee, 10 November 2001) – 10:47
 * 6) "ProzaKc Blues" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) (Live at the Kōsei Nenkin, Tokyo, Japan, 16 April 2003) – 5:28
 * 7) "the construKction of light" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) (Live at the Community Theater, Berkeley, California, 10 August 2001) – 8:39
 * 8) "FraKctured" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) (Live edit of: Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark, 27 or 28 May 2000 & Museumplatz, Bonn, Germany, 6 June 2000) – 8:38
 * 9) "The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) (Live at the Kōsei Nenkin, Tokyo, Japan, 16 April 2003) – 5:50
 * 10) "Sus-Tayn-Z" (ProjeKct Two) (Belew, Fripp, Gunn) (Live at Pearl Street, Northampton,  Massachusetts, 1 July 1998) – 7:51
 * 11) "X-chayn-jiZ" (ProjeKct Two) (Belew, Fripp, Gunn) (Live at Pearl Street, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1 July 1998) – 4:18
 * 12) "The Deception of the Thrush" (Abridged) (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) (Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, England, 3 July 2000) – 5:20
 * 13) "2ii3" (ProjeKct One) (Abridged) (Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin) (Live at The Jazz Café, Camden Town, London, England, 2 December 1997) – 1:57
 * Tracks 10–11 & 13 from The ProjeKcts (1999)
 * Track 7 from the Level Five EP (2001)
 * Tracks 1–3 from Vrooom Vrooom (2001)
 * Track 5 from the Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With EP
 * Tracks 6, 9, & 12 from Eyes Wide Open (2003)
 * Tracks 4 & 8 previously unreleased

Personnel

 * Robert Fripp – guitar, organ, Frippertronics, soundscapes, and mellotron on all tracks
 * Adrian Belew – fretted/fretless guitars, lead vocals, and lyrics on all tracks
 * Tony Levin – Chapman Stick, bass guitar, upright bass, synth, backing vocals on discs 1–2, disc 3, tracks 1–9, & disc 4, tracks 1–4
 * Bill Bruford – acoustic and electronic drums on discs 1–2, disc 3, tracks 1–9, & disc 4, tracks 1–4
 * Trey Gunn – Chapman Stick, bass touch guitar, baritone guitar, Warr guitar, fretless Warr guitar, and backing vocals on discs 3–4
 * Pat Mastelotto – acoustic/electronic percussion and drum programming on discs 3–4