Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson

Disc 1: 1969-1971

1. "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfield) - 7:20
2. "I Talk to the Wind" (McDonald, Sinfield) - 6:05
3. "Epitaph" (Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield) - 8:44
4. "Moonchild" (Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield) - 2:26
5. "The Court of the Crimson King" (McDonald, Sinfield) - 9:25
6. "Peace: A Theme" (Fripp) - 1:16
7. "Cat Food" (Fripp, McDonald, Sinfield) - 2:45
8. "Groon" (Fripp) - 3:31
9. "Cadence and Cascade" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 4:10
10. "The Sailor's Tale" (Fripp) - 7:27
11. "Ladies of the Road" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 5:31
12. "Bolero" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 6:45

Tracks 1-5 from In the Court of the Crimson King (1969) Tracks 6-7 & 9 from In the Wake of Poseidon (1970) Tracks 7-8 released as the single "Cat Food/Groon" in 1970 Track 12 from Lizard (1970) Tracks 10-11 from Islands (1971)

Total Running Time - 67:47

Disc 2: 1972-1974

1. "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part I)" (Bill Bruford, David Cross, Fripp, Jamie Muir, John Wetton) - 10:53
2. "Book of Saturday" (Fripp, Richard Palmer-James, Wetton) - 2:53
3. "Easy Money" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 7:55
4. "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)" (Fripp) - 7:09
5. "The Night Watch" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 4:40
6. "The Great Deceiver" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 4:03
7. "Fracture" (Fripp) - 6:57
8. "Starless" (Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 4:38
9. "Red" (Fripp) - 6:17
10. "Fallen Angel" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) - 5:59
11. "One More Red Nightmare" (Fripp, Wetton) - 7:09

Tracks 1-4 from the album Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973) Tracks 5-7 from the album Starless and Bible Black (1974) Tracks 8-11 from the album Red (1974)

Total Running Time - 69:08

Disc 3: 1981-1984

All tracks on disc 3 written by Adrian Belew, Bruford, Fripp and Tony Levin, unless otherwise indicated.

1. "Elephant Talk" - 4:42
2. "Frame by Frame" - 5:08
3. "Matte Kudasai" - 3:48
4. "Thela Hun Ginjeet" - 6:26
5. "Heartbeat" - 3:54
6. "Waiting Man" - 4:22
7. "Neurotica" - 4:48
8. "Requiem" - 6:36
9. "Three of a Perfect Pair" - 4:11
10. "Sleepless" - 5:22
11. "Discipline" - 5:05
12. "The Sheltering Sky" - 8:16
13. "The King Crimson Barber Shop" (Levin) - 1:31

Tracks 1-4 & 11-12 from the album Discipline (1981) Tracks 5-8 from the album Beat (1982) Tracks 9-10 from the album Three of a Perfect Pair (1984)

Total Running Time - 64:08

Disc 4: Live 1969-1984

1. "Get Thy Bearings" (Donovan Leitch) - 9:21
2. "Travel Weary Capricorn" (Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield) - 4:23
3. "Mars" (Gustav Holst) - 8:09
4. "The Talking Drum" (Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Muir, Wetton) - 8:30
5. "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield) - 9:15
6. "Asbury Park" (Bill Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Wetton) - 6:52
7. "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part III)" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 2:35
8. "Sartori in Tangier" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 4:08
9. "Indiscipline" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 5:26

Total Running Time - 61:20

(*) The Frame by Frame booklet incorrectly lists the date as December 10, 1969.