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Released
  
2 September 2016

Venue
  
UK, Canada, and Japan

Release date
  
2 September 2016

Genres
  
Art rock, Proto-prog

Recorded
  
2015

Artist
  
King Crimson

Label
  
Wowow Entertainment, Inc.

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Similar
  
King Crimson albums, Other albums

Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind is a box set by King Crimson, released on 2 September 2016.

Contents

The box set was recorded live mostly in Takamatsu, Japan on December 19, 2015, with songs taken from other shows in order to represent every song played during the group's 2015 tours of Japan, Canada and France. The material performed is mostly from the 1969-1974 period, and most of it hadn't been performed live since the 1970s, although the songs were rearranged to suit the current line-up. Also included are some pieces from 1995 and onward, alongside new material. The title is derived from a song of the same name that the band has been playing in concert.

The set was released in two editions: A 4-disc standard edition featuring the complete concert in one Blu-ray disc and three CD's (individually themed "virtual studio albums" with no audible audience); and a 6-disc deluxe limited edition, featuring the same as the standard edition plus two DVD's with the complete concert and an expanded booklet. The Blu-ray disc has a "picture off" mode which allows to listen to the music without the video.

Track listing

Disc One: Mainly Metal

  1. ″Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part One″ (David Cross, Robert Fripp, John Wetton, Bill Bruford, Jamie Muir) – 10:37
  2. ″Radical Action (to Unseat The Hold of Monkey Mind)″ (Fripp) – 3:41
  3. ″Meltdown″ (Jakko Jakszyk, Fripp) – 4:23
  4. ″Radical Action II″ (Fripp) – 2:27
  5. ″Level Five″ (Adrian Belew, Fripp, Trey Gunn, Pat Mastelotto) – 6:47
  6. ″The Light of Day″ (Jakszyk, Fripp, Mel Collins) – 5:50
  7. ″The Hell Hounds of Krim″ (Gavin Harrison, Bill Rieflin, Mastelotto) – 3:37
  8. ″The ConstruKction of Light″ (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 6:25
  9. ″The Talking Drum″ (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Muir) – 3:49
  10. ″Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part Two″ (Fripp) – 6:39

Disc Two: Easy Money Shots

  1. ″Peace″ (Fripp, Pete Sinfield) – 2:05
  2. ″Pictures of a City″ (Fripp, Sinfield) – 8:15
  3. ″Banshee Legs Bell Hassle″ (Harrison, Rieflin, Mastelotto) – 1:38
  4. ″Easy Money″ (Fripp, Wetton, Richard Palmer-James) – 8:24
  5. ″VROOOM″ (Belew, Fripp, Levin, Gunn, Bruford, Mastelotto) – 4:54
  6. ″Suitable Grounds for the Blues″ (Jakszyk, Fripp) – 4:49
  7. ″Interlude″ (Fripp) – 2:21
  8. ″The Letters″ (Fripp, Sinfield) – 6:28
  9. ″Sailor's Tale″ (Fripp) – 6:38
  10. ″A Scarcity of Miracles″ (Jakszyk, Fripp, Collins) – 6:50

Disc Three: Crimson Classics

  1. ″Red″ (Fripp) – 6:28
  2. ″One More Red Nightmare″ (Fripp, Wetton) – 6:01
  3. ″Epitaph″ (Fripp, Ian McDonald, Greg Lake, Michael Giles, Sinfield) – 8:42
  4. ″Starless″ (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Palmer-James) – 12:15
  5. ″Devil Dogs of Tessellation Row″ (Harrison, Rieflin, Mastelotto) – 2:58
  6. ″The Court of The Crimson King″ (McDonald, Sinfield) – 6:58
  7. ″21st Century Schizoid Man″ (Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles, Sinfield) – 10:54

Personnel

Per the liner notes:

  • Pat Mastelotto – drums
  • Bill Rieflin – drums & keyboards
  • Gavin Harrison – drums
  • Robert Fripp – guitar & keyboards
  • Jakko Jakszyk – guitar, voice & flute
  • Tony Levin – basses & Stick
  • Mel Collins – saxes & flute

    • Songs

    Larks’ Tongues in Aspic - Part One10:36
    Radical Action (To Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind)3:41
    Meltdown4:22

    References

    Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind Wikipedia
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