| "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles, Sinfield) [7:20] |
| King Crimson: Robert Fripp (guitar), Ian McDonald (reed instruments, vibraphone, keyboards, & mellotron), Greg Lake (vocals & bass guitar), Michael Giles (drums & percussion). |
| Recorded 1, 20, and 21 August 1969 at Wessex Sound Studios, London. |
| Released in the UK as Island ILPS 9111 on 10 October 1969. |
| Produced by Robert Fripp and Peter Sinfield with Robin Thompson (engineer) with Tony Page. |
| King Crimson. 1969. In the Court of the Crimson King [1]. London: Island Records [ILPS 9111]. [EGCD 1 / 0777 7 86485 2 9] |
| Notes and Quotes |
| Section | Meas. | Description | Text |
| Introduction | 27 seconds | Electronic music | — |
| Ritornello | 4 + 4 + 4 | Unison ensemble; 3 phrases, each divided into halves. | — |
| Verse | 8 | Voice (Lake) double-tracked, compressed, etc. | a |
| Ritornello | 4 + 4 + 4 | As in its first appearance. | — |
| Verse | 8 | As in verse above. | b |
| Ritornello | 4 + 4 + 2 | As above but abbreviated. | — |
| Transition | 6 | Takes end of ritornello and converts its meter, accelerating. | — |
| Theme A | 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 | "Mirrors"
section: 6/8 jazz waltz; tight unison playing. The first two section rise in octave creating direction. |
— |
| Theme B | 4 + 4 + 4 | Variation on theme A | — |
| Solo | 40 | Fripp guitar solo plays with feed back. | — |
| Solo | 38 | Overdubbed simultaneous Fripp guitar and McDonald saxophone solos. |
— |
| Theme B | 12 | As in Theme B above. | — |
| Theme C | Ca. 16 | Asymmetrical rhythms played in tight unison with stops. | — |
| Theme C | Ca. 16 | As above but played quietly and gradually building in volume. | — |
| Transition | 2 | Drum break acting possibly as edit piece. | — |
| Theme A | 19 | Original "Mirrors" theme. | — |
| Ritornello | 12 | Segues directly back to duple time of opening section | — |
| Verse | 8 | As in verses above. | c |
| Ritornello | 12 | As above | — |
| Coda | 8+ | Transition passage from beginning of "Mirrors" accelerates to pandemonium as ending. |
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| Text | |
| Cat's
foot, iron claw, neurosurgeons scream for more at paranoia's poison door. Twenty-first century schizoid man. |
a |
| Blood
rack, barbed wire, politicians' funeral pyre, innocents raped with napalm
fire. Twenty-first century schizoid man. |
b |
| Death
seed, blind man's greed; poet's starving children bleed; nothing he's
got he really needs. Twenty-first century schizoid man. |
c |
| King Crimson | Schedule | Something Old, Something New |
| 13-Apr-2012 | ||