King Crimson - Elephant Talk
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2021
- Full Album Playlist: • Discipline | Full Album
ELEPHANT TALK
(Fripp, Heyworth)
Elephant Talk
Talk, it’s only talk
Arguments, agreements, advice, answers
Articulate announcements
It’s only talk…
Talk, it’s only talk
Babble, burble, banter, bicker bicker bicker
Brouhaha, balderdash, ballyhoo
It’s only talk, backtalk…
Talk, talk, talk, it’s only talk
Comments, cliches, commentary, controversy
Chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat, chit-chat
Conversation, contradiction, criticism
It’s only talk, cheap talk…
Talk, talk, it’s only talk
Debates, discussions
These are words with a ‘D’ this time
Dialogue, duologue, diatribe
Dissension, declamation
Double talk, double talk…
Talk, talk, it’s all talk
Too much talk, small talk, talk that trash
Expressions, editorials
Explanations, exclamations, exaggerations
It’s all talk
Elephant talk
Elephant talk
Elephant talk…
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Adrian Belew: Guitar, lead vocal
Robert Fripp: Guitar and devices
Tony Levin: Stick, bass guitar, support vocal
Bill Bruford: Batterie
Music by King Crimson
Elephantosity by Belew
Produced by King Crimson and Rhett Davies
Assistant Engineer: Nigel Mills
Gear: Graham Davies
Graphica: Peter Saville
Strategic Management: Paddy Spinks
Discipline is never an end in itself,
only a means to an end
#KingCrimson
#RobertFripp
#Discipline
Nothing will ever top the shock of listening to Elephant Talk right after Starless.
Took me a looong time to get into Beat, after Discpline, and even longer for Three of a Perfect Pair, and each progressive album transformed my musical tastes radically. Then there was THRAAK
Right? Even though Discipline is my favorite album it took me a few listens to properly accept the transition.
@@johncaccioppo1142 I never liked "Beat", too nervous, not really "disciplined". 😂
Actually, it's the only KC album I don't listen to. "Thrak" is great, in combination with "Vroom", but... (it's a personal thing I commented on several times before, and I promised not to again).
@@vitordarksider It is different and some of my friends got turned on KC because of "Discipline" while others were turned off forever 😕.
But as it matched my own progression, musically as well as emotionally, I loved it immediately.
For those who remember those days: "Discipline" is a perfect musical representative of that time, (much better of course but still) comparable to what, for example, the Talking Heads, or the Stranglers, were doing then. (Or even the Rolling Stones 😂.)
Starless and ....Elephant Taaaaalk !!!
I want a 30 minute version where they go A-Z
Nothing would bring me more joy
Wow, I never noticed it went chronologically through the alphabet. That is amazing!
The thing is, if they went all the way through, it would've ended up being "Zebra Talk", and I don't know how he was going to make zebra sounds on the guitar.
@@Glornt String wipes would be good enough for Zebra sounds. It's possible!
@@whyshouldisharemynameonthe1490 If anyone could do it, it would be Belew.
I heard Jerry Was A Race Car Driver by Primus before I heard this. It was interesting to hear where Les Claypool got the inspiration for his bassline.
Tony Levin is a big influence on Claypool, that's for certain. Two truly magnificent bassists!
When I first heard Jerry Was A Race Car Driver I instantly thought of this song!
Les claypool somehow made King Crimson weirder!
You ain't kidding!
When I saw Les Claypool's Fancy Band, they opened with Thela Hun Jinjeet: blew this aging KC fan right out of his seat!
"These are words with a D this time!" Gets me every time.
Same here! 😂
Funniest line: "These are words with a 'D' this time"
Like if we hadn't figured out by then what was going on lyrically, Adrian is gonna tell us anyway
That was part of the joke. He wanted to make sure that no one was taking it too seriously. At least, that's how I see it.
“We’re gonna need a chorus”
@@meanoldmiser and this would seem to be as good as any other place to sing it til i'm blue in the face
I actually thought it was "...these are words of a devious time." 😂
It's only talk!
BROUHAHA
BOULDER DASH
@@lucashimself_ ballyhoo...
@elnickopo Back talk
Br00fHAHA
hey ho
It's very rare to see a comment section that doesn't remind me of this song
_chit chat, chit chat, chit chat_
Fripp come to Brazil
Bicker, bicker, bicker
conversion!
Conversation
Contradiction
Criticism
It's ooonly talk!
Cheap talk!
when i heard this for the first time i was discovering king crimson, i remember hearing it after epitaph and i was like "how the hell this turned into this?" little did i know this band would change me forever
Thats a big jump, a giant leap, from "Epitaph" to "Discipline" - and an almost completely different King Crimson - the evolution of Robert Fripp.
I'm pretty sure they weren't even king crimson with this album, they were going to become Discipline and this would be their title album, but then they decided to stay as king crimson
@@guidomotshagen7541 I'd argue it's more Belew than Fripp.
Actually King crimson died with the removal of l a k e.... It's still groovy but it's not King crimson
@Michael Wilson true, but the 1972-74 line-ups with Fripp, Bruford, Wetton, Cross and Muir were quite badass too.
other crimson albums: music with no funny words
discipline: includes funny words such as ballyhoo, bruhaha
this says a lot about society
Happy Family literally has ballyhoo.
@@josephking1019 but not brouhaha
Balderdash!
construkction of light
@@josephking1019 Comments, cliches, criticism. It’s all talk.
It sounds like the Talking Heads were trying to do Jerry Is A Racecar Driver but took too much acid.
Primus was inspired by them silly.😁
Well, this song precedes Jerry by 10 YEARS.
@@shotokanclau NPC's don't know...
Exactly.
I’m pretty sure original commenter knows Jerry is younger than this song but was just making a joke
Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk
This solo at 3:26, pure genius. I always thought it was Fripp playing, until I saw a Live video and saw it was Belew!
It's one of the all time greats....
In that solo I see clearly the Frank Zappa influence.
@@enriquem.l.9723 Zappa is everywhere. Mojo Nixon was right except it wasn't Elvis.
@@enriquem.l.9723check out R.e.s by the cardiacs. Very zapaesque solo
2021, the year King Crimson decided to throw the entire backcatalogue online...What will happen next?
usa and earthbound on streaming perhaps
earthbound
2024, Belew and Levin get Vai and Carey to do a tour, I guess
This sounds like a weird twisted version of Talking Heads the vocalist sounds similar to David Byrne
the singer, adrian belew also played with talking heads on tours, when they wanted to kick david byrne they even tried to get him to replace him
Just read in Chris Frantz’ book Remain in Love:
“We learned in June he used the guitar effect he’d come up with for a song we’d written called L’Elephant on a song King Crimson would call Elephant Talk. Cool.
We had talked to Adrian about becoming a permanent member of Tom Tom Club as a singer and guitarist. Somehow, this was misinterpreted by Adrian. We later found out by reading an interview he did that he thought we were asking him to replace David in Talking Heads, as if we could do that.”
@@LAH828 thanks for correcting me, need to read that book when i can
@@gonzalito1213 I think you’ll enjoy it!
@@LAH828 I love Adrian but there's no replacing David Byrne
I first experience with the band is when I saw King Crimson play this song on television. I have been a loyal fan ever since.
Was that when they showed up on _Fridays_ or something else?
Me too. I thought it was Saturday Night Live but it could've been that other one on Fridays? Can't remember.
😊
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Incredible stuff ...old high school friend had this on an ancient (previously blank cassette ) No CDs yet folks !! recorded off local college station....trying to decipher it all next to Impossible...but did C it all performed on"" Fridays"" as well....Fripp prob at the height of his playing then...he did the Scary Monsters album about this time too ( some of my favorite solos of his there) as well as performing with his League of Gentlemen band....very Fun times to have had (80s)
The first album with Adrian Belew. Personally I love him as a guitarist and I love his voice. This track is a tangle of notes upon notes. Wonder.
I had someone say to me they hated or disrespected Belew as a musician one time.. and I wanted to say,
*IT’S TREASON, THEN.*
Dig him with Zappa, too !
@@feuquegougueul1592 Oh hell yeah (Nice Albert Hofmann Alex Grey picture, too)! Funny enough, I was actually listening to The Mothers of Invention not long ago.
When I first heard this track, I was stunned. The Stick intro, the particular drums sound, the intertwining guitars, Adrian Belew's solo... never heard something like that before.
"Elephant Talk" and "Neal and Jack and Me", maybe the best King Crimson tracks ever.
Adrian Belew's solo fragments on Neal and Jack and Me are from another dimension.
Tons of talent in that Group… Robert Fripp is an under rated Genius!
The lyrics being narrated rather than sung makes the song hit different. I love it
I see where claypool got his influence from, not sure how I've never heard this song been a primus fan for years
I saw King Crimson perform Elephant Talk on Saturday Night Live (or Fridays?).
Blown away. Just couldn't believe what I was hearing. Ran out and bought the album the next day.
Years back I saw them at the State Theater in Detroit.
Many bands fail during live performances. It can't be faked.
Seeing King Crimson live is like seeing a force of nature. Unbelievably talented in every way.
They played SNL?
@@barackobama9552 Nope. Turns out it was Friday's.
how old were you at that time?
@@garykish8951 I saw them too same show.. for me Don Kirshner's Rockpile came on after... pre-mtv of course... good times!
@@no1isawake564 It was probably 35 years ago...
This incarnation of Crimson is one of the loudest bands I've ever seen LIVE. (YES in The Round at the Forum in L.A. takes The Crown.) Saw them at the Greek Theater (open air in a residential neighborhood) and the metal seats which were bolted down to the cement were literally vibrating under me. Low frequency Tony Levin. I'm sure the neighbors were pleased. LOL.
I remember show open '84 Larks Tongues III NYC Pier on the Hudson river, Tony was playing his bass (L), bass synth (R) and bass pedals (foot) all at the same time.
You did not survive Motorhead's Murder One.
So did I. 😃🎵🎶
In the round......YES......LA Forum 1979.
I live about a mile from the Greek and could hear them from my garden. (Saw them in 1983 in Santa Cruz. Saw Fripp in NYC a couple of times too.)
1981
Onboard USS Tarawa
"BROU-haha!" may be the best combo of delivery and enunciation I've ever heard in a song lyric.
THESE ARE WORDS WITH A “D” THIS TIME
yeah. yep. ur funny 😁
deez nuts
Dialogue, duologue, diatribe...
King crimson gave birth to math rock on this album..In many ways Discipline can be considered the very first math rock song although u can hear elements of math rock on stuff like Fracture as far back as Starless and Bible black from 1974. Danny Carey from Tool has named it one of his favourite albums and credits Bruford's drumming as a big inspiration.
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frame by frame has something like that too, I agree
Math rock was nothing more than prog with a new name and a different lyrical preoccupations.
Check out Mahavishnu Orchestra “Vital Transformation” the guitarist played guitar for Miles Davis, and it really gives me modern math rock vibes.
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90s kids that grew up with Tool would have considered Danny Carey unlike any drummer on earth... until they discovered Bruford.
Nothing will ever top the shock of listening to Discipline on top of Mt. Evans, on what was North America's highest paved road, in a '69 Bronco with the soft-top on in 90mph wind thirty minutes after drinking a stiff pot of psilocybe tea. Good times.
I like it!
Hallucinogenics are so much fun.
Not seeing spiders bore out of peoples arms, or your dates face turning lupine (that wasn't fun at all) or mistaking a floor duct for a portal to Hell fun (that wasn't me so it was kind of funny especially when he called the police crying)...lol...
That's just too much fcukiñg fun.
I mean in smaller more manageable doses where you just think you're a Superman or Immortal.
@@garykish8951 Hmmm, even small or large amounts have never made me feel immortal nor like Superman. Best not to entertain those thoughts ;). That being said, I do not touch psychedelics often. Many different experiences to be had, depending.
Champion
Eat well and often.
@@snardlefarb Champion of Fun
I like King Crimson. My favourite song is "Epitaph".
From Russia with love. Michael.
One of their best songs
This album was, with "Beat" and "Three of perfect pair" exactly that: A perfect trilogy by the new musical concept added by this Wonderful Band.
I miss Adrian Belew...
But Jakko is Great too.
And the soul is Robert Fripp. As always. Thanks to KC for to open my ears ...40 years ago!!
indeed i miss adrian too
@@kl7on I think Robert let him back into the band but I don't think it's for touring. Perhaps this means a new album?!
Never thought the other two albums quite measured up to the genius of Discipline.
Nerd
This album changed my life.
I heard this at a record store in Baltimore a few days after it was released, a dude working there said "Hey you guys, check this out..." and dropped the needle on Elephant Talk.
Needless to say, the journey began ...
the way he says 'articulate announcements'
I remember listening the Elephant Talk the first time, it expands my mind.
this song has amazing lyrics
ALL of the sound effects are played on a guitar.
@@johncaccioppo1142 ?
b a l l y h o o .
Straight from a thesaurus, so there's that.
I came for the enfadulations but I stayed for the diatribe.
"Ladies and gentlemen,Elephant has now left the building."
This has to be the weirdest but coolest rock song i've heard yet and not to mention the transition from the darkness of red to this??? Idk how to describe its just so weird still a fire track tho
This album was pivotal for me, sparking a renewed interest in rock music after having put it aside in favor of jazz for a decade. At the time, these were new sounds to the world, but the proficiency of the players musically was evident and abundant from all four members. The sounds- just colors on their pallet, but the combination delivered a punch. To my ears- it still sounds vital today.
Timeless. When I hear it, I still feel the same pleasure I experienced about 40 years ago when I've heard it for the first time.
Кинг Кримзон навсегда
I was 10 when my father purchased all of these in CD format and used to play them as background noise in the car, at home, when we went on vacations... It pulled me through a rough childhood. To be honest, it might be one of the reasons I'm still around.
Discipline is my favorite Crimson album, Adrian is my favorite Crimson singer, and this track opened my mind to an universe I'm still exploring to this day. Being grateful that I'm still alive and kicking thanks to this album would be too short of words, but it's true.
One of the most important record of the history.
Probably my favorite ‘80s album.
So amazing, these three albums made me fall in love with Belew and the rest. Their flow n fun times is awesome to hear and watch. I like all three equally!
Didn't like this song the first time I've heard it
But the more i listen to it, the more i like it
Same thing for me. 35 years ago....
This song rocked my world the very first time I heard it. After hearing this, I HAD to hear MORE Crimson! JUST like "the sky is crying" did to me for SRV.
Try playing little games with it!
...Like... not listening to it for a whole day...
A lot
Of crimson songs are like that
I *do* think it's good!
I remember seeing them on the show Friday's many ages ago... Blown away.. didn't know what legends they were at the time...
Unexpected and lively ❤️
Elephant talk shows how our life would be...
My favorite album.
I love and need to be Disciplined.
Good energy thanks💕
Caught both the early and the late set at the Commodore in Vancouver....back to back and both were two of the best shows I’ve ever seen
Adrian Belewwww👍
Their live performance of this on Fridays is still the greatest live performance I've ever seen on TV.
From Wetton to Belew!!! Both amazing!!!
It’s Crimson one of the Leaders of Fusion Rock, with Bill Bruford genius on the drum kit. Below with his distinctive voice with an Attiude. The composition is twisted with a firm beat!
Brings me back. The slickest. And that slammin bass Yes
so much time i was waiting for the song text, thank you
How not to comment this :)
But really.. This record simply cannot age.. Timeless
Brilliant album "Discipline," guided by sublime musicians! ♥️🎶🎸🎵
Любимая песня из репертуара величайшей группы.
Thanks for the upload. I have not stopped listening to this album since it was launched. Thanks for the upload. I toook a walk - one of many - down memory lane today. KEEP WELL!
2021 and still listening
空耳アワーからキタンゴ!
ここ↓
2:13らへん
This song is the closest thing to Talking Heads the band ever did
I remember when this song came out and they played it on either Saturday night live or that comedy show Fridays and myself and a friend saw it and we were blown away by it . We were both beginner guitar players at the time...
I've been waiting for discipline on UA-cam for awhile now, I'm soooooooooo excited! Plus Elephant Talk is my favorite track off the album
Album fantástico.
The Chapman stick in this sounds like a synth funk option on your Roland workstation. Love it! The stick needs to get more love!
This album changed the way I listened to music back then...
Happy 40th Anniversary of the release of this astounding album! It blew my mind when I heard it soon after it came out, and it has remained in my top 10 of all time.
All of the sudden I thought of this song. I hadn't listened to it in a while. Man, It gives me chills.
Dad showed me this song yesterday. Told him it sounds like a primus bassline under one of the early talking heads tracks. Glad im not the only one to think that haha
Can't wait to see this tour!
The word "talk" gradually stops sounding real when listening to this song
Somebody said in the past: when you want to know where music are going to, listen to Fripp projects.
Just now getting into this band - really great stuff.
Life long Rush/Floyd fan here: Extremely sad how I didn’t find out about King Crimson any sooner…
at least you made it here. welcome.
@@hedy7277 thank you
My new favorite version of this song is Tony Levin's solo bowed-bass, performed during their 2021 tour. I swear he was half-way through before I realized what he was doing.
From Bali with love as well...
邦楽が進化しつくしたらこういう曲に行き着くと思う。
最後の像使いに像が牙を向く所最高。
I repeat myself when I'm under stress
I repeat myself when I'm under stress
I repeat myself when I'm under stress
I repeat myself when I'm under stress
I repeat myself when I'm under stress
I repeat myself when I'm under stress
I repeat myself when I'm under stress
I repeat myself when I'm under stress
I repeat myself when I'm under stress
I repeat myself when I'm under stress
I repeat myself when I'm under stress
I repeat myself when I'm under stress
*TALK TALK IT'S ALL TALK*
1:28 love that harsh Remain In Lightish Belew guitar jangle counterpoised with Fripp’s crosspicking
Old school classic take me back 👽👽👽👽👽👽👽
Bravo!!
One of the masterpieces of all time!!!!!!!!!!!
Remember first hearing this and then seeing them up in Columbus. We drove up from cincinnati. I think it was January of 1982. I had seen Tony Levin but never had seen Bill bruford, Robert fripp or Adrian Belew who I was really into at the time. I was just like what the f*** am I seeing? It was a nice answer to all the synth rock that was going on. Guitars! Yes!
Saw Adrian live. Hypnotic, life changing
my KC album, line-up, production, sounds...everything
I've always thought that this song is perfect for the intro of a dystopian movie
Tony Levin is takes the bass to a whole new level. Sounds that meld with the whole feel and texture of every song. His Stick playing on this song is mind blowing.
This tune has influenced the way I think of any music I make. Top to bottom, it's absolutely perfect.
LOVING KC FOREVER ❤️❤️❤️
Awesomeness.
After long long time best piece for me, goooood
Thanks Mr Fripp - So, so, so, so good
Absolutely in love with them! Inspiration for every band...
very good
I heard this song after first listening to their debut and hot damn I was so confused. and 80's output is now my favorite!
that´s talk !
great talk.
A good song to listen to after you watch the banter of politicians or commercials.
Sounds like if David Byrne was in Primus
Learning the alphabet with King Crimson:
“Primus” totally owes their sound to KC 😎
...and The Residents.
ABSOLUTAMENTE EXCEPCIONAL!!!