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== Tropes: ==
* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: Each verse of "Elephant Talk" is a list of words that mean "talk" that share the same first letter. This gets [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the fourth verse with the line "These are words with a D this time."
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In a live performance of "Thela Hun Ginjeet", Adrian Belew recounts how the gang he encountered wanted to "Kill me! Rip my limbs off! Smash my tape recorder!"
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: Tony Levin.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Robert Fripp hates (unsolicited) flash photography during concerts (and doesn't feel too hot about bootlegs, either).
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** Don't ask him for an autograph either.
*** Specifically, RF believes that such things screw with a musician's ability to perform music in a honorable fashion. If you're "the right person," (who isn't out to sell autographed material, disrupt performances, or ask anything of him so you can brag about it to your buds later), at "the right place," (namely, not at concerts or out of the blue on the street), at "the right time" (when he's prepared to do such things), you may just get lucky.
** Generally, anything to do with the inherently shitty nature of the music business (such as the folding of the record label King Crimson was under due to unsound business practices, ill-designed venues, self-serving promoters, jerkass "fans," and a consistent ignorance of anything KC did after 1974 by the press and the public alike) can cause the soft-spoken Englishman to make [[Precision F
* [[Cover Version]]: "Get Thy Bearings" by Donovan, "Mars, the Bringer of War" (from ''The Planets'') by [[Gustav Holst]], "Prism" by Pierre Favre, "Heroes" by [[David Bowie]] (note: Fripp played guitar on the original version of this song, and Belew played the song live as a member of Bowie's touring band)
** Don't forget [[The Beatles|"Tomorrow Never Knows!"]]
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** Robert Fripp [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_standard_tuning needs his own special tuning] to rock this epically.
** Adrian Belew also qualifies. His ability to make his guitar sound like another instrument or an animal call, combined with the dexterity of the other band members, is probably what Fripp meant on making Crimson a "Small, mobile, intelligent, self sufficient unit".
* [[Five
** ITCOTCK:
*** [[The Hero]]: Robert Fripp
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*** [[The Smart Guy]]: Ian McDonald
*** [[The Big Guy]]: Michael Giles
*** [[Non
** ITWOP:
*** [[The Hero]]: Robert Fripp
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*** [[The Chick]]: Keith Tippett
*** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: Peter Giles
*** [[Non
*** [[Tagalong Kid]]: Gordon Haskell
** Lizard:
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*** [[The Big Guy]]: Andy McCulloch
*** [[The Chick]]: Keith Tippett
*** [[Non
*** [[Tagalong Kid]]: Jon Anderson
** Islands:
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*** [[The Big Guy]]: Ian Wallace
*** [[The Chick]]: Keith Tippett
*** [[Non
** Larks' Tongues In Aspic:
*** [[The Hero]]: Robert Fripp
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*** [[The Big Guy]]: Bill Bruford
*** [[The Chick]]: Jamie Muir
*** [[Non
** Starless and Bible Black:
*** Same as Larks' Tongues, minus Muir
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*** [[The Big Guy]]: Bill Bruford
*** [[The Chick]]: David Cross
*** [[Non
*** [[The Sixth Ranger]]s: Ian McDonald, Mel Collins
** Discipline - Three of a Perfect Pair:
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* [[Intercourse With You]]: Not many of their songs; "Ladies of the Road" is one exception.
* [[Japanese Stock Phrases]]: "Matte Kudasai" (lit. "please wait"), "Shoganai" (a variant of "[[It Can't Be Helped|shikata ga nai]]")
* [[Last
* [[List Song]]: "Elephant Talk" lists ways to say talking ("Arguments, agreements, advice, answers...")
** "Coda: I Have a Dream" (from "Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part IV") lists major events of the 20th century.
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* [[Long Title]]: "The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum", "Mother Hold the Candle Steady While I Shave the Chicken's Lip"
* [[Minimalistic Cover Art]]: ''Earthbound'' has only the band name and album name on a black background. ''Discipline'', ''Beat'', and ''Three of a Perfect Pair'' each have a symbol, the band name, and album name on a solid-color background. ''Red'' just has a picture of the band's lineup at the time (Fripp, Wetton and Bruford), with text and title. ''Larks' Tongues in Aspic'' probably takes the cake, having just a symbol on a stark white background.
** Actually, every single album they've made. These guys don't go for [[Design
*** What about ''Lizard'', ''…Poseidon'', and the ones designed by PJ Crook? Those aren't so minimalistic.
* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]]: From 1 to 7, depending on the era and the song.
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** Then there are "FraKctured", "Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part III", "Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part IV", and "Fearless and Highly Thrakked", whose titles refer to earlier songs/instrumentals.
* [[New Sound Album]]: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|One of the kings]] of this trope.
* [[The Not
* [[Progressive Rock]]: One of the [[Trope Makers]].
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: The vocal sections of ''"Thela Hun Ginjeet"'' come straight from Adrian Belew's frazzled story of being confronted by gangsters just minutes earlier. As Belew began his story, Robert Fripp [[Throw It In|signalled to the studio engineer to begin recording.]]
* [[Reclusive Artist]]: Robert Fripp (who combines [[Gentleman Snarker]] with [[Smart People Wear Glasses]] - read his blog). The band as a whole haven't been heard from much in a while, though.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: When the showmanlike, somewhat flamboyant Adrian Belew and the focused, intellectual Robert Fripp are put on the same stage, this kind of interaction inevitably results.
* [[Revolving Door Band]]: See above.
* [[Rock Me, Amadeus]]: "The Devil's Triangle" has some obvious similarities to "Mars, the Bringer of War", but [[The Jimmy Hart Version|different enough to not be a copyright violation]]. (They either didn't ask for permission or were denied permission to record it at that time. Later on, some archival live albums such as ''Epitaph'' included recordings of their adaptation of "Mars, the Bringer of War" that they performed live in 1969, titled simply "Mars".)
* [[Rock Trio]]: The lineup just before their mid-70s hiatus. In the 90s, King Crimson's six-man lineup was billed as being two [[Rock Trio|Rock Trios]] put together.
* [[Sampling]]: In a rather unexpected move, "21st Schizoid Man" was sampled for the beat of [[Kanye West]]'s "Power".
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