God Save the Queen.nfo
God Save the Queen
Robert Fripp
released by EG in January 1980
ripped @320 courtesy http://turbobit.net
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17,381,211 God Save the Queen 01 - Red Two Scorer.mp3
24,641,691 God Save the Queen 02 - God Save The Queen.mp3
32,922,651 God Save the Queen 03 - 1983.mp3
12,681,051 God Save the Queen 04 - Under Heavy Manners.mp3
30,320,640 God Save the Queen 05 - The Zero Of The Signified.mp3
from:
www.ilovetotaldestruction.blogspot.com/2013/01/robert-fripp-god-save-queen-under-heavy.html
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In the same way that 1979's Exposure LP relates explicitly to his work with
Peter Gabriel (on his 2nd, massively underrated, solo album) & Daryl Hall, so
God Save The Queen / Under Heavy Manners correlates to Fripp's parallel, &
wildly innovative, period of career defining experimentation with Bowie
("Heroes" / Scary Monsters & Super Creeps) & Talking Heads (Fear Of Music).
Released by EG in January 1980 - remarkably, just 6 months after Exposure - God
Save The Queen is, as it's complete title implies, an album of 2 distinct
halves. Instrumental throughout, excepting David Byrne's pseudonymous cameo (as
Absalm El Habib) on "Under Heavy Manners", side 1 exclusively employs the
spellbinding Frippertonics system as it's template, adapting it somewhat on side
2 for a process Fripp craftily labelled "discotronics", i.e. posthumously
combining his treated guitar loops with a studio-based rhythm section. The
bedrock material for the entire album was recorded live in concert in 1979, with
Buster Jones & Paul Duskin (bass & drums respectively) adding their
contributions later. Though he'd already established The League Of Gentlemen as
a touring unit by this point, Fripp clearly intended the LP to be recognised as
a solo project &, not wanting to suggest a thematic connection with Eno's
collateral ambient work, the album's original title, Music For Sports, was
substituted at the last minute.
Astonishingly, for an artist of Fripp's eminent stature, God Save The Queen /
Under Heavy Manners has never been reissued (on CD or otherwise), so if you want
to own it you'll need to scour eBay for an original copy.
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see fripp interview "Drive to 1981 Tour" in 1979.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tYgwk_ngek
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