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Ladies of the Road

King Crimson

12 November 2002, Live

Art Rock

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Tracklist 20 tracks, 1:51:09

Disc 1

  1. 1Pictures of a City (live 1972)8:46
  2. 2The Letters (live 1972)4:43
  3. 3Formentera Lady (abridged, live 1971])6:42
  4. 4The Sailor’s Tale (live 1971)5:44
  5. 5Cirkus (live 1971)7:58
  6. 6Groon (live 1972)6:52
  7. 7Get Thy Bearings (live 1972)8:33
  8. 821st Century Schizoid Man (live 1972)8:58

Disc 2

  1. 1Schizoid Men – 1 (live 1972)1:44
  2. 2Schizoid Men – 2 (live 1972)4:46
  3. 3Schizoid Men – 3 (live 1972)3:13
  4. 4Schizoid Men – 4 (live 1972)5:16
  5. 5Schizoid Men – 5 (live 1972)6:23
  6. 6Schizoid Men – 6 (live 1972)3:57
  7. 7Schizoid Men – 7 (live 1972)5:14
  8. 8Schizoid Men – 8 (live 1972)3:19
  9. 9Schizoid Men – 9 (live 1972)5:01
  10. 10Schizoid Men – 10 (live 1972)3:23
  11. 11Schizoid Men – 11 (live 1972)4:58
  12. 12Schizoid Men – 12 (live 1972)5:40

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8/10

It's good, but The Great Deceiver and Epitaph completely overtakes it

Shockingly i liked Schizoid Men, the thing is that Spotify threw me off with the track listing.

First off, they don't have the 49 second COTCK, so i couldn't rate that, and also they have the Schizoid Men track listing wrong. Because the short 21st Century Schizoid Man that opens the second disc is listed as Schizoid Men Edit 1, even though here on RYM it is listed as 21st Century Schizoid Man. So every time i would listen to one, i would actually be one behind, if it was Schizoid Men 8 on Spotify, It was actually Schizoid Men 7, and also the final Schizoid Men 10 that's 12 minutes long was edited down into 2 parts (11 and 12).

Now the actual album. The album is literally titled "Ladies Of The Road" and not a single performance of the song, which is actually good because that song is awful. The version of Pictures Of A City on here i don't like at all. I don't like Get Thy Bearings just as much as on Epitaph, but what this album has is all the amazing versions of the songs from Islands.

The first Islands song on the album is The Letters, which is already one of my favorites from the original, but it is SO MUCH BETTER HERE. I LOVE this version of Formentera Lady and Sailor's Tale especially, because at least i like the original Formentera Lady, i don't like the OG Sailor's Tale, but i love it here.

And then there's the other stuff, Groon, and Cirkus. Cirkus is much slower and i don't know i like it more or less, but it's still good either way, Groon is Groon, a bonus track that adds nothing.

This album is good, but i would recommend other KC live albums more, like Nightwatch specifically.

NEED TO HEAR RATING: DEFINITELY HEAR

Best song: 21st Century Schizoid Man (disc 1)
Worst song: Get Thy Bearings
Underrated: Schizoid Men