Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal

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Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal
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Released23 June 1998 (1998-06-23)
Recorded11 July 1984 (1984-07-11)
Venue The Spectrum (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Genre Progressive rock, experimental rock
Length104:38
Label Discipline Global Mobile
Producer Robert Fripp, David Singleton
King Crimson chronology
The Night Watch
(1997)
Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal
(1998)
Live at the Marquee
(1998)
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The A.V. Club favourable [2]

Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal is a live album (2-CD set) by the band King Crimson, recorded 11 July 1984, and released in 1998. This was taken from the final night of their 1984 tour and would subsequently be King Crimson's last performance until the warm-up shows in Argentina ten years later for the later-to-be-released album THRAK .

Contents

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Adrian Belew; all music is composed by Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp and Tony Levin, unless otherwise indicated.

Disc one
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Entry of the Crims" 6:27
2."Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part III)" 5:05
3."Thela Hun Ginjeet" 6:00
4."Red"Fripp5:49
5."Matte Kudasai" (待ってください, Please Wait for Me) 3:45
6."Industry" 7:31
7."Dig Me" 3:59
8."Three of a Perfect Pair" 4:30
9."Indiscipline" 8:14
Disc two
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Sartori in Tangier" 4:40
2."Frame by Frame" 3:57
3."Man with an Open Heart" 3:44
4."Waiting Man" 6:26
5."Sleepless" 6:08
6."Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)"Fripp7:54
7."Discipline" 5:04
8."Heartbeat" 5:15
9."Elephant Talk" 4:54

Personnel

King Crimson
Technical staff
Visual staff

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References

  1. Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal at AllMusic
  2. Klein, Joshua (29 March 2002). "Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal 1984 · King Crimson · Music Review King Crimson: Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal 1984 · Music Review · The A.V. Club". The A.V. Club . Retrieved 30 July 2016.