Released about a year after the "USA" live album and the last original issue as King Crimson before the 1981 "Dicipline". It is a compilation, but made by Robert Fripp and so thorough and detailed it's more like a final closure for the original band. I will always see it as part of their regular issues rather than just another collection. With so much good stuff to choose from for a 2-LP set it would have been hard to please everyone, but on the other hand impossible to get a bad result. And since Fripp himself made the picks you can't really argue with the tracking. Most cuts are the album versions. New for this was a different version of "I Talk To The Wind", recorded 1968 during a Giles, Giles & Fripp session with Judy Dyble on vocals. "Cat Food" is the shorter '45 version and also "Moonchild" and "Lark's Tounges In Aspic (part 1)" have shorter edits. "Groon", originally B-side of the "Cat Food" single, here for the first time on LP. Frosting on the cake is a twenty page booklet providing a comprehensive guide to the bands history. Eightysix pictures, a full list of concerts from April 9 1969 to July 1 1974, including dates, cities and locations, and a day by day diary starting with the press release for Giles, Giles & Fripp June 1968 and going on to the presentation of this album in New Musical Express November 1975. Who could ask for more? Released in Canada and Europe, but not in US before the 1987 EG edition reissue (EGKC 10). Japan CD 1990 on Victor (VJCP 3001/2). First UK had label as shown here, thick matt fold/out cover, booklet and black inner sleeves. (KYK*)
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