What's the best album by Robert Fripp...

Including collabs and that, excluding King Crimson.

I'm enjoying this at the moment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIzyBtQ9RS0

And you?

My favourites:

Exposure

(really not easy to pick out one track because they all sound pretty different)

Under Heavy Manners/God Save The Queen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--vkmPfsg90

Andy Summers & Robert Fripp - I Advance Masked:

David Sylvian - Gone To Earth:

(not all Fripp's guitar work, but it's probably one of the most amazing albums I've ever heard in my entire life)

I could keep going, pretty much everything I've heard by Fripp is my favourite album, but those were the first that came to mind.

Oh and this too. Just listen to the whole thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GomIIW_fhXw

Red.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su_puw6KLMM

Guitar ambient is the best kind of ambient I'd say.

He's also done a record with Theo Travis, saxophonist and flautist, 'Thread'. Pretty interesting combination of instruments, nice soundscapes, but not the best. Worth a listen.

Eno's St Elmo's Fire has a disgustingly awesome fucking solo but i'm sure we all already know that. But god damn is it not damn good fuck cunt fuck shit balls whore fuck awesome.

Fripp & Eno's Evening Star

The title track of which has my favorite Fripp lead of all time. ALL TIME.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REkbY-eEuus

Also, if you're looking for KC stylee stuff, Sylvian & Fripp's Damage / The First Day was supposed to be the 90s incarnation of KC until Sylvian rejected the idea. It's funky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESc5xftweUs

obligatory FSOL remix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE9ojoPfegk

Second vote for Evening Star. In fact all of Fripp's collaborations with Eno are brilliant--everything from his work on Eno's solo albums to the three Fripp & Eno albums.

as a lifelong fripp head and certainly one of my biggest musical influences i wiil co sign on all of the above recommendations ,also sunady all over the world -which he did with his wife la toya singing

he did this for his mum after she died

it's on a david sylvan cd

when i met fripp i asked him how he got this sound and he repeated the exact signal processing chain which took about 10 minutes for him to explain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjJlDvS6PlU

i was lucky enough to meet him and bruford at a record release party of the crim release of "the night watchman" in nyc

all i can say is Bruford walked up to myself and my pal and started talking to us about all sorts of things

and fripp was a lovely chap, radiating bhudda calm and all knowing wisdom.

i enjoy all of the ambient soundscape releases,

giles giles fripp

all the andy summers collabs

exposure

all the league of crafty stuff

he is on an electronica-ish orb related project called fwwd

most anything he does is excelsior

under heavy manners

(no pussyfooting)

the league of gentlemen

but you can't go wrong with mr. fripp.

edit: awww yeah it's YEARS since i heard dharshan. his sylvian collabs are the absolute shit.

I forgot about ffwd>>

I listened to the shit out of that in '95 or so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvM8QPAA_r0

edit: also really like some of the pre-"soundscapes" looped frippertronics

  On 12/14/2011 at 1:30 AM, baph said:

edit: also really like some of the pre-"soundscapes" looped frippertronics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHM9c3p41d8

yes, fellow watmmer got me into this years ago. gotta say it's still worthy, yet "dated" (that's the d-word, yeah :S).

yeah is crimson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CihEJ9RYMck

but holy jesus fuck

1:21 - 2:07.

MUSIC.

The stuff he did for Bowie was pretty amazing. I've always wondered how he accomplishes that abrasive guitar noise in tracks like "Fashion". Here's something from "Heroes"..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz7vhDHPlyk

yes Dr Lopez, YES!

and

  On 12/14/2011 at 1:08 AM, yikes said:

he did this for his mum after she died

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjJlDvS6PlU

i love this trac

Great thread idea! I advanced Masked is my favorite solo-non-solo album. But Discipline, Beat and Three of A Perfect Pair are amazing. There is a Three of A Perfect Pair practice sessions out there for possible download.

Three of A Perfect Pair is my favorite Fripp record. Lizard is good too!

Excluding King Crimson.

  On 12/14/2011 at 1:52 AM, kaini said:

yeah is crimson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CihEJ9RYMck

but holy jesus fuck

YES. CHRIST FU"CKING YES.

FraKctured is pretty good, too... one of the brighter spots in the 90s-2000s Crimson discography.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qZjVD4ejcs

man, is Bruford sorely missed on that, though.