Beat (1989) Album Review

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Music critics combined give Beat a score of 3.1060 out of 4

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Rolling Stone

With his professorial demeanor and incessant theorizing, Robert Fripp has always seemed like the Mr. Spock of rock and, as such, has tended to lean away from the emotional content of his music – which is why his albums have sounded
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The Daily Vault Album Reviews

What a completely different band than the one that recorded In the Court of the Crimson King!Just like their counterparts Yes and Genesis, the black sheep of the prog family King Crimson turned pop in the '80s with the addition of Adrian Belew,
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starling.rinet

Track listing: 1) Neal & Jack & Me; 2) Heartbeat ; 3) Sartori In Tangier ; 4) Waiting Man; 5) Neurotica; 6) Two Hands; 7) The Howler; 8) Requiem . More of the same, just a little worse. Actually, just a little better, too. There's a
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John Mcferrin Music Reviews

This album is similar in style to Discipline , but it's significantly worse. The biggest difference between this and its predecessor is that the energy that was so key to the success of Discipline is pretty much gone - it's like somebody gave
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