Customer Ratings & Reviews

I'm seven years late to the party but have been really enjoying the entire 40th anniversary series. I recently splurged for a 5.1 sound bar mainly to check out King Crimson in surround. I have the whole series of 2 disc Steve Wilson remixes. The best ones for me have been Lark's, Islands, and Lizard because the new mixes in stereo and 5.1 were transformational. Lots of hidden sounds brought forward. Thrak was mixed by new Crim vocalist/ guitarist Jakko. My first impression was mixed. Vroom has the drums mixed way forward, especially the cymbals. It has grown on me though. He also has brought forward some bits left off the original. There's a track of Fripp guitar on Dinosaur not used before, some mellotron in the VroomVroom Coda that was either way back or not used in the original as examples. Anyway its a very different take than the original. I'd be curious to know what Belew thinks of how the new guy has treated his music. The live cds are very good. I'm a little disappointed that so much of what they put in is previously available material as opposed to unreleased. There are several video concerts on the dvd and bluray disc. They can be played in 5.1 also. I didn't realize this until I'd watched them a few times. AttackaThrak is several Thrak improvs mixed together and also can be played in 5.1. I never cared for the written part of Thrak but the improve sections are pretty cool. I guess I'm just meandering here but to sum up, there is a ton of material here. Some is better than others, but overall I would say it's definitely worth haveing

Great compilation of studio and live versions of Thrak. The bluray sounds great, especially the surround sound version of the album. The video isn't quite up to par with the rest of the package but is still worth watching.