Dig Me
When played live during King Crimson’s 1984 tour Belew would often refer to this track, Industry and No Warning from Three Of A Perfect Pair album as ‘the weird stuff’ and it's easy to understand why. Dig Me boldly questions just what a ‘song’ might consist of, combining as it did verses and choruses that were radically different from each other both in tone and texture.
Yet somehow Crimson managed to weld the two elements together in what sounds like a headfirst collision between dark, experimental abstractions and sleek freewheeling pop music sensibilities. In this special remix, Alex Mundy has removed Belew’s vocals for the verse section and the chorus section entirely, allowing the listener to go under the hood to hear the dense components that include Belew’s whammy-laden fretless guitar, Bruford’s accelerating electronic drums, and Levin’s popping work on the Stick.
Belew once recalled that the song’s origins lay in the attempts to come up with a different style of song to what was on the rest of the album. “I told the guys I wanted to lay down this very awkward guitar part and then have them play to it, but in a way that would sound like we’re really not playing together as often as we are. The song sounds like it’s falling apart.”
25 November 2024
Yet somehow Crimson managed to weld the two elements together in what sounds like a headfirst collision between dark, experimental abstractions and sleek freewheeling pop music sensibilities. In this special remix, Alex Mundy has removed Belew’s vocals for the verse section and the chorus section entirely, allowing the listener to go under the hood to hear the dense components that include Belew’s whammy-laden fretless guitar, Bruford’s accelerating electronic drums, and Levin’s popping work on the Stick.
Belew once recalled that the song’s origins lay in the attempts to come up with a different style of song to what was on the rest of the album. “I told the guys I wanted to lay down this very awkward guitar part and then have them play to it, but in a way that would sound like we’re really not playing together as often as we are. The song sounds like it’s falling apart.”
25 November 2024
