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4.0 out of 5 stars
A great end to the trilogy, April 18, 2006
Great end for Adrian Belew's three sides. I definitely recommend this album, as well as the other two sides. I believe side one is still my favorite, but followed very closely by this one, had side one not had writing on the wall and walk around the world this would have been my favorite.
Troubles... features the prophet omega on vocals... really nice groove to it, could have easily been on Mr. Music Head.
Incompetence Indifference... nice to finally have it on cd... great tune
Water Turns to Wine... side two type percussion, features Robert Fripp on Flute Guitar... lots of early king crimson influence (pre-Wetton era)
Crunk... reminiscient of High Wire Guitar
Drive... nice tune, could have been on side two, some jeff beck-like guitar though!
Cinemusic... soundscape... not really a song
Whatever.. featuring Les and Danny once again, great riff... not as powerful as the side one trio stuff, but definitely great playing on behalf of all three!
Men In Helicopters v4.0- same as the Belewprints version except snare and bass were added, some great mccartney-on-crack bass playing
Beat Box Car... continuation of beat box guitar featuring Mel Collins on Sax
Truth is... nice acoustic ballad featuring mel collins on flute
The Red Bull Rides A Boomerang Across The Blue Constellation... another soundscape, but a bit more mellodic than Cinemusic with little excerpts from "elephants", "dead dog on asphalt" and "asleep"
&... early demo version of ampersand I suppose, since it's Ade playing the drums and bass, the guitar sounds the same as in the side one version
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4.0 out of 5 stars
adrian belew side three, March 17, 2009
i was so excited when i listened to track one, "troubles", to hear that adrian left the "lead vocals" to PROPHET OMEGA! P.O. was a pirate radio evangelist back in the 1970s, who would give sermons and advice from a small transmitter in his apartment! apperently shut down by the FCC, and as providence would have it, a couple of people out there taped these shows! prophet omega had a rhythmic quality to his spoken word, which is brilliantly accented by adrian belew's guitar....wow!
track two is "incompetence indifference", which rants using irony and musings!
there are a lot of "slight returns" on this album, which include & (ampersand) and features claypool/carey again. i enjoyed the raw energy of this track even more than the one on side one!
"whatever" is so freaking funky!, while "drive" reminded me of "phonecall from the moon". adrian seems to kind of span his whole repetoir on this album.
"truth is" has a beatles/lennon feel which is ridiculously obvious!
other slight returns include "men in hellicopters v.4.0", "beatbox car" (which includes a sax solo!), "the red bull rides..." is a sort of montague of all of the trillogies. though fun to listen to, it would have been nice to have heard more NEW songs! i guess this is what, in my ears, earned this album 4* intead of 5*.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Adrian Belew - The Best Of The Three, August 26, 2008
"Side Three" is the third in a series of albums that Adrian Belew released between 2004 and 2006. To my ears this one is the best of the three although it seems to get the lowest reviews from Belew fans. Like the other albums this one is short at only a bit more then 30 minutes, but I pretty much like the whole thing. It has the most variety of the three albums with much of it sounding very King Crimson-ish. Belew also throws in electronics, ballads and pop all of which he does very well. This is another good one.
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