Beat (album)

Beat is an album by the band King Crimson, released in 1982.

• Beat derives its title from the fact that the album is partially inspired by the writing of the Beat generation.
• Track 1, "Neal and Jack and Me", is the track on the album most obviously inspired by the beats. The 'Jack' of the title is beat writer Jack Kerouac, and the 'Neal' of the title is Kerouac's friend Neal Casady.
• Track 3, "Sartori in Tangier", also derives its title from beat influences - including the Jack Kerouac novel Satori in Paris, and the city of Tangier in Morocco, where a number of beat writers resided and which they often used as a setting for their writing. Writer Paul Bowles was associated with the beats, and his novel The Sheltering Sky - which provided the title for a track on King Crimson's previous studio album, Discipline - is set in Tangier.

Track listing

1. "Neal and Jack and Me" (Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin) - 4:22
2. "Heartbeat" (A Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 3:54
3. "Sartori in Tangier" (A Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 3:54
4. "Waiting Man" (A Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 4:27
5. "Neurotica" (A Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) - 4:48
6. "Two Hands" (A Belew, Robert Fripp - guitar, organ , Frippertronics

• Adrian Belew - guitar, vocals
• Tony Levin - bass guitar, Chapman stick, vocals
• Bill Bruford - drums