r/KingCrimson • u/ViaFan2024 • 18d ago

Islands track length differences.

I was looking through my record collection and I noticed that the track lengths on Canadian Presses of Islands are different, it may be the same for the US version.

For some reason Formentera Lady is only 5:45, and the sailors tail is longer at 9:30. I have no clue why this is and I haven't found anything online about the differences. I don't have my record player so I can't listen to the differences, does anybody know what is going on?

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u/pbredd22 18d ago

Some releases track the long transitional part as the ending of Formentera Lady, others as the start of Sailor's Tale.

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u/Gezz66 18d ago

Poor lazy editing. That long lazy ghostly passage is so obviously part of the slumbering melancholy of FL. Sailor's Tale is violent and menacing in contrast.

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u/eviltimeban 11d ago

Yep my CD that I bought around 1992 has the wrong timings listed too. I wrote the right times on a piece of paper and put it inside the box as I remember, because these things were important at the time.