The League of Gentlemen. (1981) Professional ratings. God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners is the second solo album by Robert Fripp, released on the Polydor Records label in 1980 (US catalogue no.

the League of Gentlemen

Studio album by

Released

February 1981

Recorded

Jul 1980 – Dec 1980^[1]

Genre

Post-punk, new wave

Length

42:27

Label

EG Records (United Kingdom)

Producer

Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp chronology

God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners
(1980)

the League of Gentlemen
(1981)

Let the Power Fall: An Album of Frippertronics
(1981)

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic	^[2]
Robert Christgau	(B)^[3]

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The League of Gentlemen is a recorded music album by Robert Fripp. The music on the album was performed by members of a band which toured Europe and North America throughout 1980 under the name of 'The League of Gentlemen'. The album was released in the UK in 1981 in vinyl format on the Editions EG label.^[4] The original album has never been reissued in full on CD, however some tracks are on the abridged Robert Fripp and The League of Gentlemen God Save the King CD release.

So the 'League of Gentlemen' was released at a cultural cusp. The band had been positioned by Fripp himself as a 'new wave instrumental dance band' which would suggest that he considered the music produced by the band to be 'New wave' in character. Commentators have pointed to the rawness of the production as significant in so far as this approach had been popular among producers of post-punk/New wave recordings of the time.

It may be that Robert Fripp was seeking to make his music fit to the prevailing 'alternative' style of the time or it may simply be a reflection of the speed with which the record was recorded and released at the end of an exhausting tour. Whatever the motivation or the underlying reasons the music seems to fit well with the Post-punk scene, a feeling which is only re-inforced by the socio-political messaging laid over the tracks in the form of vocal samples. The musical backbone of the album is the spiky and complex interaction between guitar and keyboards and the repetitive and gradually developing nature of the melodic themes to which the bass and drums provide an easy to dance to 4/4 beat (Fripp stated repeatedly that the League of Gentlemen was a dance band, and at gigs a section of empty floor space was sometimes reserved so that audience members had an area in which to dance).

Touring[edit]

The album sleevenotes state that 'The League of Gentlemen' played a total of 77 gigs during 1980 and includes a full list of all these gigs starting at Moles, Bath on 10 April 1980 and finishing at the School of Economics, London on 29 November 1980.

The tour was split into three discernible parts;

Part 1: 10 April to 1 June – UK and Europe
Part 2: 14 June to 22 July – North America
Part 3: 10 September to 29 November – UK

Drummer Jonny Toobad left the band during Part 3 of the tour in Manchester on 22 November and was replaced for the remaining dates by Kevin Wilkinson.

Recording and release[edit]

The album was recorded in at least two (possibly three) separate session sequences. One (or two) with Jonny Toobad on drums and another with Kevin Wilkinson on drums.

Given the tour dates above, the departure date of Toobad and the stated commitment (on the album sleeve) to work together between the following dates;

Period 1: 19 March to 22 July
Period 2: 8 to 24 September
Period 3: 10 November to 4 December

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Then we can deduce that;

The first sequence of recording sessions may have begun in early June during the break between Parts 1 and 2 of the tour,
A second sequence may also have book-ended the September dates of Part 3 of the tour,
The final sequence of recording sessions must have occurred after the tour had concluded.

The album was then released in February 1981 in the UK, Japan, France and the USA^[5] as well as Germany and Italy.

Production[edit]

The album was produced by Robert Fripp and engineered by Tony Arnold at 'Arny's Shack' studio in Parkstone, Dorset, England.

Track listing[edit]

All the tracks are titled in upper case on the album sleeve and on the record label itself. Roman numerals are used for each side and for all part numbering of tracks.

Side I (EGED 9A)[edit]

INDISCREET I (1.47)
INDUCTIVE RESONANCE (4.35)^†
MINOR MAN (3.45)^†
HEPTAPARAPARSHINOKH (2.03)^†
DISLOCATED (4.35)^†
PARETO OPTIMUM I (2.07)
EYE NEEDLES (3.12)^†
INDISCREET II (2.35)

Side II (EGED 9B)[edit]

PARETO OPTIMUM II (1.27)
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (3.38)^†
HG WELLS (3.25)^†
TRAP (4.45)^†
OCHRE (3.07)
INDISCREET III (1.26)

The run-out groove on this side bears the message 'THE NEXT STEP IS DISCIPLINE' – this was a reference to Fripp's next project which was a new band called Discipline. The band was announced in the British music press and they played some gigs and started recording before Robert Fripp, as he later reported to journalists, was driving home, listening to a tape of the new band, and found '..the presence of King Crimson sitting next to me...' So Discipline became the new incarnation of King Crimson, while Discipline remained as the album title only.

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Artists/contributors[edit]

All songs above are credited as being by Robert Fripp except those marked ^† which are credited as being by 'The League of Gentlemen'.

The primary performances on the album are credited to;

Barry Andrews - organ
Robert Fripp - guitar
Sara Lee - bass guitar
Jonny Toobad (Johnny Elichaoff^[6]) - drums (on HEPTAPARAPARSHINOKH and DISLOCATED)
Kevin Wilkinson - drums (all other tracks)

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Also credited are;

Danielle Dax (courtesy of the Lemon Kittens) – for vocals and lyrics ('Hamsprachtmuzic') on the track 'MINOR MAN' and for the album sleeve front cover.
J.G.Bennett (courtesy of Elizabeth Bennett) – for 'Extracts from the Sherbourne House talks' – vocal samples used at various points on the album.
Marjori – for the Photo of the League taken at Gramercy Park, New York, during July 1980 which appears on the reverse of the album sleeve.
Rob O'Connor – for 'Cover Glue'.
Paddy Spinks – for 'Strategic Interaction'.

In addition Robert Christgau claims to recognise uncredited 'spoken overlays' (or