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21st Century Schizoid Man Bass Tab

Send "21st Century Schizoid Man" Ringtone to your Cell Phone

Wind, Sounds            0:27
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21st Century Schizoid Man Bass Tab

Send "21st Century Schizoid Man" Ringtone to your Cell Phone

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/k/king_crimson/137613.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Draven Average	#1 by Draven Gothe at Oct 9, 2005 at 2:05 PM EST
	Schizoid personality disorder types are true loners. Paranoia eventually consumes them, they never go out. Even common folk are becoming like that--all to themselves, computers, TVs, etc. less social overall, unless a hurricane or disaster hits and forces us out. Yes, the last line is the least metaphorical--, sort of HITS YOU in the FACE, compared to the others that us left brainers have to strain at to understand.

No Picture Bob Wanna Be	#2 by Bob at Oct 15, 2005 at 4:04 PM EST
	I think it's a DAMN cool song..And yeah, there are a lot of versions, almost every liveshow they play it differently. There is also a cd composed with all the solo's from 21th Century Schizoid Man together, so you kinda have an hour long of solo, that also sounds awesome

No Picture Black Saints Average	#3 by Black Saints at Nov 13, 2005 at 10:02 PM EST
	These guys must have been PSYCHIC. I haven't heard a more accurate song.

No Picture brandon Average	#4 by brandon geraci at Jan 8, 2006 at 5:49 PM EST
	yeah, theres different versions of it. theres at least four that i know of, all of which had diffrent line ups. the only version i've heard is the live 1972 version on earthbound. i know that one has awesome sax stuff, not sure if any of the other versions have a sax though.

No Picture darin Average	#5 by darin ? at Feb 18, 2006 at 11:53 PM EST
	i love king crimson and this song. i wish songs today about the degredation of society were more poetic and had more talent in them like this song. this is what music is supposed to be. its full of poetry, truth, talent, and relavent meaning. i hate how so many songs nowadays is about breaking up. there are other issues out there besides stupid relationships! king crimson rocks!

No Picture Ryan Wanna Be	#6 by Ryan Ell at Apr 19, 2006 at 7:03 PM EST
	Entombed made a very interesting cover of this

No Picture Jason Wanna Be	#7 by Jason Lapointe at Aug 16, 2006 at 10:19 AM EST
	Incredible song. Here's what the lyrics mean; The "21st Century Shizoid Man" is a person of the near future. Pretty much paints an unflattering portrait of the future-- as we see on television and such the future is going to be a place where dreams will come true, King Crimson decides to be less optimistic and more realistic. "Cats Foot Iron Claw" Means that all that is organic will be replaced with machines. "Neuro-surgeons scream for more" The future is going to be a crowded stressful mess, people will be worked to the bone and insanity will be rife. Thus the neuro-surgeons will capitalise on the madness that will ensue Second verse, the future is going to be a place of much suffering and war "Poets starving children bleed" Art will be shunned upon in the face of commercial superficiality. The people who try to get their messages across-- ie "the children", will be ignored in the face of conformist pop culture "Nothing he's got he really needs" Electricity, television, movies, etc, all of these things that are slowly consuming our resources in the name of keeping people happy.. things like that that greedy people of the future will consume and operate by the truckload.. we really don't need them

No Picture Average	#8 by Brian (Add Me!) at Dec 7, 2006 at 1:48 AM EST
	Yeah, the musicianship shown on this song was probably unseen at this time, real crazy stuff, this is. Everyone from the bass player to the drummer and brass perform to the max. The ending though.... a bit too much, no? The second breakdown part gets a little tiring just before "I Talk to the wind".

No Picture Daniel Average	#9 by Daniel Gordon at Dec 8, 2006 at 5:23 PM EST
	I think some people are confusing Fripp's amazing guitar solo for a sax solo because of the crazy efefcts hes able to pull off

No Picture Joseph Wanna Be	#10 by Joseph Downs at Dec 11, 2006 at 11:10 AM EST
	Great analysis, Griffinfuhrer. You omitted one line from your comment: "At paranoia's poison door" I've been racking my brains but I cannot figure out what it means. Some insight, anyone? And, yall, even though I agree that the line you mentioned is particularly weak, I don't think it's because of it pretentiousness. Rather, it's the opposite: the line is too pedestrian, too ordinary, in comparison with the rest of the song. It's the most "obvious" line in there, less poetically inspired than the rest of the lyrics

No Picture PW Average	#11 by PW at Jun 15, 2007 at 5:40 PM EST
	a killer saxophone solo in this song