Robert Fripp: God Save The Queen (1980)

One of the strangest music purchases I made as a kid--simultaneously disappointing and exhilarating--was Robert Fripp's 1981 experimental recording Let The Power Fall. I'd recently gotten into King Crimson (largely via an appearance of the band on the short-lived SNL imitation Fridays--and was just getting into Brian Eno, whose work sometimes featured Fripp's guitars. And by then I was also deeply devoted to Bowie, who'd also worked with Fripp.

So when I saw a cassette copy of Power at the local ...