BEAT Neon Heat Disease Live Limited Deluxe Edition
Available from record retailers, including Amazon
Under $60

Today’s second entry in The 2025 PopCult Gift Guide is for the Limited Deluxe Edition of the BEAT Neon Heat Disease LIVE in Los Angeles album. This is the perfect gift for the music fan on your holiday shopping list whose tastes straddle Progressive Rock and New Wave Music.

BEAT is, essentially, a tribute band that covers songs by the 1980s incarnation of King Crimson. The cool part is that half of the band was actually IN the 1980s incarnation of King Crimson.

Legendary former King Crimson members ADRIAN BELEW and TONY LEVIN banded together with guitar virtuoso STEVE VAI and explosive Tool drummer DANNY CAREY to create BEAT, a creative reinterpretation of the three iconic 80s KING CRIMSON albums – Discipline, Beat, and Three Of A Perfect Pair.

In 2024, the ensemble staged 65 shows in North America, before following it with an expansive run in Mexico and South America in 2025. While this new release is available as a 2 CD and 3 LP package, I’m recommending the Limited Deluxe Edition because it contains an extra CD of music, plus the video of the entire Los Angeles show on a Blu ray disc with 5.1 sound.

It’s an incredible package of video and music, and it’s great for die-hard fans who couldn’t make it out to any of the tour dates. The idea of Steve Vai playing Robert Fripp’s guitar parts is still mind-blowing.

You should be able to get this from any record shop, or take the easy way out and get it from Amazon.

As a bonus for PopCult readers today, I have worked with Herman Linte to create a special episode of PROGNOSIS, debuting Monday at 3 PM (EST). This show will feature three tracks from the BEAT Neon Heat Disease LIVE album, in a mixtape collection of the “1980s King Crimson Family Tree,” which gathers together songs from the offshoots and solo works by the members of the 1980s incarnation of King Crimson. You’ll hear solo works, collaborations with other artists and even a couple of other groups that include members of KC. Tune in and see what all the fuss is about.

Check out the playlist:

Prognosis 134

Beat “Elephant Talk”
King Crimson “Frakctured”
Bill Bruford’s Earthworks “My Heart Declares A Holiday”
Adrian Belew “Big Electric Cat”
Tony Levin “Road Dogs”
Robert Fripp with Peter Gabriel “Here Comes The Flood”
Robert Fripp with Andy Summers “Tribe”
KIng Crimson “Barbershop”
Adrian Belew “Tango Zebra”
King Crimson “Into The Frying Pan”
Beat “Industry”
Adrian Belew “Rail Song”
Robert Fripp & The League of Gentlemen “God Save The King”
Anderson Bruford Wakeman & Howe “Quartet”
Sunday All Over The World “Freedom”
David Bowie and Adrian Belew “Pretty Pink Rose”
Beat “Indiscipline”

You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.