That riff, in turn, had similarities to Fripp's song "North Star", which had appeared on his 1979 album Exposure (with vocals, and lyrics, by Daryl Hall).

The League of Gentlemen practiced playing along with Fripp; the rehearsal recording was later posted online by Discipline Global Mobile archivist Alex R. "Stormy" Mundy, who dubbed the resulting song "Northa Kudasai" to reflect its intermediate state.

[3] While Belew was crafting material for Discipline, Fripp presented him with the chord progression to "Matte Kudasai" on guitar.

[4] For the 1989 Definitive Edition remaster of Discipline, the song was remixed to remove the Frippertronics parts that dotted the original 1981 version.

lang and her band the Siss Boom Bang covered the song as part of her concert at the BBC Radio Theater.