IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING

In the Court,is not really a very good album for a number of reasons.The first being its totally incoherent,none of the tracks flow into each other they are all very disjointed,you have extremes of music which dont fit nicely with each other,its either very loud and ugly or plane dull and tedious.The second being obviously the sound production its archaic,it sounds so old,even when i heard it back in 1980 it was just the same a, Relic Recording.Just compare it to the sound the Decca engineers were able to get with bands like the Stones at the same period.I also believe the Stones album Their Satanic Majesties Request would challenge this in a debate about the first Prog recording,mellotrons ,tape looms,early sythesizers were used on both,and Jaggers voice was distorted on many tracks.King Crimson went on to record music soon after of much higher calibre than In the Court.