Birds, Tongues and Octopus

Blacksword wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I'm guessing birds has so few votes because most people aren't as familiar with it as the others. Anyone else think that's a strong possibility? I'm sure it might still be in last place but not by this much if more people knew about it. Possibly. I hadn't heard this album for over 15 years. I'm giving it a spin right now, and musicaly it's pretty stunning. The guitar playing and drumming are out of this world. It is very good, but it's a jazz/rock album and if you tend to prefer songs, you're gonna vote for one of the other two.

I haven't listened to the album in over a decade, but it's still in my collection. I prefer the other albums in this poll over it, and I love a great deal of JRF. MO is not amongst my favourites in JRF (love Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Placebo, Embryo, Nucleus, early Weather Report etc. etc.),

I got into MO a long time ago and have the first four albums (Visions of the Emerald Beyond is probably my favourite by MO), but I also mostly went off MO a long time ago (perhaps there is certain lack of subtlety and not the ambiance/ mood and space to breathe that appeals to me).

In terms of technical musicianship, it is very strong, but the music doesn't really speak to me. There's plenty of other music that involves John McLaughlin that I much prefer.

Edited by Logan - November 27 2018 at 10:06

'Tongues' by a knockout.

King Crimson  

heard interviews from Fripp saying in around the time of recording Larks, he had to put restraining order on himself from listening to Mahavishnu Orchestrs. He was very much a fan and sucked up alot of impulses from album like Birds of Fire.