Another Crimson song contest

^I am not suprised at all, more suprised I am that you don´t remember how Night Watch sounds, I think it´s very great melody. When making this poll, I was sure I Talk To the Wind, Exiles & Night Watch will get votes. Most suprised & glad I am Poseidon has done so well, just reason the second album really isn´t very much loved here.

Night Watch is an interesting track with a nice melody (lyrics  based on the painting by Rembrandt)....but I have always thought that the lyrics are crammed into the melody and seem like he has to rush his delivery when singing them to get them to fit into the song structure. An odd song imho.

dr wu23 wrote: Night Watch is an interesting track with a nice melody (lyrics  based on the painting by Rembrandt)....but I have always thought that the lyrics are crammed into the melody and seem like he has to rush his delivery when singing them to get them to fit into the song structure. An odd song imho.

^ In great part I haven't got it because I already have just about all of it's songs on different live albums, and since about half of it is suposed to come from live performances (The Night Watch, I think, which I also have), and just about the only song that I really liked is Fracture, well, I thought there's really no point in buying it.

Starless and Bible Black is a great album that anyone who enjoys KC should own.

Just outside their top 4 albums but it's still fantastic

The middle improv tracks can be hard to get into but they do click after a while, and Great Deceiver and Lament are excellent (Lament is one of my all time fav KC tracks) and of course Fracture at the end

I would definitely get this album if you don't own it. You won't be disappointed

Starless & Bible Black was my 1st Crimson album and for many years remained my #1.

Mortte wrote: Dellinger wrote: ^ I guess I'll have to check out that song again. Though perhaps the fact that I have only heard it live (I have not bought the Starless and Bible Black album) has something to do with it. The whole Starless & Bible Black-album took me a while to get into it. Specially when hearing it quite soon after glorius Larks´s-album, which had many direction changes, it sounded a little bit dull. But after many listenings it showed to be really great album!

Yeah, I guess I should. I still have a few gaps of albums from King Crimson, mostly amended a bit by having the eras covered with live albums (if I had bought studio albums instead of live ones, I guess I would already have all their studio albums... but those live versions of songs are really something special that I wouldn't want to do without. For me many songs are so much better on some live version.

^ I don't have USA, but instead have Collectable King Crimson, that includes two concerts, one of them is the very same from USA (Ausbury), but without edits nor overdubs (I think they corrected those things in the newest versions of USA, though), and the other concert is also great, and includes my very favourite version of Starless. All in all, it is my favourite live release from that era of the band. And yes, I actually like live albums very much, they often do wonderful things with the songs in their concerts, and King Crimson is one of those bands in which very often the songs are much better live, to the point I'm not really interested in listening to the studio ones again. Or at least not often.

^ No, I haven't gotten into that Paris show... mostly, I think I already got enough from that line-up, with the Collectable vol 1, The 4 disc set "The Great Deceiver", and "The Night Watch" itself... I think those are all. Yet, I don't quiet understand what you mean about a "photoshopped" version on that album.

The Night Watch followed by Exiles