Larks Tongues overrated?

I can't say so-King Crimson was extremely disjointed until they found their footing with the Bruford/Wetton/Cross lineup. Their consistency of tone combined with a more fervent desire to experiment outside of traditional prog boundaries made some of the best music ever, as far as I'm concerned, prog or not. 

I was wrong as it turns out.

Anyway I prefer Larks over the two following albums. In other words, of the Wetton era, Lark,is my favourite.

Disjointed ....I would think to make that reference pointing out only one specific detail and that would be the lack of security Fripp had or felt during his long and painful journey to even keep ONE particular line up together. But, to do 4 titles like that with un-stable prospects and each one has individuality musically is quite a accomplishment for a musician/writer. I don't know how in the world he pulled that off? The times when they did stretch out and improvise could be sampled more so on tracks like "The Sailor's Tale", "Bolero", "Battle Of The Glass Tears", 21ST Century Schizoid Man", "Pictures Of A City", "Indoor Games", "Happy Family" and even "Moonchild" (but is noodling).

The idea to improvise in pieces during the so-called Symphonic era, was not so much limited in the improvisation itself as it was in the time frame of the song. I loved Larks, Starless, and Red but yet was disappointed sometimes in the chord progressions used during the improvisations. Fripp was the fulltime tri-tone explorer during this period, while on early Crimso titles, the tri-tone usage was carefully written in a shorter passage to compliment the approach in composition....like Symphonic for example. To me, the pieces "Red", "Larks Tongues In Aspic Parts I & II , Fracture, and the center section of "Starless" were all reminiscent of each other and a bit obvious.

       

I used to be. Now I have just about as much desire to listen to K.C as I do to watch Glenn Beck.