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SteveG 
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 04:41 |
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The last "most progressive" question, as to not spam the forum page, and the probably the hardest. Which KC album do you consider to be the most progressive?
Edited by SteveG - July 16 2016 at 04:42
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 05:16 |
Hmmm, either Lizard or LTIA.
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 05:39 |
Another easy one.  In the Court of the Crimson King
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 06:39 |
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Larks Tongue in Aspic.
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 06:44 |
 SteveG wrote:
The last "most progressive" question, as to not spam the forum page, and the probably the hardest. Which KC album do you consider to be the most progressive?
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Discipline... and that is not even a hard question. Completely from left field.. and nothing sounded like it.
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 06:56 |
micky wrote:
SteveG wrote:
The last "most progressive" question, as to not spam the forum page, and the probably the hardest. Which KC album do you consider to be the most progressive?
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Discipline...
and that is not even a hard question.
Completely from left field.. and nothing sounded like it.
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I feel like that could describe about 90% of King Crimson albums, to be honest 
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 07:04 |
bah... btw.. congrats on the promotion to the AR family.
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 07:19 |
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Most progressive...either LTIA or Discipline.
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 09:01 |
1. Lizard 2. ItCoTKC - ItWoP
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 09:08 |
micky wrote:
bah...
btw.. congrats on the promotion to the AR family.
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Thanks!
As far as this topic goes, I would be partial towards picking Discipline, too. Even if I don't like it, it's undeniably one of the biggest shifts that King Crimson ever took musically. But my gut choice is Lizard. It nails symphonic, it nails jazz, and it nails both at the same time. When it came out in 1970 it may very well have been the most unique album ever recorded. Plus Jon Anderson sings on it, surely that bumps it up by a couple of prog points?
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 11:12 |
I look at the discography and draw a blank. Too many good choices, each with major contributions.
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 11:49 |
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As much as I hate to admit it, I guess In the Court of the Crimson King. Next I'd say Starless and Bible Black.
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 11:51 |
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Larks' Tongues........
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 13:30 |
In The Court Of The Crimson King, Islands, Red, and Discipline. In other words, when Fripp either shifted musical directions or when the band perfected the genre they were working with.
Honestly, King Crimson is one of those bands where trying to nail which work was their most "progressive" is a pain in the posterior. You could argue Discipline was their most progressive, seeing, as Micky mentioned, that it was the cleanest break from their old sound, but, even then, there were hints of that in some of the stuff from the Larks' era - specifically the looping parts of "Fracture" and the intro to "Larks Tongues In Aspic, Part 1", the beat poetry in "The Great Deceiver", and the grooves of "Red" and "One More Red Nightmare". Of course, in 1974, Fripp was still missing some key ingredients that would eventually make an album like Discipline possible.
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 13:44 |
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Which one is the least progressive? :)
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 13:46 |
KingCrInuYasha wrote:
In The Court Of The Crimson King, Islands, Red, and Discipline. In other words, when Fripp either shifted musical directions or when the band perfected the genre they were working with.
Honestly, King Crimson is one of those bands where trying to nail which work was their most "progressive" is a pain in the posterior. You could argue Discipline was their most progressive, seeing, as Micky mentioned, that it was the cleanest break from their old sound, but, even then, there were hints of that in some of the stuff from the Larks' era - specifically the looping parts of "Fracture" and the intro to "Larks Tongues In Aspic, Part 1", the beat poetry in "The Great Deceiver", and the grooves of "Red" and "One More Red Nightmare". Of course, in 1974, Fripp was still missing some key ingredients that would eventually make an album like Discipline possible. |
Yeah, what he said! 
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 13:59 |
Nicky wrote:
Which one is the least progressive? :)
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Beat? TOAPP? Compositionally, TCOL is regressive.
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 14:03 |
Nicky wrote:
Which one is the least progressive? :)
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Wake of Poseidon? Not really a vast amount of innovation from the first album. And Devil's Triangle was pure cheese.
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 16:08 |
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I don't get how Discipline is considered progressive. I mean, it's an okay album, but it's pretty much just a rip-off of Talking Heads. Which makes me rather go listen to Talking Heads.
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Posted: July 16 2016 at 19:46 |
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Red it holds together well ,starless moves the listener to a new melodic height l,larks is dynamic but I feel red has an edginess towards a grandeur ,should I say a new direction.
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