Which King Crimson is most like Yes

At the moment, I'm either listening to one of them each day, with no crossover. Any ideas?

^ Yeah...Anderson's guesting is really the only thing that makes KC remotely related to Yes. (even with the bruford connection) and even then its a bit of a stretch 

Probably the first two KC albums, by virtue of being the most symphonic. Or perhaps you could draw a very loose connection between the frenetic, noisy energy of Larks and Relayer? *shrug*

mechanicalflattery wrote: Or perhaps you could draw a very loose connection between the frenetic, noisy energy of Larks and Relayer? *shrug*

I'd think that Red is somehow to KC what Relayer is to Yes. Sure they're not similar, but I find   "frenetic noisy energy" rather in Red than in LTIA.

court of the crimson king and little bit of red also wake of the Poseidon

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I've always found Lark's Tongues in Aspic part 3 to be a bit reminiscent of I've Seen All Good People.

There's a bit of resemblance between the noodling in Moonchild and some of the noodling in I See You... mainly in terms of the guitar tone. I'm mostly thinking of the section when it's just Peter Banks and Bill Bruford jamming.

Some of the stuff between Giles Giles and Fripp and King Crimson has a bit more of an upbeat feel with lots of vocal harmonies, so I guess that's a bit more Yes-like. I guess it's technically Giles, Giles and Fripp at that point, but Ian MacDonald and Peter Sinfield were in the band at that point so it was one member different from the In The Court lineup. Plus, these songs were early versions of KC songs (Drop In was performed by Crimson live with Greg Lake, and eventually became The Letters).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNOGBiVPtD0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq4skTo7vSk

On the Yes side, a few people have mentioned Relayer, but I think Five Per Cent For Nothing, though brief, certainly has a lot in common with the angular riffs King Crimson would make later on (Larks, Fracture, etc).


Edited by ForestFriend - December 02 2017 at 23:11

No ressemblance at all ; all agree. But still , one must remember that in the ABHW alias, there was Bill Bruford and Tony Levin  both on record and on stage. I can remember passages in concert, and notably on the opening song of the record, Themes, where the rythm section may sound FURIOUSLY like 80's era Crimson...