King Crimson on Spotify from 10th of June

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 moshkito wrote:

 chopper wrote:

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And it's not "weird" to listen to a track and not the whole album. Let's say for example I really like CTTE (the track) and Siberian Khatru but I don't like And You and I - do I sit through the whole album and spend 10 minutes listening to a song I don't like just because it's a whole album, or do I just skip it?

I'm inclined to believe that you are taking this to a point that is not what I meant. You, and I and everyone else, are always glad to listen to one/any cut, and my only point was TO ADD TO THAT ... even if it did not seem like it.

Nowadays, we only listen to "one thing" (so to speak) and it is easy to make an assumption that nothing else is heard ... but if you go back 50 years, and I KNOW THAT MANY OF YOU CAN'T DO THAT ... nothing personal in that at all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ....in those days you many times got the album, and no one else KNEW ANYTHING about the rest of the album anyway, so you listened ... yes, I prefer CTTE than the rest of the album, but I also heard the other two and found they were supper nice, and that one piece was not better than the other ... the whole album was truly magnificent!

And that is my only important point ... if you go to that album for one song, your perception of the rest of the album gets twisted some ... and look ... read what many folks here are writing ... they don't know the rest of the album many times, and don't like it because it isn't as proggy as the other cut, or this and that ... and that is my point ... it diminishes the incredible quality and amazing music in that album, that is not a part of "Easy Money" ... which most folks like because of John Wetton, not because of KC, many years later, but in those days, we did not think of it in those terms!

Please take stock in some of the things I am saying ... I'm trying to ELEVATE all this music, not just one song, and the only thing you folks can come back with is a reason to listen to one song, not the album, because the rest of the album is not as good as the song you like! 

It's coming ... you wait ... pretty soon, many of these folks will go around that only the 3rd song in Mahler's 5th Symphony is any good and the rest is just filler!  All you are seeing, then, is the lack of ability to listen to a composition, of which "Easy Money" could be a part. 

Is all you can do to make a comment on me putting down one song? I did not put down any song ... I tried to elevate the listening to a different level, and a couple of you ignored that totally!

Are you "in" for the music, all the music!, or just one song? How "progressive" are you? 

Before we had an internet radio Mrs 2dogs would often listen to a classical station that was forever selecting from their listeners top 100 so we often got Vivaldi’s One Season or Holst’s The Planet .