Most Underrated King Crimson Album

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 Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

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 Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

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Islands, easily. It is their best. All their other albums from the debut to Discipline, with the exception of ItWoP, are prone to overrating.

What is it about Islands that does it for you? I'll admit I'm a newcomer to the album, and despite being a jazz, freeform, and experimental lover - very little of the content on the record "clicked" with me. It felt disconnected in the wrong ways to me, but that's just opinion of course (it all is).

It is a matter of taste or opinion indeed and tastes tend to differ. For me, Islands is the only KC album of which I really like all the tracks. Other KC albums have tracks that are hard to get into, leave me cold or are just meh.

Totally cool! Oddly enough I feel Islands is the only one that isn't consistent enough for me. I'm willing to bet I'll be back in a year ranting and raving about how underrated it is, lol .

Strangely Islands is one of my fave KC albums, partly on account of its consistency. 

We all hear things differently.

Poll Question: Is there an unfairly unloved KC studio album?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
In the Court of the Crimson King	1	[2.00%]
In the Wake of Poseidon	8	[16.00%]
Lizard	1	[2.00%]
Islands	14	[28.00%]
Larks' Tongues in Aspic	0	[0.00%]
Starless and Bible Black	5	[10.00%]
Red	0	[0.00%]
Discipline	3	[6.00%]
Beat	9	[18.00%]
Three of a Perfect Pair	1	[2.00%]
THRAK	3	[6.00%]
The Construcktion of Light	2	[4.00%]
The Power to Believe	3	[6.00%]
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