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Braka1 
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 Topic: Most Underrated King Crimson AlbumPosted: July 31 2020 at 21:39 |
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KC's discography looks spare when EPs, ProjecKts and live albums are excluded. But it's either this, or all-in.
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Posted: July 31 2020 at 21:52 |
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Discipline
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Posted: July 31 2020 at 22:12 |
Certainly the perfect KC album for Spock!
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Posted: July 31 2020 at 22:17 |
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Islands. Top 3 KC for me baby.
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Posted: July 31 2020 at 22:42 |
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Tough call.
I'll say TOAPP over Lizard, and TCOL.
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Posted: July 31 2020 at 22:53 |
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The most overrated King Crimson album for me is Larks' Tongues in Aspic, but I don't think any of King Crimson's albums are underrated. They're mostly overrated if anything, apart from In the Court of the Crimson King, which could never be overrated in my opinion, not unless the album was given 11 out of 10.
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Posted: July 31 2020 at 23:14 |
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Beat!
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Posted: August 01 2020 at 00:29 |
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I hardly see any praise at all for The Power To Believe, but to me it's easily their best album from the post-1980s era. It's not on the poll but I have a soft spot for Earthbound as well, although I wouldn't call it underrated because I totally see why people would dislike it. Call it a guilty pleasure if you want.
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Posted: August 01 2020 at 01:02 |
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ITWoP for me. Almost as solid a record as the debut, but often overlooked because of the debut. Great poll!
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Posted: August 01 2020 at 01:47 |
Me too - if only for the absolutely dirtiness of it - but if I included that, it would have been USA and the floodgates.
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Posted: August 01 2020 at 02:02 |
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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.
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Posted: August 01 2020 at 02:16 |
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I came close to voting for 'Starless and Bible Black' but had to go for 'Islands'.
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Posted: August 01 2020 at 02:41 |
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).
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Posted: August 01 2020 at 03:12 |
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Went for Beat, but easily could have also voted for ConstruKction.
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Posted: August 01 2020 at 03:17 |
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The first side of Beat is really enjoyable. If you keep it at that, it's kind of a perfect record.
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Posted: August 01 2020 at 03:23 |
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Beat definitely. It's much better than many would have you believe
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Posted: August 01 2020 at 03:58 |
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For me is "Islands".
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Posted: August 01 2020 at 04:07 |
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TPTB. Near perfection.
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Posted: August 01 2020 at 04:46 |
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Rarely discussed, "The Power to Believe".
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Posted: August 01 2020 at 07:01 |
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King Crimson has had so many periods in their career, with different artist and different output, that is hard to choose only one. I would say Islands, but there are also many other under rated albums as well.
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