In The Wake Of Poseidon - King Crimson

I like it a lot too, despite it's similarities to ITCOTCK. Cadence and Cascade is so beautiful to listen to, and is one of my favorite KC songs. 

Captain Clutch wrote: a) we already had this exact thread b) CAT FOOD Cat Food cat food AGAIN

AGAIN again

It's easily my least favorite KC album I've heard (I've heard everything except some of the most recent ones).  It's still not bad, but its disappointing for what I expect of KC.  As "long as I'm concerned."

It's a better version of the debut album. The songs are different and that's all that matters.

progman2010 wrote: It's a better version of the debut album. The songs are different and that's all that matters.

It's my second least favorite KC album, though that's not saying much.  THRAK takes the bag for worst KC album that I currently own.  ItWoP has some very excellent tracks, and yes they did follow a very similar formula as to that of its predecessor.  "Devil's Triangle" really seems like the only track that doesn't have a 'copy' of itself on their debut.  "Cat Food" also doesn't have an equivalent on the debut.  Very good album, IMO, but it's too similar to Court.. to be their best or even close.

In the wake of Poseidon is my fave Crimson album. It's one of the only pre 1980 Crimson albums which has more than 1 song of melody as opposed to riff and symphonic songs which require less ability to compose usually. It was the 5th Crimson album I bought after Red, Larks, Starless and In the court and it was the first album i rated A class. I wasn't going to continue collecting after the first 4 cd's I had because 10 years on I still only rate 50% of Starless and In the court, while Larks and Red are quite good but they aren't great albums imo and Wetton has a pretty crappy voice. After all the stuff you hear about them in here you'd think they were a genius band with countless great tunes but I consider them a fairly decent band with countless band member changes which would have been very hard to follow. Imagine your fave band replacing singer and bass player 4 times in 5 years. Poseidon is the step up which was required from the original line up after their solid debut. If you complain that the title song on Poseidon reminds you of the title song on In the court(they are different compositions but both have mellotron and similar drum beat) why don't you complain that 80% of the debut album has mellotron? Obviously the band loved mellotron so you would expect some of it on the 2nd album. The 2nd album actually has variety and doesn't rely on only 10+ minute songs to drag the album out. Better sound, more variety, more melody, musians better 1 year on. 21st century and Pictures of a city are different melodies. Who cares if they both have jazzy moments. That was the bands style. The debut album is a bit boring and definately more outdated. Posiedon and Lizard are heading in the right direction although Lizard would have been better with Lake on vocals in at least a couple of songs  

Edited by progman2010 - July 17 2010 at 16:26