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Poll Question: Which song of King Crimson is better in your opinion?
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    Posted: October 26 2010 at 17:30
Both songs are somewhat weird, such different than the other King Crimson´s production, but surely excellently played, as usual by them. Which is your favourite?
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Cat Food is the best thing the band did in 1970.

Happy Family is from Lizard and is about the beatles Dead
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One hand clap for Happy Family! Clap
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Cat Food (again?)
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Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Happy Family is from Lizard and is about the beatles Dead
What´s the Censored degrading on it?
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I love Happy family and Lizard, I never liked Cat food that much.

Edited by Zargus - October 27 2010 at 10:21
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"Cat Food" is the best song on "In the Wake of Poseidon", and I mean it. The piano playing alone is fantastic. "Happy Family" is another song with the wild piano of Keith Tippett. I like both, but will give my vote to "Cat Food".
I love to dance to "Cat Food", by the way.


Edited by BaldFriede - October 26 2010 at 19:04


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^What Friede said, both songs are all about Tippett's fun jazzy piano. I love Lizard, but Cat Food is slightly more enjoyable for me than Happy Family.
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I can just about toss a coin on these.  Not that I don't like them.  Hey let's do that and see if my psychic powers cause the coin to make the right decision.  Well my psychic powers aren't doing much.  I was thinking of going for Happy Family.

Happy Food Cat Family?


Edited by Slartibartfast - October 26 2010 at 19:32
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Voted happy family but they are both really great.....on another day it could have been Cat Food.
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Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Cat Food is the best thing the band did in 1970.

Happy Family is from Lizard and is about the beatles Dead
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Cat Food easily. Not my favourite Crimson song at all, but I find it much more enjoyable than Happy Family. And the live version on The Great Deceiver is really great too (though, alas, ofcourse it doesn't have the great piano).
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I though this poll was about Happy family the awesome japanese fusion-zeulh like band 
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I just listened to both songs again. I had completely forgotten how very danceable "Happy Family" is. It will definitely run on our next party.


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Cat Food. Love that song.
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Happy Family wins easily for me.  Not too sure about Sinfield's lyric for Cat Food, although granted it's a fun song.  But "I tell you that it's cat food, not even fit for a horse"?  So you'd feed it to your cat but not your horse?  Pete must not be a cat lover.  Wink
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One hand clap.  Four went out but none came back.
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Again!! Tippett rocks the piano on cat food.
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Originally posted by The Doctor The Doctor wrote:

Happy Family wins easily for me.  Not too sure about Sinfield's lyric for Cat Food, although granted it's a fun song.  But "I tell you that it's cat food, not even fit for a horse"?  So you'd feed it to your cat but not your horse?  Pete must not be a cat lover.  Wink

"Cat Food" is of course a song about human food, or more specifically about instant meals. So both "cat food" and "not even firt for a horse" are derogatory expressions for it.


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