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Topic ClosedFracture vs Starless
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Poll Question: The two epic closers of two great albums
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    Posted: June 25 2012 at 05:23
I've got nothing against Fracture but Starless wins this time...
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Starless is pretty good-4 stars
Fracture is ok-3 stars
 
Fracture starts off well but gets boring from the 2nd half onwards
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Starless should win but they should not be so far apart, Fructure is still a masterpiece! no less!!
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Just listened to "Fracture" for the first time so I could vote in this poll.  It's nice (I love the riffs), but "Starless" is simply the most stunning piece of music I've ever heard, by any band.  That soprano sax at the end always sends chills down my spine, and Fripp's "solo" in the middle section is just amazing.  No contest for me.
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Starless. I love it!
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Fracture to me is one of the few songs that can get close to the experience of Starless, especially the USA version of Fracture. All that tension, and the way release it in the end. But in Starless the tension-building and release was even greater, creating what is the most complete feeling I know. After a proper Red finishes with Starless, I almost feel like I could die happy.
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"Fracture". Love the guitar. The band is freaking out on full throttle, just hauling a$%! Grizzly, brutal, ... . I can actually feel the music pulsating. "Starless" isn't actually that close, but still a classic.

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Fracture.

In my view Starless is Fripp in a rare moment looking to the past instead of forward, and returning to the formula of the debut album. Well it's still a good song but Fracture is the essence of Krim.
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:

Hard one, but I have to say "Fracture", as it's possibly my all time favorite song!But I do love to listen to "Starless" at Christmas time with just the tree lights on.  Try it some time!  Smile



Well, the lyrics are all but Christmas-like... unless you like to spend your Christmas with a Black Bible.


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Impossible to choose !!

Fracture ? Didn't vote.


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Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:

Hard one, but I have to say "Fracture", as it's possibly my all time favorite song!But I do love to listen to "Starless" at Christmas time with just the tree lights on.  Try it some time!  Smile



Well, the lyrics are all but Christmas-like... unless you like to spend your Christmas with a Black Bible.
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Fracture by miles. Don't care for what everyone says, it's my favorite Crim song.
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A polarising poll like this makes Fracture look weak, just because Starless is better. They both wipe the floor with....... well, most music.


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Fracture definitely has a dramatic finish...
 
...but Starless has an even more dramatic finish, both to the song itself and to the band at the time...
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Starless. As mentioned above, it is absolutely King Crimson's best song and definitely in top3 of all time prog songs. And very emotional song ...
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Starless by an astronomical distance.


Starless by megaparsecs.
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Starless.

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Starless by miles for me.
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Starless for certain.
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