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Topic: Starless vs Sheltering Sky Posted: June 22 2012 at 08:32
these are the first two King Crimson songs i ever heard, when i downloaded some sporadic songs and burned them on a compilation album of prog, fusion and jams, two widely different KC tunes, from different eras, but the most important thing is, my first ever experience of King Crimson is these two songs
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Posted: June 22 2012 at 11:11
ScorchedFirth wrote:
'The Sheltering Sky' is pretty cool and I do like it, but I can't go against an utter classic like 'Starless'
Don't care. I don't know a whole lot of tracks that can take me to another place, tracks like "The Sheltering Sky". "Starless" is two-faced in a way that it is gentle and aggressive, but overall very dramatic, but the other track ... it's just much deeper than that. It's one of those tracks that makes me think about life differently.
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rogerthat wrote:
Sheltering Sky is an interesting track but this is not a good contest.
Starless of course, but I absolutely love the exotic and psychedelic atmosphere within The Sheltering Sky. Whenever I listen to that tune, it always paints a mental picture of African bush land on a hot sunset evening.
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Posted: June 22 2012 at 13:40
Well since both is an option...ill take the fence sitters wayn out.
Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Posted: June 22 2012 at 17:34
Dayvenkirq wrote:
I don't know a whole lot of tracks that can take me to another place, tracks like "The Sheltering Sky". "Starless" is two-faced in a way that it is gentle and aggressive, but overall very dramatic, but the other track ... it's just much deeper than that. It's one of those tracks that makes me think about life differently.
Well said. There is nothing quite like it. As I understand it, the term comes from Saharan Africa, but we have to acknowledge that it is the same sky that shelters those of us on other continents as well.
The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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