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    Posted: March 23 2014 at 17:45
Again another poll to see your favourite to least favourite albums of King Crimson this time. Even if you haven't heard all of them, just say the ones you have. Looking forward to what you guys think, here are mine (pretty typical to be honest Smile):

1. In The Court Of The Crimson King (10/10)
2. Lizard (9/10)
3. Red (9/10)
4. In The Wake Of Poseidon (9/10)
5. Larks' Tongues In Aspic (8/10)
6. Islands (8/10)
7. Discipline (8/10)
8. Starless And Bible Black (7/10)
9. The Power To Believe (7/10)
10. Beat (7/10)
11. Three Of A Perfect Pair (7/10)
12. THRAK (6/10)
13. The ConstruKction Of Light (5/10)

Not very familiar with the projeKcts so I've excluded them from my list. Thanks for any feedback Big smile
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Here's mine. Always been a big fan of Larks' Tongues.

1) Larks' Tongues in Aspic
2) Red
3) Discipline
4) A Scarcity of Miracles
5) Islands
6) Lizard
7) Starless and Bible Black
8) In the Court of the Crimson King
9) Three of a Perfect Pair
10) THRAK
11) Beat
12) In the Wake of Poseidon
13) The Power to Believe
14) The ConstruKction of Light
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I'll ignore the live albums and the Projekcts for simplicity though Great Deceiver boxset is my favorite

1) Larks' Tongues in Aspic
2) Red
3) In the Court of the Crimson King
4) Lizard
5) Discipline
6) Starless and Bible Black
7) The Power to Believe
8) Islands
9) In the Wake of Poseidon
10) Beat
11) THRAK
12) Three of a Perfect Pair
13) The ConstruKction of Light
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Red
Starless And Bible Black
Larks Tongues In Aspic
In The Court Of The Crimson King
Lizard
Wake Of Poseidon
Islands
 
 
 
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Five stars:
Lizard > In the Court of the Crimson King > Discipline > Red > Vrooom > In the Wake of Poseidon

Four and a half stars:
Starless and Bible Black > Three of a Perfect Pair > Beat > Islands

Four stars:
Larks' Tongues in Aspic > Thrak

Three and a half stars:
The Power to Believe > The ConstruKction of Light
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I'm just going to do their classic period..

Islands
Larks
Lizard
Red
Starless
Court
Wake
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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LTIA
Red
Lizard
SABB
Discipline
ITCHCOCK
TOAPP
Thrak
ITWOP
Beat
The Power To Believe
Islands
The ConstruKtion Of Light
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Discipline
LTIA
Lizard
The Power To Believe
Red
In The Court...
Three Of A Perfect Pair
In The Wake...
SABB
The ConstruKction...
Islands
Thrak
Beat
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Best:
LTIA

Worst:
Thrak
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Sticking strictly with the ones I own:

Red

LTIA

SABB

Lizard

TPtB

Court

Poseidon

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Originally posted by Neo-Romantic Neo-Romantic wrote:

Sticking strictly with the ones I own:

Red

LTIA

SABB

Lizard

TPtB

Court

Poseidon


Thank God someone else puts Court at the (near) bottom. The issue now is, how low is your bottom?
Rating wise. 
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LTIA tied with Red
In the Court of the Crimson King
Beat
In the Wake of Poseidon (too bad it's a straight copy of ITCHYCOCK)
Discipline
Lizard
Islands
Three of a Perfect Pair
Starless and Bible Black
The Power to Believe
the other albums
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Larks Tongues in Aspic
Starless and Bible Black
Red
Thrak
Lizard
The Construktion of Light
Three of a Perfect Pair
In the Court of the Crimson King
The Power to Believe
Discipline
Beat
Islands
In the Wake of Poseidon

I've left out live albums as there's just so many that it rather clouds the issue of best new material etc


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Five stars:
Red
ITCOTCK

Four stars:
ITWOP
Lizard
Islands
LTIA
Thrak
The power to believe

Three stars:
Starless & Bible black
Construktion of light
Beat
Three of a perfect pair
Discipline

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A tough one! - 69-74 group albums -

Red
Islands
Starless and Bible Black
Lizard
In The Court
In The Wake
Larks Tongues

I DON'T really want LTIA at the bottom! - yet there it is!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote stegokitty Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 24 2014 at 20:48
Based upon the eight KC albums I own:

Lizard
Larks Tongues In Aspic
Red
Starless And Bible Black
Islands
In The Court Of The Crimson King
In The Wake Of Poseidon
The Power To Believe


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These are my personal rankings based on my liking, not an objective best or worst....
 
ITCOTCK
Red
Poseidon
Larks Tongues
Starless and Bible Black
Lizard
Islands
Discipline
etc....
The rest for me are about the same level of quality .
 
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Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

Originally posted by Neo-Romantic Neo-Romantic wrote:

Sticking strictly with the ones I own:

Red

LTIA

SABB

Lizard

TPtB

Court

Poseidon


Thank God someone else puts Court at the (near) bottom. The issue now is, how low is your bottom?
Rating wise. 

Oops, missed this from a while ago! Poseidon gets rounded up to a 3 from slightly below, Power and Court get a 4, Lizard and SABB are each a 4.5 rounded up, LTIA a solid 5, and Red is the best ever album ever ever Tongue

...ever.



Edited by Neo-Romantic - April 24 2014 at 22:19
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Larks
Court
Discipline
Red
Islands
Lizard
Starless
Wake
 
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The albums I have heard in their entirety at least once:

1. Islands
2. In the Wake of Poseidon
3. Red
4. In the Court of the Crimson King
5. Lizard
6. Larks'Tongues in Aspic
7. Discipline
8. Starless and Bible Black



Edited by someone_else - May 07 2014 at 04:12
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