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King Crimson Albums - Best To Worst |
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agw801 
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 Posted: July 22 2015 at 20:35 |
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Larks Tongues in Aspic
A Scarcity of Miracles The Elements 2014 Tour Box Starless and Bible Black Islands The Collectable King Crimson - Volume One In the Court of the Crimson King Lizard Live at The Orpheum Theatre Heavy Construction The Great Deciever Live at Shepherds Bush Empire, London, 1996 Red Three of a Perfect Pair The Construction of Light The Power to Believe Discipline Thrak Vroom Space Groove Live at Summit Studios, Denver 1972 In The Wake of Poseidon Beat Earthbound |
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GKR
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Posted: July 22 2015 at 21:14 |
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I dont know King Crimson discography so good, but I do know that I cant understand the low rating to "Starless and Bible Black" and the great rate to "Red" - the two album are so close in musical terms...
Love both, by the way. |
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agw801
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Posted: July 23 2015 at 13:10 |
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I feel that the reason that the album Red is preferred by most listeners to Starless and Bible Black is that they feel Red was more advanced and forward thinking, anticipating the next phase in the '80s.
My viewpoint is 73-74 was a higher peak than the '80s. On a tune-to-tune comparison: I like Fractured better than Red: It's complexity transports the mind, while red just rocks. I like The Mincer better than Providence: The mood of this improv and the applied lyrics....one of a kind! The updated Starless from the 2014 Tour takes that tune to another level. |
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John McIntyre
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Posted: July 23 2015 at 15:42 |
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I've got about 35 King Crimson albums, of one sort or another, but I can't grade all of them. So I'll do the top few and the bottom few.
1) Red 2) The Night Watch (Live at Amsterdam) 3) The Great Deceiver (4-CD set) 4) USA (30th Anniversary Edition) 5) In the Wake of Poseidon 6) THRAK 7) B'BOOM 8) Absent Lovers (Live in Montreal) . . . 31) Summit Studios, Denver 32) The Construkction of Light 33) The Power to Believe (I don't) 34) Live at the Marquee - 1969 35) Earthbound '69-74 Crimson is, has been, and always will be the best Crimson of all!
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Posted: July 23 2015 at 15:47 |
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I'm very traditional 1) in the court  I rate them pretty much in order of appearance.2) In the wake 3 Lizard 4) Islands 5) Larks Tongues, Starless and Bible Black, Red - pick em I didn't much listen to the stuff post 1980. I did have "Beat" and didn't like it |
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Posted: July 23 2015 at 15:53 |
Pretty bizarre seeing Scarcity rated so highly. I find it a very different cat to their discography, more like a Crimson influenced Jakko solo album. It's technically not a Crimson record.
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agw801
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No doubt you have a view point that resonates with most people, from reading many reviews of A Scarcity of Miracles. But to my ears, this album sounds very much like a King Crimson work. I love the mood this album produces, reminding me very much of songs like Islands, Book of Saturday, Exiles, and the Night Watch while at the very same time, being a different cat altogether....that is exploring an uncharted area of the musical map. (I bet you find the saxophone texturing distracting, but I feel it adds one more layer of richness and depth.) Indeed, this is a pretty sounding album, but the tone expresses angst, the lyrics are multi-dimensional and for me create an atmosphere of an Eden-esque landscape during a time when one hell of a storm is approaching, with wind and rain damage foreshadowing the probability of more to come.
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Regardless of my opinion Fripp still classifies it as a ProjeKct rather than a full band release.
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1. Red
2. In the Court of the Crimson King 3. Larks' Tounges in Aspic 4. In the Wake of Posiedon 5. Islands 6. Discipline 7. Lizard 8. Starless and Bible Black |
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Best
Least best I'm not familiar enough with their other studio material to rank it, and I chose not to include any live recordings, either.
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1. In the Wake of Poseidon
2. Lizard 3. In the Court of the Crimson King 4. Red 5. Islands 6. Larks' Tongues in Aspic 7. Discipline 8. Starless and Bible Black
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1. Lizard
2. Larks' Tongues in Aspic 3. Islands 4. Discipline 5. In the Court of the Crimson King 6. Starless and Bible Black 7. In the Wake of Poseidon 8. Red #6 and #7 are interchangeable
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1. In The Wake Of Poseidon (10/10)
2. Lizard (9/10) 3. In The Court Of The Crimson King (9/10) 4. Red (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)
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1. Starless and Bible Black (9/10)
2. The Power to Believe (8/10) 3. The ConstruKction Of Light (7/10) 4. THRAK (7/10) 5. Red (6/10) 6. In the Wake of Poseidon (5/10) 7. Larks' Tongues in Aspic (4/10) 8. In the Court of the Crimson King (2/10) The rest (1/10)
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1. Starless and Bible Black (IMO the album that sums up everything King Crimson were great for)
2. Islands 3. Lark's Tongues in Aspic 4. In the Court of the Crimson King 5. In the Wake of Poseidon 6. Red 7. Lizard 8. Discipline 9. Beat 10. Thrak 11. Three of a Perfect pair 12. The Power to Believe 13. The ConstruKction of Light
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Posted: December 06 2016 at 17:34 |
I still basically agree with this. I'd move Red up one and the middle bit (TOAPP, ITWOP, and SABB) are more or less interchangeable.
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Red Court Discipline S&BB Lizard Islands Poseidon Beat Power to Believe Thrak Construkction* 3oaPP* *Records I don't care much for Edited by Larkstongue41 - December 06 2016 at 18:31 |
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Ranking KC albums is something I find hard to do, in fact I drew a blank, apart from a few exceptions. Generally I find most of them to be 4 star albums with a handful reaching 5 stars. And the 4 star albums would be 5 stars as well, if that handful didn't exist, so it's not a quality- but a comparison thing.
Here are my fivers: - Lizard - Islands - Power to Believe - Thrak - Red Yes, in that order. |
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Discipline
Red Three of a Perfect Pair Beat Lark's Tongues Thrak In the Court Lizard Absent Lovers USA Power to Believe SBB Poseidon (...) Surely, Earthbound is the worst album I ever owned so it'll easily win the "worst" contest. |
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1. Lizard
3. ITCOTCK 5. Red 6. In the wake of Poseidon Not a fan of KC.
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