Disillusion Part 3 - King Crimson
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Topic: Disillusion Part 3 - King Crimson
Posted By: Flight123
Subject: Disillusion Part 3 - King Crimson
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 06:02
| At some point, we become disillusioned by our heroes and stopped buying their albums automatically on release (especially when younger and vinyl was expensive). At which point did this happen with Crimson (if, at all)? |
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 06:04
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None. I bought Itchycock second hand in the early 1980s and Islands a few years ago. ------------- 
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 06:24
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Not happened yet ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 07:07
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Power to believe. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Neu!mann
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 07:37
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Hasn't happened yet, but there was a definite hint of disillusion on hearing the recent Live at the Orpheum album. I hate to think of KC as a nostalgia act... ------------- "we can change the world without anyone noticing the difference" - Franco Falsini |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 08:35
| I've never been disillusioned with/by King Crimson. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 09:23
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I continued to buy and then some. Hey, it's Crimso. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 09:51
Stop buying KC? No way! The '80s quartet was awesome, too!  ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 09:53
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In the Wake of Poseidon. Didn't like it, haven't liked anything since, and I've gone right off the debut as well. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 13:09
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Still going ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 13:34
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I buy them all, rarely disappointed by KC. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 13:34
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Red |
Posted By: Thatfabulousalien
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 14:08
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I don't know about the recent incarnations for live performances and live releases but the last studio album was still pretty impressive ------------- Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV. https://www.soundcloud.com/user-322914325 |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 16 2017 at 20:19
yep...  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:Posted By: Flight123
Date Posted: February 17 2017 at 03:48
| Interesting - of all the polls of the big 6 in this series, it is clear that KC have held their fans' attention by not compromising. In the early 80s, having lived through it, they did isolate some of their hard-core fans but with the possible exception of Genesis (for other reasons) they added to their audience. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: February 17 2017 at 05:26
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Their early eighties output for me personally is the strongest run of three albums any band has ever produced (probably together with Talk Talk's last three) so having two of these albums proposed as reasons for ditching them (probably leaving out the third one implicitly assuming that by that time nobody was still on board) looks quite funny to me. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: February 17 2017 at 15:47
  ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: February 18 2017 at 08:06
| I continued to buy them all |
Posted By: socrates17
Date Posted: February 18 2017 at 20:19
| THRAK is the last studio album I bought, and Ladies of the Road the last live album. I gave up on the Collector's Club with #10, entirely for budgetary reasons. I wasn't wild about the quartet that started in 2000. No Bruford. No Levin. An ex girlfriend eventually gave me both of their CDs, but I only listened a few times. That was the first lineup of the band that I never felt motivated to see live (I'd seen every other lineup, since the beginning). I've seen some YT clips of the new 3 drummer lineup, though, that cause me to regret skipping their last US tour. I might well go see the next one. My favorite lineup remains the Double Trio, followed by the Discipline quartet. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: February 18 2017 at 20:39
| I got into King Crimson once they had already released "The Power to Believe", and didn't get them exactly in order, so it wouldn't work with me the "I stopped buying their albums at such point". I haven't got them all, but I think I have all their eras and most of their songs covered between studio and live albums. However, even though I do like albums/songs after that point, I would think the turning point for them would be after Red... perhaps they have been able to do the schizofrenic "Larks Tongues" thing several times since then, but they just haven't done something as beautiful as "Epitaph", "The Court of the Crimson King", "In the Wake of Poseidon", "Prince Rupert Awakes / Bolero", "Exiles", "Starless" since then. And in general they did have a change of sound when they entered the 80's. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: February 24 2017 at 10:47
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Love Beach. ------------- |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: February 25 2017 at 09:25
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I continued to buy them all. ------------- A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now) |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: February 28 2017 at 16:16
| Great band. Always something interesting to take in. |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: March 14 2017 at 05:19
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Normal retail releases are fine but beware some of the KC Club sets. Most are bootlegs. Not that there is anything wrong with that... but Fripp dd say, write and often in his huge liner note contributions that he considered bootlegging an act of "rape". Not sure selling the ... result actually reinforces that view Bob. But boy he can still make hell with his guitar and the most sophisticated set up in rock. P.S. Check with DGM for the occasional free download. There's been some nice concerts and soundscapes turn up for the price of some bandwidth and in my case, CD-R usage. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: March 01 2018 at 02:15
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I continued to buy them all. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: March 01 2018 at 02:31
| Red, although not heard Beat wholly. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 01 2018 at 07:29
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The 'Power To Believe' was the last one (but I didn't buy the 2 Projekct albums either)....,,,,,,I have listened to a few tracks from 'Scarcity' but it didn't really do much for me. Being a KC fan I'll eventually get it anyway. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |