Rate The Album 1-10: KC "Larks' Tongues in Aspic"
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Topic: Rate The Album 1-10: KC "Larks' Tongues in Aspic"
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Subject: Rate The Album 1-10: KC "Larks' Tongues in Aspic"
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 07:42
 SO... On a scale of 1-10, what do you rate King Crimson's Larks' Tongues in Aspic? As always, no half or quarter points; whole points only! GO!
------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 08:10
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I don't understand the appeal of this album... 3/10. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 08:15
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That's actually a good first stance to see in this thread, something different for a change! I'll let this one marinade a bit longer. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 08:17
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I like it generally, very creative and crazy but I don't think the album flows as well as some other crimson albums. I kinda like crimson better when the songs have more structure on albums like Court and Red. Decent 7 or a light 4 stars. ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 08:20
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Not exactly the album that gives me goosebumps, but it has some good moments. Don't know exactly what I should think about part 1: it seems rather pointless, but it has some mysterious growing potential. 7/10 does this album most justice, I think. ------------- 
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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 08:29
| I gave it an 8. Defiantly one my favorite KC albums. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 08:48
That nails it. The production is also a problem with too much contrast between the calm and the loudest parts. It has some truly dizzying quality peaks though. Surely a special album. 7-8/10
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dougmcauliffe wrote:Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 09:12
| Larks' Tongues in Aspic is a 10/10 for me. |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 10:16
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I like it quite a bit. 7 ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 10:23
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10/10 - masterpiece, top 5 all time for me. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 10:54
| 10 out of 10 for me as well although I haven't heard it in a very long time. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 12:12
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8/10.....but I'm a KC fan . ;) ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 12:14
| 10/10 - this is my definition of King Crimson. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 13:16
4 out of 10, and I'm being generous. 
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Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 13:19
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8/10 for me, primarily on the merits of the title track (part 1 and 2). |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 13:20
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9 ------------- 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: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 13:32
I'm glad there's at least one PA member on this thread who agrees with me. I gave the album 4 out of 10, but even that was a stretch. For me, it's definitely an album for the bargain bin, or just the bin. I noticed someone gave the album just 1 point - which seems a bit harsh - but it looks like they want to remain anonymous.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 13:46
No....you are being generous when you give give 4 and 5 stars to all those old proto prog things which really deserve 3 usually. Did you fall and hit your head a lot as a kid....?  ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 13:47
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It's in my backlog...not heard yet. So no vote... ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 13:59
| Adventurous and really a Prog masterpiece, 10/10 |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 13:59
I just did a Micky spit take all over my screen.....Margarita btw.... a guy who's 55 , into prog, and has a Genesis avatar has never heard Larks...? ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 14:10
Aye. I have literally hundreds of unheard cd's. And a lot of them are considered essential, so I bought them. I have to give a release like LTIA a lot of attention, but with over 4000 cd's, that is easier said than done. I have an addiction, and have at least 10 cd's delivered every week... ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 16:09
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7/10 - very good, but a touch inconsistent overall. ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 17:15
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hmmm. a hard one to rate and this is not a favorite of me or the better half and so don't listen to it much anymore... not the best thing they did by any stretch.. but then again I can't think of too many worse. All their albums had good points.. and weak points. This one..Musically interesting.. vocally very weak.. a 7 sounds good to me. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 17:30
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 21:51
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LTIA/LTIA2 are 10/10 tracks for me. My only major gripe is the discrepancy in production; the volume and some of the mixing is all over the place. 9/10. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 23:05
| 10. |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: June 18 2020 at 00:22
Same here.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 18 2020 at 00:49
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7/10 (but really 5) I don't want to get on the wrong side of Fripp
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Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: June 18 2020 at 00:52
You only get on the wrong side of Fripp if you sneeze during one of his concerts. Then he walks off.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: June 18 2020 at 11:16
Er...sorry to hear about the 'addiction'. 4,000 cd's.....wow.....  ....and I thought the 1,000 I have were too many.Just curious, but why don't you play the cd quickly just once when you first get it... or at least go through the tracks and play a bit to see if it resonates with you? Good luck getting around to those others...  ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: June 18 2020 at 12:43
Aye. I consider it one of the best KC LPs ever written & performed. ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: satanellus
Date Posted: June 19 2020 at 19:05
I clicked on the thread to express the polar opposite. Lying on the floor, lights out, eyes closed, the anticipation and foreboding as Bruford and Muir's percussion cedes to Cross' viola............the escalating menace of the intro to Larks' never fails to evoke shivers. To me, it is a profoundly visceral piece of music. I love the diversity of the track. The guitar/mellotron maelstrom of evil, the delicacy of the violin solo, the jazz sentiments.... My favourite KC track. Probably my KC favourite album, although that occasionally varies depending on which I'm listening to at the time.
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: June 20 2020 at 02:11
 I couldn't agree more. It's the quintessential heavy eclectic progressive rock track. It paved the way for slews of prog metal bands 30 years later. Both parts of the title track inspired entire bands such as Gorguts, Behold The Arctopus, etc. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 20 2020 at 10:55
| 10 out of 10 for sure. Can never get tired of this incredible platter. Love how there’s some catchiness to some tracks as well as the difficult artworks of the title pieces. |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: June 20 2020 at 13:12
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10/10... no words... live versions of this album songs are mind blowing. ------------- 
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: June 21 2020 at 04:22
I agree wholeheartedly with this statement...especially those performances with Jamie Muir still in the band. That was an entirely different level of novelty, not since obtained, nor replicated IMHO, in 1973. The only other contender was Yes w TFTO, but that was equally as novel, just in a completely different (and divisive, lol) direction. What an untouchable era. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: June 21 2020 at 06:10
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3/10. I've always found it almost unlistenable. (Well it genuinely is for me now, because I divested myself of my KC albums a while ago as I never listened to any of them). ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |