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IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING

King Crimson

 

Eclectic Prog

4.64 | 4725 ratings

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Kassimatis
5 stars Music is about telling the world how you feel about something important to you, allowing them to bath in all of your powerful emotions. With the world superpowers sending their sons to Vietnam, and their nations on the brink of nuclear destruction, what else can one sing but:

"...knowledge is a deadly friend when no one sets the rules, the fate of all mankind I see is in the hands of fools.. "

Right from the beginning, King Crimson are doing what they do best - they are being creative, proving themselves a pioneering driving force in the yet to be fully defined genre.

I would have to say that this is the one of the darkest albums I have ever listened to. The aura of tragedy is just, beautiful.. that mellotron moves me every time! Not only with poetry, but with the music itself, the artists capture the darkness of their message so brilliantly.

Perhaps the season of inspiration of this lineup was just too great to last. We all know the story now don't we?

"21st Century Schizoid Man", "Epitaph" and "In the Court of the Crimson King" surely changed rock, prog, and the world of MUSIC forever in 1969.

A must listen for all who love art!

Kassimatis | 5/5 |

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