90125 vs Three of a Perfect Pair |
Post Reply | Page <1234> |
Author | |||||
irrelevant
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 07 2010 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 13382 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
Both are straight up 7/10ers for me. Went and did it, so there ya go. All is right with the world. ... Or is it?
|
|||||
AFlowerKingCrimson
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 02 2016 Location: Philly burbs Status: Offline Points: 16460 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
I like both albums quite a bit. KC's is more interesting and more prog but it also took me a very long time to warm up to where as 90125 didn't.
|
|||||
irrelevant
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 07 2010 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 13382 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
^ Similar situation with me. There was a time Yes would've won this comfortably.
|
|||||
Jaketejas
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 27 2018 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 1969 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
I own both of these albums. I’m a big Adrian Belew fan (especially his solo work). Robert Fripp and Bill Bruford too, the latter who has been in so many of my favorite bands (Yes, UK, and KC, among others). I also absolutely love Fripp’s stuff with Andy Summers. But, of that rendition of KC, which was a great one, Three of a Perfect Pair is excellent, but not their absolute best. For me, Discipline is the best one. Beat is also a better album.
On the other hand, I love Trevor Rabin’s music from this time period, and 90125 is among my top ten favorite albums of all time. He batted that one out of the park. On top of that, his solo album Can’t Look Away from around the same time period is super, too. He had this highly imaginative burst of creative energy. Since we are voting on album, I would have to say that Rabin comes out on top. |
|||||
Awesoreno
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 07 2019 Location: Culver City, CA Status: Offline Points: 2903 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
MY SKIN
IS METALLIC NOW |
|||||
Frenetic Zetetic
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 09 2017 Location: Now Status: Offline Points: 9233 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
Actually...
...Both on this one.
|
|||||
"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
|||||
Blacksword
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
90125. I like every track, but half of TOAPP bores me.
|
|||||
Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
|
|||||
Hercules
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 14 2007 Location: Near York UK Status: Offline Points: 7024 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
90125 - 2.5*
TOAPP - 2* Two albums which did not survive the "moving to a smaller house and need to get rid of all the c**p in my massive vinyl collection" moment about 15 years ago.
|
|||||
A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
|
|||||
Manuel
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 09 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 12443 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
I prefer King Crimson of these two.
|
|||||
b_olariu
Prog Reviewer Joined: March 02 2007 Location: Romania Status: Offline Points: 5531 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
Both equally
|
|||||
Tom Ozric
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15916 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
King Crimson for sure. The songs are more exciting to my ears.
|
|||||
Grumpyprogfan
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 09 2019 Location: Kansas City Status: Offline Points: 10100 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
Yes by far. ToaPP was the weakest of the 80's KC. The band was falling apart when they made this and you can hear it in the lackluster performances. Industry is awful. Sleepless, Man With an Open Heart, Nuages. All not good. Only the first and last track were good.
All tracks on 90125 were good. |
|||||
twosteves
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 01 2007 Location: NYC/Rhinebeck Status: Offline Points: 4071 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
Three is cool prog---90125 is not. It's stadium power pop.
So KC.
|
|||||
TerLJack
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 18 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1014 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
3 is the least of the primary colors trilogy.
90125 was fresh when it came out, but not as prog as before. Both slightly disappointing at the time. 90125 a little less. 90125 gets my vote.
|
|||||
suitkees
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 19 2020 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 8788 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
Don't mind what label we stick on either album, I like them both. But to me 90125 is more consistent high quality.
|
|||||
The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
|||||
AFlowerKingCrimson
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 02 2016 Location: Philly burbs Status: Offline Points: 16460 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
Again, the question isn't what album is more prog but which you prefer. It sounds like you prefer it just because it's prog and the other one isn't.
|
|||||
dr wu23
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20491 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
KC
|
|||||
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin |
|||||
Rednight
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 18 2014 Location: Mar Vista, CA Status: Offline Points: 4807 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
'Pair makes the other look like a children's album.
|
|||||
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
|
|||||
dr prog
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 25 2010 Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Points: 2449 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
Three is crimsons second best album behind Poseidon. Even with smelly Sleepless
|
|||||
All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
|
|||||
questionsneverknown
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 22 2009 Location: Ultima Thule Status: Offline Points: 602 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
Three of a Perfect Pair by quite some distance for me.
Between the two, back in the day I loved 3 more than 90210 [], and I think 3 survives the era a bit better as well. It's funny to me that some focus on Perfect Pair's pop quality given how far out everything from Nuages on is. Honestly it's one of the stranger and more experimental albums of the period. I'd risk saying that you'd have to go to the farther edges of the 80s industrial and Goth scenes to find equivalent experimentation at that time.
|
|||||
The damage that we do is just so powerfully strong we call it love
The damage that we do just goes on and on and on but not long enough. --Robyn Hitchcock |
|||||
Post Reply | Page <1234> |
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |