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Mandrakeroot 
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 Posted: September 18 2006 at 16:47 |
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Starless and Three
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sleeper
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Posted: September 18 2006 at 18:28 |
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Of the ones I know, Starless And Bible Black is the best of them IMO.
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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bruin69
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Posted: September 18 2006 at 20:11 |
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Lizard for its melodic qualities, then Islands and Starless
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A dog is for lunch and not just for breakfast
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Bilek
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Posted: September 19 2006 at 03:52 |
 el böthy wrote:
Are you documenting every step you take when it comes to Crimson? Next poll will be about the pictures of Fripp to download from Google...
well, get Lizard
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very funny, indeed!
besides; I agree about the album as well 
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Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret:
Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!)
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: September 19 2006 at 03:57 |
Instead of "Starless And Bible Black" album, get "The Night Watch", which has the entire liveshow which makes about 60% of SaBB album! 
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Phil
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Posted: September 19 2006 at 09:12 |
Eetu Pellonpää wrote:
Instead of "Starless And Bible Black" album, get "The Night Watch", which has the entire liveshow which makes about 60% of SaBB album! |
Eetu is right - The Night Watch should be on your list, for a future purchase. Several of the tracks on SABB are re-mixed/overdubbed from the gig documented on "The Night Watch".
Of the others on the list I would try for Lizard. The only KC albums that have disappointed me have been Islands manily because of Boz Burrells vocals, & Earthbound is perhaps their most disappointing live album.
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Cristi
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Posted: September 19 2006 at 11:22 |
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You should check out The power to believe if you don't have it.
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k_crimson
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Joined: September 12 2006
Location: United States
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Posted: September 19 2006 at 11:27 |
Josepet wrote:
KC is not a band with a definite style or personality. You should try to listen to the records before purchasing them, otherwise the disapointment might be huge . At least that's my experience. I love the symphonic phase 69-72, I enjoy parts of the 73-74 records and I just can't connect with the A.Belew records.
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It's hard to listen to a KC album once and know if you like it or not. It took me a long time to like Lizard, but now it is in my top 3 or 4.
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"the wall on which the prophets wrote is cracking at the seams."
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E-Dub
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Posted: September 19 2006 at 16:07 |
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The Power To Believe is one of my favorites, if not my favorite.
K. Crimson hit the nail on the head. When I first started listening to King Crimson, I had a tough time. Part of me wanted to sell the discs or trade them in, but I held on hoping they'd catch on. I can't say that the 2nd or even 3rd listen caught on; but, when I listened to The Power To Believe again a few weeks ago, it really clicked with me.
Oh, and one other thing...is there a better live KC disc than VROOOM VROOOM? If there is, I want to get it because V2 is wildly entertaining.
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Edited by E-Dub - September 19 2006 at 16:08
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bhikkhu
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Posted: September 19 2006 at 16:35 |
E-Dub wrote:
The Power To Believe is one of my favorites, if not my favorite.
K. Crimson hit the nail on the head. When I first started listening to King Crimson, I had a tough time. Part of me wanted to sell the discs or trade them in, but I held on hoping they'd catch on. I can't say that the 2nd or even 3rd listen caught on; but, when I listened to The Power To Believe again a few weeks ago, it really clicked with me.
Oh, and one other thing...is there a better live KC disc than VROOOM VROOOM? If there is, I want to get it because V2 is wildly entertaining.
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"B'Boom" is pretty good, but I think the favorite is "The Night Watch." I only have these two, but I think a consensus would also bear this out.
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E-Dub
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Posted: September 19 2006 at 17:05 |
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bhikkhu, I'll definitely look into them. It'll be hard to beat V2, however. Man, is that a powerful live disc. Now I know why people say their live stuff is better than the studio.
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iTunes: "Hard As Love" from Marillion's Made Again
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Harry Hood
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Posted: September 19 2006 at 17:33 |
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"Absent Lovers" is another great live album.
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Mikerinos
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Posted: September 19 2006 at 18:45 |
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Go with Lizard or Islands (or both!)
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superprog
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 03:46 |
at this point u wldve probably gotten everything hahah
if not, i believ u might be missing Thrakattahk..........u shld be all ready for it!!!! IMPROV till u die....
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pero
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 06:26 |
ISLANDS is most underrated diamond in KC opus.
After Islands get In a wake of Poseidon, Lizard and Starless and bible black
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MattiR
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 12:32 |
pero wrote:
ISLANDS is most underrated diamond in KC opus.
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blindtoad
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Posted: October 20 2006 at 23:50 |
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Starless is what I called an easy album no 20 minutes songs... great rock... great voice... it just rock! you can explore something that KC gives to prog the true and hard ROCK!... but Lizard is second barely because of Lizard... 20 minutes of perfection... different classical instruments in too...
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quelqu'un pour un jam?
blindtoad = Poor english...
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The Whistler
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Posted: October 21 2006 at 00:09 |
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OH! You need to hear Night Watch and Trio...two of the (sniff) most beautiful prog rockers every recorded. And Great Deciever ain't too shabby neither...Fracture's nice too.
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"There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson
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Epitath
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Posted: October 21 2006 at 05:33 |
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Starless and Bible black is just a better album compaired to the other ones in this poll.
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Philéas
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Posted: October 21 2006 at 09:20 |
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Island has grown a lot on me lately. Probably my favourite KC album at the moment. A great, underrated album.
Edited by Philéas - October 29 2006 at 09:07
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