Larks Tongues in Aspic Vs. Relayer
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Topic: Larks Tongues in Aspic Vs. Relayer
Posted By: Argo2112
Subject: Larks Tongues in Aspic Vs. Relayer
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 14:39
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Posted By: tempest_77
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 15:16
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Relayer by a long shot. ------------- I use they/them pronouns (feel free to ask me about this!) Check out my music on https://tempestsounds.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - my bandcamp ! |
Posted By: DarkTower
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 15:20
| Gate of Delirium is so good.... Relayer ! |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 15:32
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Relayer. ------------- 
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 16:03
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Relayer is, IMHO, Yes' masterpiece. I've never (for the 70s), never (for the 80s), never (for the Naughties), never (for the Teens), never (for yesterday) been able to get into or enjoy Larks Tongues. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 16:17
| Larks Tongues in Aspic |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 16:20
| Both are in my top three or so and it's close(but not to the edge) but I have to go with relayer. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 16:22
I haven't heard it in a long time but I remember thinking it's a very wacked album. I think that's part of it's charm though. It's so unhinged you have to respect it. Relayer is a bit wacked out too in parts but not quite like larks and not as consistently wacked.
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BrufordFreak wrote:Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 16:30
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Relayer ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 17:11
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Relayer's overrated. It's great, but nowhere near Yes' best. LTIA easy. ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: Olape
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 17:25
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LTIA, well aged and for me over any Yes album (except, maybe, TFTO). ------------- 
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 17:44
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LTIA is top 5 all time for me, Relayer is pretty good ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Kilimajaro
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 18:34
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Couldn't agree more! Relayer is the slightly younger, though perhaps a little less fun (only mildly) cousin of Close To The Edge, and an all around masterpiece of an album. What can I say? The Gates of Delirium is a magnificent, epic piece that challenges the likes of TFTO's tracks and even Close To The Edge, with Soon, the beautiful and haunting conclusion; Sound Chaser is to Relayer as Siberian Khatru is to Close To The Edge, and an incredible enjoyable and technically impressive piece; and To Be Over is one of my all time favorite Yes songs, with its beautiful opening and signature Yes style, closing with as much beauty as it began. LTIA is a good album but it's not even one of my favorite King Crimson albums. It's a little sub their greater works, and simply not on the level of the likes of any 70s Yes, let alone Relayer. Now Red is a different story, but that's another matter entirely.
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 20:08
| I think I did this one a few years ago. I'm going with Relayer, just because of Gates of Delirium, though Larks has a some great songs too, of course. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 22:04
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Larks' ------------- 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: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 22:22
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LTIA is a good album but it's not even one of my favorite King Crimson albums. It's a little sub their greater works, and simply not on the level of the likes of any 70s Yes, let alone Relayer. For me personally, I can't think of a KC album better than LTIA. Certainly not red which has a 12 minute improv piece that brings it down a bit or the debut which has more or less the same issue. The thing I like about both of these choices is they both represent each band at their most wild and carefree and as I said in an earlier post "wacked out." However, Islands is probably the weirdest KC album over all.
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Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 22:46
Personally I think the near perfection of the rest of Red gives the simple decency of Providence a pass, especially since it acts as a bit of a calm before the storm that is Starless. But generally I agree that LTIA is almost surprisingly devoid of filler for a 70s KC album. Even ones where I can't pin down single fillers tracks like Lizard and Islands have their less-than-stellar moments. Larks' Tongues is what it is 100% of the runtime. ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 22:46
That's my answer. LTIA is a masterpiece, only eclipsed by Red.
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: January 05 2021 at 23:53
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If this were between certain tracks, it'd be Relayer with Gates. HOWEVER... LTIA part 2 is a beast and people still don't see the connection to the metal bands that robbed that sound literally 30 years after the fact. KC on this one. The influence to me is more undeniable, despite both records essentially being perfect. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 00:15
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You're sick to make me choose between these two!  But because of my most recent review, it will be 'Tongues of Larks'! |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 00:21
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LTIA. I love Relayer, but LTIA was ground-breaking. Tough decision! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Theprogelitist
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 02:04
| Larks’ |
Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 03:11
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Relayer - Yes. ------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 03:12
| Relayer |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 05:58
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I could go either way on this one but today Relayer ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 06:02
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 06:03
Relayer, even though it's not amongst my favourite Yes albums. 
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 06:22
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Relayer gets the nod. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Spacegod87
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 06:36
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Relayer. And LTIA is my favourite KC album as well. But Relayer beats it. ------------- Levitating downwards, atomic feedback scream. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 06:52
| King Crimson for Sure. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 07:14
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Relayer. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 11:01
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Larks' Tongues in Aspic for me. ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 14:45
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Larks ...over Relayer ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 21:57
Immagine something like Fracture instead of Providence on that album. Or perhaps, thinking of something that was not released on another album that could give us a better idea, like Dr Diamond (I rather like it on Collectable King Crimson vol 1), or even, if they wanted a live iprov from the tours, I think the more obvious choice would have been the Ausbury Park improv (from the USA album). |
Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: January 06 2021 at 22:15
I mean if there's a ceiling for greatness, Red is already inches from the top. You may be right though. ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: January 07 2021 at 12:52
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I've not been able to get into Larks Tongues in Aspic, so Relayer is an easy choice. ------------- 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: January 07 2021 at 22:57
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The heat from your physique... Thread nearly tied! ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: January 08 2021 at 11:09
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KC LARK’S ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: January 10 2021 at 14:38
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Both great albums, I like Relayer more. If King Crimson was represented by Red, that would be a difficult choice.
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Posted By: Dopeydoc
Date Posted: January 11 2021 at 15:13
| Relayer. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 11 2021 at 18:16
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"Relayer" is my favourite album by Yes, "Larks' Tongue in Aspic" only ranks 5th among the King Crimson albums for me (my favourite is "Lizard"), so "Relayer" gets my vote. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: January 11 2021 at 23:28
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Interesting to see how people go back and forth on these! A few years back Relayer was "meh", and LITA was untouchable on these boards. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |