Fav King Crimson CD (no Live or Comps)
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Topic: Fav King Crimson CD (no Live or Comps)
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Subject: Fav King Crimson CD (no Live or Comps)
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 13:53
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Compliments the "best KC Vocalist" thread. http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001"> I've always been most fond of the Bruford, Wetton, Fripp, Cross (Muir) line-up. It's heard to choose between them, but Larks' Tongue is it for me with Starless nipping the heels. |
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 14:24
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Lark´s Tongues In Aspic, but I really like The Power To Believe.......and about 15 other KC albums
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 16:03
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RED. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 16:46
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"Exiles" alone is worth it! Lizard, Starless & B.B.,Court, Wake, & Discipline all indispensable too! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 17:14
| Islands for the beautiful title track. Although my favourite lineup is the 73-74 incarnation. |
Posted By: Mattjam65
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 17:43
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"In the Court of the Crimson King" gets my vote. A prog masterpiece and a defining moment of the genre. "Red" would also be up near the top. But then, they have such a wide and varied catalog that its hard to pick just one. |
Posted By: ShrinkingViolet
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 18:26
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Tough..yeesh. In the Court of the Crimson King surely is one of the best, a fine example of prog at its best. What makes it hard is that almost all albums are superb as we see King Crimson evolving and heading towards something great each time. Jenna. |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: April 13 2004 at 04:53
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I only have Court I think I should buy Red and Tongues... too! LALALA MONEY! |
Posted By: Hammar
Date Posted: April 13 2004 at 10:12
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"In the court" is my favourite! It was one of my first progrecords and has been important to me! By the way, isn't "Happy with..." just an EP?? It's a nice track on Power to Believe anyway...
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 13 2004 at 13:50
| Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
Posted By: arqwave
Date Posted: April 13 2004 at 13:58
red has something that makes me want to hear it over and over again... a classic
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Posted By: diddy
Date Posted: April 13 2004 at 14:05
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Am I the only one who voted for Lizard? Hmmm...why? I voted for it because Lark's tongues or the court will win anyway ------------- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... George Orwell |
and because it's as good as the two... Posted By: Alexander
Date Posted: April 13 2004 at 14:06
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Lizard. ------------- On A Dilemmia Between What I Need & What I Just Want 
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Posted By: The Analog Kid
Date Posted: April 14 2004 at 10:35
| Larks Tongues in aspic, without a doubt. No weak moment anywhere, best line-up they had. |
Posted By: Garbs
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 10:45
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Voted for Red - an amazing dynamically powerful album. Surprised Discipline hasn't received a vote so far. Frame by Frame and Indiscipline are excellent imo !! ------------- So here I am once more |
Posted By: Jeremy Bender
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 10:52
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1: The Power To Believe 2: In The Court Of The Crimson King 3: Starless & Bible Black(very underrated) |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 11:01
| Larks Tongues in Aspic has always been my favourite. |
Posted By: cucacola54
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 15:19
tough poll... ill go with red, followed by Beat  , then Islands, ITCOCK, LTIA, Lizard and S & BB... love all of them... but i havent heard the power to belive ------------- Most listened albums last week 
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Posted By: Murder1
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 15:29
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Posted By: SolariS
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 17:28
I voted Islands too. I wouldn't necessarily consider it the greatest, but it's my favorite. |
Mattjam65 wrote:Posted By: goose
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 18:03
Red, Starless, Poisedon, Court, Islands, Lizard. Every one of those is absolutely amazing though (and probably a lot more they did is too  )
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 18:16
In The Court Of The Crimson King ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 22:00
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Larks Tongue In Aspic - followed by Red and Islands. Actually I like all KC pre-1975. ------------- 
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: FishyMonkey
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 22:21
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Right now, Red. However, Lizard is phenomenal, ITCOTCK is classic, Discipline is fun as hell, and all the rest are equally awesome besides Beat, Three of a Perfect Pair...and Islands.
I listened to Islands a couple times through yesterday and just could not get into it. It's too quiet, too laid back. Formentera Lady almost put me to sleep every single time. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/FishyMonkey/?chartstyle=artists"> 
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Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 22:23
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Lark's Tongues....
I say this though I haven't heard all of the Belew albums. The creative atmosphere that is presented in Lark's Tongues part 1 is incredible. ------------- One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless Compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity |
Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 22:26
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I was just looking at the Crimson page after posting this and noticed that
this was the biography: "Michael GILES (drummer) and Robert FRIPP (guitarist) in 1968, they formed a new group which included bassist / singer Greg LAKE and saxophonist Ian McDONALD. So began KING CRIMSON, a group dedicated body and soul to the aims of its leader and noted for incessant changes of personnel. Starting out as a heavy dark progressive rock band, using reeds, woodwinds and mellotrons, they made subsequent changes to a more experimental type of music in the 80's and a heavier metal-like sound in the 90's. Through it all, they have maintained their professionalism and have influenced hundreds of bands in the Avant-garde, Progressive and Heavy Metal area, always being ahead of their time. "In The Court Of Crimson King" has since been considered the founding opus of a new musical genre progressive rock! All the reissues of live concerts, whetever current-day or historic, contain very complete booklets with numerous photos and lots of notes by Master FRIPP himself!" I really don't feel that this is a good introduction for the uninformed person. If someone is looking up Crimson for the first time this tells them almost nothing about the band and Fripp's direction changes from lineup to lineup. I really would want a more extensive review of the band. Anybody else? ------------- One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless Compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity |
Posted By: Arnold Layne
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 22:47
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This might be the hardest question that ive answered, there are too many different sounds of king crimson that its like comparing apples and orange. King Crimson is my favorite band so in a way there all my favorite but if you make me chose i'll go with Red since thats the one that started it for me ------------- HELP! |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 28 2005 at 02:21
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RED -------------  |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: October 28 2005 at 04:12
| Of course ITCOTCK - one of prog's finest hours, if not the finest. Then I'd pick Red and Larks' (the former over the latter, as on Red Wetton sings much better). I also quite like Discipline from the Belew era. |