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Hey KC heads, thought this might be a fun topic....you're stranded on an island & you only get to listen to ONE King Crimson album/CD... which would it be & why?.... NO compilations or box sets
For me, it'd have to be 'Larks Tongues in Aspic'
now i wish i wouldn't have asked why heh heh
I would say because i love the album & i couldn't deal with any water themes on an island or 'In the Court of' or 'Starless' may be a bit schizy after awhile
For me, it'd have to be 'Larks Tongues in Aspic'
now i wish i wouldn't have asked why heh heh
I would say because i love the album & i couldn't deal with any water themes on an island or 'In the Court of' or 'Starless' may be a bit schizy after awhile
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Fri, August 12, 2005 - 7:55 PMI think that if I was stranded on a island, I would probably be schitzy anyway, so "In the Court" would probably be my best bet. Can I have a volleyball too? -
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Fri, August 12, 2005 - 8:16 PMAbsolutely Alli! a volleyball in the color of your choice
'In the Court' was definitely my second choice ;
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Sat, August 13, 2005 - 2:00 AMDiscipline!
Adrian, Robert, Bill and Tony comprised my favorite incarnation. -
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Sat, August 13, 2005 - 1:20 PMI would take "Islands" for the sake of irony. Then I would use the CD as a mirror to signal search planes so I could get the hell off the island and back to my music collection. -
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Sat, August 13, 2005 - 11:34 PM"In The Court of the Crimson King"
It's simply brilliant. This is the album that introduced me to the wonderful, colorful canon of KC and no matter how many times I listen to it, it never ceases to amaze me; I always hear something new in that album that catches me and makes me say, "That's GENIUS!" -
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Sun, August 14, 2005 - 11:03 AMLove that album, but my fave will always be "Lark's Tounges In Aspic". Some older friends introduced me to it when was 15, and I had been listening to crappy 80's pop and new wave music... I was bown away!
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Thu, September 1, 2005 - 7:20 PMDiscipline, also. My first KC album, and still my fave. "Indiscipline" is my theme song. (I LIKE IT!)
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Mon, August 15, 2005 - 6:06 PMB-Boom! for sure! Studio Crims is great, but live is where it's at.
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Thu, August 18, 2005 - 4:52 PM"Red", without a doubt. All the eldrich menace of both Larks' and Starless, but with more polish and less noodling about. :-)
The Larks/Starless/Red era of Crimson is my fave, and it's hard to pick just one, but there you go. Despite this, "Fracture" remains my fave ever Crim track (with "Starless" from Red right behind it). -
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Fri, August 19, 2005 - 7:56 AM"Starless", what a song! That's the '73-'74 lineup's absolute masterpiece! -
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Fri, August 19, 2005 - 7:34 PMThat is absolutely my most favorite song. It makes me...emotional! -
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Fri, August 19, 2005 - 9:05 PMIf it has to be studio album, it would be the Power to Beleive (It really is my favorite) or if we can include live stuff then it would be EleKctrik -
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Fri, August 19, 2005 - 9:51 PMThe Power To Believe rocks! Probably the most tightest, most coherent studio album by the recent lineup! -
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Fri, August 19, 2005 - 10:16 PMI'm with you. The Power To Believe is one of the best albums I own (let alone a Crimson album).
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Thu, August 25, 2005 - 8:52 AMI hope we all get stranded on the same island...we'll have some fantastic Crimson to listen to...studio & live, love em all
notice an absence of 'Beat' & 'Poseidon' -
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Thu, August 25, 2005 - 9:11 PMIf I give my left pinky toe, can I bring Beat too? -
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Sat, August 27, 2005 - 3:13 AMWhat's the line between album and box set? It's hard to tell with the deluge of (very welcome) releases from Discipline in the last 6 or 7 years.
If Absent Lovers doesn't count as a box set, then I'd have to go with that. Great setlist, and the 80s band really clicking. Sound is good for a live set.
If absent lovers is out of bounds, I'd have to go with three of a perfect pair. It was the album that got me to love King Crimson. I know that most people love Discipline most of all from the 80s, but I had to go back and buy that, and that was after months of just playing TOAPP to death. Just the intro with Adrian drawing out "sheeeee" It was like nothing I'd ever heard, and I was a talking heads fan.
the other side of the tape had in the court on it. I've come to appreciate it since, but it got ffwd'd through most of my freshman year in college, to go back to TOAPP.
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Thu, September 1, 2005 - 7:04 PMi think the line between album & box set is a "Greatest Hits" theme!? and I love Three of a Perfect Pair... -
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Thu, September 1, 2005 - 8:47 PMI would have considered Great Deciever a box set, though. and it's just a bunch of shows. But the number of discs (4) and the presentation-- box, booklet-- seem to put it into box set territory. I'd have trouble picking between absent lovers and great deciever.
Damage has the box set presentation (Fripp/Sylvian) with the gold disc, box and booklet, but is the one disc, so the line isn't that clear.
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Sat, August 27, 2005 - 11:20 PMBEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT BEAT -
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Wed, November 23, 2005 - 11:04 AMIn the Wake of Poseidon.
Am I the only person here that loves this album? Sure, it's practically a song-by-song remake of their first (arrangement-wise) but I think the songs are better than those on "Court". For some reason, people have strong feelings about this record - they love it or really hate it. Why??? I think it's awesome and it still gives me goosebumps when I listen to it - and I bought it the day it was released. This first incarnation of Crimson is still my favorite. -
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Wed, November 23, 2005 - 2:14 PMCat food a re-hash?NOT!Remember hearing it on the radio in the 1970's.That was some different sound after The Moody Blues.
I like their early works especially the Fripp and Mellotron treats,yum.It aged so much better thanELP or Yes out of that whole prog style.
Had to google it for the cover/songs.
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Fri, December 9, 2005 - 1:35 PMSomewhere in the "Big Box Set" liner notes, Fripp admits that he essentially copied the feel and the songs from "Court" onto "Poseidon". However, you can't come close to a comparison of "Cat Food" with "Moonchild"(!) -
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Fri, December 9, 2005 - 1:40 PMWOW,no and a 6 letter word YUMMIE!
CENSORED
Check out the TribeIdeas posting Boing Boing for a 21st Cent. Paranoid update,this is some scary stuff!
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Fri, December 9, 2005 - 1:54 PMOooh. That would be a serious toss up between Starless & Bible Black and Discipline.
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Tue, December 13, 2005 - 1:20 PMI'm listening to Red right now. Dammit! Why do I have to choose? This is such a great album, and it was my introduction to KC.
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Tue, December 13, 2005 - 5:11 PMAhhh...so many choices, so many lineups, so much to hear. You only get one on the island, keep brooding... i think my intro to KC was In The Court of...
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Wed, December 28, 2005 - 2:10 AMDefinitely I agree with Scot, Larks Tongues In Aspic is one of the most interesting and beautiful albums ever recorded. The final riff sends shivers down my spine. -
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Mon, January 9, 2006 - 12:09 PMD'you mean tuning the guitar string down? Brilliance! I think Larks Tongues is the most menacing-sounding Crimson at their best. Not for the faint-of-heart.
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Tue, May 30, 2006 - 8:32 PMIf I was stranded on the island because of a boat that tipped over, I'd want to listen to IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON. -
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Tue, May 30, 2006 - 9:19 PMIf the Crimson catalog was only done by ONE lineup, this would be an easier choice...
I chose RED, and I think I'll tell you all why...
....Bruford/Levin/Fripp/Belew is probably the BEST BAND, the late 60's outfits set the tone for all the others, and the recent setups from THRAK up to NOW, have put together some really EDGY stuff..But the best MATERIAL seems to come from the Wetton/Bruford/Cross/Fripp combo....and RED is the album that does the best job of getting its POINT ACROSS...the other two albums have songs on them that are ABSOLUTELY TOP SHELF...like both parts of Larks' Tongues, Easy Money, Exiles, The Mincer, Lament, and FRACTURE (one of the top 2 or 3 BEST that lineup produced, I believe), but none of them find their way from START TO FINISH as smoothly as RED...And there are details to the way that album is PLAYED that aren't on the others: That RIDE cymbal that really cuts thru the mix (especially on RED NIGHTMARE), the really heavy BUILD UP at the end of STARLESS that revolves around that BASS PATTERN(overall, I regard that song the SAME WAY I do Fracture), some of the most STRAIGHTFORWARD (but effective) playing Fripp ever recorded, and Wetton's sings on this album with more CLARITY and AUTHORITY than on the other 2.
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