King Crimson

Holy fuck. Love this band. One of the best debuts around. I always have a few tunes like Epitaph and Red floating in my playlists but these guys (all 18 or 20 or whatever of em) got this shit settled.

Plus Fripps' solo on St Elmos Fire is magnificent.

Just a glorious band and we haven't had a thread in ages.

The Court of the Crimson King is awesome

Epitaph is godlike. Even my girlfriend loves that track. The whole album wails though.

I only have a collection of some of their better songs, but I know when I finally get around to listening to one of their better albums... I know i'll be blown away. Cascade and Cadence is the latest addiction I have had with them.

The court of the crimson king mate.

listen to starless. it is amazing.

and doctor diamond, i guess.

im not a big fan of discipline or anything after that though

MELLOTRON

massive! psyche!

also the brondesbury tapes have an interesting version of I Talk to the Wind w/song-seamtres J. Dyble.

Red

Man, what are you sayin. Straight trippin on 3 of a Perffect Pair! If you hate Eno I guess...

the early stuff is awesome, but i prefer the belew-era stuff, mostly the three 80s albums. thrak is also fucking excellent!

belew is a guitar god, saw him earlier this year with the power trio, it was amazing.

Red!! Red and One More Red Nightmare are epic tunes.

  all_purpose_sandpaper said:

Red

 

Man, what are you sayin. Straight trippin on 3 of a Perffect Pair B-side! If you hate Eno I guess...

'21st Century Schizoid Man'

Best first track by any band, ever.

  beatfanatic said:

The Court of the Crimson King is awesome

+1

Prog rock is so IDM.

zole

prog rock is so idm, it was idm before even idm was idm.

edit: while on acid

  modey said:

zole

 

prog rock is so idm, it was idm before even idm was idm.

 

edit: while on acid

So what your essentially saying is that IDM is prog rock? Fair does

PROG ROCK>

kaen knows the score

fuck yeah i'mma bust out some genesis right now

edit: while on acid

edit again: oh yeah i might bring it back on topic with some king crimson at some point, or whatnot lol

crimson kicks some serious ass. all eras are good. been playing the track "discipline" a lot.. soo hypnotic i love it.

i enjoy all eras of king crimson... cirkus was my first king crimson record

fripp is a god

wow theres a weird bit at 1.10 in that video where it shows this bald guy playing a mental looking bass and he looks exactly like that naked blue flying guy in that superhero film that was out of a few months ago that i cant remember the name of but you know who i mean

  Shit Attack said:

wow theres a weird bit at 1.10 in that video where it shows this bald guy playing a mental looking bass and he looks exactly like that naked blue flying guy in that superhero film that was out of a few months ago that i cant remember the name of but you know who i mean

dr. manhattan from watchmen?

haha yeah that was it . who knew he could also play bass ?

  modey said:

the early stuff is awesome, but i prefer the belew-era stuff, mostly the three 80s albums. thrak is also fucking excellent!

 

belew is a guitar god, saw him earlier this year with the power trio, it was amazing.

I feel the complete opposite, can't stand 80's Crimson...

But with that being said, I love everything they released from the first record to 'Live 1975'...

Amazing music!

And Essines, I hope you are digging the holy four Eno rock albums ('Here Come The Warm Jets', 'Taking Tiger Mountain', 'Another Green World', and 'Before and After Science') as well. They are addictive. Any dispute on Eno being a wizard is destroyed by these four masterpieces.

their latest albums are a complete fucking disgrace, and in the court isn't that good either. i think it's one of their more boring albums, always the one that people rave and rant about. it's quite cheesy and hard to sit through, though.

in the wake, starless, larks', red, discipline, toapp, beat, thrak - all fantastic. they made a lot of absolute trash too, but they made up for it by making that many consistent and inspiring works of music. and yes, belew is a guitar god. just fucking watch

  Wall Bird said:

'21st Century Schizoid Man'

 

Best first track by any band, ever.

a million times yes.