Originally Posted by Il Duce

aduhai! again with the Talking Heads comparison

just because Adrian Belew was there doesn't make them sound like the Heads

Originally Posted by RMR

I normally don't like to label music-- usually that's done by record companies to market bands, so I normally try to stay away from stamping one label on a band because they rarely are the pure representation of that label. I was interested in King Crimson, though.

On the grunge label that I originally wrote, I read an article several years ago that said that King Crimson's sound in their 73-74 period was very "grungy" not to be compared with the grunge bands of the early 90's... just that it was very "grungy" sounding, with which I still somewhat agree; however, the word has way too many connotations to bands like Nirvana to used, so I should have never used that adjective to start with. Here are my final labels, with the help of IL Duce:

Period 1- "In the Court," "Poseidon," "Lizard," "Islands" #original progressive rock#
Period 2- "Larks' Tongues in Aspic," "Starless and Bible Black," "Red" #improvisational proto-progressive metal#
Period 3- "Discipline," "Beat," "Three of a Perfect Pair" #progressive new wave#
Period 4- "THRAK," "The Construction of Light," "The Power to Believe" #industrial and avant-garde progressive metal#