12-02-2009, 03:24 AM
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#80 (permalink)
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Horribly Creative
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: London, The Big Smoke
Posts: 8,265
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Originally Posted by Yon Troper
King Crimson yay.
And In the Court of the Crimson King? Yeah, it's classic, it's a huge influence, but it's marred by one thing. Its name is "Moonchild". It's a nice three-minute song, with about ten minutes of shapeless improv. The definitive version would be the one on 1991's Frame By Frame, which dumps the improv, much to the song's improvement.
Anyway, reccommendations, if you get Court, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black and Red, I think that's the definitive King Crimson.
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The last three are the brilliant KC trilogy with John Wetton on bass and vocals. Court one of the greatest prog albums of all time.
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