wanderingprostheyltite
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their on tour this year in the US! go do it!
Awesome, thanks for the heads up
their on tour this year in the US! go do it!
cmon man Tarkus and Brain Salad Surgery is awesome! How can you like early KC and not like Greg Lake's singing on ELP?!
Also by noticing your name I'm guessing you love Genesis too
their on tour this year in the US! go do it!
Uhh...you ever listen to Tarkus or anything off their first album?
Because if not, do that.
EDIT: Beaten to it.
Much appreciated.an excellent post about King Crimson's run of albums from a poster with a Watcher of the Skies handle?
two thumbs up from me good sir
There are dozens of us (Genesis pop era fans).King Crimson fan with a Genesis nick? Fucking awesome. Welcome, friend!I'm also a pop-Genesis fan, IDGAF!
Pop Genesis is great, but Gabriel Genesis is number one. Duke is a great album from 80s GenesisKing Crimson fan with a Genesis nick? Fucking awesome. Welcome, friend!I'm also a pop-Genesis fan, IDGAF!
If you're a fan, you might also want to track down an album he did with Japan's David Sylvian, Damage. Here's two of my favorite tracks; Brightness Falls and Blinding Light of Heaven
The two men had worked together before on Sylvians second solo album, Gone To Earth, in 1986 and plans they had made at the time for a further collaboration only started to come to fruition when Sylvian was asked to do a tour of Japan in 1992. Sylvian: "Robert approached me in late 1991 about whether I wanted to join a new King Crimson he was forming. Though very flattered, I decided that I didnt feel equipped to take on the whole baggage and history that comes with being a member of King Crimson. So instead we took the offer of the tour as an opportunity to write material for an album."
Pop Genesis is great, but Gabriel Genesis is number one. Duke is a great album from 80s Genesis
That's it? I guess one should never read too much into Fripp lyrics.some random references to Kerouac and Cassady
I have listened from ELP to Brain Salad Surgery, i have to admit that Emerson, Lake and Palmer (The album from 1970) is good, but their music is always too complicated and soulless (for me) not a fan i think Dream Theater suffers the same problem awesome musicians but boring music)
Love Duke, arguably the last truly great album they did instead of "a side" or "a bunch of songs".
And, tbh, my favorite Genesis period is the early Phil years, from A Trick of the Tail to Duke. 3 amazing albums out of 4 (ATTW3 is... a mixed bag) after losing 2 crucial bandmembers isn't so bad
That's it? I guess one should never read too much into Fripp lyrics.
I understand the ELP argument. Dream Theater is my favorite band, but I can see how they can come across as too clinical outside the Kevin Moore albums.
80's Genesis has inconsistent albums but damn great tracks. If it weren't for me having to replace "Your Own Special Way" for "Inside And Out" on Wind & Wuthering's track listing I'd call that the weakest of the early Phil / neo-prog era LP's (I actually really like ...And Then There Were Three...).
After listening to the three albums I have on CD a bit more...
You did this to me, GAF. You. Did. This.
edit: now when are the rest of the studio albums getting 200-gram reissues??
I wasn't even aware of these! Must have missed your previous comment about them in this thread. I'll have to seek those out.Good man, though you should get the Steven Wilson remixes. They sound incredible (and are Fripp-approved...Fripproved?) even if you don't have a 5.1 setup!
This is true... We'll see. I think I've got enough to listen to for the time being, anyway.I mean you don't really need to wait for reissues on those 80's albums as it's pretty easy to get your hands on clean OG pressings.
All you need to know to know that is that Bruford did too.
Ok this makes more sense. I didn't think Fripp was ever known to be a wordsmith.to be fair, those were (like pretty much every other lyrical track on the album) Belew's lyrics. I don't think Fripp is much of a lyric writer.
Bruford bailed on Yes right on the cusp of them losing direction and joined Crimson right when they were getting their second wind. one of the all-time greatest timing of changing bands.
Ok this makes more sense. I didn't think Fripp was ever known to be a wordsmith.
I should look for this, but for some odd reason I'm imagining his blog to be highly pretentious.he has a very nice blog, though. I think he enjoys writing without the constraint of fitting the lyrics into a musical context - or maybe he felt other people's lyrics were more appropriate to each of the band's incarnations.
The dates posted today on the tours page are as follows.
19 Oct Bass Performance Hall, Austin
21 Oct Music Hall, Dallas
23 Oct Center Stage, Atlanta
24 Oct Center Stage, Atlanta
26 Oct Duke Energy Centre for the Performing Arts, Raleigh
28 Oct Lisner Auditorium, Washington D.C.
29 Oct Lisner Auditorium, Washington D.C.
31 Oct New Jersey Performing Arts Centre, Newark
02 Nov Merriam Theatre, Philadelphia
03 Nov Merriam Theatre, Philadelphia
06 Nov Orpheum Theatre, Boston
08 Nov The Egg, Albany
09 Nov The Egg, Albany
11 Nov Miller Symphony Hall, Allentown
17 Nov Beacon Theatre, New York
18 Nov Beacon Theatre, New York
22 Nov Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor
24 Nov Hard Rock Cafe, Cleveland
26 Nov Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee
Purchase details will follow.
Sooooooooo.....
USA FALL TOUR ANNOUNCED
I think an old friend of mines dad was in king crimson at one point, never really listened to them though so cant comment if they were any good
Are they in iMusic?
Follow up: what's some songs or albums to listen to?
One More Red Nightmare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyoVrVGeqOU
Listen to this right now! [Starless]
Definitely give the stuff other people are linking a listen as well (especially Starless and Epitath), here's a few that haven't been linked yet;
21st Century Schizoid Man (Gonna have to be a live version, everything on Youtube is edited or has super cringe-inducing videos / political crap over it).
In the Court of the Crimson King
Lark's Tongue in Aspic (Part I)
Book of Saturday (Good sample of "Frippertronics")
In the Court of the Crimson King is an amazing and timeless album from start to finish. I have the 200g vinyl reissue which sounds amazing. 'Moonchild' is my favorite track I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EVGR6rSu0c
Thank you for saying Discipline for the most part every time I step into a KC thread I feel like I'm the only one that likes KC's 80's era?
King Crimson, Frame by Frame
King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair -live-(1984)