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DIV'S DESULTORY ROCK REVIEWS

KING CRIMSON

They started this crazy thing called progressive rock!I mean .........wow!

Band/Artist Logo

Years

13 January, 1969 -

From

England

Styles

  • Progressive Rock  

Members

  • Adrian Belew
    guitar, vocals
  • Pat Mastelotto
    drums, percussion
  • Robert Fripp
    guitar
  • Trey Gunn
    bass, guitar

                                            

                                       In the Court of the Crimson King   A

  • 21st CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN including MIRRORS
  •  I Talk To The Wind
  • EPITAPH including MARCH FOR NO REASON and TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
  • MOONCHILD including THE DREAM and THE ILLUSION
  • THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING including THE RETURN OF THE FIRE WITCH and THE DANCE OF THE PUPPETS
  • The granddaddy of prog,what,what?
    And what an album it is too........
    I mean this thingy must have raised a storm ,what?Most people were only used to happy,sloppy  Hard Days Night type pop ,what?I don't know....how can i..?
    But this must have raised a storm...
    To start off things we have a prog staple, a huge monster called 21st Century Schizoid Man..which kicks ass all the way to hell(ok, sorry but i am short of ideas so i am sticking to stereotypes).Crap, man,the vocals have to be heard to be believed.!Of course the horns and hooks and thingies blew me away and still does....
    I was a bit dissapointed after hearing the rest of the songs though but that has changed over time..i love all the songs except for the 12 minute useless wankfest called Moonchild...why did  they think that anybody would like to hear them messing around in the studio other than themselves?But witty criticisms apart this album is a must hear because firstly all the songs except for Moonchild are of high quality and secondly ,history has made this an important album so if you are even slightly interested in progressive rock(I am not slightly interested ..i am hugely interested in prog) you have got to hear this thingy we got here...

     

                                                                  RED    A+

    • RED (6:20)
    • FALLEN ANGEL (6:00)
    • ONE MORE RED NIGHTMARE (7:07)
    • PROVIDENCE (8:08)
    • STARLESS (12:18

     The first time i heard this album i fell out of my chair...and after hearing it for the 10000000th time 10 minutes ago it still made me shiver..
    The landscape is not bleak..it is dark and forbidding reminding me of dark street alleyways and starless nights and of course as can be predicted ...red skies at night
    Imaginations apart(though it can form an interesting subject of study) the music on this album is,of course as can be expected from Crimson is complex and great...an album not only for the ears and brain but for the heart also, when your heart wants to get depressed,that is..this album is not remotely happy not even One More Red Nightmare which has got clapping in the background but a dark riff section...
    Among my favourite albums of all time.....yessir.......
    Oh,i don't want to say anything about Starless one of the greatest songs Crimson ever did...(though i haven't heard them all) it will spoil all the fun....
    Oh,there is a wankfest to stop the tempo.. and it is called Providence ..so if you are going to download this album avoid it if you wish..though i would say that the violin stirs up a eerie atmosphere but i am not always for it ,like i always am for the dangerous title track that blasts you the second it starts....
    So there it is....another essential album..one for the ages..if i may say so...


     

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