Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Top 10s and lists
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - King Crimson Albums - Best To Worst
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

King Crimson Albums - Best To Worst
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 6789>
Author
Message
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
Psychedelic Paul View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: September 16 2019
Location: Nottingham, U.K
Status: Online
Points: 39916 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2020 at 07:19
^^ I just discovered Adrian Belew was the vocalist on the Discipline album. I didn't like his voice at all to be honest. Confused

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - February 12 2020 at 11:19
Back to Top
dr wu23 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: August 22 2010
Location: Indiana
Status: Offline
Points: 20623 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dr wu23 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2020 at 10:45
^Very good lp imho...but I am not a big fan of his voice either  , though many here like his guitar and voice.
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin
Back to Top
Isaac Peretz View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: December 19 2020
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 25 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Isaac Peretz Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2021 at 21:09
Gonna rank the ones I've listened:

1. LTIA (10/10)
2. Lizard (10/10)
3. Red (9.5/10)
4. ITCOTCK (9/10)
5. Construkction Of Light (8.5/10)
6. Discipline (8.5/10)
7. In The Wake Of Poseidon (8/10)
8. S&BB (8/10)
9. THRAK (7.5/10)
10. The Power To Believe (7/10)
11. Islands (6/10)
12. Beat (5/10)

LTIA IV and the title track really bring COL high
Back to Top
Sacro_Porgo View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 15 2019
Location: Cygnus
Status: Offline
Points: 2052 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sacro_Porgo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2021 at 21:51
The ones I've heard:

1. Red
2. Islands
3. Larks' Tongues In Aspic
4. Discipline
5. Lizard
6. In The Court Of The Crimson King
7. Starless And Bible Black
8. In The Wake Of Poseidon
Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
Back to Top
Progmind View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: June 29 2010
Location: Argentina
Status: Offline
Points: 3453 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Progmind Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2021 at 22:56

1) Red
2) Larks' Tongues in Aspic
3) In the Court of the Crimson King
4) Lizard
5) Islands
6) Starless and Bible Black
7) The Power to Believe
8) Discipline
9) In the Wake of Poseidon
10) Beat
11) THRAK
12) Three of a Perfect Pair
13) The ConstruKction of Light
Back to Top
Frets N Worries View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 30 2023
Location: Your Basement
Status: Offline
Points: 4202 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Frets N Worries Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2024 at 09:18
1) Red
Best Song: Starless
2) Starless and Bible Black
Best Song: The Night Watch
3) In The Court of the Crimson King
Best Song: Epitaph
4) Larks Tongues in Aspic
Best Song: LTIA Pt. 2
5) Islands
Best Song: Islands
6) Discipline
Best Song: Frame By Frame
7) Lizard (It pains me to put it this low, but they've got too many great albums! I truly love this album!)
Best Song: Lizard 
8) The Power To Believe
Best Song: Level V 
9) Three of a Perfect Pair
Best Song: King Crimson Barbershop Quartet. (YES, I know it's a bonus track, and no, I don't care. This track is goofy and I love it!)
10) Beat:
Best Song: Sleepless
11) In The Wake of Poseidon 
Best Song: Cat Food
12) Thrak (don't remember this one very well)
Best Song: VROOM
13) The ConstruKction of Light
Best Song: LTIA Pt. 4
The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time...
Back to Top
Frets N Worries View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 30 2023
Location: Your Basement
Status: Offline
Points: 4202 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Frets N Worries Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2024 at 09:55
Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

^^ I just discovered Adrian Belew was the vocalist on the Discipline album. I didn't like his voice at all to be honest. Confused

Paul, has your opinion changed at all in these few years? 
The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time...
Back to Top
Gentle and Giant View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 24 2019
Location: Blackpool
Status: Online
Points: 4366 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Gentle and Giant Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2024 at 10:50
1) In the Court of the Crimson King
2) Red
3) Larks' Tongues in Aspic
4) Lizard
5) Islands
6) Starless and Bible Black
7) Three of a Perfect Pair
8) In the Wake of Poseidon
9) Discipline
10) THRAK
11) Beat
12) A Scarcity of Miracles
13) The Power to Believe
14) The ConstruKction of Light
Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen
Back to Top
The Dark Elf View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: February 01 2011
Location: Michigan
Status: Online
Points: 13049 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Dark Elf Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2024 at 16:42
In the Court of the Crimson King
Larks' Tongue in Aspic
Red
Lizard
Starless and Bible Black
Islands
In The Wake of Poseidon
Discipline

Order the rest however you wish. 
...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
Back to Top
Grumpyprogfan View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 09 2019
Location: Kansas City
Status: Offline
Points: 11554 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Grumpyprogfan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2024 at 18:27
Awesome to revive a ten year old thread.

Red
Discipline
The Power to Believe
Larks...
Starless...
Beat
Project Two: Space Groove

Edited by Grumpyprogfan - January 17 2024 at 06:27
Back to Top
Easy Money View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin

Joined: August 11 2007
Location: Memphis
Status: Offline
Points: 10616 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Easy Money Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2024 at 19:03
Lizard
Starless and Bible Black
Larks Tongue
In the Court
In the Wake
Islands
Red
Discipline
Back to Top
Frets N Worries View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 30 2023
Location: Your Basement
Status: Offline
Points: 4202 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Frets N Worries Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2024 at 19:06
Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:

Lizard
Starless and Bible Black
Larks Tongue
In the Court
In the Wake
Islands
Red
Discipline

With the Username 'Easy Money' one would presume LTIA is your favorite King Crimson album
The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time...
Back to Top
richardh View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: February 18 2004
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 27956 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2024 at 20:04
Originally posted by Chaser Chaser wrote:

Originally posted by DreamTechPlus DreamTechPlus wrote:


I enjoy prog but, to be quite honest, I've fallen out of love with the type of bombast you might get out of symphonic prog records that you'd find on the Greg Lake era. I think a lot of ITCOTCK is a bit dated. Influential, important and essential yes. But just for me I find it in 2019 to be a bit... well... silly.

I enjoy prog with more modernity (it is in the genre's name after all) and a more current political and social consciousness as well as a more pop and rhythm based aesthetic.
 
 
I'm not a big fan of Greg Lake, and I don't like ELP very much.  I would agree that ELP can be bombastic at times.
 
I don't think I would describe ITCOTCK as "bombastic" though.  A bit dated in parts, yes, possibly, which is partly why I don't rate it as the best KC album or the best ever prog rock album (as some do), although it's importance in the history of prog rock cannot be denied.
 
What I don't accept though, is the idea that modern prog rock should be rated more highly than classic prog rock, simply on account of it being newer.
 
My understanding of the term "progressive" rock is that it was called "progressive" because the songs progressed from one point to another, rather like a symphony, as opposed to constantly repeating themselves, as in the standard verse/chorus pop song.
 
in other words "progressive" doesn't imply some imperative to constantly "progress" into the future and reinvent the music, rather it simply describes the structural form of progressive rock music.
 
Anyway, keep enjoying the music.

stumbled across this post. It's interesting because Keith Emerson also used that description for progressive rock. Most would assume it's the 'progress into the future' definition and I see that as now accepted as the definition.

For my rankings
Red and ITCOTKC are the only two I rate at 10/10
Lizard 9/10
Starless and Bible Black 8/10
The Power To Believe 7/10
ITWOP and LTIA 6/10
Islands 5/10

I haven't listened to the others that much. I've tried with Discipline but whether it's a dodgy remaster or just that I can't stand the vocal I'm rarely able to get through it. 

The 2019 show I saw with the 3 drummers is still one of the best gigs I've ever been to. Ticket was pricey but it was totally worth it. As memorable as seeing Yes Symphonic around 23 years ago. Again quite an expensive ticket but a fabulous gig. After that it would have been Kansas 20 odd years ago.







Edited by richardh - January 16 2024 at 20:08
Back to Top
Floydoid View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 02 2007
Location: Planet Prog
Status: Offline
Points: 1488 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Floydoid Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2024 at 01:47
For some odd reason I only ever managed to get into ITCOTC and ITWOP - i.e when Greg Lake was on bass and vocal duties.
'We're going to need a bigger swear jar.'
Back to Top
Octopus II View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: May 21 2023
Location: UK
Status: Offline
Points: 10324 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Octopus II Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2024 at 02:34
1. In the Court of the Crimson King
2. Larks' Tongues in Aspic
3. Red
4. Lizard
5. Islands
6. Starless and Bible Black
7. In the Wake of Poseidon
8. Discipline
9. Beat
10.Three of a Perfect Pair
11. The Power to Believe
12. THRAK
13.The ConstruKction of Light
Back to Top
Sean Trane View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Prog Folk

Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 20239 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2024 at 03:26
Nine years later (day per pay), I see little I could change

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Lizard, ITCOTCKStar
LTIA, ITWOP, Red, ThrakkClap



Islands, SaBB, Discipline , Power to BelieveSmile













Beat, 3oaPP, Construkction of LightStern SmileSleepy









Tongue
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
Back to Top
A Crimson Mellotron View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 10 2020
Location: Bulgaria
Status: Offline
Points: 4102 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote A Crimson Mellotron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2024 at 06:08
My best to worst of King Crimson albums would be something like this:

1. Larks' Tongues In Aspic
2. The Power to Believe
3. Red
4. In the Court of the Crimson King
5. Islands
6. Discipline
7. Lizard
8. In the Wake of Poseidon
9. Starless and Bible Black
10. THRAK
11. The ConstruKction of Light
12. Three of a Perfect Pair
13. Beat
Back to Top
David_D View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 26 2010
Location: Copenhagen
Status: Offline
Points: 15087 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2024 at 08:56

My favourites are (chronologically) ItCotCK, Larks' Tongues, Red.

I don't like Discipline.






Edited by David_D - January 18 2024 at 09:31
                      quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
Back to Top
Boojieboy View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 02 2016
Location: Earth
Status: Offline
Points: 649 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Boojieboy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2024 at 18:31
I've been listening to them since 1983, and my favorites have changed over time.

Currently, the favorites are: In the Court, In the Wake, Lizard, and Red.

Edited by Boojieboy - January 19 2024 at 18:33
Back to Top
Boojieboy View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 02 2016
Location: Earth
Status: Offline
Points: 649 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Boojieboy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2024 at 18:38
It looks like no one includes "Earthbound" any more. Back in the day, that was always included as an official album - between Islands and Lark's Tongues - even despite the bootleg quality. Fripp recognized it, etc. I remember having a hard time locating it, though eventually got it on vinyl. Too bad it didn't sound better.


Edited by Boojieboy - January 19 2024 at 18:46
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <1 6789>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.156 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.