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Points: 443 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2007 at 16:34
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Points: 1242 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2007 at 03:32
Originally posted by meinmatrix meinmatrix wrote:

Originally posted by ian picken ian picken wrote:

its not that i dont like them, i respect them as musicians and for what they have done for prog, its just i cant get that hook out of the music that you need to get into a band.


Hi Ian, for me the key for getting into King Crimson has been their magnificent live albums:

USA
The Great Deceiver
Absent Lovers
The N i g h t w a t c h (funny how word filter tries to change this album name) LOL

You can't go wrong with these if you can find them from your local recordshop. King Crimson is a live band per se.

 
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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2007 at 03:40
Originally posted by Fight Club Fight Club wrote:

Originally posted by Tales Tales wrote:

Originally posted by Fight Club Fight Club wrote:

Some of their stuff is really great and some just isn't. They are the best and worst of prog. ITCOTCK is great in my opinion, but then some of their albums just get too technical and disregard any actual songwriting. They're just one of those bands.
 
Agreed! All that dissonance stuff is just noise, like an orchestra tuning their instruments!
 
Yeah, IMO stuff like that is just pointless. People like it because they think it's being unique or something. I really don't know. But I think it's more unique and skillfull to find a band that can take all their knowledge and incorporate it into actual good songs. Some KC albums do this very well and other don't!


you're forgetting the third option - people like me who don't care about musicianship but who get a great deal out of intentionally dissonant and hard music. I don't quite know why KC alone have this sort of reputation, although maybe it's because they're the most "demanding" of the high-profile bands. You do make it sound like KC are contrary just to annoy their audience (Fripp does like to challenge but I don't think he tries to ruin his own shows) when in reality they suit their tastes perfectly. To me, ITCOTCK is one of the less essential KC albums - the Great Deceiver box and half of each of the two most recent releases are "my" KC sound. (I also like Lizard but that's for different reasons - it's a great jazzy symphonic album and hasn't got bloody Greg Lake on it!)


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