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ian picken 
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 11:29 |
I love Tool, Rush, Yes,Porcupine Tree, Pallas, ect. but i cannot get into King Crimson. 
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Padraic
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 11:32 |
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What have you tried?
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 11:33 |
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it's not mandatory to like them ;P but they are quite different from the bands you mentioned unless you count Tool's direct influence from Red and the modern albums
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 11:40 |
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FWIW, I find that I respect and admire KC more than I really enjoy their music. 'Easy Listening' it's not.
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 11:50 |
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Try: USA. Maybe that's more up your alley...
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 12:20 |
I remember when the only KC I heard at the time was ItCotCK, I went to the cd shop and sampled a used copy of "Beat".... you can imagine my surprise; I almost gave up on the band.... but then I tried Starless and Bible Black......  That band has been through so many lineup/ sound changes.... there's got to be at least one era of KC that you could find palatable. What era have you tried? (Oh and I actually love "Beat" nowdays....)
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 12:22 |
 ian picken wrote:
I love Tool, Rush, Yes,Porcupine Tree, Pallas, ect. but i cannot get into King Crimson. |
If you like Tool you should try out KC's The Power to Believe album.
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 12:26 |
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I definitely have to be in a certain mood for them. The Power To Believe, however, is an amazing disc.
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 12:38 |
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i find their debut is the best to start off thats a lot of easy listening songs on their like i talk to the wind and epitaph
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 12:39 |
ian picken wrote:
I love Tool, Rush, Yes,Porcupine Tree, Pallas, ect. but i cannot get into King Crimson. |
Blasphemy!!! sacrilege!!!This is an unforgivable crime!!!  You are NOT allowed not to like KC. Serious punishments are in order . I am gonna talk with all the KC brothers from this site and decide about your trial date and your very foreseeable bleak future 
Seriously, There are so many differents styles and so many different line-ups, one should at least please you. Just give time to time and try again and the light will appear because the light is bright when you get it!
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 12:51 |
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70s - Try - Red.
80s - Try - Discipline.
Later period - Try - Power to Believe.
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ian picken
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 13:04 |
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Thanks for all your help, i have tried Court of the....and Beat... i will investigate the cds you have all recomended. Thanks again.
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 13:24 |
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You might want to try something from different eras of their career, their music really changes a lot over the years from symphonic prog to metal-jazz fusion to world beat and many other styles. You can listen to 2 of their albums back to back and not know its the same band, although I suppose Fripp's unique guitar style always comes through.
Edited by Easy Money - August 14 2007 at 13:25
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 14:51 |
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What is it you don't like about what you have heard IP?
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 14:51 |
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Before giving up on them, you must try Larks Tongues In Aspic. If you like this you will most definitely like Red and Starless and Bible Black. Next you should try Lizard. If you like Lizard you should also like Islands. Since you already tried In The Court Of The Crimson King you probably won't like In The Wake Of Posieden, though I think it's great. Next I'd go with THe Power To Believe. If you like this you will like Thrak and THe Construction of Light. Since you don't like Beat, you probably won't like Discipline or Three of a Perfect Pair. Each of the different groups of albums I layed out have a very different unique sound. This is whats so great and progressive about Crimson.
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 16:40 |
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I agree with the others that said The Power To Believe would be the one to hook you to KC. Then you can go backwards into their discography.
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 16:48 |
ian picken wrote:
I love Tool, Rush, Yes,Porcupine Tree, Pallas, ect. but i cannot get into King Crimson. |
You're not the only one, except ITCOTCK and Red, I can't get into King Crimson, I can't understand Lark's Tongues in Aspic and the albums from the double power trio era sound like pure cacophony to me.
And I tried.
Iván
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ian picken
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 16:49 |
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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.
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Tony R
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 17:01 |
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Same for me...I've tried hard but they leave me cold.
Gentle Giant and Tull too....
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ian picken
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Posted: August 14 2007 at 17:08 |
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How weird... i am the same, not keen on g. giant or j. tull.
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