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Poll Question: Whats your opinion about this album?
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Love it heaps.
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Their best was Red and on Starless Bible Black was also the incredible Night Watch
yet you still have time!
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NOOOOOO

I voted for: Excellent! KC really knows how to reinvent themself,

What I meant was: Excellent! The Best ever (from them)

It's exactly at the same level of ITCOTCK , TIE!!!
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Originally posted by magog magog wrote:

I'm not agree with all this excitement...I think KC reached their top with Lizard-Islands

Lizard is a good album, but Islands???????
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Originally posted by Damen Damen wrote:

I love this album, probably their most progressive effort

and thats really saying a lot!!!

 
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I know it seems to come behind either ITCOTCK or Red as most people's fave Crimson disc, but it's my first choice.
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A real masterpiece!

Still alive...
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Originally posted by darksideone darksideone wrote:

Originally posted by magog magog wrote:

I'm not agree with all this excitement...I think KC reached their top with Lizard-Islands



Lizard is ro rich of music...Keith Tippet is fantastic, and Islands is so sad, dark...each band should play what was born for
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Indeed Eetu and El Bothy ... I remember a time when I thought that King Crimson's drastic changes of volume was really cool, but nowadays I think I prefer something a little less dramatic ... on portions of Larks Tongue (and on a lot of Lizard too) ... I spend half the album fiddling back and forth, because I really want to hear the details of the delicate sections, but then the loud sections are too LOUD for me ...

I think I've become old

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Truly an exquisite album.
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My favourite Crimson album (with Starless and Bible Black a close second).
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Originally posted by magog magog wrote:

I'm not agree with all this excitement...I think KC reached their top with Lizard-Islands
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KING CRIMSON BEST EVER ERA !!!!!!!!!! BRUFORD IS FCUKING AMAZING
THE LIVE STUFF OF LARK IS EVEN BETTER I BELIEVE!!!!!
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It is excellent indeed, one of my favorites from them

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their 3d best album for me... just behind Red and ITCOTCK

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Not their best ever, but an astonishing and highly successful reinvention (which they would do again with Discipline). The live versions of the LTIA material from 73 - 74 show just how great this incarnation of Crimson was - it's just a shame there's no good quality recording of any of the concerts with Jamie Muir.
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Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Originally posted by Trotsky Trotsky wrote:

What a superb album ... only complaint is that the first Larks Tongue spends too much time on low volume ... (a common problem I have with this group)

I rhink they do this to make an atmospheric sound, so when the heavy parts come in they sonud twice as heavy...

An other thing, have you noticed that between 1973-4 no other band sounded as heavy and hard as KC...not even Black Sabbath

Yeah, they are considered by many to be the fathers of metal (even by themselves )

The mix between heavy and soft is great, the atmosphere is great. The only track I (partially) dislike is The talking drum, I find it a little boring at long. The rest is awesome, especially considering the HUGE change of style from the first era (ITCOTCK to Islands)

Only complaint: I find it (and many other KC albums) a bit too dark...
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Points: 6336 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2005 at 07:57

Originally posted by Trotsky Trotsky wrote:

What a superb album ... only complaint is that the first Larks Tongue spends too much time on low volume ... (a common problem I have with this group)

I rhink they do this to make an atmospheric sound, so when the heavy parts come in they sonud twice as heavy...

An other thing, have you noticed that between 1973-4 no other band sounded as heavy and hard as KC...not even Black Sabbath
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2005 at 06:48
It's an excellent album, one of KC's best. IMO, though, it's somehow marred by Wetton's vocals, which at the time were not as good as they became later on. It's true that it was the first time the guy sang lead, but at times he sounds really  flat. As I said some time ago in another such thread, I can only imagine how wonderful Exiles and Book of Saturdays woul've sounded had they been sung by Greg Lake...
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I'm not agree with all this excitement...I think KC reached their top with Lizard-Islands
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