Top 3 KC Albums

In the court

#1 Red

Edited by valravennz - February 11 2009 at 02:15

1. Larks Tongues in Apsic unquestionably. Everything on that is pure gold. Maybe it's my favorite album of all time.
2. Lizard. I love the jazziness of it. Once again, not a weak moment on the album but the good parts aren't as good.
3. Islands. I don't understand how this is rated so low. I like how mellowness bookends the album. The funkiness of Sailor's Tale, the sadness of The Letters along with the out-of-left-field in-your-face cacophony of sounds, and the pure fun of Ladies of the Road make this a wonderful album.

1. In the Court of the Crimson King
2. Red
3. Starless and Bible Black
4. In the Wake of Poseidon
5. Larks' Tongues in Aspic
6. Lizard
7. Islands

I've been meaning to get The Night Watch and The Great Deceiver for the longest time, but I never got the chance to, and didn't want to order. Earthbound is okay, so is Epitaph Vol. 3&4.

I probably never gave Lizard enough chances to shine, being one of the last albums I acquired, but it simply doesn't strike with me in the same way that some parts on other albums do.

Islands is, well, the only one that remains constant in being last place, and probably the one I heard the most thanks to being one of my father's favourites. The rest of them are prone to switches, but Starless was the third album of theirs I ever heard, and the first of the second era, thus being one I have more of a relationship to than others.

Wake is horribly underrated in my eyes. If I could, I'd just pretend that Wake and Court were a double album and rate that as the second constant, this time as first.


Edited by Trial and Error - February 10 2009 at 07:22

ITCOTCK,LTIA and Red for me. 

1. ITCOTCK
2.Red
3.Islands

Finnforest wrote: 1. Lizard 2. Lizard 3. Lizard

Three Of  A Perfect Pair
Discipline
Beat

The Doctor wrote: Atavachron wrote: omri wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: I don't even have 3 albums by King Crimson. I kept meaning to get SABB because it was the only one whose sample song was remotely interesting, but I never did. omri wrote: 3. Lark tongue's in aspic - the first Wetton era album. The creation of caos in music. Haha, no, not even close. People have no sense of history when they proclaim some prog as the first thing with trait x. :(   Well, I guess I meant in rock music. About other kinds of music - please educate me !   If spelling is incorrect I beg your pardon. English is not my mother tongue as you may realised. nothing wrong with what you said omri, Larks' Tongues was a very new kind of album for a popular rock band   Agreed.  The only use of the word "first" in this post is in relation to it being the first of the Wetton-era albums.  Which, hopefully, we can all agree is absolutely true.  At least as far as studio albums are concerned.  He does not say that it was the first time that chaos was created in music, merely that the music on this album was chaotic.