Help!

Somewhere during the following three weeks im going to do a presentations in music in school. My task is to compare the resemblence and difference between two different, in this case, bands.

Unfortunatley, due to certain events, i hadn´t been told so until the last day of the deadline. With the heavily reduced time i was left to work with, about 5min , I wrote ,from the top of my head, a comparison between Kc and genesis. when i come to think of it, i might not been such a good idea since the audince will undrestand little less the nothing. So instead i have a second option, and that is to let the music talk, meaning im to play one song from each band. however im only allowed to play for 5 minutes, leaving 2 and a half minutes to each band...quite frankly I have no idea whitch songs I shall play.

So, what is the ultimate section of 2 and half minutes representing Kc and Genesis? 

Xanadu:

Two and half minutes each?  Jeez, did either of them even write any less-than-three-minute songs?  I doubt it.

If I were in your position, I would play either the opening 2.5 minutes of 21st Century Schizoid Man or the first 2.5 minutes following the long intro to Larks Tongues in Aspic (the song), which begins with that piercing guitar figure.

For Genesis, I would use either the 2.5 minutes of Cinema Show beginning with the vocal part leading into the long 7/4 instrumental jam, or 2.5 minutes of Watcher of the Skies, starting somewhere toward the end of the intro, into the first vocal part.  Or else I would use the first 2.5 minutes of Squonk.

Good luck!

I don'e envy your position. I would use early KC (probly 21st century...or In The Court....) and for genesis I would use the 7/4 instramental from The Cinema Show (an absolutely brillent song, one of the best ever. And thats not a huge genesis fan talking {altho i do have what we call thier "classic" albums})

Good Luck and let me know how that goes.

KC - Starless - where middle improvisation come back into the rousing original melody.

Genesis - Firth of Fifth - Guitar solo with volume pedal near the end.

If you have to talk about them then i wud mention Fripp's chromatic riffs and especially the diminished 5th's in Red in comparison to the much more diatonic Genesis.

When it comes to Kc it will probably be something more guitar oriented then those first albums...i am think of maybe frakctured or, which someone mentioned, aspic (part one i guess)

As for genesis, im more confused. It's hard to find a section with all the aspects of them represented in such short amount of time.

the intro on Dancin with the moonlit knight will, if I go by the 2:30 standard, stop right in the beginning of the instrumental part which is good. 

Updated...(due to lack of time I brought this thread up intsead of making a new)

I had my presentation yesterday and it finally come to this:

King Crimson - Fakctured 0 - 2:30 (Construkction of Light)

Genesis - Fountains Of Salmacais  2:00 - 4:30 (Nursery Cryme)

Altough Fountains of... made some impression on the class (due to certain misunderstanding, the whole class thinks it is Collins on the vocals)...on the other hand frakctured (I might have picked another one) didnt seem to brake the ice.

Anywho, as i were explaning this music, as progressive it turned out that my music teacher (who is female, if anyone cares...) were a huge fan of Samla Mammas Manna!