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Poll Question: Whats your opinion about this album?
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My favourite Crimson album (with Starless and Bible Black a close second).
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Truly an exquisite album.
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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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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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A real masterpiece!

Still alive...
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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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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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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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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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Their best was Red and on Starless Bible Black was also the incredible Night Watch
yet you still have time!
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Love it heaps.
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Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 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 a good album, but Islands???????



...even better
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Originally posted by Damen Damen wrote:

I love this album, probably their most progressive effort


And my favorite one by King Crimson.
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Larks Tongue in Aspic is what brought King Crimson back into their amazing work, faltering only slightly with Lizard and Islands, both which are great albums, Islands being a chill out album, and Lizard an overall great effort, but lackluster compared to Larks.
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No doutb it's one of their best. Just excellent.
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The best for me.
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I say it could have been better and they knew how to reinvent themselves. The problem is that after this album, they were never able to really reinvent a concept and sound again. Everything from that moment seems to me like the re making of "lark´s" . With "RED" as the better crafted from then. Their 80's output was a remake of this album with more accesible sounds, but that was it. No wonder why they issued Lark´s part 2, 3 ,4 5, 6, etc.....

Also. This album seems to be masterpiece. However, everyone seems to ignore the large amount of filler in this album. Take "Lark´s first part"; the core and true interesting part of it´s long 1300 minutes, lasts for only 3 minutes. The rest of the song is repetitive and not precisely appealing.

"book of saturday" is nice to listen to but it´s not challenging at all. "Exiles" is the same case but this one is overlong for the amount of ideas presented

"Easy money" is somewhat interesting and still can´t manage to grab your attention. It lacks of passion and appealing texture.

"The talking drum" takes 3 minutes to begin and then it´s more an atmosphere theme than a true composition. Interesting on the first listens but pointless after the 5th.

"Lark´s second" may be the better crafted theme here, still, is way too repetitive. Could be better as a 4 minute song.
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Points: 1023 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 10 2005 at 17:36
Originally posted by eduardossc eduardossc wrote:

The problem is that after this album, they were never able to really reinvent a concept and sound again.




Best joke I've heard on this forum so far.
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Points: 3047 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 10 2005 at 18:01
Originally posted by magog magog wrote:

Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 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 a good album, but Islands???????



...even better

Islands is not their best, it had my favorite KC aestethic (sp?)
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Points: 6336 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:04

Originally posted by Pr@gmatic Pr@gmatic wrote:

Originally posted by eduardossc eduardossc wrote:

The problem is that after this album, they were never able to really reinvent a concept and sound again.




Best joke I've heard on this forum so far.

Yes...haahahaaa...really...uuuuhhh, you surely are a comedian...haaaaa, oh, my ripps hurt of so much laughting...
"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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