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Posted: May 25 2008 at 15:12

ITCOTCK : Title Track
ITWOP : Devil's Triangle
Lizard : Circus
Islands : Formentary Lady
Starless and Bible Black : Fracture
LTIA : The Talking Drum
Red : Starless
Power To Believe : Level Five

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Posted: May 25 2008 at 15:25

ITCOTCK : Moon Child
ITWOP : Devil's Triangle
Lizard : Circus
Islands : Islands
Starless and Bible Black : The night watch
LTIA : Exiles
Red : Starless
Discipline: The Sheltering sky

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Posted: May 25 2008 at 17:20

In order of album:

Epitaph

Pictures of a City

Cirkus

Sailor's Tale

LITA Part One

The Night Watch

Starless

Discipline

Requiem

TOAPP (title track)

not sure about THRAK

LTIA Part IV

not sure about The Power to Believe

Bonus: my favorite track on Earthbound is when it stops

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Posted: May 25 2008 at 17:23

In the court of the Crimson King - 21st century schizoid man

In The Wake of Poseidon - Pictures of a City/42nd at Treadmill

Lizard - Lizard

Islands -Ladies of the Road

Lark's Tongues In Aspic - LTIA Part 2

Starless and Bible Black - Frakture

Red - Starless

Discipline - Indiscipline

Beat - don't care

Three of a Perfect Pair - LTIA Part 3

Thrak - Dinosaur

The Construcktion of Light - LTIA Part 4

The Power to Believe - Level Five

obviously you can tell i enjoy the LTIA series

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Posted: May 25 2008 at 20:35

I cannot believe that Stonebeard is the only one who agrees with me that "Song of the Gulls" is the best cut off Islands. Someday, somehow (by whatever miracle) I plan to have this played at my wedding.

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Posted: May 25 2008 at 20:50

Well this is from that I have, and this is what I feel to be the best by album;

In The Court Of The Crimson King - In The Court Of The Crimson King(I Talk To The Wind is a close second)

Larks' Tongues In Aspic - Lark's Tongues In Aspic Pt II(Book Of Saturdays close second)

Starless And Bible Black - The Night Watch

Red - One More Red Nightmare

Discipline - The Sheltering Sky

The Power To Believe - EleKtriK

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Posted: May 26 2008 at 04:36

My picks from the ones I've listened to the most (most of them, but not all):

ItCotCK: 21st Century Schizoid Man
ItWoP: Pictures of a City
Lizard: Lizard
Islands: Islands
LTiA: Book of Saturday
SaBB: We'll Let You Know
Red: Providence
Discipline: Matte Kudasai
ToaPP: Larks' part III

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Posted: May 26 2008 at 04:55

In the Court of the Crimson King: Epitaph
In the Wake of Poseidon: In the Wake of Poseidon
Lizard: Lizard
Islands: The Letters
Larks' Tongues in Aspic: Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part II
Starless and Bible Black: Fracture
Red: Starless
Discipline: Frame by Frame
Beat: Heartbeat
Three of a Perfect Pair: Three of a Perfect Pair
THRAK: One Time
The ConstruKction of Light: The ConstruKction of Light

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Posted: May 26 2008 at 09:37

In the court of the Crimson King - Moonchild

In The Wake of Poseidon - Cat Food

Lizard - Lizard

Islands - A Sailor's Tale

Larks' Tongues in Aspic - All, but I have a preference for The Talking Drum

Starless and Bible Black - Trio/The Night Watch

Red - Starless

Discipline - The Sheltering Sky

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Posted: May 26 2008 at 09:45

Grimfurg wrote:

In the court of the Crimson King - Moonchild

Epitaph

In The Wake of Poseidon - Cat Food

Clap Clap

Lizard - Lizard

Islands - A Sailor's Tale

Larks' Tongues in Aspic - All, but I have a preference for The Talking Drum

For me ... LTiA pt 1. LOVE that..

Starless and Bible Black - Trio/The Night Watch

tough one... but as much as I love Fracture... the opening track just gets me going.. like gas on a fire.

Great Deciever Clap

Red - Starless

Heart Heart

Discipline - The Sheltering Sky

not an album I like.. I did like that one

nice.. and rather close to my own

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Posted: May 26 2008 at 09:51

Nice thread :P

In The Court Of The Crimson King - 21st Century Schizoid Man
In The Wake Of Poseidon - The Devil's Triangle
Lizard - Cirkus
Islands - Sailor's Tale
Larks' Tongues In Aspic - Exiles
Starless And Bible Black - The Night Watch
Red - Starless Nuke

Discipline - Elephant Talk
Three Of A Perfect Pair - Nuages
Beat - Neal And Jack And Me

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Posted: May 26 2008 at 11:19

micky wrote:

Grimfurg wrote:

In the court of the Crimson King - Moonchild

Epitaph

In The Wake of Poseidon - Cat Food

Clap Clap

Lizard - Lizard

Islands - A Sailor's Tale

Larks' Tongues in Aspic - All, but I have a preference for The Talking Drum

For me ... LTiA pt 1. LOVE that..

Starless and Bible Black - Trio/The Night Watch

tough one... but as much as I love Fracture... the opening track just gets me going.. like gas on a fire.

Great Deciever Clap

Red - Starless

Heart Heart

Discipline - The Sheltering Sky

not an album I like.. I did like that one

nice.. and rather close to my own

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Posted: May 26 2008 at 13:07

Berlinger - listen to a man with experience ! If that is what you gonna play on your wedding you'll be divorvced quite soon !

ITCOTCK - 21st century schizod man. least like - epitaph

ITWOP - Pictures of a city & The devil's triangle. least - Peace (all 3 pieces)

Lizard - The battle of glass tears (In the record Lizard was seperated and not one track). least - big top

Islands - The letters (my mother prefers Prelude: song of the Gulls). least - Formentera lady (still great).

Earthbound - Peoria (so unique in KC's output). least - Sailor's tale (bad version)

LTIA - Easy money . least - The talking drum

SABB - Fracture. least - title track.

Red - Starless. least - Provudence

Discipline - Indiscipline & the sheltering sky . least - Elephant talk

Beat - I don't have it yet. sh*t !

TOAPP - Nuages. least - no warning

Thrak - Dynosaur & One time. least - I don't know. For some odd reason this one is very dear to my heart.

TCOL - Title track. least - hard to say. I love them all.

TPTB - Level five. least - TPTB pt 1

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Posted: May 26 2008 at 14:03

As some changes have been made, I will re post

In the court of the Crimson King - 21st century schizoid man
In the wake of Poseidon - Cat food
Lizard - Cirkus
Islands - Sailor´s tale
Lark´s tongues in aspic - LTIA part 1
Starless and bible black - The night watch
Red - Starless
Discipline - Elephant talk
Beat - Neal and Jack and Me
Thee of a perfect pair - Three of a perfect pair
Thrak - Vroom/Coda marine
The construktion of light - The constriktion of light
Happy with what you have to be happy with - LTIA part 4
The power to believe - Level 5

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Posted: May 26 2008 at 18:12

In the Court of the Crimson King - Epitaph
In the Wake of Poseidon - In The Wake Of Poseidon
Lizard - The Battle Of Glass Tears (Lizard)
Islands - Sailors Tale
Larks' Tongues in Aspic - Larks Toungues In Aspic II
Starless and Bible Black - Fracture
Red - Starless
Discipline - The Sheltering Sky
Beat - Sartori In Tangiers
Three of a Perfect Pair - Three Of A Perfect Pair
THRAK - Dinosaur
The ConstruKction of Light - Larks Tongues In Aspic IV

The Power To Believe - Level Five

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Posted: May 26 2008 at 23:47

ITCOTCK - Epitaph
ITWOP - ITWOP
Lizard - Cirkus
Islands -Formentera Lady
LTIA - Book of Saturday
SABB - Fracture
Red - Starless
Discipline - Indiscipline
Beat - Sartori in Tangiers
ToAPP - ToAPP
Thrak - Walking on Air
TPTB - Happy with What You Have to be Happy With

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Posted: June 28 2008 at 22:54

A few changes for me.

The ConstruKction of Light title track has gotten to me. Apologies to LTIA #812. The live version on Heavy ConstruKction is awesome too.

Power to Believe - only got it recently. EleKtriK, or TPTB II? Hmmm

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