Court Of The Crimson King - Your First Listening

akamaisondufromage wrote: I was probably pretty late about 17.  A friend leant it to me (vinyl).  Great cover except my friend had coloured one of the teeth in.  I thought 21st C Schizoid Man was fantastic.  The rest of it I thought was listenable and vaguely interesting - but no more than that.  I still have the record but haven't played it for years and have never got the CD or have any desire to now.  Oh well!  I think its an important prog record in a historical way but .....

.........its not that great of an album. (I am finishing your sentence )

I was a huge Moody Blues fan at the time, so when In the Court came out I immediatley liked it. 

It must have taken me 5 or 6 listens to comprehend the whole piece... i thought they were f**king maniacs the first time i heard it (: 

It was about 2 years ago, I think.

I was really impressed with 4 of the 5 tracks (yep, you guessed it! The one I was so-so on was Moonchild.)

I'm between 3 stars and 4 stars with it...closer to 4, though, but only slightly.

I was well into adulthood when I first heard Court. Loved "21st" and the title track (still do), was struck by the contrast between "21st" and "Wind" (still am), didn't care much for "Epitaph" and "Moonchild" (still don't).  Not my favorite album of theirs, but it did start the wheels turning.

Triceratopsoil wrote: my first listen started out like "wtf this is really quiet OW MY EARDRUMS"

I bought it at HMV. First listen was in the car with my great-grandparents. They hates 21st Century Schizoid Man with a passion.  But when I Talk to the Wind came on they were like "Ohh this is nice." Anyways, I loved the whole album instantly.

It's actually possible that I discovered this album on here, but I think that's not the case. I'm pretty sure I knew about it before hand. It's possible that I found about it through an interview with someone in band, maybe Tool, maybe Opeth, etc. That seemed to be how I'd discover bands around that time. But I really liked it. I wasn't even into prog at the time that I heard it, but this was the best thing I had heard that could be labeled as such. And then eventually the more I listened to it the more I grew to love it until it was my favorite prog album to exist! It was one of the very first records I ever bought, also, when starting my record collection. I still have that old record (the original one with the hard cover) framed in my room, even though I bought the new 180 gram pressing of it. If I had to guess a year that I heard it, I'd say maybe 2007? I doubt 2006. 

Edited by Jake Kobrin - September 02 2011 at 00:32

awaken77 wrote: I listened KC 1st album quite ago I was immediately impressed by first track , I also enjoyed melodic and relaxing "Talk to the wind", but the rest of the alum I didn't found very interesting, rather disappointing.  and the final track, while being sort of the "epic", is kind of repetitive and monotonous (a precursor to future "Zeuhl" thing? :-)   ) I appreciate singificance of the Court for influence to all prog rock, it has elements of most future prog genres ( sympho prog, prog metal, RIO, zeuhl, etc) but it never was my favorite KC album. My favs are Larks Tongues in Aspic and Red