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    Posted: August 06 2013 at 21:25
In The Wake Of Poseidon. This song edges out In The Court Of The Crimson King and Red. I thought this would be an interesting post, since all but one KC album have a title track. The only exception is Beat, though it has 'Heartbeat' (close enough)?
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Larks Tongues In Aspic
Red
ITCOTCK
Lizard
ITWOP
Island
SABB
Discipline
TPTB
Thrak
TOAPP
TCOL
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Red that high up? That's surprising. I've always thought it was the weakest track on the album, and probably one of the weaker ones in their classic era. 
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Larks' for me, doesn't even matter which part - they're both amazing. Next up would be "In the Wake", and other than that all of KCs title tracks seem a bit boring to me.
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For me it will always be ITCOTCK.  I think it's the finest track on the 1st album...Lake's vocal is great, the lyrics are dark, I love "The Dance of the Puppets" section, and the mellotron drenched ending is the perfect blend of order, chaos, and dissonance.
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Islands for sure.  Runner up Three of a Perfect Pair
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LTiA - Part I
ITCOTCK / ITWOP (tie)
Red
LTiA - Part II
Lizard / Islands
Discipline
THRAK

SABB
TPTB / TOAPP
Close to the Edge analized!!!
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I can't decide. Lizard, Islands, Larks' Tongues in Aspic (parts I and II) are my top 3 in no order. My least favorite would be Starless and Bible Black.
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Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

Red that high up? That's surprising. I've always thought it was the weakest track on the album, and probably one of the weaker ones in their classic era. 

Yes for me, I like it.
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Larks Tongues'.
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favorite = In the Wake of Poseidon
2nd favorite = LTIA
least favorite = Discipline
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I'm not familiar with their most recent album, nor Poseidon, so I didn't list those. Larks' Tongues is one of my favorite KC songs of all (and one of the first that I heard). Islands is just a beautiful song, and one that I didn't quite get until after I listened to KC for a while. Lizard too took a while to really enjoy for me.

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Islands
Lizard
In the Court of the Crimson King
Three of a Perfect Pair
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Starless and Bible Black
Heartbeat
The ConstruKction of Light



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oh gosh, maybe Lark's followed by PtB 1 thru 4
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Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

For me it will always be ITCOTCK.  I think it's the finest track on the 1st album...Lake's vocal is great, the lyrics are dark, I love "The Dance of the Puppets" section, and the mellotron drenched ending is the perfect blend of order, chaos, and dissonance.
 
Right on............though In The Wake Of Poseidon is a close second for me.
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

For me it will always be ITCOTCK.  I think it's the finest track on the 1st album...Lake's vocal is great, the lyrics are dark, I love "The Dance of the Puppets" section, and the mellotron drenched ending is the perfect blend of order, chaos, and dissonance.
 
Right on............though In The Wake Of Poseidon is a close second for me.
Cool

That's my 2nd favourite too Handshake
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Probably Larks Tongues In Aspic, but maybe The Court Of The Crimson King, Lizard, and In The Wake Of Poseidon
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Starless is a title track although it's the title from another album.

Starless it is.
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