Crimson Battle

Carevasazica, am ales cate un album de studio pentru fiecare "era" din discografia King Crimson. Votati-va preferatul!

For the record, cele patru "ere" sunt:

1 - 1969-1971 (Crimson King-Poseidon-Lizard-Islands)
2 - 1973-74 (Larks' Tongues-Starless-Red)
3 - 1981-1984 (Discipline-Beat-Perfect Pair)
4 - 1995-2003 (THRAK-Space Groove-ConstruKtion-Heaven & Hell-Power To Believe)

Albumele le-am ales dupa reprezentativitate (greu de zis daca "Red" nu e cumva mai bun decat Larks, dar cu siguranta nu e mai reprezentativ).

Eventual, ati fi ales alte albume?

Discipline

considerente subiective :

din punct de vedere istoric probabil că In The Court trebuie să fie no. 1, apoi pe locul doi ar fi Lark's, dar am ales Discipline fiindcă trupa Crimson '80 îmi e cea mai dragă. Albumul nou nu mi se pare o opţiune (pe mine unul nu m-a convins).

1.-Islands
2.-Red
3.-nimic
4.-Vrooom (1994)

^ interesanta lista! foarte diferita de felul in care e vazuta opera KC in mod obisnuit.

1. Lizard
2. Larks'
3. ( )
4. THRaKaTTaK

perfect de acord cu optiunile lui andu, inclusiv dilema Larks/Red

aleg Larks

Aleg Larks, fiind si primul album KC cu care am avut de-a face

eu am ascultat mai bine doar primul album si Red. optez pentru Red intre astea 2. celelalte mai trebuie ascultate. asta dupa ce sunt si eu deschis pentru ele. pana atunci Red, In the Court of the Crimson King, Lizard si Islands (ultimele 2 mai rar)

Vad ca primul album are jumatate din voturi (nu multe, dar orisicat).

Iata cum descrie Fripp line-up-ul care a produs produs primul album:

Citat :

The impact of this group, featuring Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield, is difficult to convey 25 years afterwards unless one were part of it: something like the explosive impact of punk seven years later. A considerable influence on the musicians and groups of its generation, it is also the only Crimson which could have been a massive commercial success. Inevitably, it drew as much hostility as support.

The only record from this period - "In The Court Of The Crimson King" - failed to convey the power of its live performance but hints at the intensity which characterises classic Crimson of any period. Contemporary ears might find the music part of another era unless they drop listening at the music and listen through it. The sonic landscape remains as bleak an authentic Crimscape as it gets. Neither heavy metal nor hard rock have been able to blow me away since I spent 1969 playing "Schizoid Man" and a mellotronic stroboscopic "Mars" throughout England and the US.

My own perspective on Crimson is obviously rather different from the other founder members of the 1969 band. My impression is that they consider their Crimson to be the only real Crimson, a view with which I have sympathy but disagree. We would probably agree that this founding Crimson was charmed. There was something completely other which touched this group and which we called our "good fairy". After reflecting on how we went from abject failure to global commercial and musical success in nine months, I concluded after several years of reflection that sometimes music leans over and takes us into its confidence. This was one of those times.

But we were also young men, too immature to handle the strains involved in rapidly moving from failure to international success. The group's birthday was on January 13th. 1969 at the Fulham Palace Cafe in London. It broke up in Los Angeles, December 1969.

- Robert Fripp

Interesant ca Fripp nu vede primii ani 3 ani, pe care eu i-am considerat ca o singura perioada, ca pe o singura perioade ci mai multe, prima perioada constand in primele luni de existenta. Ce-i drept el stie mai bine...