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POLL: Pick the next Extended Play Lounge (Patreon)

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2023-11-29 17:40:25
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POLL: Pick the next Extended Play Lounge

  • In the Wake of Poseidon 66
  • Islands 45
  • Starless and Bible Black 131
  • Beat 14
  • Three of a Perfect Pair 24
  • 2023-11-29
  • 280 votes
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Content

For this EPL, I want to return to music by King Crimson. I feel that this band needs to stay in the mix semi-regularly here on Patreon because I can't review any of their tunes on YouTube.

So, of all their albums that I haven't listened to yet, here are the five in which I'm most interested.  The options are presented in chronological order. Pick your favorite!

Comments

ax o'lotl

one more thing that I occasionally see mentioned but not as much as I'd expect or like... don't stop at 80's crim. their later work is utterly epic... I'd say every album is worth a dive. Thrak is huge. ConstruKction of LIght is ... adjective. Power To Believe is even more adjective.

Bill Brinkmoeller

Since it looks as though SaBB is going to run away with this, I thought I'd give a few notes that might prove helpful. First and foremost, everything on this album is recorded live in performance, except the first track, "The Great Deceiver". There have already been some comments addressing the first line of the song, so I won't belabor that. I would offer, however, that this song gives us the only song lyric that Robert Fripp has ever written. The story goes that when Crim was on tour, during a stop in Rome, Robert took a walk in Vatican City. Everywhere he looked, reportedly, there were vendors and hawkers, and to his eye, the only things they offered were cigarettes, ice cream, and figurines of the Virgin Mary. So Dear Old Uncle Bobby volunteered that as the chorus for the song. Another noteworthy thing is the piece called "Trio". One will notice that Bill Bruford is given a writing credit on this song, though he doesn't play on it. And that's the reason for the writing credit. During rehearsals, BB came to the conclusion that the presence of drums would hurt this delicate little composition, so his decision to refrain from playing constituted a contribution to the composing of the piece. "The Mincer" sounds like it ends abruptly with a tape run-out. However, on YouTube there's a wonderful presentation on King Crimson's channel by David Singletary explaining that what's heard on the album is actually a bit of a much longer instrumental improvisation by the band. At the end, he gives us the full improv, pieced together from the original tapes plus an audience recording. And "Fracture". I was told on Discord that this had been green-lighted for a "Behind the Score" installment, and surely it should get that treatment. Fripp calls the piece "impossible to play," and the version on the album has a few overdubs in it to cover up some clams that he had in this performance. I recommend the album version for the EPL listen, though, as it has a great deal of power, particularly the "explosive" conclusion. On an "Elements of King Crimson" box set, there's the original version, just as the extremely fortunate audience heard that night; maybe that would be the version that would be good for the Behind the Score installment. Both versions demonstrate the brilliance of the piece and tour-de-force guitar playing, and in both, toward the end, when the band is really, really cookin', Bruford can be heard whooping with delight. This is a piece of music every bit as essential to Progressive Rock as "Close to the Edge", "Tarkus", or "Firth of Fifth", and I'm excited to see the looks on Doug's face as this epic unfolds.

George Davis-Stewart
>>123699166

I'm going to say that it's more significant than any of the other three that you mention, but I don't expect to be in a majority.