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On October 10, 1969 the album 'In the Court of the Crimson
King: An Observation by King Crimson' was released. Peter
Townshend of The Who called it "an uncanny masterpiece".
Rolling Stone thought it "pretentious" and Melody Maker
said "It gives little idea of their true power on stage but
still packs tremendous impact". The album's opening track,
'21st Century Schizoid Man', burst through hi-fi stereo
speakers with an avalanche of sound. Songs like 'Epitaph'
and the album's title track employed heavy use of a
keyboard instrument called the mellotron, which used
pre-recorded tape loops of strings and woodwinds to create
an orchestral effect.

At this point in their history, the band consisted of
Robert Fripp (guitar), Michael Giles (drums), Greg Lake
(bass, voca More...

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  • 7 Teas Lyrics
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  • B'Boom Lyrics
  • Beautiful Rainbow Lyrics
  • Blastic Rhino Lyrics
  • Book Of Saturday Lyrics
  • Bude Lyrics
  • Cadence And Cascade Lyrics
  • Cage Lyrics
  • Cat Food Lyrics
  • ccccSeizurecc Lyrics
  • Cirkus (Including Entry Of The Chameleons) Lyrics
  • Coda: I Have a Dream Lyrics
  • Coda: Marine 475 Lyrics
  • Dangerous Curves Lyrics
  • Dig Me Lyrics
  • Dinosaur Lyrics
  • Discipline Lyrics
  • Drop In Lyrics
  • Easy Money Lyrics
  • Elektrik Lyrics
  • Elephant Talk Lyrics
  • EPITAPH Lyrics
  • Epitaph (Including March For No Reason / Tomorrow And Tomorrow) Lyrics
  • Exiles Lyrics
  • Eyes Wide Open Lyrics
  • Facts Of Life: Intro Lyrics
  • Fallen Angel Lyrics
  • Fects of Life Lyrics
  • Formentera Lady Lyrics
  • Fracture Lyrics
  • FraKctured Lyrics
  • Frame By Frame Lyrics
  • GARDEN OF WORM Lyrics
  • HAND OF SCEIRON Lyrics
  • Happy Family Lyrics
  • Happy With What you Have to Be Happy With Lyrics
  • Heartbeat Lyrics
  • Heaven and Earth Lyrics
  • Heroes Lyrics
  • I Ran Lyrics
  • I Talk To The Wind Lyrics
  • Improv: Bonn Lyrics
  • Improv: Munchen Lyrics
  • Improv: Offenbach Lyrics
  • In The Wake Of Poseidon Lyrics
  • Indiscipline Lyrics
  • Indoor Games Lyrics
  • Industry Lyrics
  • INNER GARDEN Lyrics
  • Inner Garden I Lyrics
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  • Into the Frying Pan Lyrics
  • Islands Lyrics
  • Ladies Of The Road Lyrics
  • Lady Of The Dancing Water Lyrics
  • Lament Lyrics
  • Larks' Tongues in Aspic - Part IV Lyrics
  • Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part Four Lyrics
  • Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part One Lyrics
  • Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part Three Lyrics
  • Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part Two Lyrics
  • Level Five Lyrics
  • Lights Please (Part 1) Lyrics
  • Lights Please (Part 2) Lyrics
  • Lizard Lyrics
  • Man With An Open Heart Lyrics
  • MARINE 475 Lyrics
  • Matte Kudasai Lyrics
  • MERDEAY MORN Lyrics
  • Model Man Lyrics
  • Moonchild (Including The Dream And The Illusion) Lyrics
  • More (And Less) Lyrics
  • Neal And Jack And Me Lyrics
  • Neurotica Lyrics
  • No Warning Lyrics
  • Nuages (That Which Passes, Passes Like Clouds) Lyrics
  • Off And Back Lyrics
  • One More Red Nightmare Lyrics
  • One Time Lyrics
  • Peace - A Beginning Lyrics
  • Peace - A Theme Lyrics
  • Peace - An End Lyrics
  • PEACE A THEME Lyrics
  • People Lyrics
  • Pictures Of A City Lyrics
  • Potato Pie Lyrics
  • Prelude: Song Of The Gulls Lyrics
  • Providence Lyrics
  • ProzaKc Blues Lyrics
  • Radio I Lyrics
  • Radio II Lyrics
  • Red Lyrics
  • Requiem Lyrics
  • Sailor's Tale Lyrics
  • Sapir Lyrics
  • Sartori In Tangier Lyrics
  • Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream Lyrics
  • Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream Lyrics
  • She Shudders Lyrics
  • Sheltering Sky Lyrics
  • Sleepless Lyrics
  • Starless Lyrics
  • Starless And Bible Black Lyrics
  • The ConstruKction Of Light Lyrics
  • The Court Of The Crimson King (Including The Return Of The Fire Witch And The Dance Of The Puppets) Lyrics
  • The Deception Of The Thrush Lyrics
  • The Devil's Triangle Lyrics
  • The Great Deceiver Lyrics
  • The Howler Lyrics
  • The Letters Lyrics
  • The Mincer Lyrics
  • The Night Watch Lyrics
  • The Power To Believe II Lyrics
  • The Power To Believe III Lyrics
  • The Power To Believe IV: Coda Lyrics
  • The Power To Believe I: A Capella Lyrics
  • THE SHELTERING SKY Lyrics
  • The Talking Drum Lyrics
  • The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum Lyrics
  • Thela Hun Ginjeet Lyrics
  • THRAK Lyrics
  • Three Of A Perfect Pair Lyrics
  • Tomorrow Never Knew Thela Lyrics
  • Trio Lyrics
  • Two Hands Lyrics
  • Uböö Lyrics
  • VROOM VROOM Lyrics
  • VROOM VROOM: Coda Lyrics
  • VROOOM Lyrics
  • VROOOM VROOOM Lyrics
  • VROOOM VROOOM: CODA Lyrics
  • Waiting Man Lyrics
  • Walking On Air Lyrics
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    Review about King Crimson

    oh my god | Reviewer: Moonshatd
        ------ About the song Islands performed by King Crimson

    just listen to the music, and you'll feel something new and relaxing.and that's the reason why Islands is a piece of great art..not bad,nor good..GREAT. Starless and this song are wonderful


    Innocents RAPED WITH NAPALM FIRE | Reviewer: Alex
        ------ About the song 21st CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN performed by King Crimson

    The fitting opener to King's Prog Rock gem, 'IN The Court Of The Crimson king' is a dizzing fever dream, full of rage, horror and bombast.
    In a disintegrating narration that sounds like a radio transmission from the planet Pluto, the lunacies of man are held up for our inspection (Politicians FUNERAL PYRE!.....Innocents RAPED WITH NAPLAM FIRE!!!!') practically daring the listener to disagree that the human race is a lost cause.
    In comparing the contrasting madness of man, '21st century Schizoid ' sounds like a computer caught in a self destructive loop, skipping ad nauseum like a fractured Discman until it runs itself into the ground with furious frustration....and is happy to do so.


    great | Reviewer: Alex
        ------ About the album In the Court of the Crimson King performed by King Crimson

    Probably too spacey and dated for most listeners
    but after discovering the child ditty side early Pink Floyd i eagerly picked up this album, another experimental capsule of its respective era, with that enigmatic cover of a shocked red cartoon face thats disturbingly similar to Edvard Much's 'The Scream'.

    After listening to the 5 epic length tracks in this album though i can't think of anything more appropriate to match the hard hitting atmosphere and theme of shattered disallusionment and ache to escape it all that pervades this work like a black cloud.Equal parts melancholy and fantasy escapism, 'King Crimson' launches their expression of lost innocence & stubborn retreat into fantasy as fairy tales, only the lyrics chillingly correspond to the general message of rude awakening & existential angst prevalent towards the conclusion of the sixites and the start of the 70s, with 'Eptiaph' in my uneducated opinion being the apex of the wallowing sorrow expresed here .
    '24th Century Schizo man' marks a pitch perfect entrance, a dizzying trip of song that sounds like a computer jammed in a self destructive loop as it tries to logically position the contradictory insanity of mankind side by side (Neuro surgeons SCREAMMMMM FOR MORE.....Inocence RAPED WITH NAPALM FIRE!!!!!)all furious drumbeats and disintigrating booming narration.
    "I Talk to the Wind" seems light and airy,resfreshing even coming after the bombast as it does, but is just as heartbreaking once you realize it just another cry of thwarted frustration and anger, like a case a massive repression in action ('I talk to the wind.....the wind cannot hear....) while 'Moonchild' takes the childish retreat into make believe to its uttmost prog rock extreme, strecthing on for a mind boggling 10 minutes of chimes and cymbals that will either infuriate the hell out of you with its pretention or completley enthrall .
    And finally, The finale 'In The Court of....' forces much into clarity,one last gob of spit in the eye, a loud, large but hauntingly empty conclusion that sees only charlatans and fools manning the faraway Kingdom, a technicolor minstrel's show in a corrupt,crumbling dreamscape.

    These aren't the maddening surrealist puzzles of say, Syd Barret, its a ominous & abstract without being too deliberatley inpenetrable, making it far more accessible for today (and troublingly, even more so in light of recent events)


    King Crimson - The first and greatest of the British Prog/Rock ensembles. | Reviewer: John Patrick Lennon
        ------ About the song EPITAPH performed by King Crimson

    King Crimson shocked the rock world in 1969 with it's "in your face" style of rock, including elements of modern, be-bop, and improvisational jazz, and, often-times, smashing the listener over the head with a sudden burst of "musique concrete". Epitaph, in a fashion of an almost elegilogical dirge, mixed with the poetic and prophetic lyrics of Peter Sinfield, alerts the listener to the bands' solid virtuosity, while awashing us with what for a while was, next to Fripp's 10,000 lb. guitar effects, King Crimson's signature instrument, the Mellotron. Classic, must have, in any library. jpl



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