Curious that this song ends with a "Hey Ho" and then begins Happy Family (a song about The Beatles) just like The Continuing History Of Bungallow Bill ends with a "Hey Ho" before While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
The Steve Wilson remix is a trip. The horns come at you from different speakers around the room. This is definitely a complicated arrangement and well deserving of the 5.1 surround mix.
the SW mix in Lizard & Islands is CRAP! He butchered some of the most emotional passages. Thanks the lord versions in the KC official youtube channel are the standard ones.
@nathanlansford1882 Some people just don't respond well to surround sound and should stick to basic stereo mixes. I find it more immersive if done correctly. It puts you right into the soundstage and on a song with various instruments dropping in and out of the mix like Indoor Games, it definitely heightens the listening experience
I have first listened to this Album on vinyl around 16 years old. The machine spinned gently slower than it should what pitched the record a bit and it felt a whole lot darker and intense.
I missed the original KC lineup when they toured the US in '69 due to headliner Jefferson Airplane canceling the gig. Their equipment truck driver was arrested in New York on the way to Detroit. The only other concert I missed and regretted for years was when Yes opened for ELP in 1971. My friends raved about the show for days after seeing it. But I did see KC the next time they toured for this album. I'll never forget Mel Collins rocking his mellotron back and forth while thrusting his sax in the air during Cirkus. That opening blast of mellotron brass sounds literally shook the walls of the auditorium.
@@azypy McCulloch doing a sort of seat-of-the pants Giles impression on this whole LP. His Greenslade style was more straight ahead. I always wondered if they tracked drums FIRST and that's why he is overdoing it a bit? I think this album wasn't very live-off-the-floor. Regardless, the "each afternoon you train baboons to sing" part is still top tier symphonic nonsense, and I will take more press rolls over fewer anyday.
Any fan of this should also get a hold of Van Der Graaf Generator’s albums from the same time frame (H To He..., Pawn Hearts) which also have Fripp guesting.
Fripp mic'ed from bathroom = best Fripp 3:11 Never failed to make me and my prog geek friends laugh like the vocals at the end. And then there was the end...
My first lp of theirs. I met Robert in Dallas 1979 at Peach's record store. Then again south of L.A. 1993 with the League of Gentlemen. John Wetton (RIP) was watching at the sametime. It was 1993's first Progfest.
The speculation about the laughter at the end of the song in the comments and Haskel's claims about it are BS. Obviously the laughter was scripted to illustrate the last lines of the lyric. "You and Jones go madder, broken bones, broken ladder." It's the crazed laughter of the lyric's main character (referred to only as you) as he goes mad.
@@AP-sd1fl At 0:02 that's the synth but it doesn't seem to have been used again. Where the interplay at 0:08 is pronounced it seems that the original instrumentation has been altered (it was a synth), replaced by an oboe or clarinet. This is what it should sound like at 1:34
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This album rules
Curious that this song ends with a "Hey Ho" and then begins Happy Family (a song about The Beatles) just like The Continuing History Of Bungallow Bill ends with a "Hey Ho" before While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Even better that King Crimson used the same intro as Bungallow Bill on the track “Travel Bleary Capricorn”
This song ends with broken bones and desire.
The Steve Wilson remix is a trip. The horns come at you from different speakers around the room. This is definitely a complicated arrangement and well deserving of the 5.1 surround mix.
the SW mix in Lizard & Islands is CRAP! He butchered some of the most emotional passages. Thanks the lord versions in the KC official youtube channel are the standard ones.
@oilingup Robert Fripp was impressed with Steven Wilson's remix. I am, too, as a listener! This is much better.
@nathanlansford1882 Some people just don't respond well to surround sound and should stick to basic stereo mixes. I find it more immersive if done correctly. It puts you right into the soundstage and on a song with various instruments dropping in and out of the mix like Indoor Games, it definitely heightens the listening experience
@@oilingup Wilson's mix of Cirkus is unlistenable, at least when listening with headphones.
I have first listened to this Album on vinyl around 16 years old. The machine spinned gently slower than it should what pitched the record a bit and it felt a whole lot darker and intense.
33 1/2 rate was probably simplified to 33 on yours then lol, I have the same thing with some of my Hammond Organ records
King Crimson... so light and humorous as always!
Level 5, LTIA I, B’boom, light and humorous? Whew…
@@chrisbyars4422 I would say any of the LTIA not just V and I
@@chrisbyars4422 Think it's sarcasm my friend
They're very ronin my ninja.
I missed the original KC lineup when they toured the US in '69 due to headliner Jefferson Airplane canceling the gig. Their equipment truck driver was arrested in New York on the way to Detroit. The only other concert I missed and regretted for years was when Yes opened for ELP in 1971. My friends raved about the show for days after seeing it.
But I did see KC the next time they toured for this album. I'll never forget Mel Collins rocking his mellotron back and forth while thrusting his sax in the air during Cirkus. That opening blast of mellotron brass sounds literally shook the walls of the auditorium.
Andy McCulloch, the best drummer Fripp ever had. The Giles style on steroids.
Nah, Giles is by far the best drummer that past on KC. But McCulloch holds the song well
@@azypy McCulloch doing a sort of seat-of-the pants Giles impression on this whole LP. His Greenslade style was more straight ahead. I always wondered if they tracked drums FIRST and that's why he is overdoing it a bit? I think this album wasn't very live-off-the-floor. Regardless, the "each afternoon you train baboons to sing" part is still top tier symphonic nonsense, and I will take more press rolls over fewer anyday.
Any fan of this should also get a hold of Van Der Graaf Generator’s albums from the same time frame (H To He..., Pawn Hearts) which also have Fripp guesting.
Excellent albums btw, very ahead of their time
The Least We Could Do is better than H to He imo, but Pawn Hearts is a masterpiece
ty!
@@Syfoll Godbluff and Still Life 4 the win, though.
Even a couple of Peter Hamill’s solo albums too!
This song is also amazing.
Every time I start my washing machine, it makes a sound like that little ascending flourish at 0:02, and I get this song stuck in my head all day...
Big music, as always. And I still remember how beautiful was the LP . It was a very beautiful time for the music, in every detail !
Thank you Robert Fripp
Sinfield dusted off his pen and fertilized his fire 🔥 on this piece.
If that's what it takes to raise a family.
If God wills it 🤷
album cover artwork is supreme
Fripp mic'ed from bathroom = best Fripp 3:11
Never failed to make me and my prog geek friends laugh like the vocals at the end. And then there was the end...
A true classic.
A better album here, than I thought!
esse disco é mto épico, melhor banda de todas.
Stewie Griffin's best vocal work ever
The singer in this track is Gordon Haskell.
@@geraldodeffune6081 Family's Guy
Cheerful Insanity
We're supposed to be ashamed of it nowadays..
Hey now, that was Giles, Giles, and Fripp!
Superb album.. very underrated
I brush my teeth to this song
My first lp of theirs. I met Robert in Dallas 1979 at Peach's record store. Then again south of L.A. 1993 with the League of Gentlemen. John Wetton (RIP) was watching at the sametime. It was 1993's first Progfest.
R.I.P. Gordon Haskell
I bought this album on its first release. Nausea? Headache? Nope. I didn't get that. I see the song as a swipe against the British aristocracy.
My thoughts precisely, clearly a dig at the upper class and their sycophants
It's a swipe against the pretentious Kings Road Chelsea set of the late sixties and seventies
Lizard Gang rise up 🦎
💛
❤
2:22 ahh yes psychedelic sound effects
Special album....
Btw, erroneous copyright credit in description.🤔🙄
Fripp is one of the best guitarists ever
Robert receiving messages from Zoot Horn Rollo
Are these new mixes? I’m used to the Steven Wilson 40th anniversary mix.
Lizard Gang rise up
happy family
You said “Islands Gang rise up” on a Island song, too. Why?
Islands forever
HAPPY FAMILY ONE HAND CLAP
*FOUR WENT BY AND NON CAME BACK*
ConstruKction Kcrew Rise up!
Hey Ho hahah hahah Hey Ho 🌞
I love this song
Now imagine a man with a massive boiled egg for a head shaking a groove to this.
I don't have to, I have a mirror
Siempre en mi cabeza;))) Inmortal!!!
Acid indigestion at the coronation of the black Prince.
pleasure
Is anyone else here thanks to Lance Corporal Boiled Egg?
His curious dance. Hey ho.
Me too! 🥚
Oh yeah!
One of the rarest KC number featuring an hammond, if not the only one, and that mellotron at 2:19 is killer
cat food vibes
Never thought it, but yeah.
The worst of King Crimson with Happy Family.
Already standing 👍
The speculation about the laughter at the end of the song in the comments and Haskel's claims about it are BS. Obviously the laughter was scripted to illustrate the last lines of the lyric. "You and Jones go madder, broken bones, broken ladder." It's the crazed laughter of the lyric's main character (referred to only as you) as he goes mad.
Gordon Haskell - bass guitar love the licks after 3:46 +
robert fripp is playing games now
hey hey hey
Is that a theremin? 2:20
🎶🦎🎶
Cor blimey that cor anglais
Where is the synth in the intro section?
There´s no synth.
@@AP-sd1fl At 0:02 that's the synth but it doesn't seem to have been used again. Where the interplay at 0:08 is pronounced it seems that the original instrumentation has been altered (it was a synth), replaced by an oboe or clarinet. This is what it should sound like at 1:34
@@LilHaseProductions I think it´s a mellotron.
Sounds like a powerup sound effect.
Mr Bungle before Mr Bungle
hey ho
Lizard gang asembly!
´outdöör gäymess är öFäir kämm övD stärröästäir vlzv
This album : You like Jazz?
@Leonidas Neil you forgot #ad, buddy
@Faustino Guilmette #AD PLZ DONT FORGET IT
My favourite tune from the album. Every element in the band works perfectly.
Why somebody try to promote some crappy site in RUclips music channel? This is ridiculous
@@murpi338 oh so that's what happened, well at least those comments got deleted