A Guide to KING CRIMSON
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Robert Fripp disliked this video because you mentioned King Crimson
Update: he did relax!
I'm not impressed musician should be ashamed of their previous bands they were in
@@briangbur8743
U R DUMB
@@briangbur8743
Nah, your mom already wore me out. Thanks though.
Oh too bad, too sad. I too become grumpy at times, however never an indignant ingrate.
"... and Belew was a real wordsmith."
Second verse on Neal and Jack and Me: _STRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGE SPAGHETTI_
and SANDWICHES
Yeah... Strange Spaghetti... As in a mess of confusion and contradictions. Some wordsmiths are subtle... As in they are not Literal.
Take it literally as a plate of food though should you wish.
no no no
The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum
I'M WHEELS
I've yet to hear a song as perfect as Starless. That song alone makes the existence of King Crimson a blessing to humanity.
I agree Krokberg!!!!! I've been a huge Crimson Fan since the beginning, but there is nothing in my 65 years of loving music that moves me as much as "Starless"!!!!!!
its not my favorite song by them but i absolutely love that lead melody part of that song it is truly a great song.
@Satanic Panic Fun and Games If cutting insults were dynamite you might have enough to wake up a nearby cat.
Starless was fabulous.
@Satanic Panic Fun and Games Trolls dream up shit like this…
I really like Starless, Court of the Crimson King, Epitaph, Starless, 21st Century Schizoid Man, and Starless.
I really like Starless.
To paraphrase Monty Python:
"Can I have Starless, Starless, Starless, Starless, Starless, Starless, Starless, Starless, Islands and Starless?"
"Sorry, Islands is off."
"So can I have Starless instead?"
I don't "really like" Starless. I LOVE it!
Both Starless and Epitaph stand above all other music to me, with Epitaph nearly beating Starless.
I thought you would prefer StarDUST...
Starless is truly ______
Do you like Starless?
I’m 12 years old and love King Crimson
Someone: **pirates King Crimson because they don’t want to pay for a streaming subscription**
Fripp: *Overall, your life is about to be unlivable.*
SplendidCoffee0 same profile pic lol
John Hermann nice
Has the dawn ever seen your eyes?
@@cosmicdot. Have the days made you so unwise, realize? You are
Micheal Giles is one of the great underrated Prog era drummers.
jajwritersblock the man owns cymbals
Hell yes! I'm always set in awe everytime I listen to his drumming on In The Wake of Poseidon
The drummer with Klaatu said he loves Michael Giles and purposely setup his set to imitate Giles sound on the Klaatu recordings. I have also loved his muted heads jazzy playing.
@@annode Tis funny because I was into Klaatu before I was into KC.
Yes, he got overshadowed by Bruford, but he held his own in the Crimson history.
TALK TALK
ITS OOOOOOOOONNLLLYY TALK
ARGUMENTS AGREEMENTS ADVICE ANSWERS ARTICULATE ANNOUNCEMENTS
IT'S ONLY TALK
@@StyxTBuferd BROUHAHA
Elephant talk?
[Makes guitar sound like a fucking elephant]
"All you do is talk!"
This is the video that RUclips has been missing for years
YESSS! I was waiting for this one. Thanks for making this man.
Lie Likes Music wrong prog group, dude. It’s king crimson, not yes
GOT EM
understand robert fripp or adrian belew my man
Comments of a waiting man.
Thats another band.
I worked with him for a while with the Crafty Guitarist and I thought he was a tough person to get along with before I met him but he was completely the opposite. What it is about him is that his humor is so dry that he will be messing with you and you won't even notice until later. He is a very good guy, has a great heart and demands excellence from his musicians.
Fripp is guitar genius
Second this - I've met him a couple of times for VIP shows, and he's just charming as all get out despite being not only a rock star, but one sharing some extremely rarefied intellectual air (with people like Eno & Brian May & Tom Scholz).
I've never met him, but see that completely. I read interviews with other artists in which they talk about him being all serious and professorial and then casually tossing out hilarious, filthy fucked up stories in his deadpan voice. There's a clip from a British TV show from the early 80s showing Fripp give some very honest and sincere advice to a kid wanting to sent tapes to record companies in order to get signed. He seems genuinely interested in giving that kid a good road map. He's probably mellowed a lot with age too.
I love that you have posted this, and given a different perspective to the stories we have heard about Robert. I have no doubt that your own playing was made better from working with him. Thanks for sharing.
Wew, 52 minutes for one of my fav bands, a proper treat
Exactly what I thought.
We urgently need a complete and professionally made King Crimson documentary.
There is an official documentary coming sometime in the near future called Cosmic FuKc
we got one :)
In the Court of the Crimson King documentary confirmed!
It's here now.
4 years in the making
@@MakinaMotze Here where? In RUclips free?
>People not liking 70s Prog because they imagine it's all just Rush
That really hurt my Robert Wyatt loving heart
Soft Machine are another great unknown band.
years ahead of their time.
Fuck people who don't like rush
I love rush, they’re a good prog rock band but they also border a straight up rock band. It’s like if zeppelin turned prog.
Moon in June! One of the greatest songs of all time. In one of the greatest albums of all time- Soft Machine Third. And please don’t see this as hyperbole on my part- just go out and listen.
And a shout out to Rock Bottom!
Thx.
@@davidnorris7287 typical Rush fanboi response. Rush didn't hit their peak until the Big Six began to subside. I consider Rush more prog metal than prog.
In my opinion King Crimson is the greatest Prog Rock band of all time and Epitaph is one of the greatest pieces of music I've ever heard, along with Starless.
Lightmane I wouldn’t even call Epitaph or Starless a song, more like an experience for me a magical one at that
Starless is the best song I’ve ever heard.
And bible black
Guide to King Crimson: Don't ever illegally download fripp's music
Welp
Alejandro Sandoval it’s a secret to everyone
www.reddit.com/r/megalinks/comments/6g4ipc/music_king_crimson_discography_19692003_flac_330/?st=JQZH27BK&sh=ee6c69a7
@@alexd.2504 ...unsurprisingly: "[ Removed by reddit in response to a copyright notice. ]"
He released all the king crimson album on spotify
This community has been banned lmao.
I hate when people say "it shouldve ended in red" when fripps whole deal with the band is to keep learning and moving forward, pretty much all the albums after red are goated and extremely unique in their own rights, the power to believe being one of my favs fron the band and i cant imagine a universe where we dont have tony levin and adrian belew in a crimson lineup
TRAK is amazing as well
EVEYONE IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
King Crimson is online, every album since Court of the Crimson King is now available to play on most streaming services
big boy what about the albums before itcotck
YES! I LOVE YOU BRO!
Volksgeist Nice to see you here👌
My man volk
A very comprehensive look at the recordings of KC, thank you.
There were a few things that were not so much missed out, but could have been mentioned.
1. Elton John, auditioned for the band and Fripp turned him down.
2. John Anderson of Yes was a guest vocalist on Lizard.
3. While playing for Yes, Bill Bruford constantly pestered Fripp for a place in the band. (that funny little man on the stool, Bruford)
4. Jimi Hendrix went to a KC gig in London and declared that they were the best band in the world!
5. Fripp's solo on Sailor's Tale (Islands album) is the most outrageous guitar solo. Why? Because it's all chords.
Personal trivia. I went along to listen to my mates rehearse in the basement of a cafe in Fulham. In the passage way was a stack of equipment belonging to another band and I asked my mates who it belonged to. I was told that the name of the band was stencilled on the cover of their Mellotron. MELLOTRON! I exclaimed. If they use a mellotron, they can't be any good I said. I looked at the stencilled name, which proclaimed the legend, King Crimson. This was of course before the release of 'In the Court' and their support gig for the Stones in Hyde Park.
If I'm not mistaken, Elton John was actually booked to show up in the studio, but Fripp had second thoughts at the last minute.
@@ignatiusjackson235 Yeah, I thought Fripp heard Elton's first record and decided that it wasn't a good fit. I don't think he ever made it to try out.
Jon Anderson
There's a certain weird, ethereal, almost fantasy like character to King Crimson's early albums ( court, Poseidon, lizard ... ) As if it comes from a different planet. I can't put my finger on what gives those albums that certain atmosphere. But no other band band has that sound.
Islands is especially magical
@@douglasanderson8636 I think Peter Sinfield's influence is underrated on those early albums, and on the band in general. Not only was he the lyricist, but also kind of an art director. A lot of the fantasy and whimsy that is absent from their post-Islands work comes from him.
I agree!!! This is why I love them
Imagine an EP containing "Moonchild" on side A and "The Devil's Triangle" on side B. Wouldn't it be the trippiest thing in the universe?
Alongside Providence and maybe The Sheltering Sky
blue ( fripp quintet) and larks thrak ( LCG)
Or Islands and Lizard (Bolero) ♥️
It woud be the Frippiest thing in the universe, for sure.
Moonchild? You mean random recordings of people knocking over shelves in construction stores, and throwing instruments off of cliffs?
Here before Fripp's copyright strike
Fripp doesn't care. This video acknowledges the existence of King Crimson, and for that, it must be fripped.
ConstruKction of Light is legitimately my second favorite KC album after THRAK, and I don't really see how it's just "an amalgam of their previous eras". It's a completely new sound, diving head on into progressive and industrial metal, which they only partially experimented with on records like THRAK. Also, like you mentioned for Discipline, Belew's lyrics on this album are some of the best since their debut album, from the thought provoking philosophies of the title track, to the fluid wordplay on Oyster Soup.
I would agree outside of the lyrics, I think the lyrics on ConstruKction are easily the worst the band ever had
Red is a masterpiece! The trio 🤯. Wetton and bruford/ one of the best Rhythm sections ever!
JoJo part 5 anime just starts
Deep Cuts uploads a King Crimson video
Like poetry
I have only seen Jojo first season, why poetry? They use a KC song as a theme?
@@GauravKumar-bf2rq One of the villain stands is literally called King Crimson
@@xiuxiu1108 Also, Epitaph
Can't wait to be called a weeb for my musical taste. Again.
It's gravity I tell ya.
yessssss
just watch out for fripp trying to nuke this video
King Crimsonnnnnn
Its not yes man
In the Court of the Crimson King, to me, is the greatest prog rock album of all time..
weird way to spell Red
Weird way to spell Close to the edge
Weird way to spell Selling England By The Pound.
Weird way to spell In the Land of Grey and Pink
Weird way to spell Lark's Tongues in Aspic
WHO ELSE CAME BACK TO THIS NOW THAT KC IS ON STREAMING SERVICES BABYYYYY
King Crimson finally on streaming services!!!
>Sees new Deep Cuts video
>'tis about King Crimson
>Has already heard the majority of their studio output
>Clicks on the video anyway
LET'S GOOOOOOOO
Anime Pic, this nigga comes from jojo
@@sorubro2193 That's a Monogatari Series character in his pfp, so this is not necessarily true. Also, so what?
@dead project More like 4chan
@@sorubro2193 he 100% discovered prog from 4chan/rym at best
Blimey Oliver, do you ever sleep? The effort you put in is crazy!
I agree with 99% of this, but ConstrucKtion of Light is probably my favorite of the final trio of Crimson albums. Love the KC take on blues-y rock on ProzacK Blues, the technically excessive yet still beautiful title tracks, Belew's humorous free association word-play & toy laser gun guitar sounds on The World's my Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum, the shredding headbanger of Lark's Part IV, the gloomy Coda: I Have a Dream with another of Belew's free association word-play but with the playful fun of the former replaced by a much darker pessimistic tone. And then the delightfully sombre finale of Heaven & Earth as cherry on top.
Am I the only one who thinks ConstrucKtion of Light is one of the last really good studio albums!? I think this & Thrak are head & shoulders above Power to Believe.
They are all brilliant.
The Construction of Light is spectacular. There's a baroque sensibility to much of the compositions but I loved that. Of the Adrian Belew era Discipline and TCoL we're my favorites.
title track TCOL parts 1&2 is incredible piece of music. Heaven and Earth final is magnificent. the only thing that sucks is the machine gun drum sounds in LTIA 4. they’re just terrible.
there’s many guitar melodies (or riffs) in TCOL album from projeKcts box. and I also love that box!
i love TCOL, BUT the power to believe is FANTASTIKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
ConstrucKtion of Light is Bangers!
I don't understand why people dislike Islands, it's very chill and peaceful, it's a unique album in their catalog, and their best album cover, at least one of the best
It's certainly unike anything else in their discography, but it's still a beautiful album regardless
@@honeycomblord9384 yeah, for me one of the most beautiful prog albums for sure
It's a great album but I often find the title track really lacking. The drum part on the climax is just rubbish and theres some weird noise in the 16K Htz region on most of the track, really detracts from it imo
@@TheLetterH111 that's crazy, that's one of their most emotional and among their 10 best songs ever
@@rporta i want to agree because the parts of the song that i like are sublime. The rest of the album is unquestionably great though so i listen to it a fair bit
construkction of light was always one of my favourites when you asked why, i was stumped. i guess i actually like some of the things you specifically mentioned, like the electronic drums,there's a cold, stark, mechanical kinda aesthetic to a lot of the album, the classic fripp and belew interlock from the 80s is there in for instance the title track, but it feels almost robotic and the electronic drums add to that. it's a very electronic king crimson and that's what makes it interesting imho... ok, and frakctured is simply a beast^^
Absolutely agree
I wasn't a big fan of "the Construkction of Light" at first, but after a while I came to appreciate the music on it. The musical ideas on some of the songs are really interesting, and the music theory of some of the songs is fantastic. "Frakctured" alone is a reason to listen to the album. The title track is still played live today too for a good reason.
I wasn't a fan of the album until I started listening to Trey Gunn's parts! Those Warr guitar lines were awesome!
Marvellous. The whole album is a deep cut.
15:00 Dementia, described; Cat Food ~ Her fillet is in the clothes hamper instead of the refrigerator, and she is eating cat food, with sauce.
Very good documentary!! Congratulations!!! My favorite LP's are "In the court of the Crimson King", "Larks Tongues in Aspic", "Red", "Discipline". Live albuns I like "USA", Best tracks for me: "Epitaph" 21st century schizoid man", "In the court of the Crimson King", "In the wake of Poseidon", ""Cadence and Cascade (Gordon Haskell vocals), "Prince Rupert awakes", "The great deceiver", "Larks Tongues in Aspic part II", Easy Money", "Book of Saturday", ""Fallen Angel", "Starless", "Asbury park" live, Frame by frame, "Elephant talk", "Neal and Jack and me",
I forgot "Exiles" Superb song!!!
Robert Fripp is destroying his legacy with his anti-consumer “only physical copies” stance. The industry’s not going to change Bob, it’s just going to leave you behind.
Basically he will die and his executor will probably finally open the flood gates. I honestly dont doubt the money will explode through the doors from the streaming plays they will get. Every classic band that gets an introduction to online sales suddenly explode in popularity.
The only thing he destroys is profit of streaming services and maybe (just maybe) his own.
I never had a physical copy of KC starting with tape cassette in 88-89 with "Starless"
King Crimson legacy lives through their fans, copies and services comes next
@Luka K. My fist record I got was in 1989. It was Soviet Union, man!
And I bought the cassette tape with my money (a great sum for highschool student actually). But of cause it was pirated anyway.
And I remember that actually I had CD of "Starless" as a birthday gift 3 years later.
This gift was from my friend who was introduced to KC by me, lol.
A little later there was Red, Vroom, Discipline, smth with Eno but I don't remember in which form they came to me.
Now I'm in new spiral of KC-mania and I honestly admit: "My name Alex and I am KC-junky. I will grab everything I will find and listen to it. And a lot of people close to me will share this fate"
I'm ready to send this to Robert Fripp directly. It's him to blame (partially at least) for my condition
@Luka K. And I never knew about "only physical copies" - the last albums I got through Google Music
@Luka K. Da mada nisam uspeo da nadjem jugotonov kc, uzeo sam prvu englesku verziju itcotkc kod nas doduse za 40€
Glad to find another person whose absolute favourite album is Lark's Tongues in Aspic ! This record is unique, and after its extreme diversity of nuances on the first side, it manages on its second side to build up towards a climax which can only rival with Starless in my opinion. I mean, the chaining of Easy Money, The Talking Drum and Lark's Tongues is Aspic Part 2 is kind of orgasmic.
My personal podium would be :
1. LARK'S TONGUES IN ASPIC (Freaking musical masterpiece from the first to the last second)
2. RED (A powerful and dark work of art, and an overwhelwing testimony from a disbanding Crimson)
3. IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING (A groundbreaking milestone in rock history, the year 0 of prog)
And I also want to mention the underrated STARLESS AND BIBLE BLACK for its tense and astonishing improvisations, this one missed my medal.
Anyway, keep on making great musical guides, your videos are so relevant, thanks !
i AGREE WITH YOU ! lLark's tongue was a revelation to me, at the age of 14 and dramatically changed my musician life to our days. Robert Fripp changed my way to consider my guitar, alone or on stage.
I've always looked at Poseidon as the 'Magical Mystery Tour' to Court's 'Sgt. Pepper'. Similar in many respects but became more interesting to me after I had heard the earthshattering record so much I had become bored of it for a time. That's when the "inferior" follow-up became more interesting to me, and now they're both inseparable to me. Like left and right hands
The more I look at it...
The more I like it.
I do think it's good
The fact is,
@@HEHEHE_I_AM_A_MASKED_WARRIA no matter how closely I study it,
No matter how I take it apart,
No matter how I break it down
A lifelong fan I’ve attended over 80 near 90 live performances dating back to 1971. I saw the 1973-74 version 15 times, I believe, the Final performance at Central Park is legendary. Happy to see a younger fan carrying the torch.
Wow! Goddamn dude. I'm listening to "USA" and I hate you so much right now. To have been in the audience for those shows and hear that insane shit enveloping your body must have been amazing.
Respect
Hey Oliver could you do a guide on Fugazi?
@Aldrich Leblanc With a discography with albums like Repeater, Red Medicine, and In On the Kill Taker, I'd say they'd be great for it.
Aldrich Leblanc They’re a surprisingly versatile band with some really interesting compositions and abstract lyrics. I’d say they’d be perfect for a guide.
I’d extend it to include minor threat as well or just do Ian Mackaye’s work
Brilliant stuff
I'd love that. The Argument has to be one of the best albums of the 2000's.
Speaking of Fugazi, a guide on Marillion?
Odd.....I'm old and remember KC when they were current, and I was told that "all youse kids hate Prog Rock". I was told wrong.
I really like ConstruKction of Light :(
I can understand if you don't like the drums, but I feel like The Power to Believe often has a similar drum sound. I think I just don't really care too much about the different sound. The compositions are top-notch, and I think like it even more than Power. FraKctured and Larks' Pt. IV are just so great. And I really enjoy Into the Frying Pan for the weird whirling yet consistent vocal harmonies. THRAK is my favorite of the last three though.
The title track is top Crim
@@jonnykhatru a revelation, and my introduction to adrian belew.
The remaster is fantastic. I used to shirk at the album, but they recorded live drums and did a better mix overall... It brings new life to the album.
i had the pleasure of seeing them live last year. I saw them on the CoL tour, as well. The current line-up is unbelievably good. 2.5 hours of music, all of it masterfully delivered. Stuff I never thought I'd hear live, and they've constantly been developing new material and working it into shows.
Most interestingly, it was the first time I believed Fripp in his insistence that he is not King Crimson. The show was very much the Mighty Crim in full force, and Robert was honestly not that big a part of what was happening, and he looked thrilled for that to the be the case, and to see the band taking off totally under its own power.
Absolutely ruined me on live music for months, though. Nothing could come anywhere near that level of delivery, immediacy, and power.
You should do a deep cuts essential on Soundtracks for The Blind. I know you touched on it in your swans guide but I think there’s so much more to unpack there.
2nd that. It’s my favorite album of all time.
+Sidekick 821 Saw Swans live in 1992. They were magnificent.
People were crying during Michael's heartbreaking vocal on
"Failure", one of the saddest tracks ever committed to vinyl.
"White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity" is truly astonishing,
as is "Children Of God". Check them out.
A great recommendation.
Live Through Me never fails to blow me away. Such a breathtaking track.
They finally released some king crimson albums on spotify, before than I had to listen to the “court of the crimson king” on pornhub
Great video! I just want to add that you really can't gloss over Jamie Muir's influence on Bill Bruford. Muir's improvisational prowess and free jazz approach became an integral part of Bruford's sound. Bruford has been quoted saying that he wanted to work with Fripp and Muir specifically because he wanted to learn from them.
Amazing how Muir managed to have such an impact, given that he was only in the band for a couple of months. Shame he didn't remain longer, as I liked what he brought to the music.
don't really know what your oan about cause a just listined to the court of the crimson king like 3 days ago but have to say appreciate the profile pic a clockwork orange is the best
Fantastic video on one of my favourite bands. ITCOTCK and Red are simply perfect but Lizard is actually my third favourite and hugely underrated. It may be their most bizarre record but the songwriting on that record brings out the insane from out of the ordinary in brilliant ways. I haven't found another record that is as equally whimsical and sinister at the same time and I love it.
Lizard is their best album.
You might like Sketches of Brunswick East by King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard with Mild High Club
Apple Music has a really good selection of live king crimson albums. Getting into King Crimson you’ll be listening to many, many live albums to hear the differences between the quality, musicianship and improv. I highly suggest epitaph(live 1969) and live in maniz
22:59 - In the 1991 documentary YesYears, Bill relates that he asked RF if he could join and he responded, "Oh, do you think you're about ready now, Bill?"
Wow, that was a really "Young Person's Guide to King Crimson". Great job, best regards from Brazil.
King Crimson are now making some albums available for free on their official RUclips channel. Not sure if they're up forever or just a limited time, but they've been uploading the back catalog for the past year or so, sometimes even with previously unreleased out takes.
We can thank Toyah for helping him soften up a bit on his stance of digital distribution on the Internet with the COVID lockdown videos!
Truly one of the greatest bands ever. I have to admit I'm baffled by you calling The ConstruKction Of Light a dud, it's honestly one of my favorites, I'd go as far as calling it their final master piece. To me the most impressive thing is how compact and just how well all the instrumentation meshes together. All the grooves and strange time signatures are just on point. It has one of my favorite guitar tones of any of the king crimson records and the whole thing is just heavy and technical in a very impressive way. It lacks the looseness and improvisational feeling of other records but I think that's sort of the point. Plus It just has some great tunes in my opinion. The ConstruKction Of Light II, Into the Frying pan and The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum are incredibly catchy and as far as instrumentals FraKctured is one of my favorites in all the KC catalogue. Islands and Three of a perfect pair are probably my least favorite albums but even those have their highlights.
totally agreed! This was a great record, loved it to bits, better than Thrakk to me because it felt less shiny, more experimental, dark and authentic. I saw them live for the first time in that 2001 tour, they didn't disappoint! Belew became instantly my favourite frontman who ever stepped on a stage.
Yes Juan, totally agree! I see I'm not alone on this. And Frakctured is musical terror at its finest.
Juan Pablo Torres - The ConstruKction of Light is a weird one. The songs are good...but the whole thing just somehow falls short. It seems to me that all the “research and development” they did with the ProjeKcts was forgotten about. Plus, the best track they had - “The Deception of the Thrush” wasn’t used! The only thing they really used was the P4 track “ProjeKction,” which turned into “Into the Frying Pan.” The songs are just monstrous live though - I would easily recommend the Heavy ConstruKction live album to anyone. IMO, “The ConstruKction of Light” is one of their best tracks.
The ConstruKction of Light is super underrated. I think it's partly due to the production and the performance, which make it sound a bit flat. But listen to Heavy ConstruKction, and you can tell this is the most dense, aggressive, and disorienting set of songs they ever produced, even more than THRAK. Two particular things I love here are the flowing, pointillistic melodicism of tracks like the title track, which really build on the interlocking guitars of past albums, and the battering, out of control, collapsing building effect of tracks like Oyster and Larks' IV. Also, every fan should own a copy of the Level 5 EP, which seems to have been totally forgotten, but which has much heavier and/or more improvisational versions of some tracks from Power to Believe, and is probably my favorite album of theirs since Discipline, and IMO it's their freshest mix of the styles from Red and Discipline.
Luke Manning - Power to Believe is excellent. It captures that live heaviness that none of the other studio albums do, other than Red. Larks 4 is excellent. It’s a shame that Belew stopped singing the Coda live after people complained about the politics of it. The current lineup played Larks 4 on the last tour...I wonder how it sounds? Maybe Fripp will put it on the next live album.
Thanks for this video!
I had to remark that I find "The Construction Of Light" a beautiful and brilliant album, even though it's not their best.
I especially like the theme track "The Construction Of Light", mostly instrumental and sophisticated. You didn't mention the live album "Heavy Construction" which promoted this album and had two version of the theme track - "Heavy Construction" and "The Construction of Light" (the latter is a pun for "Light Construction").
I also like the energetic track "Into the Frying Pan" and "The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum" with the stick sounding like a crazy piano playing and Belew's word games.
The general sound of this album feels a bit cold and "futuristic" (in a sense it feels that Bruford and Levin are missing), but I assume that's what they aimed for.
Since you asked: I submit that The ConstruKction of Light is a wonderful record, in fact one of their very best. It is full of intricately construKcted polyrhythms in epic long tracks, intermixed with some sexily catchy prog pop songs. I don't think there's a bad track on the record, just a few mediocre ones that prevent it from being an uncompromised masterpiece. But it also has the title track, which is one of KC's absolute best pieces - very trippy, unique and masterfully constructed - and all the other longer tracks are pretty great, too, from Lark IV to FraKctured.
The production on this album is a bit thin and underwhelming, to be sure, and some of the tracks work better in their live versions on live CDs and DVDs. Overall, The Power to Believe might edge it out for me due to this reason, but that doesn't mean ConstruKction is somehow bad, let alone "a dud." It is a fun, bold and innovative prog album that oozes confidence and style. Definitely not one to be dismissed.
I love ConstruKction Of Light because it make me so dizzy when i'm high. Polyrhythm everywhere and I love Belew's voice so much. And Matt's drumming such a holy amazing and tricky playing. Such a powerful album.
No mention whatever regarding Jon Anderson lead vocals on Lizard? Or the story that Anderson asked Fripp to join Yes in 1970 when Banks left and Fripp's reply was to ask Anderson to join Crimson? Those details would certainly add to your video.
No mention of Bryan Ferry, either, trying out for the lead vocalist spot in King Crimson.
@@QuestionMark4Ever and elton john did too 😅😅
You choose the best artists for your guides. Swans, Eno, Radiohead (an obligatory one that you killed), Death Grips, etc etc. Also, thank you for your Nick Cave guide, as soon as you released it I bought Let Love in on CD. I've been listening to it a lot recently again, and it is probably a 10/10 in my eyes. I appreciate what you're doing and you've put me on to a lot of good shit. After seeing your Liquid Swords review, I would love to see a Wu-Tang one including all of the solo releases.
I think the vocals on Lizard are what make it unlistenable, and In The Wake of Poseidon and Islands are CRIMINALLY underrated.
King Crimson has been new wave, industrial, electronic, prog rock, classical, jazz, avant garde, folk, very diverse.
Lots of live albums have gone up recently on Spotify . Incredible live band
Would highly recommend ‘The Night Watch’ from Amsterdam ‘73, solid recording quality and incredible performance
Their live material blows the albums out of the water
a year-old desire of mine now satisfied:) now crossing my fingers for a Porcupine Tree or a Sigur Ros guide. Hope I wouldn't die before.. Thank you!!
thank you oliver! i just listened to "starless" for the first time and almost had a heartattack. its one of the greatest songs i've ever listened to.
you've been fripp'd by, you've been struck by a smooth jazz guitarist
Red is actually one of the earliest examples of math rock, which is why it's the goat.
One of the best active rock bands in the world!
My favourite records are the ones John Wetton recorded and my favourite song is Book of Saturday.
All full albums are on King crimson official on RUclips
I can't believe Rick Astley made a 52 minute deep dive video on one of the greatest avant garde of all time.
I don’t see it
A Guide to Bohren & Der Club of Gore and of course Coil please ❤
I think the time period of 1994-2003 actually was King Crimson's most creative period. They reached levels of musical creativity with songs like "Thrak" "Level Five" "Superbottomfeeder (from Projekct X)" that are astounding, to name just a few. On another note, "The Construkction of Light" album is actually one of my favorites by King Crimson, so I was surprised to hear you thought it was a dud. I think it has some of King Crimson's most creative works. The solo that Fripp plays on "The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum" where he makes his guitar sound like a piano sounds otherworldly to me. "Prozakc Blues" is one of the most badass songs I ever heard. I just love the whacky blues sound it has to it. "Lark's Tongue in Aspic Pt. IV" is another masterpiece. Who else could write a song like that but King Crimson? I am not very musically knowledgeable, but the rhythm of the guitars on that song is just beyond me. I cannot figure it out. Adrian's Belew's solo is one of the best solos I have ever heard. Frakctured is so odd sounding. For that I am sure there would be a lot of people that would not like it, but once again it showcases King Crimson's creativity. The song, "The Construkction of Light" sounds like a song that no one but King Crimson could come up with, I love it.
Sorry mate you don't smoke a pipe, were born thirty years after KC came to be and you don't have a tweed jacket with leather elbow pads, longish hair or a beard, what would you know about KC apart from what you've googled with your iPad?
What do you know apart from what can be googled? Lmao
Just because you are old and smoke doesn't mean you have authority on anything but arthritis and lung cancer
This may already have been mentioned but King Crimson were already playing small gigs in the UK in1969 before the Hyde Park concert (Rolling Stones). I saw them 4 days before at Goldsmiths College in South London in what was an 'arts' festival. They played in a small marquee stage on the back lawn of the college. I recall a bit of a light show and the now classics from their first album. They blew me away as one of the first gigs that I had been to and I didn't even know they would be at the Stones gig that I attended a few days later. So much for 24/7 media coverage now!
Dave Stevenson awesome story. Thanks for sharing
I HAVE MADE A TERRIBEL DISCOVERY ABOUT STARLESS AND BIBLE BLACK...
those are both the names to different hentai
Construkction is a dud? Well, bugger me. I always thought it was a masterpiece, and easily one of my two favorites. But what do I know.
Imma just say this deep cuts dude ya better have a section of the essay dedicated to how amazing adrian belew was to the 80s lineup of king crimson or imma just gonna unsub and resub cause i love you but still it better be there
Adrian Belew was sorely missed in the latest King's live incarnations, yes.
@@IvanoForgione I like Belew but I don't think he's missed at all. The latest incarnation doesn't need him.
In my opinion, In The Wake Of Poseidon is better than Epitaph, which makes the albums a lot more even than you described, but it's a good analysis nonetheless.
King Crimson now on Spotify!!!
I like The ConstruKction of Light solely because Adrian Belew says "a speck of lint on the penis of the alien" and I'm a big fan of that
Great video as usual.
Personally as much as I like others it'll probably always be Red. The level of intensity and then release they're able to to hit in the final moments of Starless to end the album really are unparalleled by any other band I listened to.
That said, I have to say I always quite enjoy Wake of Poseidon, I maybe wouldn't put it on the same level as Discipline, Red, or Court but for me I would rank it around the same as Lark's Tongues. I think while people are certainly welcome to see the DNA of Court as something which the album never really escapes from, I think where Poseidon succeeds is by taking that DNA and playing with and transforming it. With maybe the best example being the not so-subtle but very brief section of Court played during Devil's Triangle.
Also Guide to Pink Floyd maybe? Favorite band so biased but there's a lot to talk about.
Happy Family on the Lizard album is about the breakup of the Beatles. There is even a cartoon of the Beatles on the front cover.
I bought "In The Court Of The Crimson King" on a complete whim from a local shop and immediately fell in love with it, it's absolutely worth the blind purchase
Red is my favorite álbum ever, hands down.
However 80's crimson has always been really close to my heart for some reason
Robert Fripp is Diavolo. Any KC upload gets erased by his STANDO NO NORYOUKU
Makes sense, king crimson erases shit
Dec. 2021: King Crimson has now reportedly "gone from sound to silence". :(
They're finally on every major streaming service. I know it doesn't do much to fill their pockets which is why they've been holding out for so long but it works as a promotional strategy.
I've not heard 'The ReconstruKction Of Light' yet. I'm hoping the re-recorded drums will make worthwhile what is otherwise, as you say, a dud.
My favorite band and my favorite RUclipsr? Awww Hell yeah
The unmentioned Cirkus from Lizard would be my desert island disk from KC
A guide to Captain Beefheart please x
Somebody direct Darren Lock to this. He's gonna flip!
Please do A Guide to NIN
my introduction to King Crimson was actually a vhs i bought of the double trio concert in Japan from 1995, which i still think has superior versions of the 70s material. (come at me bro) Then i got the Frame by Frame boxed set. this had abridged versions of a lot of songs. to this day i still dont have proper versions Red, Larks Tongues or Starless but i listened to disc 2 culled from those albums the most. (Jamie Muir Bruford and John Wetton are gods.) theres a youtuber called Make Weird Music who has a whole series on spending 20yrs learning how to play Fracture, but the version i have listened to 100000000000x has cut out the part all the guitar nerds get pointy nipples for hahahaha I was like, this is a goddam jam but i dont think itd take me 20yrs to learn it. besides aforementioned vhs tape and boxed set, my king crimson collection is random. i have Lizard and Poseidon on vinyl. i LOVE Lizard. it helps to not think of it as King Crimson at all but just like, maybe a druggy house party Robert Fripp was at that somehow got professionally recorded. i also have 3 of a Perfect Pair on cassette. and i have Thrak on cd and some of the projekcts (Space Groove and something from a Discipline Global Mobile comp) I had Construction of Light but i mustve returned it hahaha
*sorry i paused at 20m in to write this comment, i hope when you get to Thrak you mention that it was recorded binaurally w a mic shaped like a human head for "natural" ambient effect. this is true. i was at Recording Workshop in Ohio when it came out and they were geeking out about it. Peace
**ok, now ive watched the whole thing. you did a great job. this is probably the best discography overview of any band that ive seen, including Anthony Fontano's of Bjork and Radiohead. and that is no small feat given the vast amount of territory covered by a band like King Crimson. but i felt your genuine love for the music come through.
i feel like a weird imposter fan having never listened to a 70s Crimson record all the way through but then again, i studied the book that came with the boxed set quite intently so instead of the sounds, i am familiar with what the players had to say about them. it's weird.
for old Crimheads who are biting through their lip and want to smash a bottle over my head, heres the track list for disc2, which i swear ive listened to 5000x probably:
larks tongues 1 abridged (10:53), book of saturday, easy money, larks tongues 2 (double trio vhs version is way better. fight me.), night watch, great deceiver, Fracture abridged (6:57), starless abridged (4:38), red, fallen angel (probably my favourite Crimson track!), one more red nightmare (id sell a kidney to have heard the 95 double trio play this track)
you know what i lied
my favourite track by far is I Talk to the Wind. Fallen Angel second. Larks Tongues 1 is third, One Time from Thrak is maybe fourth then i dunno Groon?
one more thing because i havent ranted enough, John Wetton has the ultimate "my dad and his old man friends are in some kind of weird band but theyre actually really good" voice. i find it soooo comforting. like if i get dumped in college its a voice that says, "son these things happen; the world is mysterious and jarring but dammit youre a Wetton and youre a handsome and clever son of a cuss now buck up and help me chop this fire wood"
even in UK, Time to Kill, but not in Asia hahahaha
al n I occasionally work with Anthony from Make Weird Music. He wrote a book called Failure to Fracture which should be out shortly. There’s a quote from me in the book, so he sent me a pre-release copy about a month or two ago.
Do a guide to CAN
I was thinking, Soft Machine, Hawkwind, and Roxy Music.
I am convinced that King Crimson played "Math Rock" and "Shoegaze" years before those became popular genres, and better than any of those other bands.
Fuuuuck, I clicked on this video thinking it was going to finally tell me how King Crimson works.
5 years late but I pride myself on knowing about king crimson the stand and the band
it stitches the timestream together from one moment to up to a "dozen-odd" seconds into the future (10 or 12 depending on the source)
but: the user can still see everything that happened in the interstice and move freely separately from the timestream
the contents of the timestream are completely unaltered by the ability except for the location of the user
also, the user can see precognitions from 10 seconds in the future with Epitaph
I quite like The Konstruction of Light! “Into the Frying Pan” has gotten me through some rough mornings!
Do a video on Jethro Tull
Are you sure? He will say Aqualung is a masterpiece...