King Crimson - Starless
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2021
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STARLESS
Sundown dazzling day
Gold through my eyes
But my eyes turned within only see
Starless and bible black
Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness for me
Starless and bible black
Ice blue silver sky
Fades into grey
To a grey hope that all yearns to be
Starless and bible black
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Robert Fripp: Guitar and Mellotron
John Wetton: Bass and Voice
William Bruford: Percussives
With thanks to:
David Cross: Violin
Mel Collins: Soprano Saxophone
Ian McDonald: Alto Saxophone
Robin Miller: Oboe
Marc Charig: Cornet
George Chkiantz: Engineer
Rod Thear: Assistant Engineer
Equipment by: Chris, Tex, Harvey and Peter Walmsley
Cover by: John Kosh
Photography: Gered Mankowitz
Produced by King Crimson at Olympic Sound Studios, London, England, July and August 1974
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One of the best tracks in the history of music.
And almost "none" have heard it.
Agree!!!!
The best track in the history of music.
@@RowdyYates They should use it in that "Stranger Things" show. That would solve the problem and it would get to the top of the charts!! Still, the first 4 minutes of the song are used in the opening sequence of a movie that people seem to either love or hate, "Mandy" (2018) by Panos Cosmatos.
@@fx93250 really that’s why it’s recognized it that movie was awesome I really wish more movies went out of there way to be different now that’s why I love movies like a clock work orange,they live and so on
You know the night is over when you're listening to Starless
Too accurate
My life would be starless without this song
Say hi to your wife from me
What a poet
Perfectly put Michael!!!
@@Progorama hi
I'm leaving this comment here and when someone likes it, I will listen to this masterpiece again and again.
"Red" está por cumplir 50 años de su lanzamiento
Happy listening. 😀
STARLESS AND...
BIBLE BLAAAAAAAAAAAACK
Well done ;)
11:38 Wetton's massive bass sound against those Mellotron chords here always kills me.
Every fcking time
Just checking in to see if it's still one of the best songs ever.
Yup. Still is
Yes, timeless.
One of the best finales in rock, when Wetton's crunching bass joins the mellotron at 11:24, it can't help but send shivers down the spine of any mortal.
There was also a duo of a cellist and a contrabassist hired for the finale.
I completely agree with this whole entire statement it sounds like I wrote it myself the song always got me in the ending and that last final moments of this song is this insanely excellent very intense
My lungs and stomach tighten up from the pure intensity of this glorious finale
I know this is amazing
best outro ever
It's that point at 11:18 where the song goes from fantastic to one of the best songs ever made, literally perfection.
Genuinely wouldn’t mind if this part had lasted another 5 minutes. I feel like that minute is one of the best displays of contemporary music (in relative terms) ever. The whole song is!
Recently started getting more and more interested in King Crimson's discography, and I think I've found one of my favorite bands of all time.
good time to start considering they've actually uploaded their discography somewhere now
That's the good part with jojo, it introduces you to the most legendary music. Araki is undoubtedly a legend.
@@seremes Definitely. I used to listen to "Roundabout" a lot, and so I decided to check more of Yes' stuff, and now it's one of my favorite bands
Jojo fan like me
loving "Roundabout" And "King Crimson"
and btw try
AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap or
@@raduserbansasa6504 AC/DC is great too ❤️
11:37 is pure eargasm, perfection even
RIP John Wetton 🙏🏻 He wrote the fantastic melody of this music
I think either David or Robert wrote the first half with the Mellotron and Bill did the entire second half.
@@Christian-97 5:19 he explains everything ruclips.net/video/-hcovFGVW44/видео.html
@@Christian-97 nope, wetton wrote the first half, that bass section in the middle is bruford
@@Jalt3001 the more you know huh
@@Christian-97in fact, when he wrote the first half it was ditched by Fripp and Bruford.
The last two minutes are pure and utter perfection. No other finale gets me so hyped
The King Crimson Masterpiece. The best song of the album and my favorite of all the progressive.
And of jazz rock.
Starless has so much finality to it man, it really marks the end of a period of king crimson
My favorite song, probably. There is nothing as hauntingly beautiful and intense as this for me.
I see it as an aural representation of King Crimson tearing apart their classic sound after giving one final performance- and they just happen to make it their best ever.
Vocals and mellotron to rival Epitaph, Fripp’s signature guitar, Bruford’s masterful percussion, and a crescendo that beats out even The Talking Drum for me.
The definition of the word “masterpiece”. This is where Crimson firmly cemented their roles as musical legends.
Gotta agree!!
It's very sad to me seeing how much potential they had, but they still wasted their talent on some nonsensical avant-garde music. I like it when a song is a bit avant-garde, but not if there is a shit ton of dissonance, and the song doesn't make musical sense.
When I look at Epitaph, In The Wake Of Poseidon, and this song, I think that if they made more songs in that style they would be regarded one of the best bands of the 20th century.
But instead we got some tunes that don't follow a certain scale, weird song structures, weird time signature etc... I guess they were forced to make these songs because the band would fail commercially and they wouldn't get recognition.
@@ild4099 Idk, I can find something to appreciate with most of their material. I think you should check out Discipline if you haven’t already. It’s the perfect combination of avant-garde with fun, catchy pop sensibilities.
True, but I also find LTIA PT. 2 a fitting end to a masterpiece album. Admittedly, I vacillate between LTIA and Red as being my favorite depending upon the day of the week. It is kind of like asking a parent which of his/her children are their favorite? LOL
Song makes me cry
I'm a lucky man. I saw them live in '74 in Atlanta.
God I'm glad Bruford left Yes.
Bruford at least left his final mark on Yes with Close to the Edge.
Bass line at the end is awesome. It blows my mind.
That ending is bone chilling. What a performance, Wetton really killed it with that bass!
I played this one time in my basement pretty loud
My mother was upstairs cooking, she pretty much liked basic popular stuff from the forties and fifties, but when this song ended, she exclaimed "that was awesome!"
The middle 13/4 section is such a sinister moment in Crimson's music, yet there's something oddly satisfying listening to Whetton's increasingly loud and brooding bassline, Bruford's manic drum/percussion interplay, and Fripp's guitar gradually "descent" into madness. I don't think words can perfectly describe this masterpiece of music, seriously..
I always read it as more a descent into desperation. As the song was coming to a close, the playing became more and more frantic, trying to get as much out of the song before it's over. Because this was it. The curtain call for King Crimson. The entire instrumental section feels to me like a band that doesn't want the song to end.
there are no words to describe it.... it is just perfectly beautiful....
it doesn't even feel like it lasts for almost 5 minutes
It's 13/8
Indeed, and Bruford wrote it.
The perfect swansong to a band that would never be the same.
My teenaged self at the time viewed Starless as KC’s last message to us before the void and the void was VAST. When KC returned 7 years later (originally called Discipline upon their re-entry if I remember correctly) it was if they had been absent for 700 years and not just 7. I recognized nothing from their previous existence. It took me years to come to terms with the 80’s KC. In hindsight I can now see it as a progression of what was. I still say Starless is beauty, pathos and timeless all rolled into one.
When was KC ever "the same"? There were periods of slightly similar records for a while, but even this record has hardly anything to do with the Greg Lake era.
@@CrimsonTemplar666 LTIA, SABB and Red were essentially the same KC (minus David Cross and Jamie Muir on Red) but easily identifiable as KC. Discipline sounded nothing like anything that had come before, like comparing a Porsche to a Stone Age wheel.
IT'S ALL TALK
This was their last good album.
starless more like flawless
for real this could be the best song in the history of music
I'm glad I'm not the only one to think this
up there with weird fishes by radiohead and when you sleep by my bloody valentine
STARLESS AND BIBLE BLACK 🗣🗣🗣 ‼‼‼
The intro was written by John Wetton and originally meant to be the title track for Starless and Bible Black, but Fripp and Bruford didn't like it so they replaced it with a different piece.
Imagine if they scrapped it entirely instead of bringing it back for this album.
I always wondered why the lyric showed up here and not on that album. Similar to Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin not being on the album of that name. Glad both tracks survived tho. Goes without saying this is in a different league lol.
That is a chilling thought to consider if Starless never made it to vinyl and to our ears. I wonder how different the recorded version is from what Fripp and Bruford originally vetoed?
Yes, very true. John said that in an interview in the 80s, being still in UK if I remember well. It's in RUclips.
@@paulahunt5621 , I may be wrong but I believe Wetton's original song was just the first 4 minutes with vocals.
@@iain2080 or like the Sheer Heart Attack song by Queen is not on the homonymous album
i think the best compliment king crimson can receive, aside from the astonishing musicianship, is that they make a 12-minute song feel like 5 minutes. how do they do it-
This is not a song, it's an experience
Gold Experience!
@@Electric412 JoJO Prince 😁
An otherworldly experience
welp, a nightmare is also an experience... the mid-section sounds like a nightmare.
@@aakkoinperhaps a red one?
Greatest song ever written
amen to that :)
I absolutely love this song, I want it played at my funeral.
Me too
Bad news! After hearing Starless you become immortal.
Ominous and beautiful at the same time . Pure musical genius .
I have nothing original to say, Just Love It
One of the most complex but brilliant tracks ever recorded
i have to admit, part of me still kinda wants this to be king crimson's last song
But then we’d never have Elephant Talk and King Crimson Barbershop
It was the perfect finale.
Imagine starting your musical career with 21st Century Schzoid Man and ending it with a track like this.
It was, for 7 years we just didn’t know it at the time, we thought it was forever. But those 7 years might as well been 7,000 years because what came after it sounded like nothing that had come before.
it feels like a goodbye for good, but it feels better like a "goodnight and see you soon" to me
There’s so much good about this track. That ungodly legato guitar, the most innovative drumming in rock - both incredibly delicate and incredibly intense, and that expressive vocal
The only one, and unique GRAN FINALE in music history belongs to this song and starts at 11:38
That thundering middle section that begins at 4:20 is just spectacular.
Probably the best prog rock song ever. That feeling of catharsis at the end is unmatched and I think I've never heard something as astonishing as this. Dogs or the Battlefield section of Tarkus are close contenders, but the build up and the finale of this one are just superb. I love it more and more with every listen.
I think the Yessongs version of Starship trooper or The Musical Box are good contenders as well
For me the best song ever.
My pick for best prog rock song is Awaken by Yes. Supper's Ready by Genesis probably second, then maybe Gates of Delirium, also by Yes. So many though. I'm just discovering this one. Jon Anderson and John Wetton were the best vocalists I've ever heard.
For me, the two best prog tracks are Starless and Supper's Ready.
Along with Close to the Edge, And you and I, Starship trooper, Heart of the Sunrise, Supper's Ready, SOYCD...
1974-75, the King Crimson got disbanded right at the peak of their popularity, a ballsy decision which paid off. Prog rock had just reached its zenith and it was the right time to move on. Rock reached its perfection in 1974 and Sir Fripp grasped that. He is such a smart artist. Other mortals would continue to write prog rock music maybe without getting that the heyday of prog rock had gone after 1974. Call me crazy but for example the Genesis declined right after the album 'and the lamb lies down on Broadway', if only they had split up in 1974-1975, it would have been better.
And then Robert Fripp came back in the 80s with a great style and he still continues to surprise us with his talent. Thank you Mr Fripp.
My all time favorite song. I will never forget the first time I heard the whole thing. It is a sonic journey unlike any other. It’s haunting, deeply melancholic, atmospheric, hypnotic, entrancing, heavy, fierce, chaotic, beautiful, and it has the best ending in rock history.
The end of an era, and one of their greatest and representarive song.
One of a kind masterpiece, blooming beauty inside the disgrace.
Too much to say, timeless art.
As far as King Crimson songs go, it can't get better than this!
ruclips.net/video/FhKJgqxNDD8/видео.html
(Live)
Love that. But I somehow like the studio version more. Both are amazing in their own ways.
As far as any band goes, it can't get better than this.
And, boy, they go far!
This is way at the top of my favorites!! Long live the King!!
If Universe was a song, this song would be it. Dark, chaotic and very intense…
Order and Chaos
Simplemente no puedo expresar en palabras lo que es esta canción. Iba a hablar en inglés pero se me hace imposible. Esto es algo que tengo que describir en mi lenguaje. Esta canción tiene todo lo que puedo pedir de la
música. En cierta forma, me gusta que no sea tan conocida, por que realmente se siente haber encontrado un tesoro, una joya, un milagro musical. Robert Fripp, te admiro muchísimo y siempre lo haré.
Exactamente lo mismo pienso cuando veo que las reproducciones y vistas para King Crimson son relativamente pocas, es un verdadero deleite y un tesoro descubrirlos y apreciarlos como nosotros, vaya que somos privilegiados
@@ricardooliva8916 pero si el otro audio de starless tiene casi 7 millones de reproducciones xd
@@aturdidoo 6 millones de esas son mías
@@ricardooliva8916 realmente a mi me frustra me gustaría que todos pudieran escuchar esta cancion de principio a fin.
@@ozzyousbourne8102 King Crimson no es para las masas.
The emotional and powerful climax is truly one of the most satisfying and beautiful moments I’ve ever heard in all of music.
Отец ставил мне эту музыку с самого рождения. И до сих пор возможно это самое грандиозное и прекрасное, что я слышал в своей жизни. Некоторые утверждают, что красота спасет мир. Если и спасет. То такая!
One of, if not the greatest songs ever created. It shocks me that this masterpiece was created by humans, and not by angels.
Robert Fripp is an alien
@@klausscharlipp6501 wouldn’t surprise me he stares like he can see the future
@@firebrand4074 Maynard James Keenan can. Listen to the Album fear inoculum 2019. Predicted 2020
@@firebrand4074 definately Robert Fripp is in a higher state of mind than 99.8% of us Monkeys
The members of King Crimson are aasimar by default.
Best experience of all time
Greatest song from the album
This song makes me weep like no other song.... always.
OMG. That bass line!!!
If there is a God, it is evident that he wanted the best bass player with him.
God himself was put into a juicer and synthesized into the final minute of this track. You can't tell me Wetton and Fripp didn't channel some kind of holy spirit making that masterpiece of music.
Tears come out when I listen to this song .
Same, makes me cry often.
@@gusdoes897 yes yes ；)
Nice username; "Crimson Queen"
@@alejandrodoce527 Thanks JOJO ! But I google it now, I found x-rated comics..
Да, каждый раз, факт ❤
i legit think this is one of the best piece of music humans ever created
There is something about Crimson that is both ethereal and dark as unhinged madness. In between lies the beauty and it's apotheosis. It is as ... Ah screw it, awesome song.
During my first listening, I really liked how at the end they come back with the melody from the beginning, shiver-causing.
Always I hear Starless, I get nervous after the firsts 6 minutes, even if I know exactly what's going on, and this is the unique song that got me nervous after cents of times I listen to it. Starless is just a Masterpiece.
A perfect song. I remember when it came out I had thought they could not get any better with their lineup than they had with Larks Tongues or Starless and Bible Black but what a great surprise. This song is one of the best. I would love to go back in time and see them again. Best concerts I ever attended.
@mags jay Lucky! Always jealous of people who got to see bands play live that I'll never never get to. Very fortunate to live during the technological point in history where recorded music is available, but there's nothing like being there in person.
The most amazing band ever 🖤🖤🖤
Дякую за творчість. Мабуть, найкращий (найулюбленіший, так точно) твір чудового "короля".
If you look for "Perfection" in a dictionary, you can find this song.
Aren’t you supposed to be fighting the manticore right now?
Did you stand beside the spectrum torch?
When will you evolve into aqua tarkus?
Have you walked on the Stones of Years?
RIP man... Aquatarkus is super homie but I won't forget you dawg
Apart from being a flawless masterpiece, i have to say this song is the epitome of studio recording. I love KC's live performances but when it comes to starless, the studio version is the undisputed best
Agreed, There's several songs from artists of which I prefer the studio version. There are some elements that just can't be translated into a live setting. We're lucky to live in a time that recorded music is available. Certain songs are impractical or impossible to replicate for live performance, imagine just how much great music we'd miss out on otherwise.
I have heard live versions of starless from the Bruford days and the drums are amazing. His live drum sound back then was something else.
"Starless" is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever listened to, in my life. What a great ending to such a remarkable album, like _Red_ (1974). I'd like to thank this channel for the official upload of the songs/albums released by King Crimson. Thank you, indeed.
I love the bass tone on this whole album .
This theme inevitably digs deep into your soul.
Never gets old. Never goes stale. Classic
The deep and velvet sensitivity of John Wetton..
This song is so... so fucking amazing.
I only heard this the first time watching the film Mandy. I have heard Epitaph and Larks Tongues before and I had never paid much attention to their other works. I massively regret this now and have begun exploring for the first time King Crimson and I love it!
Mandy is a masterpiece
Mandy - classic film. So is this track
I saw the current lineup performing this song live in Chile... just incredible, with the lights changing to red before the sax solo near the end was a terrific experience...
As haunting as it was 19 years ago. These records never lose their edge.
19 years ago? red came out in 1974
@@scriminamp That was when I bought all my KC vinyls! That was also around the time I discovered Serial Experiments Lain! Love your avatar.
@@rushnerd lets all love lain
One of my favorite moments on this planet was getting to watch this song played live. It's really something else
10:22 brings a tear to my eye
Best build up
Starless. ..brano di altissimo livello. ..non per tutti. .Robert Fripp vero genio assoluto del rock.
Lui é incredibile. Un influenza importante per tanti gruppi.
Grandissimo Roberto Frippa
King Crimson have the knack to make epic, riding in the sunset in a post apocalyptic world, songs.
Epitaph, Starless, The court of the Crimson King.
Majestic fusion of grandiose (thanks to their use of the mellotron), jazz
ock\free style\ hard rock and virtuoso playing.
In the Court of the Crimson King and this album (Red) and especially this majestic song (used to great effect in the opening credits of the movie Mandy) are a necessary part of my 'Desert Island' albums, albums I could listen over and over and over and never tire of them.
Their definitive masterpiece. Since the first time I heard it,when I was 24, till now listening to it or watching the band live... I cry.
This masterpiece makes your hair stand on end from the first note. Step by step, the heart shrinks with that repetitive note of Fripp, like a crescendo mantra that leads to the final catharsis.
A wonderful song, melodies, guitars, composition, a masterpiece.
The best album of all time. I know that's saying something but the compositional and instrumental qualities are exemplary, plus of course John Wetton's vocals are superb, especially on Starless my favourite track of all time. Knocks your socks off every time!
My favorite song of all time
Voice of KC, Mr.John Kenneth Wetton
Mi canción favorita desde los 12 años, saludos desde Rosario, Argentina
Saludos desde santa fe ;)
Y desde Colombia!
Messi won you the world Cup congratulations
Saludos, también desde Rosario
as well as islands, the most beautiful and powerful song ever made by a rock band
Best song I ever heard
This song is so haunting and perfect
11:18 me when every cell in my body cries out in pain due to the intense euphoria of starless’ incredible finale
Bro same
Euphoria🤮
@@sayozrespubilk894 true, real gamers take 10 benadryls and enter psychosis for fun 😎
I can't work listening to this.
The music is just too good to be doing anything other than listening to it
After so many hours of music....I found ths ultima song. Unsurpassed. Thank you.
This hits different now that they recently played it in their last live performance
When I need to deep dive into art rock music and enjoy a total experience, mind, heart, body and soul, this is one of the few tracks I always pick. I started half a century ago with ITCOTCK and have seen them all over the years whenever I could see them live. Their rendition of this masterpiece in the 50th anniversary Tour was truly outstanding. I hope this damned pandemic will be over and will have a chance to see them again.
One of the greatest no doubt. But today after 51 years of being a "Crimhead" Fallen Angel is the one I listen to the most of this album.
Fallen Angel is more replayable. I don’t listen to Starless often either. But when I do, it is a transcendent experience. Starless is like champagne. You only open it on special occasions.
Traitors, you can't even listen to an album in its entirity anymore! 🗿
@@guitaristssuck8979 👈 "Traitors"?? You're not a Crimhead nor a musician, you're just crazy.
@@guitaristssuck8979 man shut up
Starless was the last hurrah of King Crimson's original run. Even if this of course didn't end up being their last album, this is still an awesome note to go out on.
Incredible from start to finish
Greatest progg track . Period .
Love from 🇮🇳
Bruford is well respected for his druming in Yes, Crimson, Genesis (live) and elsewhere. Fripp has influenched many guitarists. Words cannot do justice for how good bassist and vocalist was Wetton. Criminally underappreciated.
the mellotron in this always gives me chills. it’s so beautifully creepy.
There will never be another king crimson.
I like those moments..when i listen to king crimson and nothing else exits. I love this song so much!❤
this song is powerful beyond any words
One of the greatest songs ever written. This was the one that got me into KC. I remember about a year ago hearing it for the first time and being blown away. I'm a fan of the majority of their other works, but there's something about starless that cant be topped. It's everything KC of this era did well perfected.