@@godbluffvdggyep. Maybe my favorite rock drummer of all time. For me, he pretty much invented the idea of “lead drums” in rock music. And for anybody who hasn’t yet heard the split-off group, MCDONALD AND GILES and their one and only album, do yourself a favor.
@@americanAlienBoy Cool - 2 years older than me - the first album I bought with my own money was a couple of years later - Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon. ;) Not such a bad album, either! hehe
@@billholder1330Ah, good ol' free-form radio. WNEW in NY played a couple of tracks off of 'Court' the day is came out, including 'Schizoid Man', and in the words of Eric Cartman, "it warped my fragile little mind." They also used play the hell out of PF, even prior to DSOTM
@@ralphhathaway-coley5460 "that pre-dated Thatcher" Maggie-haters (who are GREAT at hating) tend to blame her for EVERYTHING bad that ever happened - including the Great Fire of London, the Black Death, and the Norman (geddit?) Conquest. They have as much sense of History as they do of Politics. So, don't be TOO surprised by that silly remark. And, of course, it was HER fault that NO decent music was ever made in the UK between 1979 and 2000 - APART from (eg) The Smiths, Iron Maiden, Duran Duran, The Police, Radiohead, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Yes, Queen, Judas Priest, The Eurythmics, The Pretenders, Madness, Dire Straits etc etc etc - NONE of whom were ever really successful!
@@godbluffvdgg First of all, I did not write what genre of music it is. So Don't be rude. This record has influenced all music today. Directly and indirectly
@@jareczek1980 You do know how to read; right? "in the history of rock and pop"...Also when you write "the" without putting "One of" before it; you're insinuating this album is more important above ALL others. Which, may be a personal opinion of yours but, it shows you really don't know anything about music...Try not to be offended; Just giving you unsolicited advice...
@@godbluffvdgg So you don't agree with me that this album influenced both rock and pop music? Ok. I respect your opinion. Maybe give some logical arguments. Instead of clinging to my opinion. Justify that this album did not affect the development of music, because I have the impression that the most offended in my statement was the use of the word "pop" by me. You know, those were the times when music was developing, mixing, penetrating
@@jareczek1980 That's easy to justify. Crimso, whom I love, by the way, stand on their own. I'm a musician (drums, bass, Keyboards) Their music, especially stuff after Court, like Larks tongues in Aspic, or In the Wake of Poseidon etc. are too complex to be lumped in with "pop or rock" Both of those genres have a simple timing and a hook...The influences for Rock and Pop came from the 50's and early 60's...Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee, early Beatles (pre revolver), Jan and Dean, Beach Boys, et al. Now, if you want to say; Crimso influenced Prog; I'm with you... Prog changed the music landscape... It took music in a new direction...Crimso was influenced by the Post Revolver Beatles and avant garde jazz of the late 40's early 60's.
There was nothing like it in 1969 and it created a grade-12 tsunami that left everyone speechless. This ‘schizophrenic’ tune has not aged a second since its release in 1969. A superb lineup of incredibly talented musicians, all on their A-game.
Yep. And proof of that, is that it was for years the one and only song that the band King Crimson continued to play in every incarnation through many personnel changes for over 50 years. It was usually if not always the encore song or final song before for just about every concert they played. It defined them, and prog rock in general.
When I first heard it as a teen, I didn't like the instrumental section. But. I didn't understand and jazz nor had much exposure to jazz. Now with musical maturity lol 🙂, I can really appreciate its innovation for the time (1968) in a rock album.
This is, arguably, the album and possibly even the song that launched rock straight into adulthood before most of it it slipped back into self-indulgent adolescence some 12-15 years later...
You brought me back to when this album first came out - sitting at a friends place, smoking doobies, listening to this and having our minds blown! History does repeat itself :-)
Robert Fripp (King Crimson) has a guitar Solo on Brian Enos song “Babies on fire” that is my absolute favorite and very underrated. I feel people are really missing out, when they haven’t heard it.
So do I.. Bought mine summer of 74. Not a scratch on it. I was 13yrs old. Still love it. He should have kept it to full album but Robert Fripp would never allow an album reaction to stay up. I'm shocked a song is up at all. He must have missed this one.
I had the cover of my copy printed onto a T-shirt, with the inner gatefold printed on the back. The kids called it the scary T-shirt. Our youngest daughter has become a Crimson fan and has inherited it from me.
That album cover is my husband's favorite picture to draw, it's everywhere. Saw them do this in concert many moons ago, l'll never forget 👍🤩hope you do the whole album
When King Crimson wrote this song, they wrote it during the period of absolute insanity that was the late 60's-early '70's (following the "Death" of the Hippie Ideal of Peace and Love; if the symbolic funeral in Haight-Ashbury of 1968, where the movement started, didn't finish it then the Manson Murders a couple of weeks later, followed by Richard M. Nixon's "Watergate Scandal," the Kent State Massacre caused by Ohio National Guard called to put-down a protest, killing 9 unarmed college students in the process, the entirety of Vietnam and how the U.S. handled it, and other atrocities two years following _that_ almost DEFINITELY cinched it). This song (which sounds like a screeching, car radio news report that people around that time would hear on a semi-regular basis, to the extent that they were practically desensitized to the madness) along with "Epitaph" from the same album (sung from the point of view of someone disgusted and weeping over all the violence and suffering, viewing it for the chaos and horror that it was, stating that " 'Confusion' will be their epitaph," the words put on their tombstone), paint a damning picture of the morality and mentality of humankind, as brutal uncaring murderers and monsters, doing horrible things to one another without batting an eye and somehow still insisting they "did nothing wrong." The fact that going on traumatizing blood symphonies is viewed as "nothing wrong" should be an indicator that humans as a species need to re-evaluate their goals and ethics. The name of the song even references this, as a Schizoid Personality Disorder is a case of someone being born with a reduced to completely non-existent sense of empathy, the ability to form a Theory of Mind regarding others, to understand others' emotional states (especially with regards to either being the victims of suffering... or the cause of it).
What a brilliant, succinct summary of the historical context of the song, bringing my mind and soul back to my youth and the social unrest of that time.
First time I heard it was when it released in 1969. They were way ahead of their time!! Best Progressive Rock band for years. Many other have followed suit. They're what got me into Prog Rock. Great song.
Love your reaction to this. Thank you for listening all the way through without interrupting. Your face and gestures reacting are all that is needed. 21st Century genius musicianship. 21st Century genius reaction. Love it. Subbed
Mike Giles is a killer drummer...Greg Lake before Emerson Lake and Palmer...This is Crimso's first album...The beginnings of Prog. The next song "I talk to the Wind" segues so perfectly from the end of that...Crimso's best albums are Larks tongues in aspic, Red, and Starless And Bible Black...Listen to those 20 times each; Then you'll have a good grasp of Crimso.
@@billholder1330 Yeah, I love those two as well Neil, Jack and me...On TOAPP is killer! Discipline is even better. I saw the Discipline tour when I was in the service at Berkeley...Such a great band!
@@godbluffvdgg “Neal, Jack and me” is on “Beat”. A great track, I agree. I think the best album for understanding what KC were about is “Starless and Bible Black”, as it has both traditional “songs”, extended pieces and improvs - which KC at that time excelled in. And it has the guitar solo on “The Night Watch”, which everyone needs to hear before they die.
@@mikedonoghues4018 ~blushing~I knew it was on Beat too...Don't get old...:)...And Starless ABB is such a great album...I've had it on everything from 8 track to CD...I listen to it constantly. The night Watch is sublime...Lament and Great Deceiver are peak Crimso, Bruford and Wetton at their finest!...It's 100% their best work...With Lark's Tongues IA; following closely...
And Classic Prog has begun !! King Crimson of of the Best three at the Top of Classic Prog with Yes & Genesis 1970-77' era. Crimson many era's over their 52yrs !!! It's all great I first saw them in 1973' & 74" during their Bruford/ Wetton era, just so amazing !! 👍 And many times later 1984, 85, 95', 2014, 2017, 2019' I'm 65' now 🎶🎼
I heard this for the first time in a college dorm in 1969..we were in the process of putting a band together...after listening to this (and picking our jaws up off of the floor),we decided that we definitely needed to find a mellotron....whatever that was....
I heard this entire record the first time they played it on the radio WABX Detroit 1969 in the middle of the night. I sat up and listened and I've been a fan ev since
The story is they were listening a lot to the John Handy Quintet at the Monterey Jazz Festival when they recorded this song. Although not a direct copy, the influence is apparent--worth checking out.
@@JanBearZappa was extremely influential on the development of the prog rock in the UK. But I had that John Handy album and their is a direct connection. Zappa was greatly admired by the Beatles, for instance. Definitely a Zappa influence, but Zappa himself was influenced by jazz as well.
They great thing about this song is how the lyrics are so appropriate for what is going on today with our culture. The line : “Nothing he got he really needs” is spot on
@@gaiusjuliuscaesar-wg1hy that's objectively untrue. he not only credited them, but also had their permission. he's being sued because they believe they weren't payed enough.
Can I immediately recommend King Crimon’s album “Red” as a next step? That’s one of the ones with Bill Bruford on drums-he left Yes after Close to the Edge and joined Crimson ❤
Freaking Robert Fripp and Greg Lake 💕💕 I have to say John Wetton is my fave KC singer /bassist, 72-74 pure magic! Buy this on through islands are soooo good!
Love your vids man, the classic prog and psych stuff is my jam so I like to put your vids on and hit the bong along with ya. Ever done any jam bands? Phish, Grateful Dead anything like that?
G'day mate, at the time of it's release this album was a staple of everyones record collection,,and there's only one thing to explain this masterpiece-'Robert Fripp'🎼🎸If you need a direction to go for influential guitarist composers like Fripp, you have to go to Zappa {- starting with something aurally Zappa accessible, like the live versions of 'Florentine Pogen' and 'Inca Roads' a concert in LA 1974 televised recording, of which Inca Roads has claymation during the pefomance obscuring Franks and Ruths exceptional abilities, then listen to the album versions on 'One Size Fits All' which are nearly identical, 🎼🎸
Ohhh geez Zappa is on a whole other level, Zappa music is a genre unto itself and I've been a fan for years. Most people unfortunately get hung up on his satirical, darkly comedic, sometimes silly, sometimes offensive (but for a purpose once you understand him) lyrics and totally miss the wonderful (and often odd in a good way) music and the incredibly high level of musicianship. I could talk about him forever. The man put out roughly over 60 albums in around 30 years, that's astounding and a catalog like that is just impossible to categorize or fully appreciate. I'll just end with this, Frank Zappa, when you just look at his compositions (putting the lyrics aside for a moment) is the Mozart of contemporary music and I hope he will be remembered one day as such.
I love Fripp as much as anyone, but I it’s really inaccurate to attribute this album to him exclusively. The common narrative is that Ian Macdonald was the real creative force behind ITCOTCK. I’ll give you Fripp as the band evolved, and other luminaries left, but not this album from the 1969 incarnation of the group.
Yes Zappa, never given enough credit. Got to see Him play live and met hom backstage years ago. A super smart dude. Too bad he was murdered. His music lives on. May you RIP Frank
I gotta say it is hilarious to watch some homey on RUclips, lighting up a joint and listening to King Crimson. I was doing exactly the same thing....over 45 years ago! Glad you seem to like it.
Lil J, I'm glad you seemed to have taken my suggestion to listen to this tune and reacted as I would have expected. When people hear this for the first time it changes the way they think about music, so welcome to the club. Also you have to remember that this album came out in 19 freakin 69 (1969) ...just think bout that for a second. I would also recommend the entire album EXCEPT for Moonchild which is really just straight up ambient music which even though I'm not a fan of for regular listening does have a calming effect, but it always felt out of place on this album and goes on far too long. However it is a milestone because I believe this was the first introduction of ambient music. Great job and I do hope you get to some of the other tunes. If you don't want to listen to all of it (except for Moonchild) I'd say go for the title track, but you can't go wrong on the others either (except for Moonchild, by now you can tell it's like eating liver for me lol (but hey some people love liver so enjoy I guess? lol)
I was 15 when I first dried window pain while listening to this album. From the cover to the music this has to be experienced while tripping on LSD. At 67 I still feel it in my soul when I hear it.
KC is a musician's band. The audience is requested to be polite and attentive. It's about peak experience through music. It's how the band works and their craft and art.
Just the tip of the icebergs . Youtubie has a volcano load of world pro rock !!!! Prog rock at times is Mozart on crack played backwards somewhat !!! These folk don't do rap , hip hop or class's of commercial musical explorations . Toke up Bra !!
1970. Tinha 14 aninhos.Century sczoid .primeira faixa do in yhe court....Uma paulada.sou do Brasil.Ontem na estacao metro Hyde Park ,Londres.A primeira coisa que lembrei foi o Lendario Show ao vivo em que o KC abriu pros Stones ,com Greg Lake cantando Century.
Still one of the all time heaviest riffs I've heard... then the ensuing chaos that follows is totally other worldly....do listen to Epitaph and In the Court of the Crimson King off that album as well they're total trips.... AND DUDE!!! that was 1969.
React to Genesis's Dancing with the Moonlit Knight. this band was one of the best progressive rock bands of the 70s. and this song is a perfect introduction to them.
As you're a hip hop head, you might recognize the "21st century schizoid man" verse from it being sampled in Kanye's "Power".
And Boy, did Kanye have to PAY! hehe hehe hehe The entire original KC crew was VERY thankful! hehe
Worst use of a sample I've ever heard and I love hip hop
@@jazzyjay698 just hating atp
The drums, the drums, the DRUMS...
Michael Giles... BEAST!
Dude giles is crazy
@@godbluffvdggyep. Maybe my favorite rock drummer of all time. For me, he pretty much invented the idea of “lead drums” in rock music.
And for anybody who hasn’t yet heard the split-off group, MCDONALD AND GILES and their one and only album, do yourself a favor.
THOSE FUCKING DRUMS, they go batnuts crazy, truly schizoid worthy
Giles was an extremely underappreciated drummer. More inventive than any of his successors except perhaps Gavin Harrison.
Imagine it was 1969 and you were 10 years old and heard this for the firs time. Life-changing.
Yes my brother brought it home one Saturday morning when I was 12 and I agree. My best friend then got Wake and I got Lizard which I still have.
Same for me at 13 old ,it change my kind to listen the music .
I was 12. It was the first album I bought with my own money.
@@americanAlienBoy Cool - 2 years older than me - the first album I bought with my own money was a couple of years later - Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon. ;) Not such a bad album, either! hehe
@@billholder1330Ah, good ol' free-form radio. WNEW in NY played a couple of tracks off of 'Court' the day is came out, including 'Schizoid Man', and in the words of Eric Cartman, "it warped my fragile little mind." They also used play the hell out of PF, even prior to DSOTM
I swear to God the British made some of the best rock music. They invented metal, embraced psychedelia, and invented Prog rock.
when ur stuck on an island with thatcher over your head you tend to go nuts sometimes
@@2fingacriminalnob head. This was a decade before Margaret Thatcher. If you're going to comment... research the fukkin subject
@@2fingacriminal Except all that pre-dated Thatcher.
@@ralphhathaway-coley5460
"that pre-dated Thatcher"
Maggie-haters (who are GREAT at hating) tend to blame her for EVERYTHING bad that ever happened - including the Great Fire of London, the Black Death, and the Norman (geddit?) Conquest. They have as much sense of History as they do of Politics. So, don't be TOO surprised by that silly remark. And, of course, it was HER fault that NO decent music was ever made in the UK between 1979 and 2000 - APART from (eg) The Smiths, Iron Maiden, Duran Duran, The Police, Radiohead, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Yes, Queen, Judas Priest, The Eurythmics, The Pretenders, Madness, Dire Straits etc etc etc - NONE of whom were ever really successful!
The most important album in the history of rock and pop music.
@@godbluffvdgg First of all, I did not write what genre of music it is. So Don't be rude. This record has influenced all music today. Directly and indirectly
And movie/videogame music
@@jareczek1980 You do know how to read; right? "in the history of rock and pop"...Also when you write "the" without putting "One of" before it; you're insinuating this album is more important above ALL others. Which, may be a personal opinion of yours but, it shows you really don't know anything about music...Try not to be offended; Just giving you unsolicited advice...
@@godbluffvdgg So you don't agree with me that this album influenced both rock and pop music? Ok. I respect your opinion. Maybe give some logical arguments. Instead of clinging to my opinion. Justify that this album did not affect the development of music, because I have the impression that the most offended in my statement was the use of the word "pop" by me. You know, those were the times when music was developing, mixing, penetrating
@@jareczek1980 That's easy to justify. Crimso, whom I love, by the way, stand on their own. I'm a musician (drums, bass, Keyboards) Their music, especially stuff after Court, like Larks tongues in Aspic, or In the Wake of Poseidon etc. are too complex to be lumped in with "pop or rock" Both of those genres have a simple timing and a hook...The influences for Rock and Pop came from the 50's and early 60's...Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee, early Beatles (pre revolver), Jan and Dean, Beach Boys, et al.
Now, if you want to say; Crimso influenced Prog; I'm with you...
Prog changed the music landscape... It took music in a new direction...Crimso was influenced by the Post Revolver Beatles and avant garde jazz of the late 40's early 60's.
There was nothing like it in 1969 and it created a grade-12 tsunami that left everyone speechless. This ‘schizophrenic’ tune has not aged a second since its release in 1969. A superb lineup of incredibly talented musicians, all on their A-game.
Yep. And proof of that, is that it was for years the one and only song that the band King Crimson continued to play in every incarnation through many personnel changes for over 50 years. It was usually if not always the encore song or final song before for just about every concert they played. It defined them, and prog rock in general.
100%. A desert island song. A touchstone of my life.
The whole album is great, spent a lot of time during the 80's and 90's catching up with 70's music.
@@martinm1231 a very big step.
@@martinm1231 to be fair, Fripp is loved among guitarists. It's annoying that his wife, who isn't as talented, makes more money.
Technically it was released in the 1960's, October 69
When I first heard it as a teen, I didn't like the instrumental section. But. I didn't understand and jazz nor had much exposure to jazz. Now with musical maturity lol 🙂, I can really appreciate its innovation for the time (1968) in a rock album.
do the actual song "The Court of the Crimson King" . . . asking for a friend. It will blow your mind.
Or Epitaph ... Lots of great cuts on that disk.
@@JayCross whole album bangs
@@nim4464masterpiece
Absolute genius album and one of the best openers ever.
Brilliant album that you have to listen to the whole album.
This is, arguably, the album and possibly even the song that launched rock straight into adulthood before most of it it slipped back into self-indulgent adolescence some 12-15 years later...
Think of _when_ this was made! Just analog handcrafted music, no samples no digital sfx. The spirit of Free Jazz is strong within this one
You brought me back to when this album first came out - sitting at a friends place, smoking doobies, listening to this and having our minds blown! History does repeat itself :-)
Robert Fripp (King Crimson) has a guitar Solo on Brian Enos song “Babies on fire” that is my absolute favorite and very underrated. I feel people are really missing out, when they haven’t heard it.
That was the first time I heard Fripp play, outside of King Crimson. That solo is mind-blowing.
I love all the Fripp and Eno stuff. Suitable for all occasions, ambient madness.
His greatest, most pronounced guitar solo.
@@infowarriorone for me it was Heroes by Bowie
Better throw it out the window
Your laugh at 5:22 is priceless. Instrumentation is perfect
Anybody else watch Robert and Toyah's Lunchtime videos during lockdown? Hilarious.
The Godfathers of Progressive Rock!
Canadian band April Wine did a great version of this on the 'Harder . . . Faster' album.
You hear their GREATNESS in this one song.
Love old King Crimson. Very cool album cover, too. The illustration inside the gatefold is great. My mom still has the LP.
So do I.. Bought mine summer of 74. Not a scratch on it. I was 13yrs old. Still love it. He should have kept it to full album but Robert Fripp would never allow an album reaction to stay up. I'm shocked a song is up at all. He must have missed this one.
I had the cover of my copy printed onto a T-shirt, with the inner gatefold printed on the back. The kids called it the scary T-shirt. Our youngest daughter has become a Crimson fan and has inherited it from me.
Think about it: this was the first song on their first album ... in 1969.
That album cover is my husband's favorite picture to draw, it's everywhere. Saw them do this in concert many moons ago, l'll never forget 👍🤩hope you do the whole album
When King Crimson wrote this song, they wrote it during the period of absolute insanity that was the late 60's-early '70's (following the "Death" of the Hippie Ideal of Peace and Love; if the symbolic funeral in Haight-Ashbury of 1968, where the movement started, didn't finish it then the Manson Murders a couple of weeks later, followed by Richard M. Nixon's "Watergate Scandal," the Kent State Massacre caused by Ohio National Guard called to put-down a protest, killing 9 unarmed college students in the process, the entirety of Vietnam and how the U.S. handled it, and other atrocities two years following _that_ almost DEFINITELY cinched it).
This song (which sounds like a screeching, car radio news report that people around that time would hear on a semi-regular basis, to the extent that they were practically desensitized to the madness) along with "Epitaph" from the same album (sung from the point of view of someone disgusted and weeping over all the violence and suffering, viewing it for the chaos and horror that it was, stating that " 'Confusion' will be their epitaph," the words put on their tombstone), paint a damning picture of the morality and mentality of humankind, as brutal uncaring murderers and monsters, doing horrible things to one another without batting an eye and somehow still insisting they "did nothing wrong." The fact that going on traumatizing blood symphonies is viewed as "nothing wrong" should be an indicator that humans as a species need to re-evaluate their goals and ethics.
The name of the song even references this, as a Schizoid Personality Disorder is a case of someone being born with a reduced to completely non-existent sense of empathy, the ability to form a Theory of Mind regarding others, to understand others' emotional states (especially with regards to either being the victims of suffering... or the cause of it).
What a brilliant, succinct summary of the historical context of the song, bringing my mind and soul back to my youth and the social unrest of that time.
First time I heard it was when it released in 1969. They were way ahead of their time!! Best Progressive Rock band for years. Many other have followed suit. They're what got me into Prog Rock. Great song.
Well done! This is my favorite band - amazing and little-known geniuses.
21st Century schizoid man followed by I Talk to the Wind
While experimenting with some orange barrel sunshine
Good times 😊
I want to give you a suitable reply, but ... My words are all carried away!
Love your reaction to this. Thank you for listening all the way through without interrupting. Your face and gestures reacting are all that is needed. 21st Century genius musicianship. 21st Century genius reaction. Love it. Subbed
one of the greatest albums of all time, cool reaction!
The one band that Yes looked up to ❤
(Broad Generalization 😂)
Heh. Or at least Bruford did.
Mike Giles is a killer drummer...Greg Lake before Emerson Lake and Palmer...This is Crimso's first album...The beginnings of Prog. The next song "I talk to the Wind" segues so perfectly from the end of that...Crimso's best albums are Larks tongues in aspic, Red, and Starless And Bible Black...Listen to those 20 times each; Then you'll have a good grasp of Crimso.
I would add Discipline and Three of a Perfect Pair from the 80's KC lineup too. A whole different thing, but still quintessential KC.
@@billholder1330 Yeah, I love those two as well Neil, Jack and me...On TOAPP is killer! Discipline is even better. I saw the Discipline tour when I was in the service at Berkeley...Such a great band!
@@godbluffvdgg “Neal, Jack and me” is on “Beat”. A great track, I agree. I think the best album for understanding what KC were about is “Starless and Bible Black”, as it has both traditional “songs”, extended pieces and improvs - which KC at that time excelled in. And it has the guitar solo on “The Night Watch”, which everyone needs to hear before they die.
@@mikedonoghues4018 ~blushing~I knew it was on Beat too...Don't get old...:)...And Starless ABB is such a great album...I've had it on everything from 8 track to CD...I listen to it constantly. The night Watch is sublime...Lament and Great Deceiver are peak Crimso, Bruford and Wetton at their finest!...It's 100% their best work...With Lark's Tongues IA; following closely...
Brilliant album AND Best Album Cover Ever!
My favourite is Even in the Quietest Moments album cover by Supertramp. But this cover is a knockout.
I hate this cover because it is so disturbing yet it is the PERFECT cover for this album lol
Used to listen to this when I was a kid in the early 1970s, some of the best party music from back in the day. Thanks.
And Classic Prog has begun !!
King Crimson of of the Best three at the Top of Classic Prog with Yes & Genesis 1970-77' era. Crimson many era's over their 52yrs !!! It's all great I first saw them in 1973' & 74" during their Bruford/ Wetton era, just so amazing !! 👍 And many times later 1984, 85, 95', 2014, 2017, 2019' I'm 65' now 🎶🎼
I heard this for the first time in a college dorm in 1969..we were in the process of putting a band together...after listening to this (and picking our jaws up off of the floor),we decided that we definitely needed to find a mellotron....whatever that was....
I heard this entire record the first time they played it on the radio WABX Detroit 1969 in the middle of the night. I sat up and listened and I've been a fan ev since
You really need to see the live with 3 drummers and Mr Fripp sitting there doing lord knows what to his guitar.
Robert Fripp still tours and still makes great music... I believe that they have an upcoming US tour -- DO NOT MISS THEM!!!
The story is they were listening a lot to the John Handy Quintet at the Monterey Jazz Festival when they recorded this song. Although not a direct copy, the influence is apparent--worth checking out.
Sounds like there may be some Frank Zappa influence, too
@@JanBearZappa was extremely influential on the development of the prog rock in the UK. But I had that John Handy album and their is a direct connection. Zappa was greatly admired by the Beatles, for instance. Definitely a Zappa influence, but Zappa himself was influenced by jazz as well.
@@JanBear In an interview with Adrian Belew, Fripp said he liked Zappa's music but not the comedy-which I think says volumes about Fripp
They great thing about this song is how the lyrics are so appropriate for what is going on today with our culture. The line : “Nothing he got he really needs” is spot on
"This is filthy!"
Yes.. yes it is!
Musically astonishing to think how long ago this song was released! ✌🏻
You probably recognize the refrain from MBDTF -- Kanye sampled it on Power
Yes but he also kinda outright stole it and eventually went to court for it because he didn't credit King Crimson or give them royalties or anything
@@gaiusjuliuscaesar-wg1hydid he go to the court of the crimson king
@@gaiusjuliuscaesar-wg1hy that's objectively untrue. he not only credited them, but also had their permission. he's being sued because they believe they weren't payed enough.
Bass line in this song is soooo underrated.
This album is perfect
Can I immediately recommend King Crimon’s album “Red” as a next step? That’s one of the ones with Bill Bruford on drums-he left Yes after Close to the Edge and joined Crimson ❤
Listen to the rest of the album for sure
I was on the live stream when you did this.. Your reaction was priceless.
05:48 "Oh, this is filthy!"
Hey,...One of my favourite bands when I was 13. I'm 67 now & still listen to them.
Freaking Robert Fripp and Greg Lake 💕💕 I have to say John Wetton is my fave KC singer /bassist, 72-74 pure magic! Buy this on through islands are soooo good!
So glad you found this. Your task now is to carry it forward.
Crimson was as much a jazz band as it was a rock band. But that fusion was Prog Rock.
Love your vids man, the classic prog and psych stuff is my jam so I like to put your vids on and hit the bong along with ya. Ever done any jam bands? Phish, Grateful Dead anything like that?
G'day mate, at the time of it's release this album was a staple of everyones record collection,,and there's only one thing to explain this masterpiece-'Robert Fripp'🎼🎸If you need a direction to go for influential guitarist composers like Fripp, you have to go to Zappa {- starting with something aurally Zappa accessible, like the live versions of 'Florentine Pogen' and 'Inca Roads' a concert in LA 1974 televised recording, of which Inca Roads has claymation during the pefomance obscuring Franks and Ruths exceptional abilities, then listen to the album versions on 'One Size Fits All' which are nearly identical, 🎼🎸
Ohhh geez Zappa is on a whole other level, Zappa music is a genre unto itself and I've been a fan for years. Most people unfortunately get hung up on his satirical, darkly comedic, sometimes silly, sometimes offensive (but for a purpose once you understand him) lyrics and totally miss the wonderful (and often odd in a good way) music and the incredibly high level of musicianship. I could talk about him forever. The man put out roughly over 60 albums in around 30 years, that's astounding and a catalog like that is just impossible to categorize or fully appreciate. I'll just end with this, Frank Zappa, when you just look at his compositions (putting the lyrics aside for a moment) is the Mozart of contemporary music and I hope he will be remembered one day as such.
I love Fripp as much as anyone, but I it’s really inaccurate to attribute this album to him exclusively. The common narrative is that Ian Macdonald was the real creative force behind ITCOTCK. I’ll give you Fripp as the band evolved, and other luminaries left, but not this album from the 1969 incarnation of the group.
Yes Zappa, never given enough credit. Got to see Him play live and met hom backstage years ago. A super smart dude. Too bad he was murdered. His music lives on. May you RIP Frank
I gotta say it is hilarious to watch some homey on RUclips, lighting up a joint and listening to King Crimson. I was doing exactly the same thing....over 45 years ago! Glad you seem to like it.
I heard this in 1974 when I was 10 and it honestly changed the direction of my Life
1968? If this came out today, it would blow minds. I think they are time travelers. I first heard this back in the 70's. Never gets old.
Lil J, I'm glad you seemed to have taken my suggestion to listen to this tune and reacted as I would have expected. When people hear this for the first time it changes the way they think about music, so welcome to the club. Also you have to remember that this album came out in 19 freakin 69 (1969) ...just think bout that for a second. I would also recommend the entire album EXCEPT for Moonchild which is really just straight up ambient music which even though I'm not a fan of for regular listening does have a calming effect, but it always felt out of place on this album and goes on far too long. However it is a milestone because I believe this was the first introduction of ambient music. Great job and I do hope you get to some of the other tunes. If you don't want to listen to all of it (except for Moonchild) I'd say go for the title track, but you can't go wrong on the others either (except for Moonchild, by now you can tell it's like eating liver for me lol (but hey some people love liver so enjoy I guess? lol)
I was 15 when I first dried window pain while listening to this album. From the cover to the music this has to be experienced while tripping on LSD. At 67 I still feel it in my soul when I hear it.
KC is a musician's band. The audience is requested to be polite and attentive. It's about peak experience through music. It's how the band works and their craft and art.
When King Kong joined The Beatles.❤
Three drummers. Nuff said.
Sorry there not three drummers on this recording
That was much later Crimson
Just the tip of the icebergs . Youtubie has a volcano load of world pro rock !!!! Prog rock at times is Mozart on crack played backwards somewhat !!! These folk don't do rap , hip hop or class's of commercial musical explorations . Toke up Bra !!
From 1969, the 60s was a supreme time in popular music!
1970.
Tinha 14 aninhos.Century sczoid .primeira faixa do in yhe court....Uma paulada.sou do Brasil.Ontem na estacao metro Hyde Park ,Londres.A primeira coisa que lembrei foi o Lendario Show ao vivo em que o KC abriu pros Stones ,com Greg Lake cantando Century.
The sheer number of classic albums that were released in 1969 is stunning. This is one of the best though. You should listen to the entire thing.
if u like this try "In the Court of the Crimson King "
Hey, loved your reaction!, I've been a Crimson Head for like..ehem 30 years...lol Greetings from Chile. 🤘✌
Still one of the all time heaviest riffs I've heard... then the ensuing chaos that follows is totally other worldly....do listen to Epitaph and In the Court of the Crimson King off that album as well they're total trips.... AND DUDE!!! that was 1969.
Song may have seemed familiar from the time Kanye sampled it for the song "Power" on _MBDTF_
Fuzz did a great cover of this.
I’d highly recommend any of their albums.
The Fuzz eponymous album is great if you want grungy rock n roll.
Monstrous.
I'm personally Very fond of this Song and Album!... I even liked putting the album up in my window for my neighbors to wonder about 🤨
You should check out The Doors/Riders on the Storm, L.A. Woman, Light my Fire
The funniest thing is that this song was sampled in a Kanye West song.
React to Genesis's Dancing with the Moonlit Knight. this band was one of the best progressive rock bands of the 70s. and this song is a perfect introduction to them.
Remember this was 1969 !!!!
Crest of the wave man.
You gotta hear the beat on the next song on the album. I talk to the wind. Very hip hop.
April Wine did a great cover of this song too
Parallels Jethro Tull...sophisticated art rock.
I'm surprised that Fripp hasn't come for this video yet
And i think is from 1969... 🔥🙃 Btw: listen to the whole Lizard song (20min i think) from their Lizard album, its a real wonderful travel.
Wow, Robert Frip is insanely jealous of his copyrights! I can believe I'm hearing this!
Yeah what's-his-name (Yeezy) sampled it on a rap tune - and had to pay royalties THROUGH THE NOSE! hehe
1969 man ,1969 incredible genius
Has some members of the band Yes in it
Van for Graff Generator.....The Killer.....you might like to hear.
That bass….. 😮 Greg Lake!
Its on a Pentatonics song thing of Wizzard of AHSSS
So many years have passed and the track is still brilliant and f... sadly topical. k
This is literally the nastiest prog-rock ever recorded. Nothing else can even come close
King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, ELP, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Jeff Beck, Jethro Tull... who did I miss ?
Beatles, Frank Zappa
You’re thinking of Power by Kanye, it’s sampled.
Kanye West sampled the hook line for his track 'Power'
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huh, I thought KC reactions get blocked or muted.
You should check out Starless and Bible Black by King Crimson.
Schizoid as in pizza sounds like it has a t. peet suh, I guess.
Oh snap ❤️❤️❤️