In the Court of the Crimson King

it was nice to listen to first song was great the rest was kind of mid

Prog out with my hog out fr fr

Really good apart from the instrumental on Moonchild, which really tested one's patience rather. Other than that, really interesting music which was always going somewhere new

Is dit album nu één grote chaos, of zit het heel vernuftig in elkaar? Dat ik mij dit afvraag toont dat het een interessant geheel is. Het album is één grote beleving, met invloeden uit uiteenlopende muzikale hoeken en met uiteenlopende emoties. De eerste samenstelling is hiervoor een prima introductie. Het uiteenlopende en wat chaotische karakter neemt natuurlijk ook mee dat niet alles voor iedereen even prettig is. Zo vind ik I talk to the wind nogal saai. En heeft de vierde samenstelling me te veel piepjes. Soms is ook dit album teveel 'Kunst, omdat het moet'. Maar net als bij Dagmar, gaat dat niet ten koste van de muziek. Of ik dit album in zijn geheel nog eens zal luisteren, weet ik niet zo goed. Het is met deze muziek lastig te testen. Dit luister je niet twee maal zo snel achter elkaar. Maar ik verwacht de samenstellingen 1 en 5 in elk geval nog wel een los te luisteren en dat is samen toch een flink deel van het album.

Nope. Still don’t like it.

I’m at a festival in the grounds of a medeaval castle. Spent the morning wandering through the gardens pretending that I’m in the Courr of the Crimson King.

Like the bombast of the opener and the title track. In between it’s pleasantly ambient

I smoked a joint and listened to it on vinyl. I wish I could give it six stars.

4
Another one where I'd heard it before but relistening through this project has let me appreciate it a lot more. I even enjoyed the more low key songs that some people here seem to dislike, although I did think the ending to moonchild let the whole album down quite a bit

Album art is a 5/5. The music, bleh

Alright

Simplesmente um clássico! O álbum considerado a pedra fundamental do Rock Progressivo.

Classic

Practically birthed prog rock as we know it and even still today, over 50 years later this still stands as arguably the best album in that entire genre. Moonchild does drag on a bit but every other song here is among the best I've ever heard.

Started OK, even pretty decent, then went downhill fast.

Once they get "21st Century Schizoid Man" out of their system, I like this quite a bit.

Songs were a little long for me, but they have a cool sound. I couldn’t help but hear an ancestor of jam bands from them—I’m not sure if this is the case, but I def got a “jam” vibe from them.

The record that invented prog rock arrived in 1969 fully formed and completely confident, which is either inspiring or slightly exhausting depending on which track you're on. Robert Fripp's band had no real precedent — jazz complexity, classical structure, rock energy, and a darkness that the era's psychedelia was actively avoiding — and the ambition is audible in every bar. That ambition is also occasionally the problem.
"21st Century Schizoid Man" is the opening statement and the strongest argument for the record — Greg Lake's distorted vocal and Fripp's guitar creating something genuinely aggressive that still hits hard fifty-five years later. The title track closes the album as a complete contrast, gentle and medieval and orchestral, the Mellotron giving everything its distinctive lush-but-eerie texture. Between those poles the record moves through enough genuine ideas to earn its reputation without fully earning a four.
What keeps it there is Moonchild — twelve minutes of sparse improvisation that tests the patience of even devoted listeners and tips the balance decisively. A record that earns a four needs to justify its worst moments, and Moonchild is too much to ask forgiveness for. The three is honest rather than dismissive — this is cool and genuinely impressive and something worth hearing once. It just isn't something you'd inflict on a room of people who didn't specifically ask for it.
Respect without love, delivered cleanly.

Sometimes let down by songs dragging on too long, but that's the nature of prog, some of my favourite pieces of music all time in here though, great to see where the genre "Started"

1) 21st Century Schizoid Man
2) I Talk To The Wind
3) The Court Of The Crimson King

Least Fave: Moonchild

Ausnahmsweise mal guter Prog Rock

Love this. I'm not a big prog rock fan, but this was my introduction to the genre and it's never been topped.

No skips. Epitaph and Court of Crimson King are my favourite. Only bit I'm not a fan off is that bit of ambient dead noise lingering after Moonchild, but it works in context of the album.

Incredible. King Crimson should be as well known as Pink Floyd, The Who, or Jethro Tull. They're in the rock opera pantheon for sure.