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POLL: Choosing the Next King Crimson EPL (Patreon)

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2023-02-25 17:16:08
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POLL: Choosing the Next King Crimson EPL

  • In the Wake of Poseidon 35
  • Lizard 39
  • Islands 20
  • Larks' Tongues in Aspic 183
  • Beat 20
  • 2023-02-25
  • —2023-03-02
  • 297 votes
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Hi y'all...

It's time to prepare for the next Extended Play Lounge Episode. And, I think it's time to return to King Crimson. 

I've now listened to three KC albums: In the Court of the Crimson King, Red, and Discipline. (All have EPL episodes.)

I've selected five potential KC albums to choose from. Pick your preference!

The poll will be active through March 1. Happy voting!

Comments

André Simonsen

Y'all! It have to be Islands! The most deverse album from the most diverse band. I have profound love for King Crimson and all their work, but this album stands out.

Richard Moore

Any KC album is going to be good. I picked Islands because it's one I suggested a while back. Prelude: Song of the Gulls followed by the title track is a very effective sequence.

BRIAN MILLER

Of the options listed, I voted for Larks Tongues. But personally my next favorite after Discipline is THRAK (1994) which I think you should definitely hear at some point in the future.

Macon Patton

Larks Tongue’s In Aspic won something like Playboy’s rock album of 1973? I would have put Discipline ahead of Beat. They are truly all wonderful.

Frits van Voorst

Great to see King Crimson being revisited by you. Larks has so much to offer, that I would suggest to make it a third or fourth listen, in stead of a first. Like Amy (Virgin Rock) does in-depth reactions, e.g. her take on Firth of Fifth: much recommended!

Ryan Kunkle

At some point, it would be wonderful to listen to The Power to Believe, King Crimson's final studio album from 2003 and personally my favorite, though there really isn't a bad Crimson album. So much variety and vitality across their decades-long discography.

Michael L.

I know Islands isn't a particularly popular record as far as their discography goes, but it is personally one of my favourites. In particular, the title track is just gorgeous.

David Edinborough

I had to pick Larks, it’s the beginning of a new band configuration and I think that would lend a lot to a Doug reaction. I love all these albums, close second was Lizard because Poseidon is very similar to Court.

Nicholas Koenig

Larks is the top tier KC experience for me!

Patrick Noakes

Would like to see all these covered in due course, but Larks’ gets my vote as the definitive album of the Wetton/Bruford line up.

Max Eliaser

the voters are wise this time. you're in for a treat, by far the most far-out KC album of the ones I've heard. Wake of Poseidon and Lizard, IMO, aren't really that notable or essential.

Jim Reeves

Sailors Tale, from Islands studio version is my favorite KC song after Epitaph. Wonderful blend of fusion & prog. Islands gets my vote.

Christopher Arters (relative timeworx - Mr.A)

Listening to Poseidon, Lizard and Islands, it is difficult to fathom that Bruford left Yes for this band. But that next phase of Crimson with Bruford and Wetton was certainly epic, even if I'd never have seen it coming.

Hetfield Ninno Davide

Choosing a KC album is like being a kid in a candy store. If Larks is going to win the poll then I'd suggest to cover "Starless & Bible Black" in the future to close up the trilogy , its a fantastic album , the most underrated of the three. Fracture will further demonstrate you what a master guitar player Robert Fripp is.

Mark Brennan

Well, Doug, you've already done KC's Red. So I'm good. Whatever you want next is okay with me!

John Clark

The guitar solo in Sailors Tale was a precursor to LTIA and much future KC. we just didn't know it at the time. And yes, LTIA is THE King Crimson album if you seek my opinion, has been my favourite album for the past 50 years. Next up should be Lizard, if not the entire album then the magnificent title track.

Einaras Sipavičius

I voted for Beat. That's my favorite 80s KC album, one of the most imaginative and underrated KC records. But of course I'm okay with Larks' Tongues In Aspic, that's one of my favourites from 70s.

John Clark

Just thinking....Doug, you should arm yourself with the lyrics to the three tracks on LTIA that have them (as I cannot see it's lead being overtaken). It would be the same as if you had bought the album and rushed home for a first time listen, all the while poring over the album cover artwork and the lyric sheet. There's a poignancy to the first two that has never diminished from day one. Book of Saturday has been my go to love song for the previously stated 50 years.

braaap

Easy decision here, it just has to be LTIA really. It's the landmark album of the 70s era for a lot of people, myself included. This is the album that really elevated King Crimson from fun and kinda interesting to one of my favourite bands of all time.

Randy Hammill

Larks’ was definitely a new beginning and remains the start of one of their most popular eras. Live they were a beast. But I have come to love Lizard. On the surface it sounds very different, but it previewed a lot of musical ground, and playing from Robert, that would become the framework of what was to come. The live performances of material from the 2014- lineup(s) were stunning.

Frits van Voorst

Bill Bruford left Yes after CTTE, the album you love so much. He needed more room to develop his musicianship. Larks is the next album he played on and yes, he got the space he needed. In Yes, he said, there always were long discussions when composing and recording songs. In King Crimson you just were expected to know what to do.

Frits van Voorst

And a last remark: I strongly recommend the SW remix: less harsh and more clarity/detail than on previous digitalizations.

PETER SALTER

Personally I would rather see a band you have not already done 3 previous ELPs of so I have not voted!

doughelvering
>>102856266

Because of King Crimson's copyright stance, I'm only able to react to their music here, so I intentionally make room for them occasionally.

Brian Rolfe

Much as I think the Larks Toungs is arguably the best of these albums I voted for Islands. Larks tounges is a precursor to Red and the first of that great triology. In the Wake is the follow up to ITCOTKC. Beat, well it's not their best album. But Lizard and Islands shows the jazz influence of Keith Trippet on the band and these two albums are remarkably different from their other output. Neither has been covered yet and logically that should be the next period covered, as the later period Thrack etc is not listed as an option. As to which of the two, either, but for me Islands edges it.

Allen

I agree that "Lizard" and "Islands" (either one) would be a nice future analysis after Doug has seen the trajectory of King Crimson in "Larks'" (I voted for "Lizard," by the way).

Michael LaPorte
>>102866491

I love Keith Tippett's work with Crimson. Have you heard his stuff with Elton Dean and Centipede?

Brian Rolfe

Even saw him at the hole in the wall Manchester with soft machine kegacy about five years ago

Eric F.
>>102777302

My understanding is that Chris Squire was an obnoxious micro-manager, and it was one of the reason he quit Yes.