Red (track) by King Crimson

What a way to kick off an album. Bruford's drumming is disturbingly good. Just love that heavy, nasty riff and the complex time signature changes. As some have mentioned can definitely hear influence in 90s grunge artists here. I'd be especially surprised if Tool weren't influenced by this.

From Jboy56 12/08/2021 14:08

Crushingly RED, amazing and doomy.

Listening to this, a friend of mine said: "This sounds too much like grunge to me. Couldn't they have come up with a more original sound?"

Then I said, "This is from 1974. 15 years before grunge started to be a thing!"

Yes. The acts from the early nineties with these heavy slow guitar riffs and bass lines know their classics. Having said this, they never matched the ingenuity of King Crimson.

Great, heavy song to open this album with a bang. I do find it a little repetitive (this could have sufficed as a 3- or 4-minute track instead of being 6 minutes long), but it does have a really good, gritty vibe to it.

The middle bit here is some of the most dark crushing brooding stuff I've heard in a while. The main riff is a bit ehh though.

From corenfro 01/26/2017 04:02

Oasis, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins etc. all owe a debt here.

You can imagine how influential this was on the young Kurt Cobain - is this the first example of grunge rock?