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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 02/13/2013 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#820): In The Court Of The Crimson King
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Today's album of the day
In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1969.
Overall rank: 73.
Average rating: 87/100 (from 446 votes).
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Tracks:
1. 21st Century Schizoid Man (Including Mirrors)
2. I Talk To The Wind
3. Epitaph (Including March For No Reason/Tomorrow And Tomorrow)
4. Moonchild (Including The Dream/The Illusion)
5. The Court Of The Crimson King (Including The Return Of The Fire Witch/The Dance Of The Puppets)
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety.
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- #2
- Posted: 02/13/2013 21:06
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A fun bit of progressive rock, I've only given it one spin, but it didn't grab my attention much.
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- #3
- Posted: 02/13/2013 21:06
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I've always seen this as the non-commercial Dark Side of the Moon which means that it's really REALLY awesome. Greatest track is the title-track (which isn't a title-track to be exact).
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RFNAPLES
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- Posted: 02/13/2013 21:38
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Exceptional album. The only flaw I could accuse it of is the neverending length of Moonchild, which starts interestingly but gets extremely weird during its exhaustingly long instrumental part. Other than that, it's full of lyrics with tremendous poetic power, apocalyptic and moving at the same time, and both masterful and wonderfully unusual instrumentation. 21st Century Schizoid Man is ballsy as hell and still sounds as fresh and different as ever, The Court Of The Crimson King is an excellent closer, serving both as a synopsis of the album's tone and a mourning to humanity, but my absolutely favorite songs in here are the beautiful, introspective and cryptic I Talk To The Wind and Epitaph, the ultimate anthem of disillusion and disappointment everyone has felt some time in his/her life about the course of history.
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- #6
- Posted: 02/13/2013 22:05
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Fuck Moonchild. What combination of substances were they smoking when they decided to put ten minutes of jacking each other off on the album?
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Jasonconfused
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- #7
- Posted: 02/13/2013 22:07
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| thejoj96 wrote: | | Fuck Moonchild. What combination of substances were they smoking when they decided to put ten minutes of jacking each other off on the album? |
Probably the same combination that Rush were smoking and for that I say, "Thank you combination of substances!"
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hairymarx1
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Location: London 
- #8
- Posted: 02/13/2013 22:19
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| useless wrote: | | Exceptional album. The only flaw I could accuse it of is the neverending length of Moonchild, which starts interestingly but gets extremely weird during its exhaustingly long instrumental part. Other than that, it's full of lyrics with tremendous poetic power, apocalyptic and moving at the same time. 21st Century Schizoid Man is ballsy as hell and still sounds as fresh and different as ever, The Court Of The Crimson King is an excellent closer, serving both as a synopsis of the album's tone and a mourning to humanity, but my absolutely favorite songs in here are the beautiful, introspective and cryptic I Talk To The Wind and Epitaph, the ultimate anthem of disillution and disappointment everyone has felt some time in his/her life about the course of history. |
Wonderful synopsis. Just to add, what I find interesting are the psychedelic overtones that also merge gothic, medieval, neurotic and romantic elements. There's nothing that sounds quite like it. The Moody Blues incorporated the romantic element but nobody combined them all into a brilliant whole like King Crimson did with this work. This album represented a great leap forward. Magnificent.
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cartoken
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Age: 40
Location: Paris 
- #9
- Posted: 02/13/2013 23:38
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best British album from the 60s. not that great though 
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- #10
- Posted: 02/14/2013 01:26
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Been ages since I listened to this one, I'll have to check it out again.
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