Beat
by King Crimson
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Beat is ranked 9th best out of 100 albums by King Crimson on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by King Crimson is In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) which is ranked number 25 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 26,615.
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Beat track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/29/2026 11:00 |  jeremy9 | 3,778 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/26/2026 02:25 | progfan | 32 | 95/100 |
| ! | 05/10/2026 19:27 | emnasut | 153 | 87/100 |
| ! | 05/10/2026 12:00 | Adhura | 1,709 | 77/100 |
| ! | 04/23/2026 10:07 | Pavloss | 488 | 50/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.7/100, a mean average of 72.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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My least favorite album by the group nothing on here is worth listening to (Edited)
A bit of a step down from the genius of Discipline but still solid. (Edited)
Jboy56 01/26/2022 15:45 | #280120 | TOP COMMENT
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A strange mix of heavy rock, prog, and new wave, not a very successful combinatio (Edited)
For me, this is the weakest of the 80's albums. Discipline and Three of a perfect pair have more freshness, boldness. Beat bores me. The other two albums excite me.
santropez 07/21/2019 11:56 | #240077
Favourite track: "Waiting Man"
Least-favourite track: "Requiem"
If you're building a King Crimson playlist, I think it's got to have Sartori in Tangier and the magnificent Requiem (which apparently almost broke up the band) on it. Other than those tracks this stuff ranges from inessential to really bad. You definitely should read the Wikipedia entry on this album for some context on how much the band members hated it. (Edited)
nitomano 05/11/2017 00:02 | #190603
Beat abre el camino a una etapa un tanto "diferente" en la carrera de King Crimson ya que está más enfocado a estilos como el New Wave que no son asociados directamente cuando uno piensa en esta banda, si bien desde Discipline se daba a notar el cambio no es hasta este album que es mucho más evidente. (Edited)
Beat is the "open minded" period of King Crimson ... and this is the beginning of the dream line-up. when progressive rock meets a kind of newwave, a bit of industrial rock, disco sensations,
discipline, beat, and three of perfect pair, it's either love or hate by comparing what they had done during the seventies ... And I think that this was their most discs in the trend of their time .... today, the current king crimson disc sound nostalgic, and during the seventies, it sounded too early !!! (Edited)
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