Red (album) by King Crimson
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Red is ranked 2nd best out of 71 albums by King Crimson on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by King Crimson is In The Court Of The Crimson King which is ranked number 27 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 38,179.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 88 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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90/100  | 37 hours ago |  AvalancheGrips | | 88/100 |
85/100 | 3 days ago | ACESaft | | 79/100 |
95/100 | 06/29/2020 21:55 | teague | | 79/100 |
85/100 | 06/27/2020 14:32 | RomanRelic | | 74/100 |
90/100 | 06/27/2020 06:30 | Seventiesfan | | 80/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a mean average rating of 85.0/100. The trimmed mean (excluding outliers) is 86.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.5.
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Montpejo 04/18/2020 20:20
Highlights:
Starless
Fallen Angel
One More Red Nightmare
Red
Super-prog. Tough listen in places but you can't fail to be impressed. A muso's dream
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santropez 04/15/2019 23:18
Favourite track: "Starless"
Least-liked track: "Providence"
Aged like a fine wine, very influential on latter progressive metal folks.
The closest thing to a conventional album this band ever made, this being Crimson they still subvert that term. Prog Metal before it was a thing, even the long winding jam track (Providence) is probably their best. Starless is a tour de force of the prog genre, the way it begins slow then builds up into a crescendo of fury before decapitating into a quite finale. Closes the chapter of the 70s on a high .
Top 3 Tracks
Red
One More Red Nightmare
Starless
Carried by Starless, one of the best songs to come out of that entire decade. The reprise at the end of Starless is nothing short of magical.
A much heavier affair than previous works. Moments of sheer foreboding are created with lead guitar and violin interplay on 'Providence'. A beautiful Mellotron string provides the foundation for 'Starless', where the lead vocal shares centre stage with meandering saxophone arpeggios. Overall the album has a much darker sinister feel to it and could quite easily have been used as a backing for a 70's horror movie, in particular the track 'Starless' and hell, what a sax solo lies in wait when this track climaxes!
Dang this is good, ain't it? I love Fallen Angel. It is a really heartfelt ballad. It's hard to beat the build up on Starless. Definitely a cathartic song.
This album is really great!! It starts slowly (for me, because most people seem to enjoy "Red", but it's a very bland track IMO) but then it gets better and better until you reach the climax in the end of "Providence", my favorite track. Maybe that's because I'm a bassist, but this track really gets me, what a fantastic job John Wetton did on the bass! And then the closer "Starless" is amazing, mainly because of the instrumental part. The first part is a bit pink-floydish and unoriginal, but later on with the instrumental bit, that's where it gets to be great. Fantastic album, better than ITCOTCK if you want my opinion!
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