Red (track)
by King Crimson
Red appears on the following album(s) by King Crimson:
- Red (track #1) (this album) (1974)
- The Condensed 21st Century Guide To King Crimson (track #12) (compilation) (2006)
- Absent Lovers: Live In Montreal 1984 (track #4) (1998)
- B'Boom (track #4) (1995)
- VROOOM VROOOM (track #10) (2001)
- Park West, Chicago, Illinois, August 7, 2008 (track #4) (2008)
- Cirkus - The Young Person's Guide To King Crimson Live (track #3) (compilation) (1999)
- The Young Person's Guide To King Crimson (track #5) (compilation) (1975)
- Frame By Frame: The Essential King Crimson (track #21) (compilation) (1991)
- Live In New Haven, CT (track #14) (2003)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 12/06/2025 18:58 | Rayzer6 | 18,694 | 89/100 |
| ! | 12/06/2025 15:42 | Exist-en-ciel | 34,780 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/05/2025 12:51 | stareaterogni0n | 2,766 | 73/100 |
| ! | 11/26/2025 22:46 |  Rockdrigo | 667 | 82/100 |
| ! | 10/13/2025 21:14 |  Superunknown | 506 | 86/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 88.1/100, a mean average of 87.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.6.
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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.
Jboy56 12/08/2021 14:08 | #277244
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.
corenfro 01/26/2017 04:02 | #184313
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?
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