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All these legendary ground breaking King Crimson albums have been presented below in chronological order. We have also included all original release dates with each King Crimson album as well as all original album covers.
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Mar 23, 2024 · See all from 6 Album Sunday. See more recommendations. King Crimson were perhaps the quintessential and original “Prog Rock” band. Formed in London in 1968 under the leadership of guitarist...
Mar 30, 2024 · But from 1969 up until 2021 (on and off), through many lineup changes, and many stylistic changes, you had one constant: the man himself, Robert Fripp, and King Crimson is that guy’s baby,...
- Ranking King Crimson’s 15 Studio Albums
- Earthbound
- Lizard
- Construkction of Light
- The Power to Believe
- Three of A Perfect Pair
- Islands
- Beat
- USA
- Discipline
With heavy, sweeping Mellotron chords, poetic lyrics and the crunchy, free jazz guitar of Robert Fripp, King Crimson’s musical work focused on dark, emotional themes. Sometimes atonal, often majestic and pastoral, but never dependent on blues licks or heavy jamming. King Crimson’s music drew from many sources including 20th century composition, Bri...
Why it’s King Crimson’s “Worst” Album
Although Nick Cave admits that Earthbound is his favorite Crimson album, it’s always been considered their worst. Not that there is such a thing as a bad King Crimson album, but sonically speaking, this record is lacking, but what it lacks sonically it more than makes up for in power playing. Lots of free jazz and improv moments plus, possibly the best version of “21st Century Schizoid Man” ever recorded. This is an abbreviated set list from shows they played in the Midwest and northern state...
Why it’s King Crimson’s 14th best Album
Lizard usually ranks low, but it should not be considered a bad album in any way. It is just as focused as anything that came before or after. Every King Crimson album is built with 100% investment in its quality. Probably the last great prog album before bands like Yes and ELP took the pomposity of orchestra inspired rock to excessive and pompous heights. There are some poetic and soft moments in Lizard but there are also the typically scary and dark Crimson songs like in “Cirkus” and the bo...
Why it’s King Crimson’s 13th best Album
ConstruKCtion of Light was an album recorded in Adrian Belew’s home studio in Tennessee. These songs arrived from the few years of improv ProjeKCts that the band had toured with. The double trio of THRAK was now reduced to a double duo and the band was more than ready to tear through these heavy and poignant songs. The album closes with the monumental “Larks Tongues Part IV,” sectioning off into different parts in true prog rock tradition. As a bonus, a ProjeKCt X song fades in at the end as...
Why it’s King Crimson’s 12th best Album
The Power to Believe is the last studio King Crimson album to date. Created out of the music played on the ConstruKCtion of Lighttour, this is a carefully assembled collection of music that brought Crimson to the forefront of guitar-based rock bands. This is a heavy metal album, nuovo metal if you will, at times sounding like a Tool record but with lots of techno and dance input that’s not off putting in the very least. The songs are sequence in the way their live shows were played. A very po...
Why it’s King Crimson’s 11th best Album
Three of a Perfect Pair is the third part of the 80’s band’s trilogy of colorful and highly original albums. The band would take a ten-year hiatus after this was recorded and it contains some great fractal playing in the way of the title track and in “Larks Tongues Part III.” Still clinging to that new wave sound, this is more of a Belew album with some wonderful ballads and less hard and loud playing. It does contain improvisational moments like “Industry” and parts of “Dig Me.” The title tr...
Why it’s King Crimson’s 10th best Album
Islands summarized everything the band had done up to 1971. This was the second live line up of the band since the original 1969 group had disbanded. With a new singer/bass player, drummer, and carrying sax player Mel Collins over from In the Wake of Poseidon, this surrogate version of the band carried on with these new songs. Songs based around chamber and stringed music, composed by Robert Fripp. Perhaps the band suffered a bit of an identity crisis. This is a band that carried over the fur...
Why it’s King Crimson’s 9th best Album
Beat is a sequel to Discipline and continues Adrian Belew’s lyrical tribute to the beat writers of the ’50s and ’60s. Songs like “Neil and Jack and Me,” “The Howler,” and “Satori in Tangier” are all dedicated to writers like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Karouac and William S. Burroughs. The album contains the future-shock ode to New York, “Neurotica” with its many guitar and synth driven sounds. The album ends with the long improv “Requiem” that’s a strange, new wave version of noise, coming off like...
Why it’s King Crimson’s 8th best Album
USA was the second live King Crimson album released. This is an abbreviated set from their show at the Casino on the boardwalk of Asbury Park. Contains a very powerful opener in “Larks Tongues in Aspic Part 2” and goes through the sequence of their sets at the time, including a one-off improv that promises heavy metal, funk and the avant-garde all in one breath. You’ve heard these songs before from their perspective albums, but never this loud. The improv “Asbury Park” is a funky creature all...
Why it’s King Crimson’s 7th best Album
Discipline sailed the band into the 80’s and a new era of musicking. Taking notes from post-punk, new wave, and The Talking Heads (whom both Adrian Belew and Robert Fripp had played with), this version of the band was all gamelan rhythms and locked guitar patterns. The title track sets off a trend of guitar picking and song building that probably began back with the middle section of “One More Red Nightmare” on Red but became the new standard. Along with that there is the touching ballad, “Ma...
Dec 8, 2021 · King Crimson discography and songs: Music profile for King Crimson, formed 13 January 1969. Genres: Progressive Rock, Art Rock, New Wave. Albums include In the Court of the Crimson King, Red, and Larks' Tongues in Aspic.
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May 18, 2022 · Yet against the odds they have also had some considerable commercial success – eight of their albums have made the UK Top 40. But the band’s success truly lies in the fact that they are best described simply as King Crimson.
