KING CRIMSON
RED (1974)
REMASTER
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King Crimson fell apart once more, seemingly for the last time, as David Cross walked away during the making of this album. It became Robert Fripp's last thoughts on this version of the band, a bit noiser overall but with some surprising sounds featured, mostly out of the group's past — Mel Collins' and Ian McDonald's saxes, Marc Charig's cornet, and Robin Miller's oboe, thus providing a glimpse of what the 1972-era King Crimson might've sounded like handling the later group's repertory (which nearly happened). Indeed, Charig's cornet gets just about the best showcase it ever had on a King Crimson album, and the truth is that few intact groups could have gotten an album as good as Red together. The fact that it was put together by a band in its death throes makes it all the more impressive an achievement.
1. Red
2. Fallen Angel
3. One More Red Nightmare
4. Providence
5. Starless
2. Fallen Angel
3. One More Red Nightmare
4. Providence
5. Starless
3 comments:
Want to thank you, Moodswings, generally for the share and your fine taste in music. Have to comment on this album though. For anyone who isn't familiar with King Crimson, this is a good place to start. Of all of their albums, I think that this is the most consistently excellent, at least to my ear, never straying too far into the experimental sounds that mar, say Lark's Tongues In Aspic. This is, of course, the classic King Crimson, where everything seemed to have the right balance in talent among the guitarist, the bassist/vocalist and the drummer, with the additional players adding just right flavors to the sound. This is the sound that Tool will have when they grow up.
The first Crimson album to get is Court Of The Crimson King. I'm not saying it is their best though it is the place to start.
Definitely one of the greatest prog bands of all time. Thanks.
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