They's like my childrens, I can't pick just one fave.

Ok, The Great Deceiver box set. Zing!

1970's Red

1980's Absent Lovers Live 2CD

1990's B'Boom Live 2CD

Redline wrote:They's like my childrens, I can't pick just one fave.

Zing!

Besides the only important thing to know about king crimson is that FRIPP IS FRIPP!

Red

Redline wrote:They's like my childrens, I can't pick just one fave.

Ok, The Great Deceiver box set. Zing!

You got that right.

Still, I'd say In the Court..., Lark's Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, and the Night Watch double-live are all great.

...and Red is pretty damn good too, but for some reason not the one I reach for usually.

If you like Discipline era Crimson you should enjoy Robert Fripp's recently remastered Exposure. It sounds incredible and they give you two different mixes! Some tasty suprises for those who notice the beginnings of later Crimson tunes.

By the way, I like Islands very much, the vocals are a nice change, and Mel Collins is great on sax, he makes my mind spin. Earthbound is a great live album from that period, its totally nuts reinventions of some tunes. Ladies of the Road is also an insane show from that period, with another disc of all Schiznoid Man improvs. I think ive lost my mind now. Zap

construction of light is surprisingly good for a late-career album, and nicely combines some 70s and 80s crimson styles. it is also, for what it's worth, the most complex album. but you have to be comfortable with all the drums being electronic, and not being played by bill bruford but instead by pat mastellato... and the "i have a dream coda" is stupid. also, i think it's an overly self-conscious, self-referential album -- sequels to fracture and lark's tongues, mention of the website in one lyric, etc.

i didn't really like "the power to believe" (horrible title!), which i thought was kind of redundant, but i did like the acoustic/electronic drum combination stuff mastellato did on it.

frankly wrote:If you like Discipline era Crimson you should enjoy Robert Fripp's recently remastered Exposure. It sounds incredible and they give you two different mixes! Some tasty suprises for those who notice the beginnings of later Crimson tunes.

By the way, I like Islands very much, the vocals are a nice change, and Mel Collins is great on sax, he makes my mind spin. Earthbound is a great live album from that period, its totally nuts reinventions of some tunes. Ladies of the Road is also an insane show from that period, with another disc of all Schiznoid Man improvs. I think ive lost my mind now. Zap

Islands feels just lame to me, but the Ladies of the Road live album really shows what this era of Crimson could do. The version of "Cirkus" there kills. sounds like geezer butler and bill ward smashing away with a mellotron and a folk singer replacing tony and ozzy. hiiiilarious. and the "Schizoid Men" disc really is extraordinary.

I love the mid-nineties incarnation. The stuff they were doing was interesting and entertaining and a great experiment in terms of sort of having two bands available at the same time. I saw them in Miami in 1996 and it was astounding. I really dug the double-trio approach to the older material as well.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

the double trio didn't really sound like a double trio to me.

instead of guitar, bass, drums, guitar, bass, drums,

it sounded like guitar, guitar, bass, drums, drums, plus trey gunn on stick/warr relegated to doubling fripp's parts or maybe doing a little ambient noodling.