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Rollersnake posted:Red's a good album, but with the wealth of live Crimson material that's now available, it seems a little weak by comparison. Although they're pretty often maligned and with good reason, if you feel like trying out the horribly self-indulgent prog wankery aspect of King Crimson, the early albums Islands and Lizard are a good bet. There are a couple good songs on Islands but most of both albums are everything that gets complained about with prog rock but I'll be damned if they don't make for a good guilty pleasure on occasion. In the Wake of Poseidon is a legitimately solid early album as well, even if a good chunk of it is just a mediocre take off on Gustav Holst.
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BigFactory posted:I don't think it's as good as Vapor Trails, either, but it's definitely better than Snakes and Arrows. It's a grower, though. There are a couple of crappy songs, most egregiously The Wreckers which sounds like a song that got left off of My Favorite Headache, but Lifeson just rules the whole way through. Great effort by him. Maybe I just thought the last few albums were terrible, but Clockwork Angels seems better than anything they've done in at least twenty years (again, not a big feat when you look at it).
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2012 04:01 |
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ELP would be a lot better if they were Lake, Palmer, and someone else who didn't poo poo up everything with cheesy garbage keyboard solos.
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# ¿ Aug 9, 2015 02:04 |
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PROG backwards is fuckin GORP hahahaha GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP GORP
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2015 08:13 |
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Yeah I know, I had to shake out the sillies. Anyway, if I had to listen to one prog song on repeat on a desert island or what have you, it'd almost definitely be KC's Epitaph, even if the original version could've been mixed a bit better. In a better world, that song would have approached Stairway to Heaven in terms of mass popularity.
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