3. "me too, but that was the only album I tried with. Plus, I was 18." In response to Reply # 0
I may enjoy them more today, but I dunno. As much as I get a kick out of instrumental and compositional wankery/excess, it's more something I find amusing these days rather than something I enjoy viscerally.
5. "21th century schizoid man rocks pretty damn hard..." In response to Reply # 0
...and that song is on the same album, I guess they felt they had rocked out enough for that record with that one. "Epitaph" is nice but a bit pompous, same with the title-track. "Moonchild" (minus the ambient ten minute "coda") and "I Talk to the wind" are the winners amongst the soft songs-cool folky prog.
If you want to hear King Crimson rock out, you should hear "Red"; the closing song "Starless" has an amazing instrumental section after the verses. Also, "Larks tongue in aspic" has some rocking stuff as well:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbdNp4i-Q94 as do "Starless and Bible black":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHNVsoBtpdA and ESPECIALLY the song "Fracture" (best track they ever did IMO).
Anyway, I like all of Crimsons' 70's albums but the trilogy "Larks..."-"Starless&Bible Black" and "Red" are their best *and* hardest rocking albums.
Their most mellow is probably "Islands" which is a VERY underrated album, it's awesome IMO...
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