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"Red" was my second album, very memorable first listen. "Larks' Tongues In Aspic" is also very interesting.
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Ironically, without King Crimson, there very likely wouldn't BE "Progressive Rock" as we know it today. I of course absolutely adore KC, but there is no doubt that "Court", and all of their very early records do sound a little dated, as much as I still love them. But "Red" does not sound dated in the least to me.
Proglover, you should also try "Discipline" - the first of their 80's lineup records. It's phenomenal, and sounds more like modern prog (and again in many ways was part of forming modern prog).
I has been some days, but I need to come back to this.
Couple of days ago, I started listening to 'Discipline' and I have to say nothing less but WOW! Especially the first (and 2nd,3rd,4rd and 5th very soon after that) time I heard 'Elephant talk', it was freaking mindblowing, can't put it any other way. The way he uses his voice, the beats under it that keeps on going, the way the lyrics develope, absoluty fantastic. Through the years with discovering (for me) new prog. you have some of these moments, that you're totally into a song or record. A good example from that is when I really started getting to know 'Metropolis pt1', '2112', or 'The Light'. Not to compare the KC song with those epic songs, but it was a magic moment.
I've been listening a lot to Discipline and Court since, appreciating Court more also.
I've been noticing more and more the great drum playing in the songs (f.e. Frame to Frame and Indiscipline), the octobans the drummer already used in '81. There were many (prog) drummers who followed, later then '81....
As I don't believe in getting into all records by a band the same time, I've not been listening to Red yet, but the time will come for that, as well as Larks, no doubt anymore on that.
Thanks guys for the recommendations and also to grokit to remind me I had to explore this band.
I knew about them offcourse, but I just can't believe I've been listening to prog. for over 15 years now, know all my classics, but this band slipped through. I guess you're never to old to learn...
ps. Skylab, go listening to Spock's Beard! I've really shared some of my best concert moments with them in my youth. Neal and the guys going crazy on a stage with not more then 150-300 people as a crowd, all of them completely going nuts on the music (at least, in the way prog-heads do that)