King Crimson's The First Three is just what the title says, a box set containing their first three albums (1969's debut In the Court of the Crimson King, and a pair from...
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This is a two-CD collection capturing King Crimson during a pair of multi-night stands at The Longacre Theater in New York City (November 20-25, 1995) and The Metropolitan...
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Crimson returns after an 11-year hiatus as a double-trio sextet offering a brashly entertaining mix of ascending motifs, tribal syncopations, and clattering eclecticism....
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Despite some glittering instrumentals, much of this final edition of Crimson's second period feels disjointed, the pop sheen added by Adrian Belew an awkward match for the...
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Dinosaur is a five-track EP, which will be of interest only to the most extreme King Crimson fanatics, looking to buy just about anything with the King Crimson name on it....
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When King Crimson regrouped in late 1994 (after being apart for more than ten years), they were not planning on taping one of their first shows together for release as a...
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This two-disc archival set includes live performances from the short-lived incipient 1969 incarnation of King Crimson. After months of arduous sonic restoration -- or what...
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The Night Watch is a terrific live album capturing the third incarnation of King Crimson -- featuring Robert Fripp, John Wetton, Bill Bruford and David Cross -- at the...
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After three years and four albums, the '80s incarnation of King Crimson, featuring Adrian Belew (guitar/vocals/drums), Bill Bruford (drums/percussion), Robert Fripp (guitar)...
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As if intended to make the ongoing saga of King Crimson more confusing,
here's a little background on what these 21st Century musos are up to. The
1995 incarnation of the...
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King Crimson, one of the few first-generation progressive rock bands to remain nearly consistent in the quality of their output throughout their career, fall flat with The...
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King Crimson at Kouseinenkin Hall on April 16, 2003 in Tokyo, Japan are featured on this audio-only companion to the Eyes Wide Open (2003) double-DVD package. The quartet of...
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Beat is not as good as its predecessor (1981's Discipline), but it's not too shabby, either. The '80s version of King Crimson (Robert Fripp, guitar; Adrian Belew,...
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Robert Fripp and Bill Bruford return with new virtuoso bandmates, guitarist Adrian Belew and bassist Tony Levin, and create an intense, visceral polyrhythmic experience...
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When King Crimson leader Robert Fripp decided to assemble a new version of the band in the early '80s, prog rock fans rejoiced, and most new wave fans frowned. But after...
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With its varying short-lived phases, King Crimson is well suited to the box set treatment, and overall, Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson doesn't disappoint. At...
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King Crimson opened 1970 scarcely in existence as a band, having lost two key members (Ian McDonald and Michael Giles), with a third (Greg Lake) about to leave. Their second...
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The weakest Crimson studio album from their first era is only a real disappointment in relation to the extraordinarily high quality of the group's earlier efforts. The songs...
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King Crimson reborn yet again -- the newly configured band makes its debut with a violin (courtesy of David Cross) sharing center stage with Robert Fripp's guitars and his...
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King Crimson falls apart once more, seemingly for the last time, as David Cross walks away during the making of this album. It became Robert Fripp's last thoughts on this...
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Starless and Bible Black is even more powerful and daring than its predecessor, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, with jarring tempo shifts, explosive guitar riffs, and soaring,...
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A strange attempt at a single-disc overview of the group, offering a compilation of the three Adrian Belew-fronted Crimson albums Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect...
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For an affordable and short (really short -- 23 minutes) introduction to the wonders of King Crimson, The Abbreviated King Crimson: Heartbeat will do the trick. The EP was...
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In King Crimson's extensive catalog of archival recordings and box sets, The Great Deceiver (Live 1973-1974) is the undisputed winner, the item truly worth acquiring. The...
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This debut was fairly stunning, a semi-classical soundtrack for the apocalypse punctuated by Robert Fripp's fierce guitar, Ian McDonald's thick mellotron chords. It featured...
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This reissue of King Crimson's debut, In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969), renders all previous pressings obsolete. In the late 1990s, Robert Fripp remastered the entire...
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Lizard is very consciously jazz-oriented -- the influence of Miles Davis (particularly Sketches of Spain) being especially prominent -- and very progressive, even compared...
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As the yellow badge on the front of Thrakattak (1996) proclaims, the eight selections on "this recording contain(s) explicit live instrumental improvisation(s)" by the...
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Consisting of Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, Adrian Belew, and Pat Mastelotto, King Crimson embarked on a tour of Europe to promote its 2000 album The ConstruKction of Light. The...
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King Crimson, now in its 30th year and umpteenth iteration, has survived through the sheer moxie of Robert Fripp. This fearless yet retiring guitar wizard began the band...
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There are so many King Crimson retrospective albums on the market that all but the most carefully attentive fans must to be hopelessly confused. Cirkus, great as it is in...
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Caroline combined King Crimson's first three albums -- In the Court of Crimson King, In the Wake of Poseidon, and Lizard -- in one slip-cased box set in 1994. For any fan...
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With its varying short-lived phases, King Crimson is well suited to the box set treatment, and overall, Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson doesn't disappoint. At...
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The Power to Believe (2003) marks the return of King Crimson for the group's first full-length studio release since ConstruKction of Light (2000). While it draws upon...
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