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I already have a Sufjan playlist. Gonna clean it up then post 😎
Probably controversial but here we are. Absolute essentials from Redford to Blue Bucket Outro, kept that part mostly in release order because I think that makes the most sense. After that just a ton of other amazing songs.
I already have a Sufjan playlist. Gonna clean it up then post 😎
Probably controversial but here we are. Absolute essentials from Redford to Blue Bucket Outro, kept that part mostly in release order because I think that makes the most sense. After that just a ton of other amazing songs.
Probably controversial but here we are. Absolute essentials from Redford to Blue Bucket Outro, kept that part mostly in release order because I think that makes the most sense. After that just a ton of other amazing songs.
You wild for this one
do you think the selections are wild or the fact that it's a 5 hour playlist (lol) is wild?
Love how the premisse for this turned from 'hey, if you want to get to know a band, let us know and someone might hopefully make a playlist to get you into this artist' into 'here's a playlist from artist X'.
Love how the premisse for this turned from 'hey, if you want to get to know a band, let us know and someone might hopefully make a playlist to get you into this artist' into 'here's a playlist from artist X'.
Dad Dog I really only know Court of the Crimson King for King Crimson, so I'd probably check out one for them
King Crimson 1.0 (Fripp, Giles/Giles, Lake, Sinfield, McDonald) start off with 21st Century Schizoid Man. Their biggest 'hit', absolute banger, Power sample. I think it's very much the quintessential KC song, and most of their discography can be tied back to it, despite maybe sounding nothing like it. power house live.
Epitaph is probably my favorite song off court. i think Lake is great here. Probably Sinfields best lyrics.
Trio from In the Wake of Poseidon. Cadence & Cascade is a very chill, not heavy jazz, not heavy prog. Would be comfortable on any yatch rock playlist. I think its important to include because a few songs and 30 yrs from this song, Fripp will be trying out industrial metal basically.
The title track is incredible. Fripp is doing the majority of the heavy lifting and it's layered so well. Fripps guitar from 2.00 - 3.00 after doing all the melotron leading into it is just *chefs kiss*.
Cat Food. Wild, nonsensical, very jazzy, pretty trippy. Piano is excellent (RIP Keith Tippett). Was released as a single as a throwaway by the band and people ate it up. it's probably the closest thing in the discog to a Beatles song, especially around the 2.30 mark.
King Crimson 1.5 (Fripp, Sinfield, Haskell, Collins, McCulloch) Lizard is a pretty forgettable album, it has it's moments. I picked Cirkus because it is the song probably closest to Court of the Crimson King in feel. Happy Family is one of the first songs where Fripp starts to take his guitar to a more electronic tone.
King Crimson 2.0 (Fripp, Sinfield, Bozz Burrell, Collins, Wallace) Islands is very cinematic, very orchestral. Sailor's Tale is an instrumental that is very heavy compared to the rest of the album.
King Crimson 3.1 (Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Cross, Muir) Larks is a pretty heavy album. Book of Saturday is not however. Very smooth, better than Cadence/Cascade, but would fit in similar playlists. Fripp w/ some fun tones. Title track pt.2 is a monster live song. very groovy, heavy in parts, light in parts. Lost Sinfield (primary lyricist) so the instrumental stuff is the best here.
King Crimson 3.2 (Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Cross, Muir) Starless and Bible Black loses the 2nd percussionist, still gets heavy. The Night Watch however is not. It's about the painting it's named after, and it's got a huge opening and then some pretty nice guitar work.
King Crimson 3.3 (Fripp, Wetton, Bruford) The Trio for Red. Some of their best work. Starless is the longest song on the 'main' list here, but it is my favorite. Gorgeous live. Fripp absolutely nails it, Bruford nails it. More cowbell. Its all fucking there. Fallen Angel is one that goes from light to heavy back and forth, its a sad song, the guitar gets pretty intense towards the end.
74-81 hiatus, Fripp works with bowie and eno, eno is also working with talking heads and adrian belew....
King Crimson 4.0 (Fripp, Belew, Bruford, Levin) MOTHAFUCKIN NEW WAVE. While Red pulled more away from the jazz/prog feel, Discipline takes it completely out. the first 20 seconds of Elephant Talk is your introduction to chapman stick and it's nuts. then belew comes in and he's just so fun. this is always a good one to throw on for people who don't know anything about king crimson. fripp/belew are wild. Frame by Frame also a super fun song, very bouncy. nice guitar harmony, call and response vocals. this is a better one to put on if you want to listen to 80s crimson outloud and not sound like such a nerd. Indiscipline is a letter to Belew from his wife. this song fucking bangs, and its a shame new guy can't belt it out like adrian. Bruford rips the skins. probably the most 'classic Crimson' of the album.
Beat and Three of a Perfect Pairare pretty much just further extensions of 'how much can this not sound like new wave or classic crimson'. Neal, and Jack, and Me, Satori in Tangier, Three of a Perfect Pair are the ones I'd listen to the most there, they've been playing Industrial Zone a lot live and it's solid so we'll throw it in the mix.
84-94 hiatus, Fripp does soundscape solo work, teaches guitar...
King Crimson 5.0 (Fripp, Belew, Bruford, Levin, Gunn, Mastelotto) > 6.0 (Fripp, Belew, Gunn, Mastelotto) > just a mess they add another drummer and another bassist and release predictably not good album, then they remove the better bassist and dummer and somehow end up making better music. Thrak is pretty whatever, tries to be more metal sounding, some ok songs, but nothing id call essential, they play VROOM live some, B'boom was Danny Careys drum solo for a spell as well. Construktion of Light was the beginning of a weird phase of 'multi-verse crimson' with a bunch of different lineups. not a fan.
Power to Believe is pretty good though. The title tracks are all different styles of the same lyrics, the different parts give it a little of that classic feel (Larks Tongue). Level V feels more like a classic crimson instrumental jam just a little heavier. Eyes Wide Open is more Discipline, but fits in that sort of yatch rock world.
and then at the end I threw all the long songs that eat up space. Court (essential), Devils Triangle (cover of Mars by that old european guy who did planetarium before sufjan was a twinkle in his grandpops eye), Islands (top 5 song for me, VERY mellow, really beautiful), Fracture (real good guitar work).
Post by NothingButFlowers on Jul 13, 2020 19:07:55 GMT -5
If anybody's interested, I made a David Byrne playlist. Ideally, it would have had songs from Look into the Eyeball on it, but that's not on Spotify. The Live from Austin songs are all off of that album though.
Dad Dog I really only know Court of the Crimson King for King Crimson, so I'd probably check out one for them
King Crimson 1.0 (Fripp, Giles/Giles, Lake, Sinfield, McDonald) start off with 21st Century Schizoid Man. Their biggest 'hit', absolute banger, Power sample. I think it's very much the quintessential KC song, and most of their discography can be tied back to it, despite maybe sounding nothing like it. power house live.
Epitaph is probably my favorite song off court. i think Lake is great here. Probably Sinfields best lyrics.
Trio from In the Wake of Poseidon. Cadence & Cascade is a very chill, not heavy jazz, not heavy prog. Would be comfortable on any yatch rock playlist. I think its important to include because a few songs and 30 yrs from this song, Fripp will be trying out industrial metal basically.
The title track is incredible. Fripp is doing the majority of the heavy lifting and it's layered so well. Fripps guitar from 2.00 - 3.00 after doing all the melotron leading into it is just *chefs kiss*.
Cat Food. Wild, nonsensical, very jazzy, pretty trippy. Piano is excellent (RIP Keith Tippett). Was released as a single as a throwaway by the band and people ate it up. it's probably the closest thing in the discog to a Beatles song, especially around the 2.30 mark.
King Crimson 1.5 (Fripp, Sinfield, Haskell, Collins, McCulloch) Lizard is a pretty forgettable album, it has it's moments. I picked Cirkus because it is the song probably closest to Court of the Crimson King in feel. Happy Family is one of the first songs where Fripp starts to take his guitar to a more electronic tone.
King Crimson 2.0 (Fripp, Sinfield, Bozz Burrell, Collins, Wallace) Islands is very cinematic, very orchestral. Sailor's Tale is an instrumental that is very heavy compared to the rest of the album.
King Crimson 3.1 (Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Cross, Muir) Larks is a pretty heavy album. Book of Saturday is not however. Very smooth, better than Cadence/Cascade, but would fit in similar playlists. Fripp w/ some fun tones. Title track pt.2 is a monster live song. very groovy, heavy in parts, light in parts. Lost Sinfield (primary lyricist) so the instrumental stuff is the best here.
King Crimson 3.2 (Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Cross, Muir) Starless and Bible Black loses the 2nd percussionist, still gets heavy. The Night Watch however is not. It's about the painting it's named after, and it's got a huge opening and then some pretty nice guitar work.
King Crimson 3.3 (Fripp, Wetton, Bruford) The Trio for Red. Some of their best work. Starless is the longest song on the 'main' list here, but it is my favorite. Gorgeous live. Fripp absolutely nails it, Bruford nails it. More cowbell. Its all fucking there. Fallen Angel is one that goes from light to heavy back and forth, its a sad song, the guitar gets pretty intense towards the end.
74-81 hiatus, Fripp works with bowie and eno, eno is also working with talking heads and adrian belew....
King Crimson 4.0 (Fripp, Belew, Bruford, Levin) MOTHAFUCKIN NEW WAVE. While Red pulled more away from the jazz/prog feel, Discipline takes it completely out. the first 20 seconds of Elephant Talk is your introduction to chapman stick and it's nuts. then belew comes in and he's just so fun. this is always a good one to throw on for people who don't know anything about king crimson. fripp/belew are wild. Frame by Frame also a super fun song, very bouncy. nice guitar harmony, call and response vocals. this is a better one to put on if you want to listen to 80s crimson outloud and not sound like such a nerd. Indiscipline is a letter to Belew from his wife. this song fucking bangs, and its a shame new guy can't belt it out like adrian. Bruford rips the skins. probably the most 'classic Crimson' of the album.
Beat and Three of a Perfect Pairare pretty much just further extensions of 'how much can this not sound like new wave or classic crimson'. Neal, and Jack, and Me, Satori in Tangier, Three of a Perfect Pair are the ones I'd listen to the most there, they've been playing Industrial Zone a lot live and it's solid so we'll throw it in the mix.
84-94 hiatus, Fripp does soundscape solo work, teaches guitar...
King Crimson 5.0 (Fripp, Belew, Bruford, Levin, Gunn, Mastelotto) > 6.0 (Fripp, Belew, Gunn, Mastelotto) > just a mess they add another drummer and another bassist and release predictably not good album, then they remove the better bassist and dummer and somehow end up making better music. Thrak is pretty whatever, tries to be more metal sounding, some ok songs, but nothing id call essential, they play VROOM live some, B'boom was Danny Careys drum solo for a spell as well. Construktion of Light was the beginning of a weird phase of 'multi-verse crimson' with a bunch of different lineups. not a fan.
Power to Believe is pretty good though. The title tracks are all different styles of the same lyrics, the different parts give it a little of that classic feel (Larks Tongue). Level V feels more like a classic crimson instrumental jam just a little heavier. Eyes Wide Open is more Discipline, but fits in that sort of yatch rock world.
and then at the end I threw all the long songs that eat up space. Court (essential), Devils Triangle (cover of Mars by that old european guy who did planetarium before sufjan was a twinkle in his grandpops eye), Islands (top 5 song for me, VERY mellow, really beautiful), Fracture (real good guitar work).
If anybody's interested, I made a David Byrne playlist. Ideally, it would have had songs from Look into the Eyeball on it, but that's not on Spotify. The Live from Austin songs are all off of that album though.
Everybody's Coming to My House was a solid cut from the last album, and the live version from the American Utopia Broadway recording is good too. Looks great otherwise though!