King Crimson fell apart once more, seemingly for the last time, as David Cross walked away during the making of this album. It became Robert Fripp's last thoughts on this version of the band, a bit noiser overall but with some surprising sounds featured, mostly out of the group's past -- Mel Collins' and Ian McDonald's saxes, Marc Charig's cornet, and Robin Miller's oboe, thus providing a glimpse of what the 1972-era King Crimson might've sounded like handling the later group's repertory (which nearly happened). Indeed, Charig's cornet gets just about the best showcase it ever had on a King Crimson album, and the truth is that few intact groups could have gotten an album as good as Red together. The fact that it was put together by a band in its death throes makes it all the more impressive an achievement. Indeed, Red does improve in some respects on certain aspects of the previous album -- including "Starless," a cousin to the prior album's title track -- and only the lower quality of the vocal compositions keeps this from being as strongly recommended as its two predecessors. [Red was reissued on CD in the summer of 2000 in a remastered edition that features killer sound and an excellent booklet, containing a good account of the circumstances surrounding the recording of this album.]
I've covered most of the "main" styles of prog. The few remaining ones, for one reason or another, are styles that I don't feel I should include in these pages. Some, like prog metal, I don't really know much about, as I've never really got into it (not that I won't ever, but it just hasn't happened yet). Some, like fusion and, to a lesser extant, ambient music, are probably ones that many of...
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BOOK REPORTThis guy is fairly well known for his bleak and reclusive perspectives of humanity. And his novel that has struck me with due effect recently. This guy also wrote something everyone has heard of lately, being the author of the book _No Country For Old Men_, which of course is a well regarded film at the moment. Ok, the film is mainly a Cohen Bros. enterprise, but that cut throat and ...
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Listen to the mixwit. It's not a mix, just one song. In the beginning, do you here the beautiful strings? Chances are, you've heard that sound and instrument before but didn't know exactly what you were hearing. It's not strings, although it sounds like it. It's not a synthesizer, although it is a keyboard. It's the mellotron. The mellotron is one of the most unusual keyboards ever devi...
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this is probably one of the heaviest albums that King Crimson ever did. (at least with John Wetton). for a band that had broken up before its release, Red is very strong. for a band that had supposedly broken up "forever and ever" ( to reform in 1981) this was a fine farewell
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So I finally got some Crimson in my collection! And I only had to go all the way to South Carolina to get it. While I would like to say I went all the way to South Carolina to buy just one album, I actually had to go there for work purposes, but none the less, I found an awesome record store near by and went nuts (Pappa Jazz in Columbia, SC.) Before this week is over I foresee myself sp...
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| 1 Red |
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| 2 Fallen Angel |
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| 3 One More Red Nightmare |
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| 4 Providence |
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| 5 Starless |
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