Larks' Tongues In Aspic

jam band somehow got notoriety

I think it's safe to say that prog rock isn't my jam. Much like this album's title, the genre feels like it's trying too hard to differentiate itself from popular music (a term I use generally, not in reference to pop specifically), and it usually ends up coming off as pretentious to my ears. There are interesting bits scattered throughout these overlong tracks, but I mostly found myself somewhere along the spectrum of indifferent to actively rolling my eyes.

Not sure I get it.

Ifr you like noise then this is for you.

How much math rock am I supposed to endure?!? Robert Fripp et al have all separately contributed to so many classic bands and albums. Together it’s hard to take. It will spawn many bands. Sure, I hear primus in there. I hear Faith no More. Those are not compliments.

experimental

Nothing particularly interesting about this one. Prog rock like this just cracks me up. 1.5/5

prog rock not my thing

i do not like it.

Terrible. Fue un martirio escucharlo. Era como estar en una clase de yoga pero pensando en la última vez que te peleaste con tu ex.

What is this pish?

A thoroughly weird, off putting, disconcerting experience. A confounding cacophony. Variable volume blasting out my ear drums. An unpleasant time was had listening to this - it sounded like an anxiety attack in audio form.

Pretentious drivel

Exceptional musicianship but not my cup of tea at all. The screechy violins and dissonance was too much for my ears. Some nice sabbath style riffs in places but it’s a no from me.

Writing a quick review today as there’s not much for me to say. I’ve never listened to a King Crimson album before, mainly due to thinking it would be something I’d strongly dislike. Unfortunately I was right. I didn’t like any of the songs. A couple of them had moments, but then the moments ended.

Why? Why? Why did I get this right after a Can album? How is this album on the list?!

Certainly artistically challenging, as the material is difficult to play, but almost impossible to bear.

Hard no. 1/5

No, just no. I dislike prog at the best of times and the stupid long silent intro just pissed me off so by the time the actual music kicked in i couldnt give a fuck. King Crimson needed a good friend or manager to reel them back in when they forgot things like actual melody or making songs.

Their fifth album. Prog Rock. Only 48 hrs after the ninety minutes of horror that was The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis I now get this. Another noodly doodly self indulgent wank. At least this one was only forty two minutes long. Some Prog on this list has been surprisingly good. This wasn't.

Experimental, sort of a mess, the sound mixing was all over the place (couldn't hear shit for a lot of it). Why is this here?

1% riffs 99% bullshit

Prog can fuck off

Like the current incumbent of the White House this album has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. This is the first album of the 800+ I've listened to I would give a zero to if possible. Proper spoiled my Easter weekend.

Just noodlin around. Rating: 1.2

This is fucking weird man. lol the first track is over 13 min long. And kinda trippy. Sounds are all over the place. I wonder if all the album is like this. How did this make it on the list man. It's too weird for me man. 1 star

Honestly to me this is just random noise in different orders and I’m not getting any enjoyment out of it, found it sorta irritating

Just noise to me

straight up no for me i couldnt get past the 1st song

The musical equivalent of huffing your own farts.

What a total and utter waste of everyone's time this album is. If I never have to listen to prog rock noodling again, I can die happy. I don't even know if it was that bad, but it was intensely irritating. The songs that had vocals were marginally better I suppose. The instrumentals can do one forever.

This is just not for me!

1. tonguez - 2 2. zaturday - 1 3. ezilez - 1 4. money - 1 5. drum - 1 6. azpic - 1

Soooooo boring

SUCKS

God

Biting my tongue

This is an exploration into dynamics and contrast, but one that feels just about as clumsy as possible. After the twinkling, ambient opener of the first track it shifts suddenly into metal riffing and then just as suddenly into a jazz party. None of these ideas are built on enough to make them feel worthwhile. "Easy Money" has an out of place chorus that clashes with the verses, and then as if to taunt us ends with a "boing!" sound. Tracks like "Book of Saturday" have a pleasant folk rock feel, but the weak vocals and meandering nature mean they also don't hook you. The mathy riff of the last track is a highlight, and while the song does build on it there are still jarring shifts throughout. An album for listeners who enjoy surprises and exploration at the expense of songs that hit a groove. I am not one of those listeners, and these songs almost never draw me in.

I tried, I really did.

Not a massive fan of prog rock to be honest and this is too experimental and weird to really have gained a higher score from me.

Woof. Not for me at all. I did not get this.

Boring.....

No, not for me at all….

This was not for me.

some jingling and belling, we won't we won't rock you, minecraft skeletons and a bunch of whipping

A mostly instrumental album. I liked the rock parts! But overall, not an album I would reach for again.

Too experimental for my taste.

Didn’t listen

Not for me. I think my brain checked out after a few minutes

It was alright as far as meandering prog-rock goes but it’s still not for me, this one didn’t change that unfortunately, I thought it was pretty boring. I’m hoping that one day I’ll find something in this genre that I love!

I can't with this.

I just simply didn't like it, i felt like the first song was a little too long

Sounds like he's being slowly strangled which is affecting not only his singing but his guitar playing and decisions as to what is TOTAL SHIT or not

We get it, you took acid

always wanted to like prog rock but just can't get into it the same

Aaaaaarrrrrggggghhhh!!!!!!

It would be mediocre if there wasn't a 13 minute long instrumental at the very beginning that is nothing but monotonous.

Did not enjoy.

Sorry. Don't want this. This project continues to reinforce that prog rock doesn't do it for me. Despite the occasional friendly-to-the-ear riff in this, too much of it makes me want to throw it across the room.

the energy here is far too weird for me omg????????????

Meh, long form pretty self-indulgent prog stuff.

I truly have no words. I did my best.

this is not for me

My good mood from yesterday has been dashed. Nothing here grabbed me in any way and I wished for the album to be over within seconds. Indeed, had it gone on any longer then I fear I would have been forced to grind up a CD by whoever is the opposite of this (the Ramones, obvi) and mainline it into my bloodstream.

This one has glimpses of musical interest, but boy are they brief. Getting like the least popular release is probably not a fair intro to this band, but that’s the fun of this random album thing. Liked the percussion, didn’t like the nearby inaudible parts that made you crank up your headphone volume only to be jumpscared by the loudest thing on Earth 5 minutes later

Did not enjoy this at all.

No me ha llamado la atención.

I hate this album. I could not finish the first song. The rest might be prog rock genius. I will probably never know.

Boring

I like the cover. Turns out im not a big fan of progressive rock.

No, King Crimson is not my music. I've tried to listen to a few of their albums over the years. But I was never able to connecto to the music. This album ... totally boring.

Barely recognizable as music

First song was like the band were just trying to show off how many instruments were in the studio… for 10 minutes…. The next few songs on the album still had this experimental air to them. Not one for me to listen to again

I do not enjoy listening to noise just for the sake of hearing noise.

Unsurprisingly, another prog album I could just not get into. Some of the shorter songs are more palatable, but honestly these sort of songs that just drag on without enough intrigue are really not the best at keeping my attention.

It makes sense that this album comes from the early days of prog rock. It's essentially several droning tracks of random instrumental noise. I try to find a redeeming quality or a song of favor from every album, but that was a real struggle with this one.

There are a few nice moments throughout this. But it is very much not my scene. Sort of noodle-y and annoying on a song-by-song basis, that adds up to a full album I really hated listening to.

Not for me.

2/10… progressive rock

This album gave me the brain pain.

Album cover ist cute Goofy ahh sounds mittendrin Nicht meins

This album gave me a headache. I am not a fan of prog-rock. Yes, the album was ahead of it’s time, but I did not enjoy it at all.

Ennuyeux et principalement instrumental

I imagine this is a band that takes itself way too seriously. They give a lot of high fives for the xylophone riff they just recorded. Every song felt like it was about to start…..just too much of everything. And the lead singer sounded like he strained his groin hitting some of the notes. This is not for me.

Aburrido, bastante experimental aunque demasiado extendido para lo que es

started and was not a fan

I just can't with the British prog rock. This one is mostly a bunch of noodling around. 1.5 stars

Enough with the chimes and the steel drum or marimba or whatever. This is going to be a long album. Avant-garde anything is already hard to tolerate and this is more than an hour for eight songs. It can not be said enough, prog rock sucks. This straight up sucks. A 13 minute wordless experimental piece that is continued later is not a good start. These guys must have gotten along great with Pink Floyd. This feels like a never ending procession of psychedelic nonsense music. Les Claypool heard this album and Primus was born. And now some random screeching noises to end the song. This album went out like it came in, terrible.

Why? Why make an album this forgettable? This started as not unpleasant background noise, until Wetton’s off-key vocals began. He does NOT have the voice of a lark... suggest he lay off the aspic. The only track that stood out was The Talking Drum, but only because I thought my speakers were broken for half of it. Wishing they were, tbh.

that was very strange

Not for me, sorry! I went through the whole thing but it was too much strange so that I could really enjoy it! I know this is not a popular opinion since I saw the high ratings around here... but I can't go for such, not my thing. Once again, sorry, all the KC lovers :-(

I dont get this.

wow this was terrible

Ironically, this album is also on the 1001 albums you must unlisted to before you die (unless you work for the now defunct Radio Shack, and you are just testing audio gear).

Langweile, nächstes Level.

Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part I)

I fucking hate king crimson

I can’t listen to this mess.

Безумное дерьмо для конченых снобов

I think it speaks volumes that I was more annoyed listening to this than I was about the district line screwing up my morning commute.

gar ned nice gfunde

Progressive Rock being mostly random boring noise.

I got to the point where there were slurping sounds that sounded like it might actually be Larks' tongues in aspic and then I had to turn it off.

Apparently you didn't need to actually do the rock part of prog rock if you're king crimson. There is nothing here. It's just goofing around.

Not for me 1/5

Opened the album and thought, what is this… and then it dropped, amazing. Never heard of this band before, great for the 70’s, but a lot of long silences and mono-layered melodies, hard to judge this one but 2.8/10. (Someone compared them to Pink Floyd, don’t do that).

I’m surprised that was voted a good album

Boring elevator music met in the middle by arrogance with amps. Enough of the prog rock, for the love of all that is holy.

It starts boring and proceeds to only get more boring. This is music that is far less clever than the band thinks, and becoming agonizing to listen to after a few minutes. By the third time it sounded like pots and pans falling down a staircase in the opening track, I knew I was in for a bad time.

And this, boys and girls, is why punk rock happened. I like a bit of prog, but this is disappointing throughoit

Meh. Guess I needed to be on some mind altering substance to understand the greatness of this album.

What is it with this list on the prog theme?! Goddamn enough is enough. I'm a musician and can appreciate the technical skill but lot of wanking for no reason going on here. Track 2, give me a fucking break. Don't give me 13+ minutes of wackadoo noodling like the opening track then try to make me feel some kind of emotion with some "woe is me bittersweet love on the rocks" kind of song. Get the fuck outta here. Only thing this song does effectively is the backwards guitar, well played you insufferable dweebs. Track 3: this band should never sing. I feel nothing for your plight you sad, sorry man. Track 4: Actually kind of a groove here and there. Good job fellas, you made something momentarily listenable! 5: Taking forever to get going, this one takes plenty of runway to.. I guess make sure we're in the right headspace for the epic jam to follow? It is a pretty good groove and don't mind it once it actually gets up to speed, but King Crimson is just too clever to give it to you all at once I suppose. 6. This one starts strong. It could have been a great edgey, snarly-toothed groove but they just drown the shit out of it with math riffs and atonal violin playing.

boring prog shite

Is this an inside joke? Like, let's put the worst sounds imaginable on a piece of vinyl, sell it as avant-garde rock, and see how many critics actually fall for this?

No clue what was going on here.

Nah

p289. 1973. 1 star. 70s prog-rock wankage. Saved from zero stars by Fripp's guitar work.

Maybe the mood I was in but couldn't get past the first song. Rotten

Drivel

Always wondered what king crimson were about, wish I hadn't. Pretentious waffle waffle of the highest order. I resented listening to it and feel people who have enabled such bolloxs be shunned forever.

The last album of theirs I got was ok, but this one just had nothing I liked. It's like they tried too hard to be experimental and ended up making it unlistenable. I gave it a go though.

My usual prog rock complaint is that you have to listen to too much nonsense in between interesting parts. This one didn't really have interesting parts.

Ugh. Always thought I disliked King Crimson and now confirmed.

# Album Name: Larks' Tongues In Aspic # Artist: King Crimson # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: The last king crimson i got (In The Court Of The Crimson King) was a complete surprise. Never heard them before and it was excellent. So this one had a high bar to live up to. I had a big smile on my face when i saw the words - king crimson. Marvelous. Larks tongues - i think this is now my longest track ive ever listened to. Either way it was shite. It did not warrant 13 minutes of my life. The rest of the album failed to turn around. Overall this was a massive disappointment compared to In The Court Of The Crimson King. My dislike for prog rock has returned! I admit In The Court Of The Crimson King did take a few listens but i cant see myself getting attached to this one. \ Man, such a bummer. # Top Tunes: None. # Would I listen to it again? I might give it a second chance but i just dont think there will be a connection.

I really agree with a lot of the comments. I really do hate prog rock!! This album does have some cool moments in around all the intrsumentals, Larks part 2 was a good song. Apart from that it is another poor album Favourite song: larks part 2 Least favourite: All of the other tracks Album artwork: Cool artwork

So there's prog rock that I like, and then there's King Crimson's Larks' Tongues in Aspic. I didn't like it. At all. Like absolutely not. I can't even remember much of it besides the starting seconds of the first track. After that, nothing. Nada. Zilch.

If old school Alice Cooper experimented with stock sounds on an electric keyboard, this would be it.

So many genres - each one of them shite Didn't manage to nail a single one 1 ⭐️

Super annoyed by this one. They're clearly great musicians, but they insist on adding a bunch of bullshit noise to sift through before the music starts. So much potential squandered.

Ei kyllä lähteny sit yhtään. Pitkä, sekava, en saanu kiinni

not inspired by this progressive rock style

- zu lange Tracks, zu anstrengende Passagen dabei, fand ich eher nervig, als toll

i just dont get it

Not sure what exactly this is.

I only know ITCOFKC so this is quite the departure lol. When they rock out it sounds great, the rest is whiny pretentious rubbish. Maybe this is one of those records that needs a few listens to "get it". Unfortunately this album won't be getting that chance with me

Absolute shit

I don't like prog rock. I don't like shapeless noise. I don't like blaring guitars appearing out of nowhere. I did not like this.

Not my thing

This was... interesting. I will not be returning to it.

Was that just chimes for four minutes up front? It sets the stage for an anti-climactic, self-indulgent mess of cockery and noodling. Not at all something I need in my life.

Terrible

Oh gosh. Exactly what is this? What is this for? Is someone supposed to enjoy listening to this? Yeah, no. This is pure noise. Tapping out after 5 minutes. I can’t listen to this mess.

op naar de 1.5 ster. Ik schrok me een hoedje bij het enige nummer wat wel redelijk klonk doordat er ineens een gillende manvrouw kwam ofzo. Bij vlagen kon ik dit waarderen maar dit was me wel echt een experiment. wel grappig dat je op een gegeven moment een soort mongolion throatsinging hoort

Nee dit vond ik niks, erg hectisch

Not too hip on this - crazy, experimental, dissonant, Pink Floydish jam rock.

I wasn’t on the right drugs or in the right field of grass to get into this at all

Not my interest

Experimental is the word for this. I actually listened through twice. Becuase the album was on repeat 🤦‍♂️ An odd combination of sounds, combining orchestral/classical elements with precussion, talking and jazz influences. Not for me though

Almost unlistenable. One or two decent songs. The bonus tracks were better than most of the original songs.

Highlights: Easy Money Hmm, I don't really know what to say about this album. It felt very subtle in its sound but I just didn't really feel it. Easy money was good but it felt like the only song that knew what it was about. I dont think I will come back to this one.

It is just SO self-indulgent. Fairly accomplished musicianship. So tell me how people who understand the rewards of a disciplined development of craft allow themselves to be so dismissive of the craft of songwriting? The same is true of vocals. For some reason, beginning in the 60s, accomplished musicians believed singing involved no skillset that had to be honed and developed. Just open your mouth and push out some air to words and an approximation of melody. Somehow it's the musical equivalent of communes. Everyone just trying to be free and live their fullest lives by getting out from under the constraints of convention. I'm all for pushing boundaries. Yes did it quite well. King Crimson does not impress me.

good value, one song per hour and lots of notes.

A nonsense 13 minute long opening track is exactly why nobody likes prog rock

I would like to update my profile for all future prog rock albums automatically get one star and I get the night off 👌

Nej, det här var inte bra.

# 65 : What bollocks. Prog rock is just random noises. It's utterly tedious. The Talking Drum

no thank you

Tried to like it but it's just messy

No

It's decent music for when you're zooted, but not for much else. It's just a bunch of random ass noises and blubber.

24th May 2023 Listened a day late cos of a busy day in the office. Book club in Kensington pub in the evening, felt funny and a bit down / anxious with lots of baby chat. This didn’t help. Didn’t like the first one, don’t like this one. hopefully I’m towards the end of all the prog rock offerings here.

Ik vond zelf dat ik nog best ver was gekomen met die album, maar dit is eigenlijk gewoon niet te doen.

Ik ben echt niet vies van een potje prog, maar dit is echt niet om aan te horen.

Saaaaaaaaai!

When it comes to King Crimson, I learned the hard way to stick with In the Court of the Crimson King.

Too proggy for my taste. Lots of messy noise.

Indulgent and not for me.

Two of my three favorite artists are prog rock musicians. But I don't much care for King Crimson. I don't get it. I enjoy some of Pink Floyd's more experimental stuff. And some of Captain Beefheart's stuff. But not this. I don't get it. I strongly believe that if an artist is respected by a lot of people (esp. ones that aren't middle school children), they are probably talented. This is how I feel about King Crimson. And they (he) have stood the test of time. But I don't get it. And I do believe there are cases where reviews suffer from the issue of "The Emperor's New Clothes". "This album is challenging to listen to, so it must be deep." And then someone says that, and others feel like, "Well, I don't want to be seen as shallow, so yeah, though I don't really enjoy sitting down and listening to this, it must be deep, and the musicians are really talented, so yeah, it is good after all!" No one wants to be the one to say that, sure, it's innovative, and the music is well played, but no one actually wants to listen to the damn thing. I don't expect all of my music to be "easy" to listen to, but I don't see when I would want to sit down and listen to this. Maybe this is "groundbreaking" or highly innovative or some such, yet, I don't think it's enjoyable for many, and that's more important, so it gets two stars. I appreciate Fripp's talent, but the songs just aren't very enjoyable. Even the critics that praise the album admit that it's not easy to listen to. But that's mostly the point of music, so this is mostly a fail. I think all the praise is mostly people not wanting to point out that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.

Alan Niester of Rolling Stone summarized the album saying "You can't dance to it, can't keep a beat to it, and it doesn't even make good background music for washing the dishes.”

Vähän turhan kilinää... Tahtoison tykätä, mutta se onnistuu vain kohdissa, jotka ovat enemmän rockia, ja niitä on liian vähän.

Monipuolista kilkutusta.

Apple Music listed this as "Art Rock". OK.

Too much meandering, not enough grooving for my prog rock tastes

Pretty bad

Too much like a yoga retreat