Reviews (page 13 of 13)
Prog all the way here. Impressive musicianship combined with musical tripe doesn't win me over. It just sounds contrived to show off how well they can play. And yes - they really do nail the jazz work but it seems to go nowhere.
60s cliche
Long, tedious, indulgent, faux-deep. At least 21st Century Man sounded good when it was sampled by Kanye.
I knew the album cover and had heard this was an epic album, so I was excited. Turned out it wasn’t much more than background music for me which only rarely caught my attention. Nothing really special here to me, prog rock has gotten better over time. Perfectly mid 2.5/5 but I give it a 2 because I was slightly disappointed.
Other than “The Court of the Crimson King,” pretty uninteresting; one gets the impression they were just throwing anything against the studio wall to see what would stick.
Progressive rock? O progressive jazz rock, mejor dicho. Un poco rollo.
Progressief. Het is toch niet iets wat ik thuis graag luister. Onlangs naar mijn eerste concert van een progressieve rockband geweest en dat was wel leuk, maar echt gaan zitten luisteren is niet aan mij besteed. Ik kijk de bijbehorende film wel ;-).
Any time I find out where a hip hop sample came from in the first track (listen: "POWER" by Kanye West), it's a good chance it's gonna be a pretty good album. But then I listened to the rest and wasn't impressed. Meh.
Mature serious Moody Blues style singing if then utter primary school music lesson nonsense. Not clever. Emperor’s New Clothes to the musos.
Rock experimental. Coñazo
The prog motherlode. All a lot of huffing and puffing in search of something they don't quite find. Apart from the last track which really does pull it all together very well.
Beetje raar
I'm never going to be into prog. No matter how hard I try, it's just never going to happen. I've resigned myself to this fact. So, I guess take this review with a grain of salt. There's WAY too much jazz in this rock for anyone's good. It's so self-indulgent as to be downright masturbatory. I'm not interested in hearing you strangle a saxophone either metaphorically or literally. And don't get me started on the freaking flutes. What the actual hell. That's a no for me, dawg. Hard pass. The ONLY reason this doesn't fail utterly is because you can easily tell that these guys have chops. They're legitimately great musicians. Too bad they spent their energy in this wack-off of an album instead of creating something actually enjoyable. What a waste.
I once considered this a great album, but perhaps this album belongs to yesterday...
I enjoyed I Talk To The Wind. I listened to that one twice. The flute is pretty. The lyrics are not exactly uplifting but the general feel of the song is pleasant. I had a hard time getting into the rest of the album. It's music for existentialists.
I've always liked the title track, but to be honest, the rest of it verges on unlistenable
not for me, but what a magically trippy journey.
Didn’t realize how well i knew this album, or how many times I’d heard it before. Not surprised by my powers of disengagement or not always knowing who or what I’m listening to when I’m not the person pressing Play. It’s fine. Fully aware i rate harshly.
Not sure on this one. Syd Barrett wild spin offs...or a bit weird. 🤔
Pioneering a genre is bound to result in kinks that require ironing out. Lots of good ideas held down by an abundance of sections that droned on for too long. "Moonchild" really drags my overall rating down. I absolutely hated it. Fave track: The Court of the Crimson King Cool flute solo, probably more enjoyable because it came on after Moonchild. 2.5/5
These confectioners might think our palates will enjoy the initial burst of sugar (track 1 was great), but in the end it stunk
eh... it was ok
Meh. I’m not really into prog rock. It was just ok.
fav track: 21st century schizoid man
Aldrei hlustad áður. Somes ekki merkilegt en samt ljuft og rann í gegn.
Too prog, not enough rock. Found myself growing bored.
I enjoyed a few moments but struggled to rate this album as high as I did.
I know this is early prog rock, but it's hard to sell prog rock to me sometimes.
bit too muso for me but pleasant enough
Considéré comme un classique, mais pas si bien
👎 2/5 pour moi.
2/5 nope!
Was kind of interested for a bit but it got pretty boring. The extended in noodling in Moonchild really lost me but I stuck it out. At least it wasn't a very long album. Never had much interest in prog rock and it turns out that was probably legit.
On varmaan ollut maailman päräyttävintä shittiä vuonna -69, mut meh. Kakofonista sekoilua mielestäni.
This was not for me. It kept slipping into the background and there it stayed.
sounds too self aggrandizing 24 century schizoid man
Previously unknown. Not as bad as I expected.
No thanks. Minus another star for the terrible album art.
Maximal amount of self-importance paired with minimal amount of musical quality.
Disco extraño, parece como canciones sacada de una película de terror, para escuchar en un dia normal no es recomendado
Album cover giving me cex album giving me shit
Not for me
Didn’t like it…
21st Century Schizoid Man: no es mi vibra, para nadisima. toda la cancion es bastante parecida, sakvo el solo de instrumentos que es epico, pero aun asi no me copo. I Talk to the Wind: esta me gusto mas, probablemente porque es mas chill, me gusto el beat, estan buenos, pero tampoco digo wow. Epitaph: los mismo que la anterior en cuanto opinion Moonchild: no me gusto The Court of the Crimson King: meh A Man a City: es normal En conclusion, no me gusta ete tipo de musica. reconozco qu eme gustaron mucho las instrumentales, pero no es para mi
мені потрібна музика а не шось на 10 хв бля
Fucking annoying. Zero stars.
Lesson of the day…opinions on what makes an album appear on this list are ✨subjective ✨
i dont like it...it insist upon itselft like 12mins on a track for what..so yh noy my style
No mi estilo para nada, pero fue interesante conocer una nueva banda.
Not a fan of Prog rock. These all just seemed to drone on forever and I ended up skipping the last half of almost every song.
Sehr psychedelisch.
No pude escuchar ni un minuto del primer tema. Fue un horror
Not my vibe
I could hear Black Sabbath style vocals but really could not get on with this. Not for me I’m afraid!
doamne fereste
What the hell? This album already came up! And I still hate it!
Every song starts out pretty interesting, then just devolves into noise. Best song: The Court Of The Crimson King
I can only assume this album cover is supposed to be a mirror showing the face of someone forced to listen to this more than once. What an unpleasant experience.
not really my thing
Waste of time
Conal is wrong
A cheestastic wank fest. This brings to mind Sean Connery as Zardoz, only this is the soundtrack to an even worse 70s B-movie. This album has been heralded by some musicians I know. I'll try not to hold it against them.
Not my cup of tea
Pretentious. Sounds like spinal tap.
Not my vibe honestly some tracks sound funky but its nothing i would listen to on a regular basis
This album is 3 years younger than me. In my teens some friends liked stuff like this - maybe this. Hated it then. Hate it now. Would give it no stars if I could
Awful. Despite the cover.
I'm trying to get past the "Schizoid Man" lyrics and just appreciate the instrumentals of the first song because the big band feeling is impressive, but as the album kept going the more I didnt like it.
idk man. i will probably not listen to this ever again for me it’s too much experimental
Too weird for me to listen to
pompous. smug. clever-clever.
Couple of songs were good otherwise it sounded like a pro jazz band tuning up
Waffle. I used to own this and never listened and my opinion has not changed.
Sucked!
Not for me
I could not get into this at all.
This is lame
Ahhhhh bore and a snore
I couldn't take enough drugs to make this good.
My god this us long winded. Save for the time i spent trying to work out what had sampled the opening track there is nothing remotely positive of the first track. I talk to the wind is just dull. Epitaph is the usual overlong prog guff. Moonchild features that other albums like this, a tune that at times sounds like the engineer has just recorded the instruments being set up and tested possibly by toddlers. The Court of King Crimson brings down the curtain in a suitably overblown fashion and hopefully signals the end of my listening to their work
The review is solely based on the original tracklisting, not the expanded version on Amazon Music. 21st Century Schizoid Man (Including "Mirrors") I liked the beginning of, hated the middle of, and was indifferent to the end of. Trimming that down, well chopping it in half, would have made a song I'd enjoy. I Talk To The Wind I just found long and fairly uninteresting. Epitaph (including March for No Reason and Tomorrow and Tomorrow) had the vocals so low, both in general and in the mix, at times that I had to turn up the overall volume to try and hear him. I was surprised to read Brett Gurewitz's Epitaph Records label (home of most of my favourite bands from the 90s, and one of my current favourites, Roe Kapara) and was named after this track. It was ok, but too long. Moonchild (including The Dream and The Illusion) is over 12 minutes long and makes me want to scream with frustration. Not sure if that was what they were going for. IT IS SO LONG AND MEANDERING! Even they don't seem to see the point in it, as they first played it live 48 years after releasing it. I cannot imagine how boring a live experience this song would be. The Court of the Crimson King was marginally shorter, so at least there's that. There's actually some small parts I like in this track, but not enough to make me enjoy the whole. There are parts of this album that I didn't hate, but I disliked Moonchild so much, it's sullied the whole LP for me. Once again, I do not understand the attraction in 95% of Prog Rock. 1/5 (it would have got 2 had Moonchild been banished)
Didn't enjoy at all
> In 2015, the album was ranked number 2 on Rolling Stone's list of the "50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time" Seriously?
The album cover art creeps me out, so docked for that. Let’s see about to music now!! Update: Not a fan….
Overblown, self indulgent. Not my thing
prog rock. this is not for me.
Utter waste of time. I'm sure there's some talent in the band but did they have to play the same song over and over again?
Progressive rock seems to be the antithesis of fun. Definitely understand why so many people joined and then promptly left this band.
I think this band served as an inspiration for Spinal Tap.
Well, this was terrible.
Simplemente, no conecté con el disco
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Dirge
I want wipe all late 60s music from existence to get rid of this album.
Just terrible shit. I don’t care if they heavily influenced an entire genre when they bands they influenced are a million times better
Flute on the second song yasss I like epitaph Not musically inclined enough to appreciate 12 min of sounds
Idk I was bored
Weird but interesting I guess. Worst Song: Epitaph - Including "March for No Reason" and "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" Best Song: 21st Century Schizoid Man - Including "Mirrors" Added to Liked Songs:
no se si el tren llamaquique - aviles lo esta haciendo horrible pero asi se siente.
Bastante basura la verdad. Menos mal que hay otros álbumes de ruido porque si no iba para el último de cabeza
I struggled with this. Prog is not my thing at all and I didn't really particularly enjoy anything here.
I do not care for prog rock. Like, it's pretty annoying to me. Pretentious theater kids acting like their better that everyone and just telling critics that they don't "get it." That means you aren't conveying anything in a meaningful way; you're just self-grandeurizing.
Like Alice Cooper but exponentially worse.
One good song
Crimson Crap.
This album was undoubtedly made for either someone more musically cultured than me and into progressive rock. For me a lot of it just sounded like the weird background music on retro kids cartoons (think Tom and Jerry). Sometimes I felt great the song has finished, just for an extra five minutes of random instrumental. A song should never be nine minutes, well unless it’s good, and then it’s ok
Tedious and indulgent. Not to be confused with The Court of King Caractacus.
Not my thing
I bet some boring fucker liked this. Well not this boring fucker. This was fucking boring.
O shit it's that album cover i can never name in quizzes. Oh ffs its fucking prog. .... -_- I hate this sorry I'm trying to get it but i don't im bored shitless Like there just isn't a song in the world that would be better if it was 12 minutes long Shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up I respect the art of just banging shit together but not for 8 bastard minutes at a time do something else!!!!!! I don't care if it's some musical groundbreaker either. broke ground for what? More prog? Put that shovel down. Okay four minutes into the title track i was like 'oh maybe this one's alright' and then it started doing Prog Shit. Off ye fuck. Oh my god it's still going. This was torture but I guess I got my first one star out of it. So that's something.
I’m just not that in to prog…I know this is a highly rated album but it dragged on for me and I’ve tried multiple times to get in to it.
Not my thing.
No. This is noise. Not good.
2/10…psychadelic / progr.rock
Not really my thing. Sounds like a weird cross between alternative, low-fi, and really early rock. I had previously heard 21st Century Schitzo Man before listening to this album.
I've been pleasantly surprised by the other prog-rock albums that have shown up on this list. Entries from Rush, ELP and the likes have been getting a healthy bump above my initial expectations. Unfortunately King Crimson didn't follow this trend. I wanted to like this album it but really couldn't get into it at all. It's a mess of long bland songs and honestly a little annoying. I will be filing this one away for good. 1.22 stars
Heavily instrumental… lots of jamming. Not my taste all around but catchy hook on 21st century Schizoid Man
I've been listening to this album all day and I'm only now starting song 5? Also, this fantasy-type music that should be in a movie with fairies and nymphs has never been my thing.and I guess it still isn't.
Never want to listen to Prog-rock again
It’s a 1 because it was way too long and ended up being very pointless. It was not good at all.
This was weird. It started off sounding like it would be quite an interesting listen but it really trailed off and it eventually just sounded like they were in demo mode and taking the piss with who could make a sound next.
Not for me didn't do it
I don't get it. Was cool to hear where that one Kanye sample came from, but otherwise this is NOT for me. Moonchild is 12 minutes of straight up nothing.
I've tried, but this just doesn't seem to agree with me. I know that its rated a classic by many, but too difficult for me to get into. I do like some of Fripp's later solo work, and definitely his work with Bowie and The Roches.
No, just no
It was too wankery for me. Too many notes, not enough substance.
The greatest what? It sounds like putting ketchup on fish. Or champagne after brushing. It's just wrong. As is the instrumentation and mixing rock and pastoral styles. I don't hear the genius. Aborted half way through. At least now the iconic expression in the cover makes sense to me.
Nope.
A bit too progressive...
Oy. Are we really pretending this is nice to listen to? This is music for sociopaths. Grinding my teeth halfway through the first song. This is atrocious. Fuck everyone who says this is good. There’s something wrong with you. This is intensely pretentious and overrated. If this was a physical record, I would smash it. 1/5
Did not enjoy it one bit.
god this generator keeps throwing Dad Rock at me and not even the kind i like
The first minute of this album is good. Then they go off on pointless noodling. But it gets worse. How about the vastly wimpy I Talk To The Wind? But things can still get worse. Moonshine is 12 minutes (seemed like 12 decades) of guitar/vibraphone (or glockenspiel) pointlessness. The title track is stupidly self-indulgent. If you want to listen to prog, find Queen II. They do stretch out to 6 minutes for a song, but those songs are full of dense ideas and power. If you played King Crimson to impress girls you would remain a virgin. I was going 2 stars because they play well. But insipid shit like this should be dumped.
nicht so meins.
Not my jam.
Not sure how to categorize. Sort of rock, sort of improv jazz.
DNF. Fand den ersten Song anstrengend. Ist glaube ich nicht so meine Musik
Prog rock was, I suppose, *necessary* for rock to evolve and avoid the trap that US country music now finds itself — self-referential anaemic reverence of tropes so worn out you they’re like muslin in the sun. But did it have to be so outright dull? There are two ideas, maximum, on each of these tracks. And then there’s buggering about on a keyboard, committed to tape, and regarded as some sort of innovation. No. This says nothing, means nothing, evokes nothing. Dirge.
Not my cup of tea
Didnt like it at all prog sucks ass
Could not finish. Didn't like. 1/5
Not my cup of tea.
psychodeliczny jazzorock. Gdybym palil trawe to pewnie bym tego sluchal. Ciekawe ale na raz.
no
Only last half way...
Couldn't get through the first song.
Yuck
to jazzy
Not for me
Meine Fresse, was ein scheiß Gedudel. Sollen Jazz spielen gehen.
only becouse there is no zero stars
nicht mein Ding
This is not my type of music… I did not attempt to listen to the whole thing. The album cover also freaks me out, I don’t want to look at it. Lol
I simply did not get it. Not my kind of music.
Did not like anything about this album. Very strange. Poor quality recording and depressing sound.
No
Listened to this album with a friend many years (admittedly several decades) ago. The songs and their eclectic sound struck me in the same way jazz does. Meaning that their music just falls short of the bar I have set for enjoyment and doesn't warrant any purchase for further listening. While by no means is it repulsive and I do respect their artistry, it's not for me.
Only listened to the first track, didn’t like it.
Überhaupt nicht mein Geschmack
Not my kind of cup of tea, very long winded and with some strange interceptions.
Not my kind of music
Not a single good thing. Maybe flutes l.
All these songs are too long for my little brain. The first 3 minutes of most of the songs are fine but then they get too jam band-y.
Regular readers will know of my absolute disdain for Prog Rock, so my hatred of this album, which seems to have started the whole thing, is immeasurable.
Art is subjective, and some people love this stuff. Me? Not so much. The first two songs make sense to me. The others sound like they are the soundtrack to a western or kung fu movie. The last 6 minutes of moonchild sounds like they forgot to hit stop on the recorder and the band is just noodling on their instruments. This is art that I don’t get, but I’m fine with other people liking it… not around me. 🤣
Not a fan, long Melodies. Jazzy.
Psychedelic rock of late 60s that hippies would listen to while tripping on acid or shrooms, not a fan
Not my thing
Myönnän, että eka biisi alkaa melkein vakuuttavasti - Kanye West on osoittanut, että siinä saattaa piillä pieni koukkukin. Tämä on parasta, mitä levystä voi sanoa.
This was difficult to find something to like. I tried every track, and nothing kept my interest. 1/5.
Doesn’t move the needle for me.
еле дослушал ужасно скучно, неинтересно, затянуто; только трек I Talk To The Wind выделился своей флейтой пока самый тяжелый для прослушивания альбом
Как же я заебался. Точно не худший альбом, ибо мелодика есть какая-то и в отрыве с перерывом в неделю может и норм, но ЭТО УЖАСНО НУДНО, СОЛО НЕ ОПРАВДЫВАЮТ ВЛОЖЕНИЯ И ВЫЕБОНОВ ОСОБО НЕТ!!!
I knew I wouldn't like this when I saw 8 songs in 67 minutes and I was correct. Flute and triangle solos? WTF?? I'm not even sure what genre of music you consider this shit......... Just terrible. Just like the Alabama Crimson Tide. They got a got a guy responsible for a woman's death still playing b-ball. But that's Alabama for you. Win at all cost, even if you kill someone. And make sure you marry family member....the Alabama way.....good God, they should just firebomb that state and hit Florida too. Maybe just the area the orange dude and his family live. A big no for me 0 0
Nah
I didn't hate it as much as the last time I listened. The cover is an approximation of the face I'd make when someone suggests I listen again. Annoying flute, sax, and guitar noodling; nightmarish.
Not at all my style of music
Not my thing. Also the album cover freaks me out.
There is no "rock" in any description of this band's music. It's jazz!
Not for me. Open was ok, flutes throughout less so.
Not for me
Nope
Pretty over-rated and self-indulgent 'cut and paste' rock
I understand why this album was so influential, but it didn't do a damn thing for me.
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