1001 Albums Summary

I couldn't believe it when I learned that this is the album that birthed prog rock! I don't listen to the genre at all, but I got an idea of what it's like. The album sounds like it was made well after the genre came to be. It's insane to think that a single band could just make a new genre, which would become a very popular one as well. In The Court of The Crimson King definitely isn't an easy album, so I'll try to give it an another listen one day. The album flows nicely, but you need to pay a lot of attention to what it going on. I didn't really engage with the experience until the 5th and last track, which was definetely the highlight of the album for me. After all, I couldn't imagine myself as a prog rock fan, but at least I learned something about the history of music. You can just hear the inventiveness oozing out from the record.

While I get why some might like this record, it requires more from me than what it could ever give. The album is not bad by any means and it definetely manages to give me a very dreamlike feeling, but personally, I wouldn't listen to this piece: to me it's like background noise (NOT in an inherently negative way!) The whole time I was listening to the album I just couldn't stop waiting for something to happen (something that never did). It was very challenging to try to listen to such long tracks with minimal progression while staying engaged. I can't think of a single other reason to why the songs have to be so long, with so little substance other than the album being meant to be used as sleep aid.

This album didn't have a single boring or sad song in it. This isn't exactly my type of music, but I wouldn't mind listening to this record again