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

I could very well listen to industrial music, but this album just doesn't sound good. Tbh a lot of the lyrical content on this piece is corny at best. I decided to save my time & only listen to some snippets from each track, and I don't regret that decision. This isn't for me. Knowing all the shit he has done I have no desire to explore his artistic ventures any further: it didn't even take a whole minute for him to start talking about rape, so it definitely has to be a passion of his. If I want to listen to music like this I'll pick someone else.

A nice album, to me all of the songs sound very similar. Nothing to complain about

A nice record, Yesterday When I Was Mad and Go West kind of sounded like North Korean propaganda band songs :D (not a diss towards either this album or NK bands)

This makes for nice background music for chill activities like cooking

An absolute classic which I finally got to listen

Offers nothing to me personally

This just doesn't satisfy me. It's good as background music, but I can't understand how this is supposedly one of the greatest albums of all time

I'm not a jazz enthusiast, but it's nice to listen to as background music. I just can't see how this album could be as good as people make it sound