Re: Love-Hounds Digest

[John M. Relph <relph@presto.ig.com>]

boulder!boulder!bernard@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Bernie Bernstein) sez, re King Crimson:

>Their old albums are excellent.  I would recommend getting them.  Not
>many of them are available on CD, which is why I haven't played them
>lately, and some of them are also difficult to find.

Actually, all of the following albums are available on CD:
>>   The Court of the Crimson King
>>   In the Wake of Poseiden
>    _Islands_
>    _Lizard_, featuring Jon Anderson on one of the songs
>>   Lark's Tongues in Aspic
>>   Starless and Bible Black
>>   Red
>>   Discipline
>>   Beat
>>   Three of a Perfect Pair

The others (below) are not available on CD, sorry, although there is a
different best-of compilation available called _The Compact King
Crimson_, or somesuch, that Fripp put together.  He claims it's all
his favourite Crimson tracks.  You'll have to figure out why there's
no middle period material on it.

>    _Earthbound_ (I don't recall exactly when this came out, order-wise)
>>   A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson (best of)
>>   USA (live)

claris!wombat@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Scott Lindsey) sez, re the last three
King Crimson albums:

>They are of a much different style, though.  I would recommend getting
>_Discipline_ next.  I think that _Beat_ is the weakest of that trilogy.

Fripp says that _Discipline_ was the only good album of the last
three, and that the other two were mostly contractual (and other)
obligations for him.  I don't know how the other band members felt
about it.  Hit up your local library for magazine interviews.

	-- John
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