Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson
Released: 1991
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Released: 1991
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With its varying short-lived phases, King Crimson is well suited to the box set treatment, and overall, Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson doesn't disappoint. At four discs, it's perhaps a...
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In the Court of the Crimson King
Released: 1969
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Released: 1969
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This reissue of King Crimson's debut, In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969), renders all previous pressings obsolete. In the late 1990s, Robert Fripp remastered the entire Crimson catalog for...
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In the Wake of Poseidon
Released: 1970
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Released: 1970
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King Crimson opened 1970 scarcely in existence as a band, having lost two key members (Ian McDonald and Michael Giles), with a third (Greg Lake) about to leave. Their second album -- largely...
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Lizard
Released: 1970
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Released: 1970
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Lizard is very consciously jazz-oriented -- the influence of Miles Davis (particularly Sketches of Spain) being especially prominent -- and very progressive, even compared with the two preceding...
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Islands
Released: 1971
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Released: 1971
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The weakest Crimson studio album from their first era is only a real disappointment in relation to the extraordinarily high quality of the group's earlier efforts. The songs are somewhat uneven and...
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Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Released: 1973
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Released: 1973
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King Crimson reborn yet again -- the newly configured band makes its debut with a violin (courtesy of David Cross) sharing center stage with Robert Fripp's guitars and his Mellotron, which is...
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Red
Released: November 1974
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Released: November 1974
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King Crimson falls apart once more, seemingly for the last time, as David Cross walks away during the making of this album. It became Robert Fripp's last thoughts on this version of the band, a bit...
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The Compact King Crimson
Released: 1987
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Released: 1987
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A strange attempt at a single-disc overview of the group, offering a compilation of the three Adrian Belew-fronted Crimson albums Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair. The classic tracks...
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Frame by Frame
Released: 1991
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Released: 1991
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With its varying short-lived phases, King Crimson is well suited to the box set treatment, and overall, Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson doesn't disappoint. At four discs, it's perhaps a...
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