What are you listening to right now?

[postjack]

King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair

[Fungi]

King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair

What is your opinion of those later King Crimson albums in comparison to the better early stuff?

[aardvark baguette]

Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party

[tyrion]

Miles Davis - Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall

[aardvark baguette]

Clifford Brown - Jazz Immortal

[Voltron]

What is your opinion of those later King Crimson albums in comparison to the better early stuff?

For me, the question would have to be what is early stuff? 70s? 80s? Because I got into them in the early 80s, when Adrian Belew joined them, those albums are the ones I associate mostly with them. Discipline, Beat and TOAPP, are great albums and the first two were in super heavy rotation when they came out and I was in college. I also knew Court of the Crimson King, but only more recently got into Starless and Bible Black (got that from somebody at a meet), Lark's Tongue and Red. I think those are pretty great albums and obviously quite earlier/different from the 80s stuff. I have never spent much time with the really more recent stuff from the 90s and beyond but I also was never that impressed by it.

[Voltron]

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan -- Ballad of the Broken Seas and Sunday at Devil Dirt





I actually listened to Devil Dirt first and think I prefer it, although I like both of these albums quite a bit. The new one has a more Tom Waits vibe to is and Lanegan just gets more and more gravelly. Good stuffs.

[Sherwood]

What fantastic covers. Those are on the list.

[Voltron]

What fantastic covers. Those are on the list.

Agreed on the covers. The Devil Dirt cover is from the import and the US version, which came out this week, looks different and not as good.

[Sherwood]

Yeah, just found a grainy pic on ebay of the US release. Lanegan is better obscured.

[en480c4]

Murder by Death - Red of Tooth and Claw

[Hopstretch]

The Frames -- Fitzcarraldo

[Voltron]

^^^Me too. I have heard other albums but not that one.

[Dusty Chalk]

Red Guitars, Slow to Fade -- guess what? It's not jazz! Still good. Surprisingly aged well.

[Sherwood]

me three. That's my favorite frames album at the moment.

[tyrion]

Miles Davis - The Broadcast Sessions 1958-59

[aardvark baguette]

-- guess what? It's not jazz!

[riceboy]

Beyonce - I Am... Sasha Fierce

[Genetic]

What is your opinion of those later King Crimson albums in comparison to the better early stuff?

Sorry I know you're not asking me but this question is so interesting....


The realy early stuff (vocals--Lake or Wetton) was way beyond their era. But with beginning of the Belew period the experimental orientation lost it's soul.

Too bad they did not choose to age the same way as Genesis did with their Beer commercial music répertoire at least they would be much richer than they are now....

Amicalement

[Voltron]

Crosby Stills Nash & Young - So Far