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DandelionPowderman
Those two albums are among the best albums ever made, imo.

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Witness



Those two albums are among the best albums ever made, imo.


I never listened to them and I'm quite skeptical about that. I get that it is your opinion but really, the best ever made is like saying mac & cheese is the best food ever invented when everyone knows that pizza is near the top.

When your opinion of the best album ever made strays so far from the consensus that it is beyond an outlier, your credibility is at risk for a serious downgrade.

The words used by Dandelion were "among the best albums ever made, imo".

I have not heard enough music and have not got musical knowledge to be able to state such a view myself. But as you contest it, within my more limited scope for experience and from the taste I have got, though, I think there is some basis for a viewpoint with such a tendency, as to the first album. Of course, there are other candidates as well. But IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSOM KING is among them.

You may also notice which posters, apart from Dandelion, who have those albums in high esteem. Among them, Silver Dagger and, if my memory does not fail me, His Majesty (arrest me if I am wrong.) Possibly this is not music for everybody.

It is quite bold, I think, to deny as much as the possibility when you have not heard them at all.

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HankM
RIP Mr Lake... thank you for all of the great music you gave us... you will live forever

I will still always believe in Father Christmas, my favorite Christmas song




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I wish you a Hopeful Christmas, I wish you a Brave New Year

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RIP Mr Lake... thank you for all of the great music you gave us... you will live forever

I will still always believe in Father Christmas, my favorite Christmas song




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I wish you a Hopeful Christmas, I wish you a Brave New Year

It's one of my favorites, too - particularly the stripped down version without the choir.
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My rock n roll Christmas CD compilation has really taken a hit this year...first Bowie ("Little Drummer Boy" with Bing)...then Glenn Frey (Eagles' "Please Come Home For Christmas")...then Emerson, and now Lake ("I Believe In Father Christmas").

RIP Greg.

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mr_dja
Edit/Addition: I just listened to the acoustic version of "Still you turn me on" that witness shared... THANK YOU for sharing that! Wonderful version and something that I needed to hear today. Thanks again.

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DandelionPowderman

Those two albums are among the best albums ever made, imo.

I never listened to them and I'm quite skeptical about that. I get that it is your opinion but really, the best ever made is like saying mac & cheese is the best food ever invented when everyone knows that pizza is near the top.

When your opinion of the best album ever made strays so far from the consensus that it is beyond an outlier, your credibility is at risk for a serious downgrade.

The words used by Dandelion were "among the best albums ever made, imo".

I have not heard enough music and have not got musical knowledge to be able to state such a view myself. But as you contest it, within my more limited scope for experience and from the taste I have got, though, I think there is some basis for a viewpoint with such a tendency, as to the first album. Of course, there are other candidates as well. But IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSOM KING is among them.

You may also notice which posters, apart from Dandelion, who have those albums in high esteem. Among them, Silver Dagger and, if my memory does not fail me, His Majesty (arrest me if I am wrong.) Possibly this is not music for everybody.

It is quite bold, I think, to deny as much as the possibility when you have not heard them at all.

it IS probably better to disagree with someone if you have a slight clue what you're talking about.i never liked that "progressive rock" term it was just a label some a-hole journalist came up with.i've never heard anyone talk like that in real life and now in 2016 on the internet it's used among fans like its a legit term instead of some bullshit a writer came up with.

i saw ELP on their 77 tour a few weeks after lynyrd skynyrds plane crash ,the thought being you never know when you'll see them again so i better jump at the chance.i'm glad i did because i never saw them again and they were a mindblowing band,the musicianship was topnotch.between carl palmers drumming,emersons keyboards and gregs guitar and vocals it was a bit overwhelming how talented they were.

if any historians want to see the decay of rock and roll you could look at the change from the early 70's when people listened to ELP and the moody blues and the second half of the decade when shit like kansas,boston,journey and foreigner was thought to be the new cutting edge when of course it was really just AOR commercial garbage.

but i digress-rest in peace greg lake,one of rock and rolls best.

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Those two albums are among the best albums ever made, imo.


I never listened to them and I'm quite skeptical about that. I get that it is your opinion but really, the best ever made is like saying mac & cheese is the best food ever invented when everyone knows that pizza is near the top.

When your opinion of the best album ever made strays so far from the consensus that it is beyond an outlier, your credibility is at risk for a serious downgrade.

The words used by Dandelion were "among the best albums ever made, imo".

I have not heard enough music and have not got musical knowledge to be able to state such a view myself. But as you contest it, within my more limited scope for experience and from the taste I have got, though, I think there is some basis for a viewpoint with such a tendency, as to the first album. Of course, there are other candidates as well. But IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSOM KING is among them.

You may also notice which posters, apart from Dandelion, who have those albums in high esteem. Among them, Silver Dagger and, if my memory does not fail me, His Majesty (arrest me if I am wrong.) Possibly this is not music for everybody.

It is quite bold, I think, to deny as much as the possibility when you have not heard them at all.


it IS probably better to disagree with someone if you have a slight clue what you're talking about.i never liked that "progressive rock" term it was just a label some a-hole journalist came up with.i've never heard anyone talk like that in real life and now in 2016 on the internet it's used among fans like its a legit term instead of some bullshit a writer came up with.

i saw ELP on their 77 tour a few weeks after lynyrd skynyrds plane crash ,the thought being you never know when you'll see them again so i better jump at the chance.i'm glad i did because i never saw them again and they were a mindblowing band,the musicianship was topnotch.between carl palmers drumming,emersons keyboards and gregs guitar and vocals it was a bit overwhelming how talented they were.

if any historians want to see the decay of rock and roll you could look at the change from the early 70's when people listened to ELP and the moody blues and the second half of the decade when shit like kansas,boston,journey and foreigner was thought to be the new cutting edge when of course it was really just AOR commercial garbage.

but i digress-rest in peace greg lake,one of rock and rolls best.

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Edit/Addition: I just listened to the acoustic version of "Still you turn me on" that witness shared... THANK YOU for sharing that! Wonderful version and something that I needed to hear today. Thanks again.


I believe that was me who shared that , but...you're welcome mr_dja!

And here's the electric full band version...when that wah wah comes in at the 1:00 mark I'm reminded of my youth glued to the the stereo...

Emerson Lake and Palmer - Still... You Turn Me On




RIP

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Hairball

Edit/Addition: I just listened to the acoustic version of "Still you turn me on" that witness shared... THANK YOU for sharing that! Wonderful version and something that I needed to hear today. Thanks again.


I believe that was me who shared that , but...you're welcome mr_dja!

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Those two albums are among the best albums ever made, imo.

I never listened to them and I'm quite skeptical about that. I get that it is your opinion but really, the best ever made is like saying mac & cheese is the best food ever invented when everyone knows that pizza is near the top.

When your opinion of the best album ever made strays so far from the consensus that it is beyond an outlier, your credibility is at risk for a serious downgrade.

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DandelionPowderman


Those two albums are among the best albums ever made, imo.

I never listened to them and I'm quite skeptical about that. I get that it is your opinion but really, the best ever made is like saying mac & cheese is the best food ever invented when everyone knows that pizza is near the top.

When your opinion of the best album ever made strays so far from the consensus that it is beyond an outlier, your credibility is at risk for a serious downgrade.

He he, I didn't know I had a lot of credibility to loose?

There are a few who agree with me, though:

– In his 1997 book Rocking the Classics, critic and musicologist Edward Macan notes that In the Court of the Crimson King "may be the most influential progressive rock album ever released".

– The Who's Pete Townshend was quoted as calling the album "an uncanny masterpiece".
– In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came fourth in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".
– The album was named as one of Classic Rock magazine's "50 Albums That Built Prog Rock".
– In 2014, readers of Rhythm voted it the eighth greatest drumming album in the history of progressive rock.
– In 2015, Rolling Stone named In the Court of the Crimson King the second greatest progressive rock album of all time, behind Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon

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The Sicilian


Those two albums are among the best albums ever made, imo.

I never listened to them and I'm quite skeptical about that. I get that it is your opinion but really, the best ever made is like saying mac & cheese is the best food ever invented when everyone knows that pizza is near the top.

When your opinion of the best album ever made strays so far from the consensus that it is beyond an outlier, your credibility is at risk for a serious downgrade.

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DandelionPowderman

He he, I didn't know I had a lot of credibility to loose?

There are a few who agree with me, though:

– In his 1997 book Rocking the Classics, critic and musicologist Edward Macan notes that In the Court of the Crimson King "may be the most influential progressive rock album ever released".

– The Who's Pete Townshend was quoted as calling the album "an uncanny masterpiece".
– In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came fourth in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".
– The album was named as one of Classic Rock magazine's "50 Albums That Built Prog Rock".
– In 2014, readers of Rhythm voted it the eighth greatest drumming album in the history of progressive rock.
– In 2015, Rolling Stone named In the Court of the Crimson King the second greatest progressive rock album of all time, behind Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon

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dear Dandelion

if I remember correctly, you had the chance to see King Crimson recently.
Was Greg Lake in the line up ?