King Crimson albums (Music Guide): King Crimson EPs, King Crimson compilation albums, King Crimson live albums, In the Court of the Crimson King, In the Wake of Poseidon, Lizard, Islands, The Great Deceiver, Red, Starless and Bible Black, Heavy ConstruKct

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 45. Chapters: King Crimson EPs, King Crimson compilation albums, King Crimson live albums, In the Court of the Crimson King, In the Wake of Poseidon, Lizard, Islands, The Great Deceiver, Red, Starless and Bible Black, Heavy ConstruKction, Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson, Discipline, The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson ¿ Vol. 2 ¿ 1981¿2003, Beat, The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson ¿ Volume One ¿ 1969¿1974, Cirkus: The Young Persons' Guide to King Crimson Live, Three of a Perfect Pair, Thrakattak, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Vrooom Vrooom, Ladies of the Road, King Crimson on Broadway, Epitaph, A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson, Earthbound, The Power to Believe, The Compact King Crimson, B'Boom: Live in Argentina, The Night Watch, King Crimson Live in Hyde Park, London, The ConstruKction of Light, The Condensed 21st Century Guide to King Crimson, Sleepless: The Concise King Crimson, USA, The Beginners' Guide to the King Crimson Collectors' Club, Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal, Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With, Nashville Rehearsals, King Crimson Live at Plymouth Guildhall, Live in Mexico City, Live at the Marquee, The Power to Believe Tour Box, The Vrooom Sessions, Live at the Jazz Café, EleKtrik: Live in Japan, Masque, King Crimson Live in Mainz, Live at Fillmore East, Live in Central Park, NYC, Live in Berkeley, CA, Live in Austin, TX, King Crimson Live at Summit Studios, Heartbeat: The Abbreviated King Crimson, The ProjeKcts, Live in Detroit, MI, The Deception of the Thrush: A Beginners' Guide to ProjeKcts, Live at Cap D'Agde, The Champaign¿Urbana Sessions, Live in Brighton, Live at Jacksonville, Live in Philadelphia, PA, Live in Orlando, FL, The Beat Club, Bremen, Live at the Zoom Club, Live in San Francisco, Live in Nashville, TN, Level Five, Live at Moles Club, Bath, Live in Guildford, Live in Heidelberg, Live in Warsaw, Poland, Live in Northampton, MA. Excerpt: In the Court of the Crimson King is the 1969 debut album by the British progressive rock group King Crimson. The album reached #5 on the British charts, and is certified gold in the United States. The album is generally viewed as one of the strongest of the progressive rock genre, where King Crimson largely stripped away the blues-based foundations of rock music and mixed together jazz and Classical symphonic elements. 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 #4 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". The album was remastered and re-released on vinyl and CD several times during the 1980s and 1990s. All of these versions were based on tape copies that were several generations removed from the originals. The original first-generation stereo master tapes were thought to be lost, but were finally located in a storage vault in 2003. This led to a much improved remastered CD version (see below) in time for the album's 40th anniversary. Once again, in November 2010 the album was re-released both on vinyl and CD with newly cut masters approved by Robert Fripp. Remastering was executed...