King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
Summer's here kids and we all know what that means! Its time for Prog Rock Saturdays at "Vinyl in the Valley"!
And what a way to start things off with King Crimson's debut, the incomparable In the Court of the Crimson King.
The opener, "21st Century Schizoid Man" is a heavy metal, prog-rock masterpiece. From Robert Fripp's chainsaw-sounding guitars, to Greg Lake's distorted vocal, with lyrics like "politicians funeral pyre / innocents raped with napalm fire", the song is a futuristic epic thinly veiled as a Vietnam-era protest song. What a way to kick things off!
Immediately following the shit storm of "Schizoid Man" is the genteel and harmonious (and flute-filled!), "I Talk To The WInd" that morphs into the the wailing and mellotron-heavy, "Epitaph" which sounds like the soundtrack to some apocalyptic spaghetti western!
Time to flip!
And what a way to start things off with King Crimson's debut, the incomparable In the Court of the Crimson King.
The opener, "21st Century Schizoid Man" is a heavy metal, prog-rock masterpiece. From Robert Fripp's chainsaw-sounding guitars, to Greg Lake's distorted vocal, with lyrics like "politicians funeral pyre / innocents raped with napalm fire", the song is a futuristic epic thinly veiled as a Vietnam-era protest song. What a way to kick things off!
Immediately following the shit storm of "Schizoid Man" is the genteel and harmonious (and flute-filled!), "I Talk To The WInd" that morphs into the the wailing and mellotron-heavy, "Epitaph" which sounds like the soundtrack to some apocalyptic spaghetti western!
Time to flip!
