My guess is that, if you asked most King Crimson fans which five albums are their best albums, you would find there to be almost universal acclaim for what are the best four King Crimson albums, and some debate about what that fifth album would be. The universally recognized top four would be:
In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973)
Red (1974)
Discipline (1981)
These would be considered to be the classic King Crimson albums. I suppose there might be some variance between Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew aficionados (me, I'm a Fripp partisan), but I suspect not. It's my belief that these four are just empirically the best King Crimson albums.
But the fifth? That becomes your deep cut. The one that perhaps reveals who your inner you is. Mine periodically shifts, but here they are:
Lizard (1970)
Islands (1971)
Starless and Bible Black (1974)
In future posts, I will review each of these albums, starting out with my all-time favorite: Larks' Tongues in Aspic. Stay tuned!
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