King Crimson - Lizard (Prince Rupert Awakes / Bolero / The Battle Of Glass Tears / Big Top)

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  • Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
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    LIZARD
    (Fripp / Sinfield)
    PRINCE RUPERT AWAKES
    Farewell the temple master’s bells
    His kiosk and his black worm seed
    Courtship solely of his word
    With Eden guaranteed.
    For now Prince Rupert’s tears of glass
    Make saffron sabbath eyelids bleed
    Scar the sacred tablet of wax
    On which the Lizards feed.
    Wake your reasons’ hollow vote
    Wear your blizzard season coat
    Burn a bridge and burn a boat
    Stake a Lizard by the throat.
    Go Polonius or kneel
    The reapers name their harvest dawn
    All your tarnished devil’s spoons
    Will rust beneath our corn.
    Now bears Prince Rupert’s garden roam
    Across his rain tree shaded lawn
    Lizard bones become the clay-
    And there a Swan is born.
    Wake your reasons’ hollow vote
    Wear your blizzard season coat
    Burn a bridge and burn a boat
    Stake a Lizard by the throat.
    Gone soon Piepowder’s moss-weed court
    Round which upholstered Lizards sold
    Visions to their leaden flock
    Of rainbows’ ends and gold.
    Now tales Prince Rupert’s peacock brings
    Of walls and trumpets thousand fold
    Prophets chained for burning masks
    And reels of dream unrolled...
    BOLERO-THE PEACOCK’S TALE
    THE BATTLE OF GLASS TEARS
    Including Dawn Song
    Last Skirmish
    Prince Rupert’s Lament
    Night enfolds her cloak of holes
    Around the river meadow.
    Old moon-light stalks by broken ploughs
    Hides spokeless wheels in shadow.
    Sentries lean on thorn wood spears
    Blow on their hands, stare eastwards.
    Burnt with dream and taut with fear
    Dawn's misty shawl upon them.
    Three hills apart great armies stir
    Spit oath and curse as day breaks.
    Forming lines of horse and steel
    By even yards march forward.
    BIG TOP
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    Robert Fripp: Guitar, Mellotron, Electric Keyboards and Devices
    Mel Collins: Flute & Saxes
    Gordon Haskell: Bass Guitar & Vocals
    Andy McCulloch: Drums
    Peter Sinfield: Words & Pictures
    with
    Robin Miller: Oboe & Cor Anglais
    Mark Charig: Cornet
    Nick Evans: Trombone
    Keith Tippet: Piano & Electric Piano
    Jon Anderson of YES: Vocals on ‘Prince Rupert Awakes’
    Engineer: Robin Thompson
    Tapes: Geoff Workman
    Studio: Wessex Sound, London
    Sleeve Conception: Peter Sinfield
    Outside Painting: Gini Barris
    Inside Marbling: Koraz Wallpapers
    #KingCrimson
    #RobertFripp
    #Lizard

КОМЕНТАРІ • 558

  • @CthulhuWaitsDreaming
    @CthulhuWaitsDreaming 3 роки тому +481

    One of the most precious jewels in the crown of King Crimson.

    • @chrisprice5775
      @chrisprice5775 2 роки тому +21

      Always loved Prince Rupert Awakes.

    • @thomasroy9444
      @thomasroy9444 2 роки тому +18

      Robert Fripp hates this song, but I think it is as good as the Crimson King.

    • @marcusnolan7787
      @marcusnolan7787 2 роки тому +5

      I love all of there music. So well recorded outstanding musains.

    • @flannigan7956
      @flannigan7956 Рік тому +1

      ​@@thomasroy9444yezzir surprised he even got Yes on the bloody phone

    • @FF-ie6sd
      @FF-ie6sd 11 місяців тому +1

      @@flannigan7956 lol ikr

  • @tenzinsmith7991
    @tenzinsmith7991 3 роки тому +405

    This is the most fire collab of Prog history! King Crimson ft. Jon Anderson

    • @tobobisato7196
      @tobobisato7196 3 роки тому +9

      芳賀様邸   はぬなのなかぬさななあやぬなな

    • @tomburns70
      @tomburns70 3 роки тому +19

      It's a beautiful album with 'Jon Anderson's' ethereal voice to carry you into the the void : Why, then would 'Fripp' say "It Sucks.?"
      Maybe it was the aggression of the LIZARD.
      I bought this album when released: In '73 a new, "King Crimson" Album was like a batch of Thai, you had to have it. It took a while to integrate it's nuances into my brain, It was so opposed to 'KING CRIMSONS' POWERFUL DEBUT ALBUM, but It became Loved soon after.

    • @twolford01
      @twolford01 3 роки тому +6

      @@tomburns70 Ahh. Thai stick and this album, what memories!

    • @tomburns70
      @tomburns70 3 роки тому +6

      @@twolford01
      The 'Times' should become a Title for those special years. If they hear the music "They will Come." Techno is happening today. Techno was happening in our time also. Musicians never heard: 'Faust' (Germany.) The first two 'Kraftwerk' album's: The advent of 'Tech.'
      'Guru Guru' all three, (Germany) and 'The Beat Goes On' Vanilla Fudge.' Hopefully it will go on forever. Take care, Terry tfb

    • @CarlDidur
      @CarlDidur 3 роки тому +2

      @@tomburns70 1971

  • @jeanbonnefoy1377
    @jeanbonnefoy1377 3 роки тому +167

    Jon Anderson as the perfect voice to elaborate on the continuing story of the Court of the Crimson King narrated all through the early KC's albums...

    • @raydarable
      @raydarable 2 роки тому +7

      What story?

    • @vizaloron9242
      @vizaloron9242 11 місяців тому +9

      Dude, this is a historical song about a German prince who was a cavalry commander for the monarchist side in the English Civil War. It has nothing to do with the story of Court and Poseidon.

    • @filippocanaliderossi8721
      @filippocanaliderossi8721 9 днів тому

      Jon or Jan?

  • @Lightmane
    @Lightmane 3 роки тому +380

    Some King Crimson fans say this is their worst album. Some King Crimson fans say this is their best album.
    Regardless of which side you're on, surely you ALL LOVE 'The Lizard Suite', YES? (YES pun intended) 😎🙂

    • @jolerojosta
      @jolerojosta 3 роки тому +14

      Fripp says it's unlistenable

    • @Lightmane
      @Lightmane 3 роки тому +34

      @@jolerojosta Yes, but now he says he finally hears the music within the music, or something like that.

    • @jolerojosta
      @jolerojosta 3 роки тому +23

      @@Lightmane thanks Steven Wilson

    • @Lightmane
      @Lightmane 3 роки тому +12

      @@jolerojosta did Steven have something to do with Fripp's change of heart?

    • @jolerojosta
      @jolerojosta 3 роки тому +18

      @@Lightmane fripp liked Steven's version of lizard

  • @Nienkh
    @Nienkh 3 роки тому +125

    One of Crimson’s best.

  • @alexanderkatashov8824
    @alexanderkatashov8824 3 роки тому +80

    I ve started boosting my English since I listened to the first Crimson and was not able to understand Sinfield's poetry. Without Crimson I would have never made any progress in becoming what I really know.

    • @jonathanrobins558
      @jonathanrobins558 3 роки тому +9

      Alexsi or Grisha; if you like Peter Sinfield's lyrics, you ought to add his solo efforts of his album "STILL". Once you hear THE LATE Greg Lake's pure voicings, it will change you. Impactful more now since Greg's passing. Do Svidanya.

    • @kenparkes9612
      @kenparkes9612 Рік тому

      Priceless
      Gave me a new life many years ago, despite all the dri

    • @kenparkes9612
      @kenparkes9612 Рік тому +1

      Always get cut off with this dreadful phone but the love cuts through in familiar King Crimson style, although other King Crimson stuff gives more profundity really they always cut through one way or another and are timeless
      Love the right way up!

  • @lukashislop5890
    @lukashislop5890 3 роки тому +121

    The Battle of Glass Tears is some of the best prog, jazz, third stream, whatever it may be, music, I’ve heard. Like something out of a movie.

    • @jimcramer5125
      @jimcramer5125 Рік тому +1

      That is a great work of music, art, it is so good! And it sounds like a battle for sure!

    • @nathanlansford1882
      @nathanlansford1882 10 місяців тому +1

      I agree, now. It sounds much better, here!

  • @careyatchison1348
    @careyatchison1348 3 роки тому +52

    Buy a quality version of this (record or CD or loss-less streaming) and play loudly on a decent system. This music is dense with half buried texture and detail, there are a massive number of overdubs and every listen brings new discoveries..

  • @MostafaTamer89
    @MostafaTamer89 3 роки тому +37

    Think of mixing Jazz, Classic Music, and Progressive Rock, you get Lizard, 23 minutes of pure musical wizardry by the one and only King Crimson

  • @wellingtonmaya5557
    @wellingtonmaya5557 3 роки тому +275

    One of the grandest and most beautiful piece of music ever written. It is very near and dear to my listening pleasure! Thanks Mr. Fripp for uploading this.

    • @tomburns70
      @tomburns70 3 роки тому +5

      Now I'm going to make you blanch. I read Robert Fripp said, and it was in quotes - but I'm sure you know that people say thing's for all kinds of reasons, and in all kinds of mood's. He reportedly said:
      "IT SUCKS." Did 'Fripp' lose it for a moment? Absolutely. Over years I've heard phenomenal album's & song's panned by the artist & music rags. Sit back with or without headphones, and fall away to an Album that takes you to stellar regions.

    • @zendae54
      @zendae54 3 роки тому +4

      To TomBurns:
      You are absolutely right. Holst was horrified at everyone falling all over themselves at "The Planets" to the detriment of his other works which he favored far more, and I'm not even going to get into what Alan Holdsworth thought of nearly all his stuff...it's just how it is with these guys. It is up to us as the listeners to decide, not them.

    • @nyobunknown6983
      @nyobunknown6983 10 місяців тому +1

      @@tomburns70 Fripp changed his mind after hearing it in surround sound. He revised his opinion upon listening to Steven Wilson's surround-sound mix of the album for the 40th anniversary reissue, proclaiming, "For the first time I have heard the Music in the music."

  • @whitechocolatte5863
    @whitechocolatte5863 3 роки тому +174

    SEGMENT TIMESTAMPS:
    Prince Rupert Awakes (0:00 - 4:32)
    Bolero - The Peacock's Tale (4:33 - 11:05)
    The Battle of Glass Tears (11:06 - 22:11)
    Big Top (22:12 - 23:19)

    • @chicklets4ever51
      @chicklets4ever51 Рік тому +7

      The Battle of Glass Tears is magnificent. Pure Crimson.

    • @attinsgd2961
      @attinsgd2961 Рік тому +1

      ​@@chicklets4ever51it's exactly what I think of any time this album comes to my head

  • @tenzinsmith7991
    @tenzinsmith7991 3 роки тому +307

    LIZARD GANG RISE UP

    • @tomburns70
      @tomburns70 3 роки тому +2

      Timeless.
      Time to pass this music, by self - taught people like you, on to generations to come.

    • @linux4868
      @linux4868 3 роки тому +5

      Lizard = Reptilians ?????????? They were aware of them back then?

    • @yahelfelipe
      @yahelfelipe 3 роки тому +2

      @@linux4868 since always

    • @linux4868
      @linux4868 3 роки тому +2

      @@yahelfelipe I think in 70s they were more aware than now..

    • @LinamQB6
      @LinamQB6 3 роки тому +5

      LIZARD GANG REPORTING FOR DUTY

  • @FabioPornaro
    @FabioPornaro 4 місяці тому +5

    The moment the oboe takes over the cornet under the musical carpet of the piano is sublime ...

  • @jimcramer5125
    @jimcramer5125 2 роки тому +26

    I was in High School during the King Crimson days. I wore those albums out! Lizard was a little different than the first albums, and
    I LOVED it!! In bed on a school night with my head phones on, too much fun! Also Pink Floyd's Saucerful, Ummagumma, etc. Man those
    were great Heady days!!

    • @wilsonventura5696
      @wilsonventura5696 5 місяців тому

      Así es , yo tan bien estaba en la secundaria , hoy con 65 años los sigo escuchando gran músico Robert Fritt un MAGO de los silencios.

    • @nicholasbryce1810
      @nicholasbryce1810 2 місяці тому +1

      Same.

    • @jimcramer5125
      @jimcramer5125 2 місяці тому

      @@wilsonventura5696 You are 'right on' so to speak! Fripp was great from the very beginning of his career!

  • @davids.3534
    @davids.3534 3 роки тому +33

    Recorded 50 years ago and still never get tired of listening to it. It is amazing.

  • @Marco-fx2bi
    @Marco-fx2bi 3 роки тому +40

    Beautiful yet underrated prog suite.

  • @donaldanderson6604
    @donaldanderson6604 3 роки тому +45

    One of Jon's best vocals. Fripp wanted him for Crimson but he did get Bruford eventually.
    It was so good to hear Islands featured in KC's last tour.

    • @JGLewis-jn2km
      @JGLewis-jn2km Рік тому +4

      Definitely... The track "Islands" is one of Crimso's finest songs.... one of their ballads.

    • @UdiKoomran
      @UdiKoomran Місяць тому

      Oh to hear Anderson on Islands…
      That would have been sublime

  • @krzysztofborkowski1742
    @krzysztofborkowski1742 3 роки тому +63

    50 years passed yet I haven’t heard better composition being the creative synthesis of rock, jazz and classical music. And most probably I won’t live to hear anything close to that piece of musical art. Just the sheer touch of genius present here. Hats up to Mr Fripp and Keith Tippet.

    • @o-mega7515
      @o-mega7515 Рік тому

      other amazing 20 minute prog rock songs include:
      Echoes, by Pink Floyd (my favorite song of all time)
      Close To The Edge, by Yes
      2112, by Rush
      Atom Heart Mother Suite, by Pink Floyd
      If you like lizard, be sure to give these a try!

    • @sethvelazquez8143
      @sethvelazquez8143 Рік тому

      My brother in Christ check out Tool, Fear Inoculum will expand your mind and hope in humanity. And shoutout to Eloy too if you want a classic 70s prog band , their albums ra, silent cries and mighty echoes and metromania are all amazing albums.

    • @m.scottmcgahan9900
      @m.scottmcgahan9900 Рік тому

      King Crimson was booed off the stage by Tool fans when they toured together. @@sethvelazquez8143

  • @thomasdixon1369
    @thomasdixon1369 2 роки тому +33

    Fripp's gut-wrenching solo ay 19:48 is one for the ages... Incredible.

    • @andythecrimson8877
      @andythecrimson8877 2 роки тому +3

      Ethereal soundscape.👍👍

    • @jimcramer5125
      @jimcramer5125 Рік тому

      What I see and feel right here is that this is the lizard coming upon the battlefield and seeing the carnage. The results of the battle.
      Just my take on this great solo!

    • @sethvelazquez8143
      @sethvelazquez8143 Рік тому

      So good I keep coming back to use this comment.

    • @josephstalin2829
      @josephstalin2829 11 місяців тому

      That shit so ahead of its time

    • @marcrogers1051
      @marcrogers1051 13 днів тому

      I used to put this on mix tapes. Just this solo.

  • @caiosoares2834
    @caiosoares2834 3 роки тому +100

    I feel like all the King Crimson albuns from the Peter Sinfield era could have been concept albuns (or at least have the energy of one). There's even people who theorize that all the albuns from In The Court Of The Crimson King to Islands tell one continuous story.

    • @MiguelLozano
      @MiguelLozano 3 роки тому +23

      Peter Sinfield even explained that in his website.

    • @cindydufala7646
      @cindydufala7646 3 роки тому +4

      Perhaps into eternity. That is what excellent music is meant for, generations to come. We're still here 2021 Jan 17th. Go Browns. Miracles do happen.

    • @lucas-santos33
      @lucas-santos33 3 роки тому

      @@MiguelLozano Do you know where I can read this? Does anyone?

    • @MiguelLozano
      @MiguelLozano 3 роки тому +13

      @@lucas-santos33 Here it is: www.songsouponsea.com/Promenade/ChapterOneA.html

    • @lucas-santos33
      @lucas-santos33 3 роки тому

      Nevermind, just got it!

  • @marcfedak
    @marcfedak 3 роки тому +69

    I really like all the King Crimson mellotron era albums from "Court of the Crimson King" to "Red". Though some may see them as not as strong as the others, I like the variety of sounds on "Lizard" and "Island", as if they were trying out some new variations of their instantly recognizable prog rock.

    • @Myra3338
      @Myra3338 2 роки тому +2

      Thanks for mentioning Red, I was trying to remember a particular song in Red Starless and Bible Black :) thanks. Been listening to PFM remembering Pete Sinfield and King Crimson, Starless just popped into memory

    • @CarlFurfaro-tm9ud
      @CarlFurfaro-tm9ud 10 місяців тому

      The original mellotrons were a nightmare to maintain, with a separate tape loop for every key on the keyboard (of a single note played by a string section). Taking two of them on tour, with loading them on a truck and driving for hours and then unloading them, played havoc with the mechanics. Imagine this kept someone(s) very busy...

  • @jorgeanguas9220
    @jorgeanguas9220 3 роки тому +15

    As a 12 year old I read that KC was above all other Prog bands. Some 30 years later I find the proof when finally listening to this piece. It isn't rock, just music, contemporay XX century music, right in there with is called Classical.

  • @VelovnKK
    @VelovnKK 7 місяців тому +8

    23 minutes in a lsd trip with this song, what a journey

  • @markdarnell614
    @markdarnell614 3 роки тому +12

    I heard the entire LIZARD Suite on KTUL (New Orleans) one Sunday evening! I love the "Jazz" influences - especially the Cornetist, and the Pianist - Keith Tippet. SUPERB!

  • @huben54
    @huben54 2 роки тому +17

    My brain ate this when I met this album in 1971 . I was a high school boy in japan and looked at the album cover and found more and more things in the picture. I found something in this album! I still think it is the best album of the King Crimson.

  • @duvelrock
    @duvelrock 2 роки тому +16

    Bolero is one of most beautiful songs made on this galaxy.

    • @seancassidy674
      @seancassidy674 4 місяці тому

      has a real Morricone soundtrack feel to it in parts.

  • @spectralmaya4586
    @spectralmaya4586 3 роки тому +48

    The best song in Lizard for me, although Lady of the Dancing Water and Cirkus come somewhat close. Truely a bastian of prog with rising swells and delicate intricacies.

    • @guy3nder529
      @guy3nder529 3 роки тому +4

      Lady of the dancing water is a sweet little ballad, cirkus is rather fun to listen to, and this is possibly the grandest kc track ever

    • @MichaelPaumgardhen
      @MichaelPaumgardhen 3 роки тому +1

      Well said.

    • @steveknight9331
      @steveknight9331 3 роки тому +3

      I also started my KC journey in college (1983). I was a Sabbath fan and heard 21st CSM was similar. Well…it was, but was better. Bought their first four albums and Lizard remains my favorite.

  • @muzboz
    @muzboz 3 роки тому +11

    This is just gorgeous! I want to make music like this for my next computer game.
    Symphonic baroque prog with that magical 60's / 70's wonderment.
    Love this band in those early '69-'74 era.

  • @davidbussell7799
    @davidbussell7799 4 місяці тому +2

    Imaginative sophisticated challenging and brilliant. Bought it as a 17 year boy when it came out. Still sounds fresh and wonderful

  • @davidmachemer1015
    @davidmachemer1015 3 роки тому +13

    I began on my KC journey in college (literally while they were recording Discipline - so I had a delightful surprise coming when I finished their then-catalog). I must say I never liked Lizard or Islands at the time - considered them lower quality than the rest and put them aside for decades.
    This week (40 years later!) I listened again. Wow, Lizard is underrated. (So is Islands.) This is a very different Crimson, and so they are taking chances, which is courageous and admirable. Most of all, what I didn't like at 20, I have grown into at 60. I hear not only classical influences but a strong jazz element that I could not appreciate before. I'm even thinking I can hear elements of Miles Davis' interpretation of Rodrigo in Sketches of Spain (1960).
    Plus: Lizard (the track) is a 23-minute whole side of an album - ONE YEAR BEFORE Yes (CTTE) or Genesis (Supper's Ready) did it! Think about that! KC was still ahead of the pack on this album!

    • @daemonspudguy
      @daemonspudguy 2 роки тому

      And a year ahead of Echoes by Pink Floyd.

  • @SEGAClownboss
    @SEGAClownboss 3 роки тому +88

    Nobody talks about how the best part of Lizard is the last minute. A whirlwind of foggy confusion. I imagine this is the PTSD after the Battle of Glass Tears.

    • @jonathanrobins558
      @jonathanrobins558 3 роки тому +3

      The denouement if you will.

    • @LinamQB6
      @LinamQB6 3 роки тому +13

      Last minute of the album is fuckin badass, reminds of being in high school.

    • @caiosoares2834
      @caiosoares2834 3 роки тому +10

      I had a different interpretation of that. I saw it more as an open ending. Like, it's not known which POV that is. Are we seeing this from the point of view of the winning side or the ones that lost the battle, seeing the victorious side celebrating their victory?

    • @LinamQB6
      @LinamQB6 3 роки тому +13

      @@caiosoares2834 It could also be from a 3rd person POV, depicting how horrible things went for both sides. I agree, it’s open ended which makes it unique for everyone.

    • @DukeofItaly
      @DukeofItaly 3 роки тому +2

      He's dead actually. That's why the portion before is a funeral dirge type

  • @Miika_Laurila
    @Miika_Laurila 9 місяців тому +2

    6:39 this part gets me in tears every time. The melody&harmony at the background, the cornet sounds so good. Perfect

  • @teddyfurstman1997
    @teddyfurstman1997 3 роки тому +9

    My favorite King Crimson Song.

  • @Eldelbigote
    @Eldelbigote 3 роки тому +18

    The first time I listened to the full Lizard song, I was falling asleep during the last part, until Big Top appeared and nearly shitted myself.

  • @JonathanGoslan
    @JonathanGoslan 3 роки тому +26

    So beautiful... thanks for this.

  • @krycklund
    @krycklund 3 роки тому +62

    Can't believe in retrospect that Jon Anderson of Yes sang on a King Crimson song
    . That shit had to have been the MF DOOM appearing on a Gorillaz record of its time.

    • @matthewdyck5503
      @matthewdyck5503 3 роки тому +31

      The crazy part is that this album was released before The Yes Album had even been released, so Jon wasn't even really a household name yet. Also if i'm not mistaken, Fripp actually asked Jon to join Crimson, pretty cool stuff all in all.

    • @jackwalker8991
      @jackwalker8991 3 роки тому +2

      mf doom actually collaborated with gorillaz

    • @vondumozze738
      @vondumozze738 3 роки тому +7

      I found it interesting that riffs from "Court" were found in "Heart of the Sunrise ". Also, on Thanksgiving night , I got to see Yes open for KC and Procol Harum at the old Academy of Music in NYC. What a show! Gary Brooker's opening line was "A couple of tough acts to follow".

    • @josephhutchison1983
      @josephhutchison1983 3 роки тому

      ???

    • @firebrand4074
      @firebrand4074 3 роки тому +2

      @@matthewdyck5503 I wonder what islands would’ve sounded like with him instead of Boz assuming he stuck around to make the album

  • @txikilin
    @txikilin 3 роки тому +15

    Poetry and literature mixed in a musical suite. Full of colours, lyrical, jazzy, chaotic, sarcastic, pastoral. Love the bloody dawn when soldiers march forward, ... for a battle?. 13:21

  • @blaster.m1943
    @blaster.m1943 7 місяців тому +3

    that ending is so beautiful, always gives me shivers
    i tend to imagine various shapes of various colors dancing in a circle in the white void

  • @slackdude1
    @slackdude1 9 місяців тому +2

    Tippet’s piano is breathtaking. The opening song is like some fractured Beatles fairytale with an eerie vibe. Stunningly beautiful. Picked a great day to give up the smokes.

  • @stoneyll
    @stoneyll 3 роки тому +87

    There is no such thing as a "Bad King Crimson Album"..

    • @michaelcross9557
      @michaelcross9557 2 роки тому +6

      Right. It's a split between 4-star albums, and 5-star albums! Except maybe Beat. 3.5.

    • @magosreditus295
      @magosreditus295 2 роки тому +13

      @@michaelcross9557 ay beat is pretty good tho I love heartbeat and neurotica 🤤

    • @Pstephen
      @Pstephen 2 роки тому +4

      That live one? Earthbound.

    • @rporta
      @rporta 2 роки тому

      @@Pstephen that's not a studio album though

    • @alejandrobonahora6484
      @alejandrobonahora6484 2 роки тому

      @@magosreditus295 Okey, but ´´BEAT ´´is an album inferior to ´´LIZARD´´, since the latter named is very creative, elaborated and experimental....GREETINGS FROM ARGENTINA

  • @fehimpasic1875
    @fehimpasic1875 2 роки тому +2

    Sta reci osim NEMA BOLJE. najvisa sfera!

  • @o-mega7515
    @o-mega7515 Рік тому +4

    20 minute prog rock epics narrate my life.

  • @MrMonopod
    @MrMonopod 3 роки тому +8

    the best epic track of Progressive rock

  • @Montagncom
    @Montagncom 3 роки тому +6

    For me, perhaps the greatest album of King Crimson. Un vrai chef d'œuvre 👍

  • @True_Rarity
    @True_Rarity 3 роки тому +10

    God the piano is so beautiful

  • @athillaruben1771
    @athillaruben1771 3 роки тому +15

    Jon Anderson in this song is such banger and the song feels medieval while also being jazz it self

  • @grzegorzkawecki7954
    @grzegorzkawecki7954 3 роки тому +19

    Masterpiece!

  • @puppyhead6706
    @puppyhead6706 3 роки тому +4

    Robert Fripp, KC and Jon Anderson....dreams come true.

    • @rickdicl
      @rickdicl 3 роки тому +1

      and Mel Collins

  • @MerkinMuffly
    @MerkinMuffly 3 роки тому +78

    Linus: I never thought it was such a bad little album. It's not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love (Mr Fripp).

    • @linux4868
      @linux4868 3 роки тому +1

      I approve

    • @tomburns70
      @tomburns70 3 роки тому +3

      MerkinMuffy
      If you are 'Robert Fripp' I applaud you. Someone on Quora Quoted you as saying that the album, 'Lizard,' Sucked. I understand mood's can make us say thing's we don't mean, like anger. If you are Mr. Fripp: 1. Tell, do you feel that way, still?
      2. Give an almost unknown fact, please. I ran out to buy #1and every one since. Seen you play 'Lark's Tongue' with 'B.B.' & 'John Wetton' & one unknown on Gadgets & Bells magnificently in Florida. Tom

    • @josephhutchison1983
      @josephhutchison1983 3 роки тому

      This album kind of slipped under my radar but keeps coming back up to view. hmmmmm. Wassup?

    • @josephhutchison1983
      @josephhutchison1983 3 роки тому +1

      Started on this journey with KC in 1970. With that 'screaming face' record. What a trip it has been!!! Thank you Mr. Robert Fripp!!!

    • @caesaroftampa1266
      @caesaroftampa1266 3 роки тому +6

      @@tomburns70 @MerkinMuffly was not implying that he IS Robert Fripp, he's quoting Robert Fripp. I think you are confused from the "(Mr Fripp)" at the end. Most people don't tend to sign their names on comments on UA-cam videos or internet forums, it's mostly treated as an open conversation rather than like sending an E-mail or a real letter.

  • @marguskiis7711
    @marguskiis7711 3 роки тому +48

    Lizard is criminally underrated album! Great futuristic piece.

  • @jazzdude7014
    @jazzdude7014 3 роки тому +10

    thank you King Crimson for opening a door to a complete new musical experience back then, i was 15 when this album came out! My first Live KC experience was abt 4 years later in Germany. What an evening!

    • @josephhutchison1983
      @josephhutchison1983 3 роки тому +2

      Me? 1974 Majestic Theatre in Dallas was a KC night to remember!!!

  • @shockcorridor
    @shockcorridor 3 роки тому +11

    oh folks, Fripp and Sinfield at their best ever

  • @nostromo3523
    @nostromo3523 2 роки тому +5

    after i "understood" this record, it has quickly ascended to my favorite album of all time. the feels i get when i listed to this religiously on vinyl just doesn't compare to all the others. there are similar (like some frank zappa stuff, maiden voyage by herbie hancock and the rest of the earlier KC discography before red) but this one takes the cake. what a musical experience

  • @gwmatteson
    @gwmatteson 3 роки тому +13

    Ok, I'll admit I didn't like this the first time I heard it. But then I was only 13 and didn't really understand where prog rock was coming from at all. It took a few months for me to at appreciate a few songs on this album. Within a year it was my favorite. I love most everything King Crimson has ever done. But this album, and in particular the Lizard Suite remains my favorite. Yes, it's an acquired taste. But once you get it, it never disappoints.

    • @daghetto101
      @daghetto101 2 роки тому +1

      Acquired taste lol. Gentle giant album right there from your statement

    • @gwmatteson
      @gwmatteson 2 роки тому +1

      @@daghetto101 Funny you should mention Gentle Giant, they also are among my all time favorites. And yes, just as with King Crimson it took me some time to "acquire the taste." The first album I heard was "Three Friends." And of course I didn't like it at first. But it appealed to me at some subliminal level and I kept revisiting it, as it I knew I SHOULD like this. And eventually I did. I like pretty much everything Gentle Giant has ever done. I guess the only album I was really disappointed with was "Giant For A Day" but even that has a few decent songs on it and I still give it a listen once every year or two. A lot of GG die hard fans seems to hate "The Missing Piece" and "Civilian" and I'll admit they're more commercial sounding than their other work. But I still like both of them and I've successfully introduced several people to GG using both albums as a starting point. I'm hard pressed to say which of their albums is my favorite. I guess "Free Hand," "The Power And The Glory," "In A Glass House," and "Octopus" are the ones I've listened to the most over the years. But there isn't a single album in their catalog that I completely ignore. I'll never grow tired of their music.

    • @daghetto101
      @daghetto101 Рік тому

      @@gwmatteson Love The response mate. Prog music is the KING.

  • @maxpitchkites
    @maxpitchkites 3 роки тому +48

    I don't understand how Fripp could hate this album.

    • @davids.3534
      @davids.3534 3 роки тому +1

      He doesn't.

    • @yunarukami14
      @yunarukami14 3 роки тому +5

      He used to. But now he loves it

    • @mr.hooman6572
      @mr.hooman6572 3 роки тому +3

      @@yunarukami14 maybe because the technology wasn't there yet, but he loves it after hearing the steven wilson mix right?

    • @yunarukami14
      @yunarukami14 3 роки тому +1

      @@mr.hooman6572 Yes, correct, man.

    • @a.s.vanhoose1545
      @a.s.vanhoose1545 2 роки тому

      The execution isn’t perfect. Even the most die-hard lizard fan should be able to admit it.

  • @davelee2113
    @davelee2113 3 роки тому +5

    Great to listen to on a Sunday morn with a coffee and a j .

  • @bigvrocks2480
    @bigvrocks2480 6 місяців тому +2

    Truly amazing album from the first note until the last...

  • @densocling1235
    @densocling1235 3 роки тому +4

    These sounds are fantastically beautiful. Lizard blows me away. And the dirge at the end grabs a person's body and soul.

    • @John-be5pe
      @John-be5pe 3 місяці тому

      In the wake of posidon

  • @patriziabrugiatelli906
    @patriziabrugiatelli906 3 роки тому +7

    Adoro Lizard Grazie amico
    🌹👋

  • @solitudessilentgroove
    @solitudessilentgroove 2 роки тому +3

    rippling goosebumps as I reminisce upon my youth
    words fail to convey the depths of influence this music had upon me

  • @barakcohen3612
    @barakcohen3612 3 роки тому +36

    This geniuses wrote it in there early 20s .. so profound

  • @ahtepacholiztli
    @ahtepacholiztli 3 роки тому +4

    Best crossover in music history

  • @thelaughingstormbornagain1297
    @thelaughingstormbornagain1297 3 роки тому +3

    This song is a journey and I'm always for it when it comes on.

  • @joseramonmoralesmontesdeoc6042
    @joseramonmoralesmontesdeoc6042 3 роки тому +3

    GENIUS !!! PERENNIAL MUSIC.INNOVATION AND PERFECTION !!

  • @eltanguero9426
    @eltanguero9426 3 роки тому +7

    El disco más infravalorado de King Crimson sin lugar a dudas.

    • @holderlin13
      @holderlin13 3 роки тому +5

      King Crimson no necesita que lo valoren, por eso el rey vive y vuelve a vivir... estaremos de acuerdo, ¿no? Críticos han pasado y críticos han venido y el rey sigue ahí...

    • @Shrek_es_mi_pastor
      @Shrek_es_mi_pastor 3 роки тому +1

      ¿Y qué pasa con Islands, el de la portada del espacio?

    • @eltanguero9426
      @eltanguero9426 3 роки тому +1

      @@Shrek_es_mi_pastor Al menos tocan sus temas en vivo, sobre todo Sailor Tale, de este disco sólo han tocado Cirkus en su gira "Meltdown".

  • @mauropisani9861
    @mauropisani9861 3 роки тому +6

    La mia suite preferita, The number one.

  • @Herblatz
    @Herblatz 3 місяці тому +1

    Nice oboe playing, Robin Miller! and nice trombone playing, Nick Evans!

  • @paul2602
    @paul2602 3 роки тому +21

    These early KC records really expanded the musical horizon for a lot of 'rockers'. 👏👏👏

  • @carlosalberto2358
    @carlosalberto2358 3 роки тому +6

    Btfull....maravilhoso...magnífica...extraordinário... incrível....esplêndido... wndrfull...

  • @alfredolegorreta3106
    @alfredolegorreta3106 3 роки тому +6

    The KC album that I like the most...!

  • @marcusnolan7787
    @marcusnolan7787 2 роки тому +2

    outstanding band. I used to practice the fluit all along with my albums. Thank You.

  • @xaviervermande933
    @xaviervermande933 3 роки тому +5

    Each KC album are master peace

  • @music7
    @music7 3 роки тому +3

    "The Battle of Glass Tears": Materpiece!. Thank you very much

  • @trini8639
    @trini8639 3 роки тому +4

    Buenísimo!!!!🎶🥁🎺🎷🎸🎻👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🥰no puedo dejar de escucharlo!!!😘💗

  • @paulrreed5235
    @paulrreed5235 2 роки тому +2

    Not heard this for years…….soooo good to hear it again 😊

  • @TheDavidnewkirk
    @TheDavidnewkirk 3 роки тому +10

    An uncanny masterpiece.

    • @aakkoin
      @aakkoin 2 роки тому +3

      Masterpiece is not an easy word to throw around, but KC catalog is full of masterpieces.

    • @scifiwriter98
      @scifiwriter98 2 роки тому +1

      Pete Townsend would agree!

    • @JGLewis-jn2km
      @JGLewis-jn2km Рік тому

      Pete Townsend's famous tribute to ITCOTCK

  • @mariorossi7225
    @mariorossi7225 3 роки тому +1

    i was so young...thank you KC..all of you

  • @cindydufala7646
    @cindydufala7646 3 роки тому +4

    Excellent composition, arrangement, musicians,. Bravo ⚘

  • @gerardop9633
    @gerardop9633 3 роки тому +10

    Incluso en España tuvo cierta repercusion.Yo al menos compre LP.No sabia que John Anderson habia sido el vocalista,su hermano Andy fue cantante spanish group Los Bravos

  • @gfgarner1301
    @gfgarner1301 2 роки тому +1

    Still get chills listening to Prince Rupert's Lament. So achingly beautiful. It is the forerunner to Fripp's work on David Bowie's Heroes.

  • @antoniofazio5112
    @antoniofazio5112 3 роки тому +7

    Superba suite ..
    Musicisti eccellenti ..
    Fripp geniale ..

  • @jayhutchens8140
    @jayhutchens8140 3 роки тому +4

    A Masterpiece Album!

  • @btaglione
    @btaglione 2 роки тому +5

    peace of art !

  • @joseaugustoamorim
    @joseaugustoamorim 3 роки тому +11

    Jon Anderson of Yes

  • @level6-thehungariankingcri291
    @level6-thehungariankingcri291 3 роки тому +7

    Great album and song-suite!

  • @salome_gamgebeli
    @salome_gamgebeli 3 роки тому +2

    can't find any words,
    unreplaceable

  • @diegofantin6012
    @diegofantin6012 3 роки тому +10

    que temazo, que poca bola le dan a este disco de sus mejores en mi opinion

    • @reapervich4192
      @reapervich4192 3 роки тому +3

      toda la razón, por algún motivo siempre se lo pasa por alto, debería ser crimen

  • @philippecirse4872
    @philippecirse4872 6 місяців тому

    C'est la première chanson que ma filleule m'a entendu chanter. Elle avait quelques mois, ne s'endormait pas, criait et pleurait. Je l'ai prise dans mes bras, j'ai commencé à fredonner et elle est tombée dans un profond sommeil tout d'un coup, la tête dans les étoiles 🦊

  • @cham336
    @cham336 3 роки тому +3

    This suite is the reason for headphones. Do it. Bravo, kc.

  • @正後久-k1f
    @正後久-k1f 2 роки тому +4

    キング・クリムゾンでは、リザードとアイランズが好きです。美しいから…。

  • @XiyuYang
    @XiyuYang 3 роки тому +2

    What a phenomenal piece of music.

  • @akustik_prog1601
    @akustik_prog1601 2 роки тому +6

    When at 4:34 starts Bolero and the oboe played by the remarkable Robin Miller kicks in, this EPIC piece of music becomes a masterpiece and a true medicine for the soul. Robert Fripp once said that this melody sustained him in difficult times.

  • @msanders777
    @msanders777 Рік тому +2

    Can we take a minute to applaud Andy McCullochs work. Probably the least recognized of KC's many great drummers, but still brings his own style and top musicianship to this album.

    • @EdwinNewcomb
      @EdwinNewcomb 10 місяців тому

      absolutely brilliant drummer, check out with Greenslade

    • @msanders777
      @msanders777 10 місяців тому

      @EdwinNewcomb I'm not familiar with that, will definitely check em out.

  • @MegaCirse
    @MegaCirse 3 роки тому +7

    So prodigious when I listen to that, and that I also listen to so many artists of this musical universe today who are born original and die like pale photocopies¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This music unfolds like a picture book full of stars, where birds come planing, spinning farandoles, cracking rattles and dancing wizards. These songs fill with fervor and the instruments have the roundness and brilliance of chimes !

  • @massivecumshot
    @massivecumshot 2 роки тому +1

    Been trying to find the Steven Wilson remastering of this from 2005, where the dynamics are much more balanced. Still, complex an imaginative of classical, folk, jazz and prog whose parts are greater than the whole. There's a lot going on and your ears have to be hungry for this to work but there is beauty here.

    • @massivecumshot
      @massivecumshot 2 роки тому

      @La O AhHa! Peter Sinfield's poetry still knocks my dick in the dirt, every time.

  • @bryanmenacho9473
    @bryanmenacho9473 3 місяці тому +1

    5:20 , uno de los pasajes más hermosos en la discografia de King Crimson

  • @ronnywilson2112
    @ronnywilson2112 3 роки тому +3

    Great song. "Lizard" is a very good album.

  • @kiwiandurchin
    @kiwiandurchin 3 роки тому +2

    Farewell my lady of the dancing water to Farewell the temple master's bells. Just brilliant.

  • @高比良務-d3o
    @高比良務-d3o 3 роки тому +3

    この曲のジョンアンダーソンの声はイエスのどの曲よりも、一番あっています。

  • @chicklets4ever51
    @chicklets4ever51 Рік тому +1

    Fantastic piece of music. Epic. Even Robert Fripp has learned to like it.