The drums are played from Bill Bruford, witch is my favorite drummer! Is a drummer that played for Yes, a band that I recommend especially the Fragile album!
Oh maaan @smags you’ve got to do Yes’s Close to the Edge album. Three songs, each a masterpiece, that come together to bridge 60s’ psychedelia’s transcendent themes with 70s’ progressive’s technical rigor. Came out six months before Dark Side of the Moon, and in my mind is its spiritual sister. Absolute must listen.
Great reaction, The album's 50th anniversary was last week! This album was the start of the 3rd incarnation of King Crimson, this album picked up right after Islands which is insane considering how different it is.
💯. I was just settling into how awesome this is and almost immediately he reached up and turned the volume down to where his microphone volume was just deafening in comparison. It's my pet peeve with reactors when they don't know how to balance their sound. It's too bad because it is such great content.
Lark's Tongues in Aspic and their 1974 album Red are indeed early precursors of Prog Metal. The riff in Lark's Tongues in Aspic was among the heaviest there was at that time. 100% metal.
You ask if Larks's Tongues (Pt. 2) is "metal"? Yes, I think's proto-metal. Well, interestingly, Dream Theater made a nice cover for it: ua-cam.com/video/i7VQ7DHOzbM/v-deo.html
It's so great to watch you discovering King Crimson! I'm watching this since you reacted to in The Court Of The Crimson King. You should check out more Prog Rock! I recommend Emerson Lake And Palmer, band that's influenced by King Crimson, has the best keyboard player in the world, one of the best drummers, and bass and vocals are done by the first King Crimson's bassist and vocalist - Greg Lake. Beside that, Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Camel, and ofcourse my favourite band ever - Pink Floyd. Edit: About long songs... I love long songs, and the longer it is, the better it can be... and trust me if you gonna try some more prog you'll see some shit that has over 20 mintues... and it's the best things in the world...
King Crimson, especially in the 1970s, was a pioneering band. Instead of drawing from R&B, blues, and folk, it took a lot from modern classical music. Guitarist Robert Fripp's favorite composer is Bela Bartok - a Hungarian composer who wanted to take eastern European/Gypsy music and set it to a classical format. What you get in King Crimson is the use of odd time signatures in songs like Lark's Tongue in Aspic Part II, where the meter is 10/8. Just keep counting to 10 as you listen to this. Not exactly Rock and Roll is it? This is very adventurous music that is not easily grasped in the first listen. Enjoy your adventures with King Crimson.
You haft to check out the band Gentle Giant they are another staple of Progressive rock I’d even have them over Crimson IMO their music is incredible and not too many react to them sadly
I just subscribed because I have seen a few of your videos and I like the honesty of them. Too many times reactors overreact positively to songs that sometimes I believe they don't like.
Great album, it turns 50 this year! Most of it is better live, though. I recommend two albums from prog rock bands who were contemporaries of Crimson: Fragile by Yes and Selling England by the Pound by Genesis. Also check out King Crimson’s THRAK album sometime- the child of Discipline and Red.
I have done listening to all King Crimson albums ,and I think 80s King Crimson albums called "Beat" & "Dicipline" is their best mainstream albums ever👏!
Great album! You should try Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff. It's another eclectic prog band like King Crimson, but has it's own rather unique style. The album has a vibrant sound with a saxophone, flute, organ, piano and guitar often playing together. Also has rather emotional vocals/lyrics.
Good review. I remember the first time I heard this album, and even those who've heard King Crimson before have trouble processing it the first time, particularly the two title tracks. Utterly uncompromising and completely crazy - there's no record like it at all, not even in their challenging discography!
Hello - a new subscriber here after finding your KC reactions. Their catalog is eclectic, and their lineups are many, steered and conducted by guitarist Robert Fripp. I absolutely love some of their albums and don't listen to others as much, although Fripp has collected more of my money than any artist over the years. 1969's King Crimson is pretty much where progressive music started, though some previous British invasion music was becoming progressive, and Hendrix had kicked open the creative doors two years before. Every progressive band was influenced by the appearance of KC on the music scene, and the band kind of continues today. You will probably love my favorite bands: Genesis, Yes, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree, a more recent progressive band. There are many deep rabbit holes filled with wandering warrens of solo artists and collaborations that will keep the serious listener busy for the rest of their lives. Enjoy the '60s and '70s! I recommend Selling England by the Pound by Genesis, with Peter Gabriel on vocals and Phil Collins on drums.
You say you don't research albums at all before listening, Therefore I highly recommend doing either Schlagenheim or Hellfire by black midi. That would be an interesting react.
Great video dude. My first reaction to Larks 1 was the same I was like wtf am I listening to. Also any live version of Easy Money is 100x better because it doesn’t have those weird ad libs.
The fact that you just say what we all think, lol. “Oh, I can turn down the volume now”. Also, I know that it's not that prog rock but listen to “Do it again” by Steely Dan.
Fun fact: easy Money has an additional Verse on live Performances that Sounds quite concerning: Well, I argued with the judge But that bastard wouldn't budge 'Cause they caught me licking fudge And they never told me once you were a minor
This IS metal, everything else............uhhmm. Some can handle it, most can't. Now get you some Zappa. Dr. Billy Bruford on drums, quit the band Yes because he's a man of honor.
Hey man would you consider trying the album Live at the Witch Trials by the Fall? Not many reactors have done them but they were a band for over 40 years, and continually reinvented themselves and kind of created their own niche. It’s not a live album, despite the name, but it’s their first album so it’s as good a place to start as any. Love the reactions man
Dude, you should do Pavement, Slanted and Enchanted. I know you're a production guy - and it's an anti-production album - but it has a sound like nothing you've ever heard.
Definitely an album that requires more than one listen. 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2-3. So complex, and what a bizarre mood. "It's really easy to put the apostrosphe in the wrong place." Lark is a bird, aspic is a jelly-like food, usually yellowish in color, much like unflavored Jello. Because we are talking posessive plural, the apostrophe goes after the pluralizing 's' i.e. more than one bird tongue is in the dish. Reputedly served at high feasts in ancient Rome. If you like short, snappy songs, get into the radio hits of the 60s. So much good music out there -- enjoy the ride.
you gotta listen to fragile by yes, its much more conventional and has amazing instrumentation whith the likes of bill bruford who is the drummer you hear on this album
That was a reference they wanted to make unsettling, being one. They wanted to take popular music forward in a new way. Tech was limited but they were incredible live. You’ve no patience. You’re used to simple crap obvs.
Somehow, I dared to go in deeper into this Smalgala or what his name is. Just how to self centered this "beautiful" boy is. This cant has no respect for anything except his ADHD vibe. He must be important. At least a bit of Elvis. Even better Donals.
The drums are played from Bill Bruford, witch is my favorite drummer! Is a drummer that played for Yes, a band that I recommend especially the Fragile album!
Facts 100%
Oh maaan @smags you’ve got to do Yes’s Close to the Edge album. Three songs, each a masterpiece, that come together to bridge 60s’ psychedelia’s transcendent themes with 70s’ progressive’s technical rigor. Came out six months before Dark Side of the Moon, and in my mind is its spiritual sister. Absolute must listen.
Can you believe that Close to the Edge and this is just 6 months apart... what a year.
You LOOK kinda like Bruford !?
@@poiesist I've combined Close To The Edge section and Larks Tongues In Aspic (Part 1) section...somewhere... wonder if King Crimson did too !!?
Prog Metal, Avant-Metal something like that definitely. They were never a Prog Metal but they basically created it imo.
This is a great album, good times. Glad you checked this one out!
Can’t wait for the Lizard album reaction
Fk yeah, my fav KC’s album
Is he doing that one next?
Great reaction, The album's 50th anniversary was last week! This album was the start of the 3rd incarnation of King Crimson, this album picked up right after Islands which is insane considering how different it is.
David Cross on violin. Definitely a master. Jamie Muir is doing some insane percussion things on this album as well.
Met a young Greek violin guy got him into Davie Cross and Crimson a bit, anyway!
7:04 dude the cut of you going from 'oh robert' to complete face palm during the solo is hilarious
Now you have to do “Starless and Bible Black” and definitely “Red”.
He's already reacted to Red on his channel, check it out!
Yes he has to do Starless and Bible Black album! I’d love to sed his reaction to the whole album!
Volume should be set to maximum.
💯. I was just settling into how awesome this is and almost immediately he reached up and turned the volume down to where his microphone volume was just deafening in comparison. It's my pet peeve with reactors when they don't know how to balance their sound. It's too bad because it is such great content.
Lark's Tongues in Aspic and their 1974 album Red are indeed early precursors of Prog Metal.
The riff in Lark's Tongues in Aspic was among the heaviest there was at that time. 100% metal.
You ask if Larks's Tongues (Pt. 2) is "metal"? Yes, I think's proto-metal. Well, interestingly, Dream Theater made a nice cover for it: ua-cam.com/video/i7VQ7DHOzbM/v-deo.html
It’s not proto metal it’s progressive metal proto metal is mainly used to describe heavy rock music that predates Black Sabbath’s debut album
It's so great to watch you discovering King Crimson! I'm watching this since you reacted to in The Court Of The Crimson King. You should check out more Prog Rock! I recommend Emerson Lake And Palmer, band that's influenced by King Crimson, has the best keyboard player in the world, one of the best drummers, and bass and vocals are done by the first King Crimson's bassist and vocalist - Greg Lake. Beside that, Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Camel, and ofcourse my favourite band ever - Pink Floyd.
Edit: About long songs... I love long songs, and the longer it is, the better it can be... and trust me if you gonna try some more prog you'll see some shit that has over 20 mintues... and it's the best things in the world...
King Crimson, especially in the 1970s, was a pioneering band. Instead of drawing from R&B, blues, and folk, it took a lot from modern classical music. Guitarist Robert Fripp's favorite composer is Bela Bartok - a Hungarian composer who wanted to take eastern European/Gypsy music and set it to a classical format. What you get in King Crimson is the use of odd time signatures in songs like Lark's Tongue in Aspic Part II, where the meter is 10/8. Just keep counting to 10 as you listen to this. Not exactly Rock and Roll is it? This is very adventurous music that is not easily grasped in the first listen. Enjoy your adventures with King Crimson.
Need to see Larks tongue in aspic part ll LIVE!!!
You haft to check out the band Gentle Giant they are another staple of Progressive rock I’d even have them over Crimson IMO their music is incredible and not too many react to them sadly
I just subscribed because I have seen a few of your videos and I like the honesty of them. Too many times reactors overreact positively to songs that sometimes I believe they don't like.
thanks bro!
Great album, it turns 50 this year! Most of it is better live, though. I recommend two albums from prog rock bands who were contemporaries of Crimson: Fragile by Yes and Selling England by the Pound by Genesis. Also check out King Crimson’s THRAK album sometime- the child of Discipline and Red.
I have done listening to all King Crimson albums ,and I think 80s King Crimson albums called "Beat" & "Dicipline" is their best mainstream albums ever👏!
There not very mainstream though not like super experimental and not super inaccessible but defenitly not quite mainstream
Lark is a bird 🐦 it's an Asian delicacy Aspic is a gelatinous food
The great deceiver, check that one too
Lest go, nice reaction. The vibe on those songs. Incredible
Great album! You should try Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff. It's another eclectic prog band like King Crimson, but has it's own rather unique style. The album has a vibrant sound with a saxophone, flute, organ, piano and guitar often playing together. Also has rather emotional vocals/lyrics.
It's a classic album 🥇🏆🔥
Good review. I remember the first time I heard this album, and even those who've heard King Crimson before have trouble processing it the first time, particularly the two title tracks. Utterly uncompromising and completely crazy - there's no record like it at all, not even in their challenging discography!
I guess Van der Graaf Generator would be a good choice for the reaction
would be interested to see you do ween, my fave album of theirs is quebec.
Hello - a new subscriber here after finding your KC reactions. Their catalog is eclectic, and their lineups are many, steered and conducted by guitarist Robert Fripp. I absolutely love some of their albums and don't listen to others as much, although Fripp has collected more of my money than any artist over the years. 1969's King Crimson is pretty much where progressive music started, though some previous British invasion music was becoming progressive, and Hendrix had kicked open the creative doors two years before. Every progressive band was influenced by the appearance of KC on the music scene, and the band kind of continues today. You will probably love my favorite bands: Genesis, Yes, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree, a more recent progressive band. There are many deep rabbit holes filled with wandering warrens of solo artists and collaborations that will keep the serious listener busy for the rest of their lives. Enjoy the '60s and '70s! I recommend Selling England by the Pound by Genesis, with Peter Gabriel on vocals and Phil Collins on drums.
Yes, prog metal, that's good description.
A lark is a small bird...
its tongue is obvious...
aspic is gelatine, like a flavorless Jello.
This is a Zen slap to your pinhead.
Peace on earth.
You say you don't research albums at all before listening, Therefore I highly recommend doing either Schlagenheim or Hellfire by black midi. That would be an interesting react.
I would love to see his blind reaction to hellfire
LTiA Part I is a great track to test stereo equipment on.
Patience is a virtue grasshopper 😎👍🏻💯
Great video dude. My first reaction to Larks 1 was the same I was like wtf am I listening to.
Also any live version of Easy Money is 100x better because it doesn’t have those weird ad libs.
Your comments are cracking me up lmaoo
Jo some young Boy getting into King Crimson,good Tv for the Morning man.
The fact that you just say what we all think, lol. “Oh, I can turn down the volume now”.
Also, I know that it's not that prog rock but listen to “Do it again” by Steely Dan.
Fun fact: easy Money has an additional Verse on live Performances that Sounds quite concerning:
Well, I argued with the judge But that bastard wouldn't budge
'Cause they caught me licking fudge And they never told me once you were a minor
Violinist is David Cross
Lizard should be your next KC album
Should check out still life and pawn hearts by Van Der Graaf Generator
Please react to Radiohead - OK Computer and Kid A (especially Kid A)
This IS metal, everything else............uhhmm. Some can handle it, most can't. Now get you some Zappa. Dr. Billy Bruford on drums, quit the band Yes because he's a man of honor.
PLEASE DO IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON
Hey man would you consider trying the album Live at the Witch Trials by the Fall? Not many reactors have done them but they were a band for over 40 years, and continually reinvented themselves and kind of created their own niche. It’s not a live album, despite the name, but it’s their first album so it’s as good a place to start as any. Love the reactions man
Don't! Lower! The! Volume! Dude! ;)
Dude, you should do Pavement, Slanted and Enchanted. I know you're a production guy - and it's an anti-production album - but it has a sound like nothing you've ever heard.
Just do all the KC albums bro there all worth it. I think you'll like Thrak from 1995
Thrak definitely! The Construktion of Light and Power to Believe also!
Definitely an album that requires more than one listen. 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2-3. So complex, and what a bizarre mood.
"It's really easy to put the apostrosphe in the wrong place." Lark is a bird, aspic is a jelly-like food, usually yellowish in color, much like unflavored Jello. Because we are talking posessive plural, the apostrophe goes after the pluralizing 's' i.e. more than one bird tongue is in the dish. Reputedly served at high feasts in ancient Rome. If you like short, snappy songs, get into the radio hits of the 60s. So much good music out there -- enjoy the ride.
Could I do one more, immediately?
If I hadda vote, Larks' would be #1, and Discipline a close #2. Both of them the first albums from a retooled, revamped version of Crim.
Bro if i ever hear someone talk shit about book of Saturday in person i will smack the shit out of them. song is godlike
Did that happen lol
@@j.prt.979 No, Havent met anyone that foolish irl yet
The first track on all of their albums, regardless of the lineup is always TOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yoo would be a big change to what you have been listening too, but I recommend Donald Byrds Places and Spaces
Haha squishy drums!
you gotta listen to fragile by yes, its much more conventional and has amazing instrumentation whith the likes of bill bruford who is the drummer you hear on this album
?chill vibe" hehe you are not prepared... hehe
Three of a perfect pair next?
Lizard probably
@@smags1082 Excellent choice
Try “Islands” next…
That was a reference they wanted to make unsettling, being one. They wanted to take popular music forward in a new way. Tech was limited but they were incredible live. You’ve no patience. You’re used to simple crap obvs.
eat a tab of shine and you'll understand what the voices are saying.
Take a 20 minute walk instead, and listen to an entire side of an album like a movie.
Advice.
It's the journey man, the journey. 4 x 4 music sucks, embrace the beauty and think outside the box
It's a bird dummy! Start the album over, flap your arms, and go "Weee!"
Somehow, I dared to go in deeper into this Smalgala or what his name is. Just how to self centered this "beautiful" boy is. This cant has no respect for anything except his ADHD vibe.
He must be important. At least a bit of Elvis. Even better Donals.
"ad-libs". Fills? If it's an instrument that's a fill.
Maybe just take less drugs, or what U are hanning about? Maybe more drugs. Anyway. This is nowhere very fast.
this yapping is unlike any other
This kid is yawning on the peak partk of larks, wow... better to stick to hip hop with the same beat in enourmous 3 minutres long songs.
I like you but you swear too much and it's off-putting!
Agreed. So f*cking annoying!
Why do you act black?
what
@@smags1082 admit it