Posted on 01/25/2020 2:59:22 PM PST by SamAdams76
I think I played this song at least 10 times today.
I discovered this because I am building a playlist of songs that were popular a half century ago. I intend to carry this through for the rest of my life. The playlist is called "50 Years".
I was born in 1962 so I only started remembering music around the year 1970 but back then, it was Partridge Family, Archies, that type of stuff, because I was only 7 years old, you know.
But this song by King Crimson is EPIC. Turns out that the late Greg Lake did vocals. It's a 10+ minute masterpiece. Said to be the first real "prog-rock" album.
Anyhow, it's great to discover music a half century after it came out. The album art is ugly but I'll post a lion down below, which is pretty cool.
Song is about a man and his girlfriend dying while on the way to the hospital told in the first person - truly creepy tune!
I discovered King Crimson a few months ago on YouTube. I was born in December, 1970, so they were before my time.
I was perusing YouTube and saw the thumbnail for King Crimson’s “Epitath”. The song title sounded promising, so I listened to it and was blown away.
I downloaded the LP on Spotify and listened to the entire album. When “Court of the Crimson King” started playing, I recognized the chorus from hearing the song on a Classic Rock station when I was a teenager.
I purchased the album on ITunes. “Epitaph” has become one of my favorite songs, because I love songs with dark, depressing lyrics and instrumentation.
I recommend “Starless” from their “Red” LP. Another incredible, dark song that features John Wetton as the vocalist. Wetton was the lead singer of “Asia”.
Wow you had a great upbringing! I was the 4th daughter of a family who didn’t really play music very much. But, my father - who was in my life for a very short time, did play Herb Albert and others; and my very first music memory is hearing The New Christy Minstrels album, and loving the picture of them hanging on a train. I might have been 3 or 4.
I was on my own after that. Yes I loved David Cassidy and Bobby Sherman, but by 4th grade it was John Denver and the Moody Blues and Chicago; Rod Stewart, CCR, The Eagles, Elton (ELTON! When he was good he was the best) - basically anything; I absorbed it all.
Wow, I just did a Google for 1970 and yup, I was there. Three Dog Night, Simon and Garfunkel, The Temptations, the Kinks, and The Brothers Johnson .... All of them. I loved all of them.
I was not a Beatles fan - I thought the solo things they each did were far better than what they did together. BUT - Have you ever seen the Kennedy Center Honors when Paul was recognised? Steven Tyler and others played the music of McCartney and it brings me to tears every time I watch it.
(That reminds me - Kennedy Center Honors - Led Zepplin. Heart does the singing. Oh my lord - sobbing).
I think because of those influences I came to love classical music, too, and my 5th grade self was spinning Beethoven as much as I spun Days of Future Passed and Can’t Buy a Thrill :)
In school I took up the drums, and then the double bass and then the cello. I had dreams of being a professional musician but life and shit happens, doesn’t it.
I lived just outside of NYC and I worshipped 95.5 WPLJ with Jim Kerr, and Alison Steele The Nightbird over on WNEW - THAT was a rock station. “The wonder and beauty of WNEW-FM’s format was that the DJ’s were far more than disc jockeys. While certainly playing music–vinyl and likely albums–they also spoke to us. They commented on current events. They read poetry. They told stories”
I found Coltrane in my 20’s and am grateful to a dear brother in law for that.
Rush came along in my mid-twenties and has held first place ever since. The recent passing of Neil has gutted the whole Rush community - and it’s odd but ALL of us say “I am gutted” - it seems to be the universally descriptive word for our sorrow.
Starship Troopers is a beautiful, powerful tune. You have a wonderful memory of hearing it on that road trip. Yes is in my Top 5, always.
I truly believe the Classes of 1977 - 1982 were born at the sweetest spot for rock.
And I like the originals as well.
While I missed most of Dylan's best works while growing up, I managed to make up for lost time in adulthood.
They were described as the group with no sense of humor.
I could listen to that song repeatedly.
For some reason, I love dark and depressing.
Never seen that before. Thanks for the link.
Would you?
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I'm well familiar with the Average White Band hit version of "Pick Up The Pieces" but this Candy Dulfer 15-minute live version is EPIC.
But great music.
Whenever I see Roy Buchanan’s name I also think of Danny Gatton, another great telecaster guy who is not widely known. I especially like his versions of Sleepwalk and the Perry Mason theme.
Another ugly piece of album art but the music of the Yardbirds is somewhat well known to me. Some famous musicians came out of that band including Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) and Eric Clapton.
NonononoNOOOOOO! 1967 through 1977. Best decade EVER!! Of course from what I remember of it....
I saw her perform in the early 1980s. Helped make me a fan of country music.
“Lark’s Tongues in Aspic” is one of my top 5 favorite albums.
I was the typical rock listening teenager, then one day on TV I saw these four guys who looked like typical rockers playing Jazz, and it totally blew me away. It was the early version of The Pat Metheny Group and the song was “San Lorenzo”, it just totally changed everything for me.
Of course I had to rush out and find the album, and it’s still probably my favorite album of all time.
I'm aware Geoff Downs was in The Buggles - "Video Killed The Radio Star" was one of my favorite songs, even before it became the first video on MTV.
Saw them at Madison Square Garden live in 1976. With the Edgar Winter Band.
Trevor Horn replaced Anderson on Yes’ “Drama” album. A lot of Yes fans don’t care for it, because Anderson wasn’t on it, but I like it a lot. It has some of Steve Howe’s best guitar work, and “Tempus Fugit” is a great song.
Wow. What a show that must have been. Saw Johnny back in the day, but never Edgar.
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