Thursday, November 17, 2011

King Crimson - In Wake Of Poseidon (1970)



Esoteric and shady. Naive or pretentious. You have to believe me how i have tried to understand this after me told this is something on the top. I remember listening to this at my friend's in early 70s, but was not impressed even then. Can't explain what it exactly is KC misses. The Crown? Everything seems to be at its right place...but is not. Artificial, pretentious daydreaming.... messy oratorio by some unknown cult. And the libretto is pure cat food. What bothers me most with this is: they (Fripp and Sinfield) seem to be absolutely serious with their "message". Whatever it was. At least bad poetry and boring twiddling driven by dragging, endless and pathetic sound of mellotron.

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