King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon
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Fozzie
July 19th 2015


506 Comments


With the exception of 'Cat Food,' this is basically 'In the Court 2.0', except much, much worse. It's embarrassing to say the least. Blatant self-plagiarism.

Bad Sinfield lyrics all over this album and the 'Peace' songs, if you can call them that, are ridiculous. 'The Devil's Triangle' is long, forgettable, and laughably bad. Some real desperate attempts to fill up space on the record.


Even the album art is ridiculous. Look the expressions on the faces. The girl in the top left looks at you saying 'Oh I know it's a near exact copy of the first album, but please buy it.' Then you got the guy on the left gloating, the smug fucker in the bottom corner, and the strung out junkie in the top corner. Even she knows this is a clone of the first record.

Skip this and get Lizard instead.

Frippertronics
Emeritus
July 20th 2015


19513 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

nah fuck you

Valkyrion
July 20th 2015


1161 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

album has terrible structure tbh but some of the best KC tracks here like T/T and cadence and cascade

adr
July 20th 2015


12097 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

i like this, but they rip-off In the Court here pretty much

Valkyrion
July 20th 2015


1161 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

a ripoff of one of the best classic prog albums is still a good album though ;)

adr
July 20th 2015


12097 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

exactly

Hovse
July 20th 2015


2740 Comments


i like this album tbh

JamieTwort
July 20th 2015


26988 Comments


It's one of KC's best.

Weird to think that back when this came out it was universally (well, at least critically) considered a significant improvement over In the Court...

JamieTwort
July 20th 2015


26988 Comments


"album has terrible structure tbh"

To be honest this album's structure makes more sense than In the Court's structure of one heavy face-melting track followed by consistently serene atmospheric tracks broken up by a shitty improv. This may not feel as cohesive but it definitely feels more balanced.

Valkyrion
July 20th 2015


1161 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Well the case for this one is that it has 3 useless tracks (Peace), and then Devil's Triangle sounds like an intro except it goes for 11 minutes and is put in the latter half of the album

JamieTwort
July 20th 2015


26988 Comments


I wouldn't call the Peace tracks useless at all, in fact I think they give the album a certain character and atmosphere that I'd miss if they weren't there. As for The Devil's Triangle, that's one of their more interesting improvs and it shits all over Moonchild that's for sure.

Pch101
July 20th 2015


115 Comments


I could do without the first Peace. The second one is a brief guitar segue that is a nice little interlude that shouldn't offend anyone who doesn't have a phobia of acoustic guitars -- if it hadn't been given its own title, then it wouldn't even attract that much attention.

The album is worth it for "Cat Food" alone. Very creative work there.

Valkyrion
July 20th 2015


1161 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I like the peace interludes myself, but 3 of them are a bit much for an album that isn't even 50 minutes long imho. Kind of agree with Devil's Triangle as well as I'm not a fan of Moonchild either, but it's still relatively uneventful for a 11 minute track

argonaut
July 21st 2015


818 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Pictures Of A City is so good.

Onirium
November 1st 2015


3115 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Cat food, cat food, cat food, AGAAAIN

SharkTooth
November 1st 2015


14922 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

cooonnnnnnnncreeeeeeeeeeete coooooooold face.....

CASED IN STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLL




Mongi123
November 1st 2015


22035 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Album is good shit

SharkTooth
November 1st 2015


14922 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

agreed

MrSirLordGentleman
November 1st 2015


15343 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Why Fozzie hasn't been banned yet omg

Mongi123
November 1st 2015


22035 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Lol he's not here nearly long enough to warrant a ban. He's more a novelty user that appears for one comment once a month xD



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