King Crimson-Cirkus(including Entry Of The Chameleons)

[6stringmike1]

Acoustic guitar from 0:56 to 1:55.......Fripp is the man.

[szatanish666]

pure fuckin' genius... it's hard to describe the magnificence of this song.

[simonalamona345]

Who the fuck cares what's your age? Can't you listen to something and be secure about it? jesus

[lurch321]

Even if you aren't a big Crimson fan, you have to admit that they had the best album cover artwork of the 70s!

[virilevocalist]

You teens who listen to prog remind of my nerdy friends who sat in the hallways in highschool on their laptops. Good on ya.

[j3z0m374l]

I'm 14 years old and i totally agree with top comment. I adore these guys, they are fucking amazing.

[silvertube52]

Pure genius. Consider that Fripp and the gang were handed a allegorical poem that covered the beginning of the universe through to a repeating cycle of the rise and fall of human societies.

Somehow they wrote 6:30 minutes of music that nailed it.

Truly incredible even 40 years later.

[itskarmabxtch]

@silvertube52 HUH, thanks for that bit of info, i didn't know this was an allegory for the beg. of the universe!

[LeftBehindForDead]

@itskarmabxtch More than it's about the beginning of the Universe, it's about the beginning and life of an individual: "Gave me each a horse, sunrise, and graveyard" (Object for travel, birth and death). All elements of greater atomic mass than Lithium (#3 on the periodic table) are assumed to have been from fusion in stars, hence: "fused my dust from a lightyear / squeezed me to her breast / sowed me with carbon." The beginning of the universe is very literal, hence, not the allegory.

[doubleotwentyone]

Love that atmospheric bit at 4.18...great dynamics in this music.

[jaccisboy]

very jazzed influence for a rock song.

[FocusedLucidity]

This track is heavier than Slayer!

[robinzhooded]

@FocusedLucidity Electric wizards dopethrone is the heaviest.

[grevejp44]

am i the only kid who listens to all the music from my parents days except all the music they hated.

[psychedelicswarup]

@grevejp44 i'm with you on that one man! i dont mean to hate on today's music, but it doesnt take as much skill as it does to make this as it does any song made today. its sad really man, music used to be more than music back in the day. it was a way for people to come together, it was a form of art!

[newfuckingwave]

@grevejp44 i listen to a lot of the things my parents listened to, but at the same time i really make them scratch their heads from time to time with their own generation's music. king crimson is one such example. they 'respect' them as competent artists but i know i have given them a few headaches by playing 21st century schizoid man in the car. and that makes it all the more exciting

[BaxBreakoutBox]

This is what great musical avant garde psychology is all about! Let the music take you where it goes.

[davimundo]

que pedazo de tema wn¡¡¡¡

[CloudMan1959]

My first King Crimson album...what an introduction.

[jasonmarkhor]

1:27 scream that makes my hairs stand on end skin

[krome50]

Aaaaaaah.... the sound of the mellotron...... :-)

[krome50]

Fripp's acoustic guitar play is simply delirious !!! And what about that sax solo ? Pure magic......

[Spudzilla5656]

"Elephants forgot, force-fed on stale chalk, ate the floors of their cages" is one of my favourite lyrics ever.

[WeedVulva]

too high to get up and roll more.

[yoursaxman]

Mel Collins simply shines on this tune...pure magic.

[mikeisapro]

200 Years from now all the music from 1950-2050 will be seen as the same type.

Just because of new technology doesn't mean songs structure is drastically different enough to be considered modern in comparison to music only 20-30 years before it. Don't think in such limited scope. Music is timeless. Technology doesnt create it, we would have to be able to conceive of it for it to exist

[andythepiano001]

I have always been a fan of Genesis - Gabriel era of course -never knew about KC OMG - I'm gonna have to lie on the floor in the dark all over again LOL

[Matshoppahulle]

@andythepiano001 Genesis comment after listening to King crimson: In the court......

Shit they already made it. From an interview on prog.

[theeclecticist06]

I´ve always been convinced that Fripp & Sinfield did acid between 69-71. As exemplified by lyrics and e.g. passage at 4:20. Very psychedelic. As if conjured directly for the user. First four Crimson LPs are all like this, Islands being most extraordinary.

[kevin4peace]

I'm 15 years old. I don't need metal or to become emo to be unique, I just listen to prog. Screw you society.

[Carthsgtr]

@kevin4peace

The fact that you wrote that comment makes you a pretentious twat. I am 16 but have NEVER felt the need to tell everyone on a King Crimson video how old I am. You are an ASS.

[kevin4peace]

@Carthsgtr Actually, I wrote that to show older people that there are in fact younger people that like King Crimson. I'm also proud that I don't like terrible new music. Sorry if I offended you.

[Carthsgtr]

@kevin4peace

Judging by half of these videos most adults know that the kids still listen to this sort of stuff. Unfortunately for them they know they are a bunch of pretentious cunts. I mean that in the harshest sense of the word. You didn't NEED to tell anyone that teenagers still listen to this because no one fucking asked.

[mikeisapro]

@kevin4peace you dont like bad new music but i hope you like good stuff

By the way, i find it weird that people describe music only decades old as OLD music. Here's a history of music for everybody. year 1000-1500 Middle Ages: no harmony, no parts

1500-1600 Renaissance: 2 parts singing, mostly vocal

1600-1750 baroque: bach, Handel

1750-1820 Classical: Mozart, beethoven, shubert

1820-1900 Romantic: Chopin, Listz

1900- Present MODERN

[kevin4peace]

@mikeisapro Well, if the music is more than twice as old as I am, its old to me.

[portgill]

@kevin4peace u forgot Brahms! his later piano works r awesome"""

[BrianCulticeMusic]

@mikeisapro The speed of musical progression has increased 10 fold. Just like in computers, where a computer made only two years prior is percieved as ancient, music made twenty or even thirty years ago seems very old because of the drastic changes in style and technology.

[mikeisapro]

@BrianCulticeMusic doesn't matter, its all modern music. I cant think of much 1900-1930 music but Jazz in the 40s and Miles davis and the pop that was found in the 40s, 50s is very similar in style as today, just not in sound. The structure is what is similar. Its sectional, with repeating forms. Then the 60s came with an explosion of experimentation, and this period was less structural (except for the 60s pop of course) but Modern Pop music has always been structural and similar.

[monkeygoodcipherbad1]

@kevin4peace ... no worries bro, don't feed the troll...

[Cazametroides]

@kevin4peace I was going to say the same. Great comment, kevin4peace.

[pedropo1000]

@kevin4peace 100%agreed

[shoro12]

@kevin4peace

You can't be metal or emo to be unique anyways, because those aren't unique. Prog is one of various acts of individualism.

[babadelh]

@kevin4peace moi aussi j'ai17ans j'écoute que du prog, c'est tellement meilleur que toute les merdes qu'ils nous balancent a la radio !

[thychaos]

@kevin4peace kids like you are annoying. "see every1 im yung and i likes prog, see? im cool rite? i listen too good moosic unlike every1 else my age, im different."

shut the fuck up.

[kevin4peace]

@thychaos I didn't use terrible grammar as you are insinuating, and I don't see why you'd be so angry at someone expressing their pride of enjoying excellent music that most kids my age don't understand. Maybe you should relax and try to not get annoyed at something that doesn't affect you at all.

[thychaos]

@kevin4peace no shit you didnt use bad grammar, i was merely making fun of you.

[kevin4peace]

@thychaos Making fun of me by sarcastically using bad grammar while you're aware that I'm not using bad grammar makes literally no sense to me.

[thychaos]

@kevin4peace it indicates that what you were implying is retarded.

[5stringgod]

@kevin4peace congratulations...

[TheWinkler]

@kevin4peace - I was in my mid-to-late teens about 18 years ago, and that's when I started to listen to KC to (obviously, several years after the 70s albums had been released) and I LOVED it. Glad young people continue to see the relevance in this music. I wish I could've seen any of the 70s incarnations of the group. Fortunately I did get to see Robert Fripp open a G3 show in 1996 or 1997 doing some soundscapes. Loved it.

[Seanus32]

@kevin4peace Want a rubber? Why? I hear you ask. Well, you have the word bitch written all over your face. You are 55, dziadziu, not 15. Więc, nie kłam, gnojek!

[kevin4peace]

@Seanus32 I only wrote that I'm older than 15 so I can watch videos that are flagged 18+. What a rebel. And don't swear at me in Polish.

[Seanus32]

@kevin4peace Fair enough. Polish swearing is fun :)

[joeyrsl]

@kevin4peace you remind me of me 20+ years ago. keep listening to prog, it's the best. :)

[benlorenc]

@kevin4peace yur sew hip.

[kugunga]

@benlorenc so are you

[greatsea]

@kevin4peace --  Been through your Soft Machine stage yet?

[kevin4peace]

@greatsea Cant say I have. I'm sort of going through a Van Der Graaf stage right now. Any suggestions for what I should listen to in the Soft Machine canon to be properly introduced?

[greatsea]

@kevin4peace Love Van Der Graaf! Anyway read up on Soft Machine's album "Third". And of course their first 2 albums were also tremendous. They've often been called 'the underground fathers' of progressive rock music, preceding Crimson by 3 years. Also there is a very large wiki article on them if you care to read it. All that said, hands down, Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King" is my favorite progressive rock album. I discovered them first in 1994 and they will always be my favorite.

[ChBoxDogs]

@kevin4peace I`m 16 years old and Prog rock is my favourite music , too ;)

[MikeAsHimself]

@kevin4peace Have you listened to Old Judas Priest and seen how similar it is to King Crimson? I consider King Crimson in some ways a "Progressive Metal Band". Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth is highly influenced by King Crimson, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, as well as the REAL Death Metal bands from the 90s. I think the "metal" you are referring to is stuff like Bullet for My Valentine, or any metalcore band like Attack Attack. Good metal is out there. A lot is prog too. Just giving you a heads up.

[kevin4peace]

@MikeAsHimself Thats true. Mid period King Crimson (LTiA to Red) was definitely proto-prog metal, if not full out prog metal. I also love a lot of regular metal (Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, the like). I probably should have clarified that I meant Nu Metal and Metalcore... Awful stuff. I haven't actually listened to any Opeth, but I'm afraid of starting prog metal in the wrong place... In fact, where would you suggest I start listening to prog metal?

[MikeAsHimself]

@kevin4peace Well that depends what you like.. Opeth might be too harsh for you if you're just a prog head with the use of growls. Though the new album 'Heritage' is very much like a 70s psychedelic prog album. Then there's more fast stuff like Symphony X and Dream Theater. If you're into weird experimental stuff, try Sleep Terror or Blotted Science. Devin Townsend is a good prog guy. Though his styles change a lot. (he's crazy). Then there's Porcupine Tree, Mr. Bungle (weird). No more space lol

[thematrixforever]

@kevin4peace (Y)

[Jackalos1]

@kevin4peace So where does that leave prog metal? Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Symphony X, Ayreon, Tool, Dream Theater etc... All good bands imo.

[szatanish666]

@kevin4peace

TRUE. STAY CRIMSON

[ascoltaevaporazione]

this track is even better than lizard

[Stygian9]

@metalrock90 Yeah, everybody should own this. Lizard is one of the most epic songs ever written.

[8Cell4Cube]

Best Song Ever. No exaduartion.

[Dannymusic1999]

@metalrock90 you have this album in 5.1? If so, tell me a little about that first listen.

[pinknerve]

Now this is music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pacocrowley]

+600 plays? There's something wrong with young people.... or everybody has this album?

[MachineMezziah]

@pacocrowley It has this few views because the uploader didn't mind the audio quality, it sounds crappy.

[Crimzoid21]

@pacocrowley I don't know, I know a lot of middle aged and old(no offense to anyone age-wise) people who don't like this music either.

[DoubleA9211]

@pacocrowley the problem is not young people. this music is hard to get into and you're just gonna have to live with that

[grevejp44]

@pacocrowley i don't know king crimson is an aquired taste and all though i aquired it people don't like to take the time to aquire it.

[kristina80ification]

@pacocrowley

I'm enjoying this, I don't understand the hate people have for this album really, sorry if that means that "something is wrong with me".

[kristina80ification]

@kristina80ification

sometimes I wish I could delete youtube comments some times, I read that post wrong, sorry

[LeftBehindForDead]

@pacocrowley Most certainly... the baby boomers let ignorance become the guiding principle of emotional and philosophical promulgation in the United States. I'm 27... so getting up there... but, I must say, after I discovered music like this - I finally realized how deeply corporate America brainwashes people with talentless, uninvolved tripe which they refer to as music.

[uttersman]

me too....

[121Aquaman]

I like this song, alot...