In the Wake of Poseidon - King Crimson

[MrFulcaneli]

DE OTRO PLANETA !!!!

[impeessa]

me gusta mucho esta cancion



[hogweed89]

The power of Our Majesty the Mellotron.

[halfjapanesenirvana]

The second album seems like a redux of ITCOTCK, KC trying to really get it right. The drums are less studio processed and more natural sounding and the songs a little less dramatic. Overall a bit more subtle. I love them both.

[ep1403]

@halfjapanesenirvana they got it right with court though for sure, both albums are excellent but just have very different themes throughout.

[halfjapanesenirvana]

Michael Giles is such a part of the sound of the those records. I love his attack, natural sound and freewheeling approach. Some argue that this band was or wasn't "jazz-rock." They blended their precedents very organically into something much harder to label. From the first hearing I was grabbed by the powerful emotion and wild execution (even of it seems a bit melodramatic to me now). They do get crazy jazzy on Lizard, and "The Letters" has a fabulous free-jazz mid-section. Mel Collins!

[Kepxa]

Michael Giles is such an underrated drummer.

[skynradical]

Amazing!

[amccann7]

This is the music of the subconscious and conscious minds united; this is TRUE ART

[DeleriosoAnormal]

love it love it love it

[WallabeeDeviant89]

"As Seen On: Stuff Black People Don't Like - SBPDL"

Fuck that blog, I'm black and I been listening to KC for years!

[Kepxa]

@WallabeeDeviant89

I checked, one of the users is a King Crimson fan and quoted lyrics, that's how the song is linked. I'm black too and I love King Crimson.

[WallabeeDeviant89]

@Kepxa oh, i see now

[stone8man]

@Kepxa You know that Jimi Hendrix himself, heard King Crimson and was blown away by it, he even said it was the best band in the world!

[halfjapanesenirvana]

@WallabeeDeviant89 Yes, De La Soul samples Tales From Topographic Oceans on the grind date. Music defies race barriers.

[WallabeeDeviant89]

@halfjapanesenirvana I agree wholeheartedly

[RPBMAlex]

Can I just say I'm in love? Greg Lake's voice is just... magic

[stone8man]

I have been watching Black Swan on regular basis since released last year, although now I mute all sound and instead put on King Crimson, and often it is too beatiful to bear! I even manage to cry at times ^^

[loffe9]

@stone8man It's part of the intensness of KC music. It attacks your senses very powerfully. Many feel great joy or sadness which can bring tears.

Fraktured is just one example.

[stone8man]

@loffe9 yeah i was thinking maybe one of the reason prog in general doesnt reach too many people, is just because of this,! I mean it is created for all the senses, not just the ear but the eye and even smell and taste

[loffe9]

@stone8man That's exactly what I meant.

[AlecEntwistle]

Masterpiece

[brandbuilding]

thanks, it's a low budget TV commercial, made (we hope) with taste...

[TheDodomac]

I love this so amazing

[ScottsGoldClub]

I just heard this for the first time and this song brought me to tears. This is as good as any jazz or classical composition.

[uglybettyx1]

Awesome...a miracle of love!

[blackandtanful]

怪物楽器ﾒﾛﾄﾛﾝ､ﾌﾘｯﾌﾟの叙情ｱｺｰｽﾃｨｯｸ､おかず­ﾀﾞﾗｹｼﾞｬｲﾙｽ､華麗なﾚｲｸの低音・ｸﾘﾑｿﾞﾝのｲﾝ­ｸﾞﾘｯｼｭ美牧曲”ﾎﾟｾｲﾄﾞﾝの目覚め"

[pablobenitez1]

Long live rock! (60's, 70's, 80's 90's, 2000's, 2010's) =) open your mind!!!

[RocketZ99]

This is why I love this era of music.

[Poisonnachos]

Awesome! If you write "In the wake" in wikipedia, this comes up first.

[Poisonnachos]

@Poisonnachos And if you write "In the C" then ITCOTCK comes up.

[bassmanjoe]

Greg Lake had such a great voice back in the day. My favorite Crimson vocalist.

[ClassicRockMan95]

Robert Fripp is King Crimson...

[lizzybrowneyes]

perfect...perfect...perfect...­

[loffe9]

@progjazzfusion.My bad. I didnn't mean to infer (although I said it) that they were "true". What I meant was, that their ruthms are based in jazz rather than blues like most other rock genres.

I think that has strengthened as they have developed over the years.

Anyway, the kid I was posting to will develop his own view the more he listens.

[pablobenitez1]

I fucking love KC =) his music is ... perfect.

[maldaathi]

@pablobenitez1 ...King Crimson is a band...

[pablobenitez1]

@maldaathi yes xD their music is perfect.

[MrDanielphenix]

The four first KC albums ...you can not go higher than that in touching the soul of humanity, humans, and are desperate suffering....Only Vdgg achieve something similar... There is the exception after of fallen Angel (indeed) and Starless...The rest of KC is hesitation search for consciously searching something new.Those formation didn't search they found, in a mystery and magical way..And like Theater everything was inspired by those amazing powerfull lyrics. The text i believe was the source

[mtkyuro]

名曲　音楽の教科書に載せましょう。

[NeonFoxLetsPlays]

i've had SUCH a hard time trying to find this album! which sucks because it's my second favorite album by them.

[kennywowie]

ok, so who is drumming here? Giles?

[Retrocharizard]

I love King Crimson <3. Why do so few people know them? Anyone can know Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd by mention, but can anyone understand one of the greatest Jazz Rock bands ever in existence?

[TheTaxman67]

im fripping man fripping out

[chruseruserable]

OMG it's too bad to be born in 1997, all wonderful and amazing artists and bands like Pink Floyd, Cream, King Crimson, Queen etcetera are old, dead or broken... :`(

[CraftyGtrist]

This album is really made up of the tracks that didnt make it to "In the Court of the Crimson King"... But its still cool.

[silvertube52]

@CraftyGtrist

Not exactly, the songs were new but it can be criticized for essentially copying ITCOTCK almost song for song. With 'Pictures of a City' being very similar to "21st Century', 'Lady of the Dancing Water' to 'I talk to the Wind,' and of course the tile songs from each album being similar.

Fripp made an effort not to repeat again.

[micheljch]

@silvertube52 but most of the material was developed or based on themes coincident with the term of the original band (Jan-Dec 1969). Pictures of a City was performed live (as A Man, A City) on the fateful US tour, the 'Peace' theme comes from a Giles, Giles, and Fripp tune, and the Devil's Triangle wasa trans-mutation of Holst's "Mars" due to the composer's estate moving against the band from recording and releasing it officially. This song and Cat Food are the only really 'new' songs.

[micheljch]

The lyrics to 'Cadence and Cascade' were fitted to a new melody when Ian McDonald and Mike GIles opted to take the original with them when they left the band, but the two melodies and constructions are, necessarily so, very similar. The point is that, while your argument is not without merit, it did not necessatily come about that way on purpose. But, faced with t band crumbling around him and believing that it had to continue, RF did whatever needed to be done to keep the patient breathing...

[mindofprog]

This song is perfect

[dougtozzo]

@mindofprog Totally agree =D

[UNDERWATERDAVE]

It is great to get "all Fripped out" listening to these magnificent works of King Crimson. Always loved Epitaph and I Talk to the Wind, but just now discovered In the Wake of Poseidon. Great stuff!! See, you can teach a 60 year old child of the 1960's new tricks!!

[wcleighty]

Too bad there's not a 1968-1971 "lost" king crimson album.

[theamazingzivmaster]

The red guy looks so happy.

[DarkeningSkies1]

@theamazingzivmaster That is because he is the fool. Each face is a "personality archetype" developed from the elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water; there are 12 faces/archetypes on the front and back cover- on this, the front cover, we see 6 : (from top left around to bottom right) The Child, The Enchantress, The Fool, The Actress, The Warrior and The Joker/Jester. This painting was done by Tammo de Jongh in London in 1967 (four years before the album was recorded in 1970).

[soulvacaine]

I can't believe this was made in the 60's. Brilliant.

[invaderdaniela]

Qué maravilla de disco!

What a wonderful album!

[freudastaire]

i love everything on this but the drums, oh the drums, my heart follow them

[atheg74]

Listen to side 1 of In the Court of the Crimson King and then listen to side 1 of In the Wake of Poseidon...they're like weird mirror images.

[atheg74]

@atheg74 I mean the LP versions...obviously :p

[itzoverninethousand]

@atheg74 they are indeed =)

[vaxkors95]

I am 15, I like prog rock/metal bands like Van der graaf generator, genesis, ELP, Jethro Tull, Dream Theater, BTBAM, etc.

I am a very cool boy xD

[itzoverninethousand]

@vaxkors95 cool story, bro.

[Bmomo56]

Since i have dicovered King Crimson i am felling like i am rediscovering music

[randy63ism]

@Bmomo56 I know what you mean, I'm right there too. I'm 47 and until recently I never gave King Crimson much thought. I liked 21st Century Schizoid Man but that was about the extent of it when growing up. What was I thinking? Now it's like making up for lost time.

[gtofan2005]

if these guys are not in the hall of fame they should be. take out those disco band they put in a few years ago and replace them with king crimson

[Terminalsobe]

@gtofan2005 this band is too good for hall of fame

[gtofan2005]

@Terminalsobe i love the band but maybe there is a reason only a handfull of ppl know od them i found them by mistake. on a mixed tape of 60's rock lol

[Guru57577]

im 14

[reignman219]

How could I have forgotten about this band? Prog rock RULED in the late 60's/early 70's. As a little kid, I would wake up in the morning with this stuff playing from my older brother's room. Amazing music.

[Nisadima]

what can i say ? this music saves us ! that is all, folks !

[MrLukescerri]

i think i found the chords to this song!! Am , F, E ....

[NocturnalDrum]

I'm 28, but I heard KC when I was 17 through my father. All is not lost, in an era of over-produced, assembly line fabricated pop-stars......there are still those who refuse to be force fed regurgitated mainstream garbage. Music is about the whole experience, a sense of escape, to connect and express with audible artforms. As long as I breath and if God blesses me with a child, rest assure he will be inherit a good taste in music.....

[HardRock9410]

I'm 17 and love prog. rock...Thanks to my father, who has almost all King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and Camel full discography...These bands are just awesome! Nothing to compare with today's "music" era!

And, referred to this song, which is fuckin' awesome, it reminds me when I spent my childhood listening to King Crimson in my father's car going to school. "In the wake of Poseidon" is probably one of the best albums in the progressive style.

Greetings from Spain!

[Sovietico88]

@HardRock9410

:) eres igualito ami

yo tengo 22 y soy de Rusia, aunque vivo en Barcelona

Muy buen gusto tienes!

[Khirad]

I got into KC in high school in the 90s with Thrak. It blew my mind, and I went through my friend's dad's record collection into the older stuff. As a drummer, I was also shaped by Pat Mastelotto and Bill Bruford. So, with the other comments, I just want to say that KC attracts and transcends all ages whom aspire to timeless music, like the Classic composers and folk tunes before them have endured.

[loffe9]

As you know I go waaaay back with KC and I listrened to Porcupine tree and Riverside. I liked tracks like Anesthetized and deadwing.

Both bands were good enough for me to listen to more.

However they seem to lack that......that.......something­, that I feel everytime I hear a KC track, or may be it's just in my head man...lol

[zakalon123]

THIS IS REAL MUSIC. EVERYTHING ABOUT IT IS SUPERB. BANDS DON'T HAVE THE COURAGE TO WRITE EPIC TRACKS LIKE THIS ANYMORE.

KING CRIMSON HAVE SHAMEFULLY BEEN IGNORED BY THE MUSIC ESTABLISHMENT.

[Tatoshka87]

One of my all time favorites of King Crimson.

[FinnMove]

I liked this when I heard this for the first time. In a musical library in 1983. I knew King

Crimson. This track is a strange mix between philosophy high minded prog rock, thanks.

[loffe9]

Wow! All is not lost if you kids are into this real stuff. I'm 50 years older than you guys and 2 years older than Fripp. I've followed his career since 1968.Welcome to true jazz rock. Also try the newer tracks Thrak, construction of light (heavy construction) and The power to believe. just Awesome.

[LaughingWater2]

@loffe9 what i love about crimson is that fripp has always evolved the band

now they use midi guitars and all sorts i think if i was his age and i could evolve to new tech

and bring so much soul to it i'd be a happy man

but thats what im gonna do make prog rock, trip hop, psy-trance and psy-pop

thats the music of the future not this rap we have at the moment the future is in real musicians

evolving but always keeping that soul

[tanvo93]

@loffe9 im 17 man, i was looking for the power to believe album at amoeba, they didnt have it

no bueno

but im sure they will have it soon or sometime its one of my favorite albums from them right now

[progjazzfusion]

@loffe9 - sorry but KC is not 'true jazz rock' in any way. The Soft Machine was the first true uk jazz rock band, and came before KC. KC even hired some of Soft Machine's old horn players for KC's lizard+islands albums, who also played on KC pianist keith tippett's pre crimson solo albums. This song in particular is simple classical based folk prog rock like the moody blues. Not much 'real jazz' in crimson at all really.

[SirCambertHotJam]

@loffe9 Yea man. I love king crimson. Metal is my main favorite form of music, but I like any kind of rock really. I love progressive stuff, like King Crimson, ELP, some of the Doors. A few of my friends like stuff such as King Crimson as well. It's still alive!

[loffe9]

@SirCambertHotJam These are the future classics my friend.

[Lincoln424242]

@SirCambertHotJam

if you like metal and crimson check out what theve done in the 21st century

the power to bellieve and the construcktuion of light . very heavy in parts

[68micol]

Bellissima ... a te Crat ... che rispolveri canzoni bellissime ... un abbraccio ... :)))

[porchmonkey401k]

Its a real shame that this music will not be preserved... these genius', in the league of the greats such as mozart and bach, will not withstand the test of time. That, brings true sorrow into my heart

[supercj8899]

@porchmonkey401k Once i grow up, i know that i will carry this tradition. I'm only 11 years old now. But every day, i try to spread the good news of king crimson. Its sad that noone knows this band other than 50 year old men and women.

[porchmonkey401k]

@supercj8899 its not tradition, glad to see 11 year olds into this music, really with all the crap out there its nice to see that our generation (im 19) still has people who appreciate the brilliance of these people

[darkalleyheroes]

@porchmonkey401k Im 16, and Ive converted many of my friends into King Crimson fans, alongside Frank Zappa and other musicians from this progressive period. Many people know good music when they hear it, somebody just has to lead them to the water.

[broadswordbeast]

@darkalleyheroes, You've got good taste! I'm twelve and I share similar tastes.

[hastaelalba]

la rajaaaaa

[gremby]

BEST SONG EVER.

[bubi1954]

so much great music from GB in 1967 - 1978. Now - only crap....

[arnaud360]

@bubi1954 There is still very good music out there, you just need to find it. Now the good music is underground, gotta dig a bit, but there is ALOT of awesome groups out there... Just look for Porcupine Tree, Riverside, etc. they are, to a certain extent, better than 70s prog bands.

[igessthsisgrwnup]

@arnaud360 not gonna lie, Porcupine Tree is badass. Stoked that I just stumbled upon that on a Crimson video. It's true there are so many great musicians out there, just takes a little work to find em.

[creightoncoffey]

Everything Crimson did was great.

[rdb283]

dislike this song and lose all credibility for any opinion on any other subject

[kennywowie]

@rdb283  hahahaha

[youfilin]

epic canonical piece. very powerful. the choir at the end part just blowing my mind.

[juangodfrid]

no one disliked it.. because it's a great song

[TheArabassist]

this song reminds me a lot of the court of the crimson king. love it

[0690tevale]

esta cancion me hace sentir miserable porque tiene algo que te esta diciendo sufro por tu culpa no lo se es un sentimiento extraño

[RossSewage]

The last two minutes of this song are especially incredible.

[bongulum11]

geil mein pc spinnt

[Dannymusic1999]

 Does anyone know why Greg did not play bass on this album?

[holygalaga]

@Dannymusic1999 because he quit, but offered to do the vocals

[cheeseppuff]

@Dannymusic1999 Like he said, he quit and formed ELP, with Ermerson and Palmer

[Dannymusic1999]

@cheeseppuff I know that... I have all the ELP albums.

[silvertube52]

@Dannymusic1999

Cuz he quit to form Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

[Dannymusic1999]

@silvertube52 Yes, I know about Greg leaving King Crimson.. but don't understand why he sang on this album and did not play bass as he did on The Court Of The Crimson King album.

[71brett]

The second album does mirror their first, especially the first side; harsh sounding heavy track, shorter soft ballad and then an epic-sounding track.

[splicernyc]

@71brett Larks Tongues in Aspic has a similar arrangement on side one of the LP.

[crimsonbard666]

Fucking good stuff here hails

[ahitler1000]

greg lakes finest hour , . .

[chazenlindo]

quingue crimço

[FlashMob22]

this song is so bad ass i t just makes you feal good

[mrprogjazzgto]

Such a great song..

Greg Lake sounds soooooo goood..!

Pure Classic from fRipper..!

[DCStuffandmore]

Amazing pure sound, PERFECT

[nostalgiahistoria67]

Awesome! This classic song is perhaps the recording that King Crimson made that most closely resembles the classic trax on their debut album.

[Vixent89]

Awesome. Expecially the lyrics, Fripp is a genius.

Love this, man, 5/5

[LMTR14]

@Vixent89 fripp didn't write the lyrics...