Biography

If there is one group that embodies both the best and the worst aspects of progressive rock (from the standpoints of both supporters and detractors), it is King Crimson. During its first five years of existence from 1969 through 1974, in a variety of different lineups, this band led by guitar/Mellotron virtuoso Robert Fripp broke lots of new ground in prog rock, stretching both the language and structure of the music into realms of jazz and classical. Somehow, the group's challenging debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King, caught the public's collective ear at the right moment and hit number five in England. ~ Bruce Eder

Top Tracks

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• 21st Century Schizoid Man

• 21st Century Schizoid Man/mirrors

• 4 Ii 1

• Book Of Saturday

• Cadence And Cascade

• Cirkus (including Entry Of The Chameleons)

• Dinosaur

• Discipline

• Easy Money

• Elephant Talk

• Facts Of Life

• Fracture

• Frakctured

• Frame By Frame

• Ghost, Pt. 2

• Groon

• Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With

• Heartbeat

• Heaven And Earth

• Heroes

• I Talk To The Wind

• Improv: Starless And Bible Black

• Indiscipline

• Into The Frying Pan

• Ladies Of The Road

• Lament

• Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 1

• Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 2

• Lark's Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 3

• Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 3

• Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. I

• Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. Ii

• Larks' Tongues In Aspic: Pt. 2

• Level Five

• Lizard: Prince Rupert Awakes/bolero: The Peacock's Tale/the Battle Of G

• Matte Kudasai

• Neurotica

• One More Red Nightmare

• Peoria

• Pictures Of A City

• Red

• Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream

• Sleepless

• Starless

• Starless And Bible Black

• The Court Of The Crimson King

• The Court Of The Crimson King/the Return Of The Fire Witch/the Dance Of The

• The Deception Of The Thrush

• The Devil's Triangle

• The Great Deceiver

• The Howler

• The Night Watch

• The Sailor's Tale

• The Talking Drum

• The Terrifying Tale Of Thela Hun Ginjeet: Robert Fripp: Venal Leader (later Heartless & Raging) Promotes/adrian Belew: Shaki

• The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum

• Thela Hun Ginjeet

• Thrak

• Three Of A Perfect Pair

• Vrooom

• Vrooom Vrooom

• Waiting Man

• Walking On Air

Discography

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• Live in Warsaw, 2000

  Discipline Global Mobile

  2005

• ProjeKct Three: Live in Austin, TX March 25, 1999

  Discipline

  2004

• EleKtriK

  DGM/Inner Knot

  2003

• Official Bootleg Volume One

  2003

• ProjeKct One: Jazz Cafe Suite

  2003

• The Power to Believe

  Sanctuary

  2003

• Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With

  Sanctuary

  2002

• Live in Nashville, TN 2001

  King Crimson Collectors' Club

  2002

• Vrooom Vrooom

  Discipline Global Mobile

  2001

• Heavy ConstruKction

  Discipline

  2000

• The ProjeKcts

  Discipline

  1999

• On Broadway: Live in NYC 1995

  D.G.M. Collectors' Club

  1999

• Night Watch

  Discipline Global Mobile / Discipline

  1998

• Thrakattak

  JVC Japan / WHD Entertainment

  1996

• B'Boom: Official Bootleg - Live in Argentina

  Discipline Global Mobile / Discipline

  1995

• In the Court of the Crimson King

  EG Records

  1969