King Crimson Lizard Digital Life Music

Lizard
by: King Crimson

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0633367050328
Label: Discipline Us
Manufacturer: Discipline Us
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Discipline Us
Release Date: December 20, 2004
Sales Rank: 39080
Studio: Discipline Us

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2004 reissue of the band's 1970 album. Discipline.

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- Red Letter on a green light
I had this album in High School on 33rpm. The album is still alive and has achieved a youthful insight with a cultural tag of it is ahead of its time again.
The "one hand slap" track is always a really good metaphor for so many things - sometimes good sometimes not. The songs in this album I use strongly in relearning an archetype on this positive of a Gilgamesh positive - just as in the beginning, there would be a two edge sword, it helps me riff on my Les Paul now with high end processing that in the early market, a person needed high skills when electronic processing now evades much with just a power from me turned into sound.

The album is great for full enlarged social occasions where you really need the person for more than a meal.

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- An Experimental Masterpiece!
King Crimson's third album released in 1970. It's full of experimentation and in the five songs featured there's a fine mix of rock, jazz, and classical influenced stuff and it's all great!

The last song, the album's main piece, is "Lizard". A multiple part epic that lasts around 23 minutes, yet for me, it never has a dull moment alternating between quiet classical sounding passages with Fripp's nice mellotron playing, excellent piano played by Keith Tippet and on the other hand you get jazzy passages full of wind instrumentation like oboe, sax, and trumpet. Sometimes the intensity rises and it becomes quite frightening indeed! Also there's a surprise as well. In the beginning Jon Anderson from the group Yes gets to sing the vocals!!! Great surprise indeed! The highlight for me it's near the end where Fripp plays an electric guitar solo that has one of his signature lead sounds and it's great!
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- Bizarre
In the hit-and-miss world of early 70s King Crimson, Lizard is a hit; unlike the unoriginal Poseidon and the pedestrian Islands, it's a surprisingly strong record by a band that never really managed to get its act together until 1973. Gordon Haskell's unconventional vocals are usually a prime target for ridicule, but they fit this album reall well. Haskell sounds much better than Boz Burrell and even Greg Lake's prog melodramatics grow old after a while. The cool thing about Lizard is that it's so damn strange -- there's no other King Crimson album that even tries to match its mutant mix of jazz, rock, and classical. The band even tries to tackle the super-cliche of progressive rock, a 20 minute epic suite with Jon Anderson of Yes on vocals, and manages to turn the cliches inside out. How many other prog epics have a Bolero section with dissonant multi-horn improvisation? Side one has four shorter pieces. "Happy Family" ... Read More

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- Exquisite Crimson masterpiece....
This is one of Crimson's forgotten and misunderstood albums. I've always really like it. It's extremely gentle for the most part, with just enough outbreaks of cacophony for us long time fans (especially on the song Happy Family). The band was in great flux at this time (Robert Fripp was the only consistent member of the band since its inception, and the album was written in its entirety by Fripp and lyricist Pete Sinfield), but you couldn't really tell from the album itself. I really like the exquisite musical interplay going on here, especially in Andy McCulloch's drumming. He's playing very complicated structures, but somehow it's very gentle and light. Lizard is softer than most Crimson albums, and it's still as intricate and as complex as anything they put out, but it's not as showy as other albums. I really like Cirkus, the first song, and I absolutely love the title track, an epic masterpiece and the longest ... Read More

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