King Crimson moved retrograde to the tendency to dumb down the medium into image and trivial yet novel variations on accepted form, and with Red the band reached a climax, fusing simplicity with a need for subliminal elegance and a finding a transcendental recognition of the relative balance between structure and content, fulfilling the prophetic words of Ornette Coleman: "The pattern for a tune, for instance, will be forgotten and the tune itself will be the pattern."

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Love this album.
Still not my favorite by them though; nothing beats ITCOTCK.

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The bass sound on this record is one I've tried to emulate for years; perfect

The drumming on this is exceptional. I love his use of paradiddles/paradiddlediddles/doubleparradiddles between the china and the snare. Great stuff. The last tune starless is sad as holy hell. All great songs though.

I thoroughly enjoy this album probably one of my favorites, I'm a huge Crimson fan!!! I love the single notes Fripp plays during the verses on "one more red nightmare" so tasteful and minimal yet they have such a huge impact. I love his guitar tone on the record too.

this was my first KC record love it i think its their #2 for sure though i also love indiscipline and of course In the Court
saw them in NYC in August...killed it. only played songs from belew era and gavin harrison from Porcupine Tree was on battery.... fucking insane

Awesome album.

weird, i was listening to "Lizard" this morning.

Me too. Only Yeti wavelength is real.

This also was the first Crimson I heard. Hooked right away of course.

2/10