Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated.
"Take The King Crimsons, now. They could have been as big as The Moody Blues, but they did all that highbrow, difficult stuff that no dame in her right mind wants to get cosy to. And to make it big in this wonderful business we call show, you have to have what I call Dame Appeal - and let me tell you, pally - Sid Slaw speaks from experience!"
Please educate the other Four or Five Guys just exactly what it is you find so strangely attractive about "progressive" music.
ReplyDeleteProgressive music makes me feel sexy.
ReplyDelete*ulp*
DeleteCrimson for girls...very funny! That McDonald and Giles album is fantastic, and I listen to it often. I'm interested in see what else Kreemé and Cody put on there. What I find attractive about progressive music is that it makes every else go home.
ReplyDeleteI'll be honest - putting this together not only gave me gas, but a mild case of perineum hives. I'll upload it later after a scalding hot shower and a brisk exfoliation with a salt lick - right now I feel soiled.
Deletear, and indeed, f.
ReplyDeleteThat album, with its politely psychedelic cover, shows our two louche correspondents from the progface ambling through a pastoral dreamscape with their respective ladies. I never knew for sure which one was McDonald and which one was Giles. The important thing was that I knew which of the two ladies I liked best. I was 15 at the time. Still gets a spin every now and again; it's a lot less EXHAUSTING than anything by (particularly later) Crimson. Sorry it gave you gas Farq; nothing a quick spin around the block in a Lotus Seven or a Mini Moke won't shake free for you!
Have you had your shower yet Farq? Can we have a link?
ReplyDeleteThe last "Crimson" show I saw, had even fewer women than the last Steely Dan show I saw, where my wife remarked: "I've been going to concerts since '67, and this is the first time that the line for the ladies' room is shorter than the men's room. If it wasn't for the poor fashion sense, and cheap haircuts, you'd think this was a gay crowd"
ReplyDeleteSo what do I find strangely attractive about "progressive" music? It's more engaging than the fucking Eagles, Beatles, Bee Gees etc. etc.
"Take the King Crimsons"....please (TOTH to Henny Youngman)
ReplyDelete(Robert Fripp, tho...and that version of "Heroes" with Blondie)
boring boring boring
ReplyDeleteLIVE a bit, please
digging yourself in deeper there, eh?
DeleteI think this is our friend Yankee Boy, the only person on the internet with, you know, a life? Why he wastes so much of it here is beyond me.
DeleteWas never a big prog fan, but for a brief period, I did enjoy some of the earlier Genesis albums. Never really listened to much KC outside of their 1st lp and Red. If I had known that women were repulsed by them, there was a time in the early 2000s that I would have used that knowledge to grease the skids with the original Ms Pmac.
ReplyDeleteA Crimson fan to whom I sent this page responded with this: https://www.patmastelotto.com/a-romantics-guide-to-king-crimson
ReplyDeletePat Mastelotto, just about nails it with that collection. I made a similar playlist of KC tracks.
DeleteClearly not compiled by girls. The Cody/Kreemé collection is much more Babe Friendly.
DeleteCheers squire!
ReplyDeleteMy work here is done!
DeleteThanks FT3.
ReplyDeleteWow. This sounds just like 4'33. The long version.
ReplyDeleteCatchy tunes played with flash and style.
ReplyDeleteThe only prog rock I like is the kind that's not -- like "the Softies" first two albums (before they added horns).
ReplyDeleteThis is gonna get ugly rill quick. I just picked up a Previously Owned, semi-high (coff) mileage King Crimson at a charity shop a few hours ago. If later you see some guy running "Home Alone"-pose screaming down the street (think Edvard Munch), it might be me.
ReplyDeleteForgot to add:
ReplyDeleteIt's "In The Wake Of Poseidon"
- B.(ought it for the cover... what else...?)
https://www.discogs.com/King-Crimson-In-The-Wake-Of-Poseidon/master/406645
If you've got the original vinyl on pink Island, they are very rare. Doh! sorry I'll get my coat.
DeleteSorry, it's the (run o' the mill?)(haven't read any matrices.. yet...)(not that there's anything bong with that...) red & green (US) Atlantic, with the "composition book" inner "company" sleeve.
Delete. . . read . . .
Helluva time-out, I had a bear of a time even deciphering the inner gatefold's text (printed in sorta SILVER type...) Eyes ain't what they usta be I guess...
link down? I have females to convert!
ReplyDelete*cough* - "I shall be posting all four as a "box" set (snigger) shortly, Shirley."
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