As you're a hip hop head, you might recognize the "21st century schizoid man" verse from it being sampled in Kanye's "Power".

The drums, the drums, the DRUMS...

I swear to God the British made some of the best rock music. They invented metal, embraced psychedelia, and invented Prog rock.

Imagine it was 1969 and you were 10 years old and heard this for the firs time. Life-changing.

The most important album in the history of rock and pop music.

The Godfathers of Progressive Rock!

do the actual song "The Court of the Crimson King" . . . asking for a friend. It will blow your mind.

There was nothing like it in 1969 and it created a grade-12 tsunami that left everyone speechless. This ‘schizophrenic’ tune has not aged a second since its release in 1969. A superb lineup of incredibly talented musicians, all on their A-game.

The whole album is great, spent a lot of time during the 80's and 90's catching up with 70's music.

When I first heard it as a teen, I didn't like the instrumental section. But. I didn't understand and jazz nor had much exposure to jazz. Now with musical maturity lol 🙂, I can really appreciate its innovation for the time (1968) in a rock album.

Absolute genius album and one of the best openers ever.

Brilliant album that you have to listen to the whole album.

Robert Fripp (King Crimson) has a guitar Solo on Brian Enos song “Babies on fire” that is my absolute favorite and very underrated. I feel people are really missing out, when they haven’t heard it.

This is, arguably, the album and possibly even the song that launched rock straight into adulthood before most of it it slipped back into self-indulgent adolescence some 12-15 years later...

Your laugh at 5:22 is priceless. Instrumentation is perfect

Love old King Crimson. Very cool album cover, too. The illustration inside the gatefold is great. My mom still has the LP.

You brought me back to when this album first came out - sitting at a friends place, smoking doobies, listening to this and having our minds blown! History does repeat itself :-)

Anybody else watch Robert and Toyah's Lunchtime videos during lockdown? Hilarious.

Think about it: this was the first song on their first album ... in 1969.

The one band that Yes looked up to ❤ (Broad Generalization 😂)

That album cover is my husband's favorite picture to draw, it's everywhere. Saw them do this in concert many moons ago, l'll never forget 👍🤩hope you do the whole album

Mike Giles is a killer drummer...Greg Lake before Emerson Lake and Palmer...This is Crimso's first album...The beginnings of Prog. The next song "I talk to the Wind" segues so perfectly from the end of that...Crimso's best albums are Larks tongues in aspic, Red, and Starless And Bible Black...Listen to those 20 times each; Then you'll have a good grasp of Crimso.

You hear their GREATNESS in this one song.

First time I heard it was when it released in 1969. They were way ahead of their time!! Best Progressive Rock band for years. Many other have followed suit. They're what got me into Prog Rock. Great song.

one of the greatest albums of all time, cool reaction!

Well done! This is my favorite band - amazing and little-known geniuses.

The story is they were listening a lot to the John Handy Quintet at the Monterey Jazz Festival when they recorded this song. Although not a direct copy, the influence is apparent--worth checking out.

You probably recognize the refrain from MBDTF -- Kanye sampled it on Power

Brilliant album AND Best Album Cover Ever!

And Classic Prog has begun !! King Crimson of of the Best three at the Top of Classic Prog with Yes & Genesis 1970-77' era. Crimson many era's over their 52yrs !!! It's all great I first saw them in 1973' & 74" during their Bruford/ Wetton era, just so amazing !! 👍 And many times later 1984, 85, 95', 2014, 2017, 2019' I'm 65' now 🎶🎼

Love your reaction to this. Thank you for listening all the way through without interrupting. Your face and gestures reacting are all that is needed. 21st Century genius musicianship. 21st Century genius reaction. Love it. Subbed

My first Prog LP. Poseidon is so goof also.

I was on the live stream when you did this.. Your reaction was priceless.

Love your vids man, the classic prog and psych stuff is my jam so I like to put your vids on and hit the bong along with ya. Ever done any jam bands? Phish, Grateful Dead anything like that?

Freaking Robert Fripp and Greg Lake 💕💕 I have to say John Wetton is my fave KC singer /bassist, 72-74 pure magic! Buy this on through islands are soooo good!

Used to listen to this when I was a kid in the early 1970s, some of the best party music from back in the day. Thanks.

G'day mate, at the time of it's release this album was a staple of everyones record collection,,and there's only one thing to explain this masterpiece-'Robert Fripp'🎼🎸If you need a direction to go for influential guitarist composers like Fripp, you have to go to Zappa {- starting with something aurally Zappa accessible, like the live versions of 'Florentine Pogen' and 'Inca Roads' a concert in LA 1974 televised recording, of which Inca Roads has claymation during the pefomance obscuring Franks and Ruths exceptional abilities, then listen to the album versions on 'One Size Fits All' which are nearly identical, 🎼🎸

Musically astonishing to think how long ago this song was released! ✌🏻

Robert Fripp still tours and still makes great music... I believe that they have an upcoming US tour -- DO NOT MISS THEM!!!

Fuzz did a great cover of this. I’d highly recommend any of their albums. The Fuzz eponymous album is great if you want grungy rock n roll.

Lil J, I'm glad you seemed to have taken my suggestion to listen to this tune and reacted as I would have expected. When people hear this for the first time it changes the way they think about music, so welcome to the club. Also you have to remember that this album came out in 19 freakin 69 (1969) ...just think bout that for a second. I would also recommend the entire album EXCEPT for Moonchild which is really just straight up ambient music which even though I'm not a fan of for regular listening does have a calming effect, but it always felt out of place on this album and goes on far too long. However it is a milestone because I believe this was the first introduction of ambient music. Great job and I do hope you get to some of the other tunes. If you don't want to listen to all of it (except for Moonchild) I'd say go for the title track, but you can't go wrong on the others either (except for Moonchild, by now you can tell it's like eating liver for me lol (but hey some people love liver so enjoy I guess? lol)

You really need to see the live with 3 drummers and Mr Fripp sitting there doing lord knows what to his guitar.

I heard this for the first time in a college dorm in 1969..we were in the process of putting a band together...after listening to this (and picking our jaws up off of the floor),we decided that we definitely needed to find a mellotron....whatever that was....

1968? If this came out today, it would blow minds. I think they are time travelers. I first heard this back in the 70's. Never gets old.

They great thing about this song is how the lyrics are so appropriate for what is going on today with our culture. The line : “Nothing he got he really needs” is spot on

So glad you found this. Your task now is to carry it forward.

KC is a musician's band. The audience is requested to be polite and attentive. It's about peak experience through music. It's how the band works and their craft and art.

Hey, loved your reaction!, I've been a Crimson Head for like..ehem 30 years...lol Greetings from Chile. 🤘✌

Listen to the rest of the album for sure

Hey,...One of my favourite bands when I was 13. I'm 67 now & still listen to them.

I gotta say it is hilarious to watch some homey on KZfaq, lighting up a joint and listening to King Crimson. I was doing exactly the same thing....over 45 years ago! Glad you seem to like it.

"This is filthy!" Yes.. yes it is!

if u like this try "In the Court of the Crimson King "

Can I immediately recommend King Crimon’s album “Red” as a next step? That’s one of the ones with Bill Bruford on drums-he left Yes after Close to the Edge and joined Crimson ❤

This album is perfect

When King Crimson wrote this song, they wrote it during the period of absolute insanity that was the late 60's-early '70's (following the "Death" of the Hippie Ideal of Peace and Love; if the symbolic funeral in Haight-Ashbury of 1968, where the movement started, didn't finish it then the Manson Murders a couple of weeks later, followed by Richard M. Nixon's "Watergate Scandal," the Kent State Massacre caused by Ohio National Guard called to put-down a protest, killing 9 unarmed college students in the process, the entirety of Vietnam and how the U.S. handled it, and other atrocities two years following _that_ almost DEFINITELY cinched it). This song (which sounds like a screeching, car radio news report that people around that time would hear on a semi-regular basis, to the extent that they were practically desensitized to the madness) along with "Epitaph" from the same album (sung from the point of view of someone disgusted and weeping over all the violence and suffering, viewing it for the chaos and horror that it was, stating that " 'Confusion' will be their epitaph," the words put on their tombstone), paint a damning picture of the morality and mentality of humankind, as brutal uncaring murderers and monsters, doing horrible things to one another without batting an eye and somehow still insisting they "did nothing wrong." The fact that going on traumatizing blood symphonies is viewed as "nothing wrong" should be an indicator that humans as a species need to re-evaluate their goals and ethics. The name of the song even references this, as a Schizoid Personality Disorder is a case of someone being born with a reduced to completely non-existent sense of empathy, the ability to form a Theory of Mind regarding others, to understand others' emotional states (especially with regards to either being the victims of suffering... or the cause of it).

The sheer number of classic albums that were released in 1969 is stunning. This is one of the best though. You should listen to the entire thing.

When King Kong joined The Beatles.❤

You should check out The Doors/Riders on the Storm, L.A. Woman, Light my Fire

Remember this was 1969 !!!!

1970. Tinha 14 aninhos.Century sczoid .primeira faixa do in yhe court....Uma paulada.sou do Brasil.Ontem na estacao metro Hyde Park ,Londres.A primeira coisa que lembrei foi o Lendario Show ao vivo em que o KC abriu pros Stones ,com Greg Lake cantando Century.

I'm personally Very fond of this Song and Album!... I even liked putting the album up in my window for my neighbors to wonder about 🤨

That bass….. 😮 Greg Lake!

You gotta hear the beat on the next song on the album. I talk to the wind. Very hip hop.

React to Genesis's Dancing with the Moonlit Knight. this band was one of the best progressive rock bands of the 70s. and this song is a perfect introduction to them.

Monstrous.

Oh snap ❤️❤️❤️

I heard this in 1974 when I was 10 and it honestly changed the direction of my Life

April Wine did a great cover of this song too

Crimson was as much a jazz band as it was a rock band. But that fusion was Prog Rock.

Van for Graff Generator.....The Killer.....you might like to hear.

From 1969, the 60s was a supreme time in popular music!

Nice!

Song may have seemed familiar from the time Kanye sampled it for the song "Power" on _MBDTF_

And i think is from 1969... 🔥🙃 Btw: listen to the whole Lizard song (20min i think) from their Lizard album, its a real wonderful travel.

UYESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

You’re thinking of Power by Kanye, it’s sampled.

do cat food

.. makes better sense with the segue into I Talk to the Wind!

Kanye West sampled the hook line for his track 'Power'

Kanye sampled for the song Power. Love this band, love this album.

I'm surprised that Fripp hasn't come for this video yet

I would Looooooove to see your reaction to "Hocus Pocus" by Focus.❤

The funniest thing is that this song was sampled in a Kanye West song.

huh, I thought KC reactions get blocked or muted.

Doors has alot of hits

1969 man ,1969 incredible genius

Yeah what's-his-name (Yeezy) sampled it on a rap tune - and had to pay royalties THROUGH THE NOSE! hehe

Wow, Robert Frip is insanely jealous of his copyrights! I can believe I'm hearing this!

Pls do The Smiths - I Know it's Over

I suggest you to listen to Starless, i think it’s their best song

King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, ELP, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Jeff Beck, Jethro Tull... who did I miss ?

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Progressive rock

So many years have passed and the track is still brilliant and f... sadly topical. k

Do yourself a favor and look up the live version of this....3 drummers, performing live, at the same time....I haven ever seen anything like it before

This was one take. Almost no overdubs or studio tricks. These guys could really play. When K. West sampled this he wouldn't have got a job polishing their guitar strings.

Boah, I smell his weed.

So cool. Its been awhile. Being a 60's refugee, i grew up on this stuff. I really enjoy watching these reactions

Every bit as influencial as Pink Floyd. Them and Zappa spawned generations of bands like Led Z. etc