King Crimson: their best albums ranked, according to Mojo magazine

Mentre il nuovo progetto Beat, che riunisce Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai e Danny Carey, taking on tour (anche in Italy) la musica dei King Crimson del periodo “Discipline” – la fase “wave” della band capostipite del prog-rock, durata l’arco di tre album in studio nella prima metà degli the Eighties – il magazine britannico Mojo torna agli originali per stilare la sua classifica degli album della band di Robert Fripp, “dal peggiore al migliore”.

"In 50 years of the band's on-and-off activity we've been flooded with more than eighty releases – Mojo recalls in its introduction – A bewildering assortment of studio albums, live records, compilations and archival releases from the King Crimson Collectors' Club. Incendiary tracks like 'Red' or 'Indiscipline' keep recurring, as does their anthem, '21st Century Schizoid Man'… So where to start? With Fripp as the only constant member, King Crimson's history splits into five eras: the fully progressive rockers (1969-72); the avant-rock band devoted to improvisation (1972-74); the lineup influenced by new wave and funk (1981-84); the prog-metallers of the 1994-2003 period; and, from 2014 to 2021, an expanded lineup that toured with no fewer than three drummers".

So here is Mojo's ranking of the 13 best King Crimson albums (full feature here).

13. The Power To Believe (2003)

12. Islands (1971)

11. Lizard (1970)

10. Beat (1982)

9. The ConstruKction Of Light (2000)

8. Three Of A Perfect Pair (1984)

7. In The Wake Of Poseidon (1970)

6. Thrak (1995)

5. Starless And Bible Black (1974)

4. Discipline (1981)

3. Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (1973)

2. Red (1974)

1. In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)

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