Talk:In the Court of the Crimson King/Archive 1

Untitled
How about mentioning the story of the lost master tape for one of the sides of the albums, it's finding in 2003 and the remaster cd that uses it?Jhayes94 16:49, 26 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Be Bold!

"Intelligent Heavy Metal"
The band has often been called "intelligent heavy metal" (helped by Robert Fripp himself saying that his goal in forming King Crimson was to make such), and the first album by King Crimson defies genre and forges new ground on several fronts. Does anyone know what is the source of this statement? Imadofus 22:07, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

POV
The entire second paragraph is entirely POV. Is this an encyclopedia article or a musical review? &mdash;Wrathchild (talk) 18:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

It should probably be forked to allow for a musical review in the WikiAlbums version and a purely factual article for the Wikipedia.--80.6.85.54 19:06, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

However it DOES retain blues-y elements
After trying to tab out the song for a cover version, I found that the scale used in the song is infact...the Blues scale. 1, 3, 4, #4, 5, b7. (However, during one of the parts, they also include a natural 7.)

The #4 makes the blues scale stand out from the simple minor pentatonic which has 1, 3, 4, 5, and b7.

I dunno. It seems kind of odd that the article states that it is not a blues-rock album at all when it uses the *blues* scale. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattz1010 (talk • contribs) 03:16, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The blues scale does not a blues-rock album make. Someoneinmyheadbutit&#39;snotme 01:02, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

sorrynousername: True that the blues scale does not define a blues-rock album, however In The Court is full of blues structure. The instrumental passages of 21st Century... the verses of In The Court of The Crimson King follow the first 8 bars of a 12 bar blues... Fripp has never denied being a blues fan and that influence has shown throughout his career. I think it was the Boz line-up of Crim, but I might be mistaken, who performed a blues version of In the court live... And take Larks Tongues part III as example. The intro, when slowed down and dissected follows a very strict 12 bar blues progression. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.126.87.27 (talk) 13:31, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Songwriting Credits
I read that "I Talk to the wind" was written by the entire band and "In the court of the crimson king" is written by Fripp/McDonald/Sinfeld as apposed to McDonald/Sinfeld for both songs. Here is link: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:lecibk096akq —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.206.106.172 (talk) 02:03, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Album cover
Hello. I am currently writing an essay for Wikipedia, and I am wondering if it would be acceptable for me to use the album cover's image in the essay. I don't want to be a copyright breacher, nor would I want to use the image without asking anyone first, so that is why I'm posing this question here. Thank you. Backtable Speak to meconcerning my deeds. 06:36, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

New Allmusic review
Looks like Allmusic swapped out its original review by Lindsay Planer for one by Bruce Eder. The new review no longer contains the quote, and since the page could not be archived because of "robots.txt", the old review is not accessible.

-- J. Wong (talk) 01:28, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned references in In the Court of the Crimson King
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of In the Court of the Crimson King's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "AMGBIO": From King Crimson discography:  From King Crimson:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 01:27, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Ian McDonald's vocals
I'm sure he sang on I Talk to the Wind with Greg Lake. Anybody can confirm this? Amb1997 (talk) 21:00, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Uses in the Media
Extracts from every track on this album were used across two episodes of the ITV series Heartbeat broadcast in the UK between 1992 and 2010.

[Comment] This is from memory, but I remember being amazed that such radical progressive rock music could be included in a TV programme about rural policing in Yorkshire in the 1960's. Virtually all the other background music was taken from the UK singles chart of the period. I can only assume that there was a secret King Crimson fan who somehow managed to sneak this past the production team - or maybe they all just loved it anyway!

It would be great if someone could provide more details / confirmation about which episodes were involved

ISCurrie (talk) 23:01, 4 March 2017 (UTC)