Talk:Larks' Tongues in Aspic

Aspic
while "aspic" may be somewhat acidic on the pH scale, it most certainly is _not_ corrosive, insofar as it is a preservative for food products.

Heck...it is a food product. It's gelatine flavored with meat stock...a savory Jell-O, basically. As the previous poster said, definitely not corrosive. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

Of course, Jamie Muir may have had the mistaken idea that aspic was acidic and corrosive. Still it would be nice to note that if that were the case.--Ericjs (talk) 18:23, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

What's so controversial in Davis' album On the Corner and is the influence really so apparent? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.84.168.58 (talk) 11:40, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Change in musical direction & influences edits
I have removed two portions of this article. I took out several sentences stating that the change in Crimson's musical direction c. this record was directly related to the departure of Pete Sinfield (original research, no citation) and Ian McDonald (original research--and he left the band three records prior to LTiA anyway). Secondly, I removed a group of statements that the record was influenced by Miles' On the Corner (original research, no citation) and Bartok (which had an inline external link, not a citation, leading to a Hit Parader interview on hyperreal.org which only stated that Fripp was listening to Bartok when Crimson was formed four years earlier). I have left in the sentence stating that the album has strong jazz and heavy metal-esque influences because this is fairly apparent, although this is also not cited, so someone else can take it out if they like. Alternately, I might see if Sid Smith's book says something similar and turn it into a citation.--Drasil (talk) 22:45, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

RC
Just a general question about the reviews cited in Wikipedia for popular music: Why do we give a crap what Robert Cristgau thinks?--Jelsova (talk) 15:05, 24 June 2012 (UTC)


 * It seems that each separate King Crimson article quotes him and he perfunctorily dismisses each album crudely. If we have to mention this foolish person in connection with King Crimson at all, why not just say--in one place only--that he dislikes King Crimson altogether and leave it at that? TheScotch (talk) 06:10, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Christgau review
Why is R. Christgau review cited as "retrospective"? It was written and published in 1973, so the same year Tongues was released. What is the proof of its "retrospectiveness"?

More sources
Hi. I rewrote this article Larks' Tongues in Aspic (instrumental) and in doing so found a lot of references that could be used on this page, and a few that I didn't have a use for there but could definitely be employed here. For instance, Sid Smith's Podcasts From The Yellow Room 68 has some good info. CelestialWeevil (talk) 14:49, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Influences
No mention of the Mahavishnu Orchestra as a big influence on this new King Crimson incarnation, including the replacing of the sax and the flute by the violin and the tantric-like improvisations. Fripp has always admired John McLaughlin, and he even interviewed him a decade later. (in Musician nº45, July 1982 "Coffee and chocolates for two guitars" by Robert Fripp) 213.94.18.196 (talk) 18:47, 13 January 2022 (UTC)