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Very Little To Say

A. Parsons | Nashville, Tennessee | 03/24/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There's almost nothing to say about this album. Really. I will therefore make only two statements concerning it. One, it's one of the BEST albums of all time. BY ANY BAND. EVER. I will not argue about it, nor will I respond to those who disagree. My statement is a hard, cold, measureable scientific fact. Any dissenting opinions are just that. Opinions.



Second statement. This ALBUM is NOT for EVERYONE. Not everyone will understand it. NOR ARE THEY MEANT TO. Not everyone understands Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Cole, or other musical genii of their caliber. THIS ALBUM comes straight from the artist, WITHOUT passing through the preprocessed, pasteurizng, plasticizing, domesticizing, neutering cookie-cutter castrator of the Modern Music Industry- somehow, it managed to avoid getting snapped up by the Musical Sterilization Machine that has been slicing and dicing music into bite-sized, convenient and easily digestible individually wrapped bites that Mom can guiltlessly slip into your lunch box on your way out to school every morning, safe in the assurance that it has been fortified with ADA approved vitamins and minerals. This MEANS that this ALBUM is DANGEROUS TO THE STATUS QUO. IT IS RAW AND UNFETTERED IN ITS EMOTION, it is pure, raw unadulterated ROCK that delves into the fear and darkness in the human psyche, and lays it open for all to see. IF you CANNOT DEAL WITH THAT, if you HAVE ACCEPTED that all music MUST sound a certain way, AND CANNOT ABIDE BY THE RAW, UNRESTRICTED ENERGY and IDEAS pouring directly into YOUR brain from Fripp and Co. via this album; If you are fearful and timid, and have allowed yourself to be musically castrated by the *&^%$! on the radio, then YOU WILL NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM.



PS just because something has a lot of screaming, cussing, is deliberately Satanic and/or is denigrating to women doesn't make it raw and energetic like this album- this album confronts pure darkness on a level that would make these "rappers" and "metal bands" responsible for the list of above musical nusiances run screaming, with tears in their eyes, for Mooommmy.



THATS ALL. NUFF SAID.

-Courtney Patricia 'GamerGirl' Parsons"

One of their best

Kevin M. Kuschel | Milwaukee, WI | 02/27/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you were to buy only one King Crimson album but this one to get a taste of their many styles. Enjoy and crank it up."