Lizard

King Crimson - Lizard

Lizard
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Artist: King Crimson
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-12-20
Music Label: Discipline Us
Soundtracks:
  1. Cirkus (Including Entry of the Chameleons)
  2. Indoor Games
  3. Happy Family
  4. Lady of the Dancing Water
  5. Lizard: Prince Rupert Awakes/Bolero: The Peacock's Tale/The Battle of G

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Free Music Review: An Experimental Masterpiece!
Hit: 5 Stars

Their third album released in 1970. It's full of experimentation and in the five songs featured there's a fine mix of rock, jazz, and classical influenced stuff and it's all great!

The last song, the album's main piece, is "Lizard". A multiple part epic that lasts around 23 minutes, yet for me, it never has a dull moment alternating between quiet classical sounding passages with Fripp's nice mellotron playing, excellent piano played by Keith Tippet and on the other hand you get jazzy passages full of wind instrumentation like oboe, sax, and trumpet. Sometimes the intensity rises and it becomes quite frightening indeed! Also there's a surprise as well. In the beginning Jon Anderson from the group Yes gets to sing the vocals!!! Great surprise indeed! The highlight for me it's near the end where Fripp plays an electric guitar solo that has one of his signature lead sounds and it's great!
"Happy Family" is another jazz workout while "Lady Of The Dancing Water" is a very quiet ballad that features some excellent flute playing from Mell Collins and it's the shortest song on the album at 2 minutes and a half. I wish it was longer!
Then you add the slightly funky sounding "Indoor Games" and the opener "Cirkus" where Fripp opens the album with his ever-present haunting mellotron sound and you get a masterpiece of an album!
The singer who also plays bass is Gordon Haskell. While not having the world's greatest voice, I think it complements nice with the music. I thought it was alright.

In conclusion this is an awesome album! Highly recommended if you like experimental music and prog rock.

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2004 reissue of the band's 1970 album. Discipline.

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