#GreatMusic

King Crimson - Sailors Tale (OFFICIAL)

As far as I'm concerned, “Islands,” although it's hard to rank them, “Sailor's Tale” is my favorite.

Selective but not sectarian, since ’69 I've grown up on a diet of King Crimson, then also in ’76 for a few years when I'd take my bag of prog records and more to play on one of the first free radios of the time, and today I still love them, at least those from the early years, along with a lot of other music I would say across the board.

If we want to frame “Lizard” and also “Islands” musically, except for the title track of the first, they can no longer be considered prog albums; we need to talk about “total” music or “fusion,” but not in the way it was understood later; we should then make a separate discussion for “Lady of the Road” which, as beautiful as it is for Fripp's guitar, feels out of place on that album, because it was perhaps intended for release as a 45 RPM single, although we would need to verify if it was published.