King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. III
Discipline is a masterpiece, that’s for sure. Beat and Three, however, don’t thrill me when the Crimson "lower" themselves to the song format (a sort of Talking Heads post Speaking Tongues... see Model Man, Man with an Open Heart, Heartbeat...). The masterpieces that continue the magic of Discipline are Neal and Jack and Me, Sartori in Tangier, and Waiting Man on Beat, while on Three, the title track, Sleepless, and Larks’ 6 shine gloriously. After this album, we enter the 90s of neo-prog, with repeated renditions of the riffs from Red and Larks and those pseudo-metallic distortions, all stuff that depresses me, to say the least.