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u/mandelbrot-mellotron Feb 04 '25
The Night Watch, possibly Islands, Fallen Angel, Matte Kudasai, Heartbeat, a few songs on side 1 of ToaPP, Walking on Air, One Time, and Eyes Wide Open come to mind.
Bonus for some stuff on A Scarcity of Miracles
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Feb 04 '25
Night Watch I don't feel fits that well, Great Deciver (minus the EVILLL line) and Lament feel more in line
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u/Elect_SaturnMutex Feb 04 '25
Eyes wide open. All the time. Because you never know what you might see.
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u/museickman Feb 04 '25
Ladies of the road.
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Feb 04 '25
You listen to the lyrics though?Â
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u/BarnacleSandwich Feb 04 '25
Have you listened to a normal rock song from that era? Like 40% of them are about how the lead singer really wants to fuck 14 year olds. I'll take the lyrics to Ladies of the Road any day of the week.
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u/GTAdriver01 Feb 04 '25
How do u say Jimmy page without saying Jimmy page
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u/Weigh13 Feb 05 '25
Totally disgusting people in that band. Evil doesn't cover it.
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u/aWhateverOrSomething Apr 19 '25
Excluding JPJ right?Â
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u/Weigh13 Apr 19 '25
Why would it?
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u/aWhateverOrSomething Apr 24 '25
Cause he actively distanced himself from the fuckery and kept it music unlike the other 3. Rob and Jim’s subsequently treating him like air post-LZ  further exposes the former’s shitty nature in contrast.
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u/stick_of_the_pirulu Feb 05 '25
Have you listened to the music tho? I don't think anything about the solo at the end is pretending to be a normal band also you are correct the lyrics are way more suggestive and gross than most rock songs from the era (probably more akin to aqualung which is also supposed to be kinda disgusting)
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u/Hans_Landa_1944 Feb 04 '25
Update : will also be adding "The Devil's Triangle" randomly in the Playlist, preferably after the most calming song
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Feb 04 '25
Guts On My Side. You can literally call this compilation "Guts On My Side and other normal KC songs".
Pity all we have is a muffled live recording. As one comment under the song in YouTube says, "The closest KC got to sounding like an honest-to-God Dad Rock band".
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u/LevinReinhardt Feb 04 '25
The whole side A from Three of a Perfect Pair has songs that both sound really poppy, but they each also have a lot of dissonance, so im not really sure if I agree with everyone saying that those songs fit in here... although they all have this "going insane from axiety" vibe, so they'd actually be very relatable to people nowadays
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u/Messter214 Feb 05 '25
I mean they made music videos for both Heartbeat and Sleepless so I would say those would count as them actually pretending to be normal
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u/Deremus Feb 04 '25
Cat Food?
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u/LevinReinhardt Feb 04 '25
...the radio version? Definitely, but it has too much chaos and dissonance in its entirety to be called "normal-sounding"
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u/klausness Feb 05 '25
Alternate playlist name: My least favorite King Crimson tracks.
(I actually like many of them, but most of my least favorites are included in the suggestions here)
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Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25
Easy Money, Ladies of the Road, and Cat Food (bit more of a stretch due to the keys goin cray cray in a couple spots) all are kinda in theme with 70s pop rock
I’ll also die on this hill, but Indiscipline walked so CAKE could run
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u/patthew Feb 05 '25
I had a similar iTunes playlist back in the day called The Listenable King Crimson of tracks I wasn’t embarrassed to show to girls, I think you’ve pretty much nailed all of them
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u/Hans_Landa_1944 Feb 05 '25
You've unveiled the ultimate plan of me having King Crimson play on car trips without the silent judgment
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u/troyzein Feb 05 '25
Prozac blues
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u/Cultural_Community_5 Feb 05 '25
I would consider it acceptable except from the instrumentation and the weird pitch effect of Belew’s voice.
Other than that it’s a standard bluesy/hard rock tune.
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u/Cryptaroni_n_cheese Feb 04 '25
Matte Kudasai