Music Banter - View Single Post - I know what I like: Trollheart's History of Progressive Rock and Progressive Metal

Trollheart · 03-10-2023, 08:03 PM

Album title: Islands
Artist: King Crimson
Nationality: English
Label: Island duh
Chronology: Fourth
Grade: A
Factsheet: Just the one from KC this year, lazy bastards.

Tracklisting: Formentera Lady/ Sailor’s Tale/ The Letters/ Ladies of the Road/ Prelude: Song of the Gulls/ Islands
Comments:

Believed generally, apparently, to be the weakest of their career up to this point, and I can kind of see why, even though I know little about them. “Formantera Lady” comes and goes without leaving the slightest impression on me. Boring as all hell. ”Sailor's Tale" is a little better, bit of excitement in it, but still nothing much to get excited about. ”The Letters” starts off very low-key and quiet, then explodes into a VDGG hornfest (oooer!) but it's still not gripping me. Yawn. “Ladies of the Road” seems to be nothing more than a boring, annoying attempt at hard rock on an album that doesn't quite know what it wants to be.That leaves us with “Prelude: Song of the Gulls”, which is at least a nice little almost classical instrumental, the first track on this album I've given a shit about. Very enjoyable. Beautiful, in fact. A welcome respite from the tedium this album is weighing me down with.

Well now in fairness the title track iss also very nice. I'm not wild about this third vocalist either (seems he, and everyone else, left after this album anyway) but the sax from Mel Collins is very easy on the ear, and it's a really nice relaxing tune. Overall I’d have to say basically pretty disappointing, though reading about it I had kind of expected this.

Favourite track(s): Prelude: Song of the Gulls, Islands
Least favourite track(s): Everything else
Personal Rating: 2.50
Legacy Rating: 3.00
Final Rating: 2.25

03-10-2023, 08:03 PM	#288 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Album title: Islands Artist: King Crimson Nationality: English Label: Island duh Chronology: Fourth Grade: A Factsheet: Just the one from KC this year, lazy bastards. Tracklisting: Formentera Lady/ Sailor’s Tale/ The Letters/ Ladies of the Road/ Prelude: Song of the Gulls/ Islands Comments: Believed generally, apparently, to be the weakest of their career up to this point, and I can kind of see why, even though I know little about them. “Formantera Lady” comes and goes without leaving the slightest impression on me. Boring as all hell. ”Sailor's Tale" is a little better, bit of excitement in it, but still nothing much to get excited about. ”The Letters” starts off very low-key and quiet, then explodes into a VDGG hornfest (oooer!) but it's still not gripping me. Yawn. “Ladies of the Road” seems to be nothing more than a boring, annoying attempt at hard rock on an album that doesn't quite know what it wants to be.That leaves us with “Prelude: Song of the Gulls”, which is at least a nice little almost classical instrumental, the first track on this album I've given a shit about. Very enjoyable. Beautiful, in fact. A welcome respite from the tedium this album is weighing me down with. Well now in fairness the title track iss also very nice. I'm not wild about this third vocalist either (seems he, and everyone else, left after this album anyway) but the sax from Mel Collins is very easy on the ear, and it's a really nice relaxing tune. Overall I’d have to say basically pretty disappointing, though reading about it I had kind of expected this. Favourite track(s): Prelude: Song of the Gulls, Islands Least favourite track(s): Everything else Personal Rating: 2.50 Legacy Rating: 3.00 Final Rating: 2.25 __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018