King Crimson - Level Five

[@andyharman3022]

That damnable Fripp just loves breaking the pattern. Writes Larks Tongues part I-IV, then does a part V, but calls it Level 5. He refuses to be predictable. He's undeprictable.

[@boombadoomba14]

undeprictable

[@topsecret1837]

Undefrippable

[@tHeForger1145]

I fucking love it, so him, fuck it

[@caiosoares2834]

Favorite track from this album. It's almost like a final boss theme from a videogame. It sounds so evil and powerful.

[@the_most_ever_company]

This doesn't sound like final boss music from a videogame... videogame final boss themes sound like THIS ie -- pretty much all the composers who wrote the first epic final boss themes in the 80's & 90's were huge King Crimson / prog rock nerds !

[@ΣταμΔετσης]

Bro thats what i thought when i heard dance id eternity by dream theater for the first time

[@joaoii1082]

@@the_most_ever_company considering the year it came out yeah

[@arthurpprado]

I could hear a stage theme, miniboss, stage boss, game over, level up screen, all in one song

[@joaoii1082]

@@arthurpprado same

[@kathowed]

Fripp and Belew though… together, they were an unstoppable force for good! Until they stopped…

[@strix-nebulosa]

And it's a shame that they stopped

[@notrombones5041]

They were so good together, it hurt.

[@pobinr]

Likewise they were unstartable, until they started

[@mmowoa]

Larks Tongues In Aspic Part Five: Fripp's breaks: impossible final boss

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

Heavy, bad, threatening opening. Fantastic instrumental track.

[@calogerobuttacavoli78]

Da brividi!!

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

@@calogerobuttacavoli78 esattamente!

[@smirkingshark]

Listening to this while eating has made eating quite the intense experience lmao. 10/10

[@douglasarthur2673]

Add doing the ironing !

[@rutabaga7700]

Were you eating Strange Spaghetti

[@apothecurio]

5:10 that entire guitar solo. Whole thing is just one of the nastiest things ever written.

[@demonicsweaters]

Belew's guitar solo in this track is freaking disturbing and amazing

[@clockworkengine]

Kinda Star Trekky

[@gordito11ful]

My dream is to have videogame sountrack made by KC. And this will be the final boss music Or at least the level 5 boss

[@apothecurio]

It legitimately sounds like an insane multi phased boss battle

[@Random701]

it would be epic

[@paulovv1689]

poor dream

[@kadenstimpson3167]

@@apothecurio terraria boss music

[@Scringus]

I imagine the entire game taking place in a giant theater/cirkus(haha get it) of some kind, with trippy enemies that look like the mother series and resident evil had a baby

[@stickss22]

As a huge fan of grunge and prog rock the grungy guitar in a song by King Crimson is a dream come true

[@stickss22]

Also, what the hell's up with the album cover, someone please explain

[@dudeman5303]

It's a dark critique of people's infallible faith in things, with no self reflection/will to think for themselves I think. At least that is what I get out of it. I think it's supposed to be almost cultish looking, there are many things in it made to seem similar to Nazis I believe. Obviously to survive every group needs children to be born, and yet they have a child hooked up to a gas chamber, so I think it may be a broader metaphor for indoctrination? Because they're hooking a baby up to a kind of gas, but a baby can't consent at that age so in a way it kind of comes off to me like they're either poisoning the baby with something or they just killed it - but that death could be metaphorical, they could be displaying it as murder to represent the baby not being able to truly be autonomous because they were brought up in some kind of fascistic nightmare surrounded by indoctrination - which could be either a political indoctrination or a religious one. I wouldn't draw the lines back to indoctrination but I think the album being titled "The Power to Believe" really changes a lot of the imagery. They have other songs that critique blind faith and indoctrination so I kind of am thinking it has to do with that.

[@vivimos_en_una_sociedad7758]

@@stickss22 what do you mean, its awesome. a distopian apocaliptic urban setting showing family life under horrible conditions outside the house.

[@FreeCorps1984]

@@vivimos_en_una_sociedad7758 100% Love it

[@Livesinashack]

​@@vivimos_en_una_sociedad7758it reminds me of the art work of a lot of the 80s thrash metal bands

[@tommyjoekavanagh6590]

Best King Crimson instrumental, in my opinion.

[@davidryan7386]

Best yang one. Sheltering sky still reigns supreme for me and satori.

[@davidg.8031]

This isn't Trio though

[@markforrest5599]

Hard to choose just one, with so many on offer 🤔...apart from those previously mentioned, I have a special place in my heart and mind for LTiA1 and for Providence as bookends to the 1972-74 era 🎼🎶🎵🎶🎵

[@fryBASS]

I agree with David Ryan

[@bburkie55]

I myself try to avoid calling thing The Best. However this is definitely in the top tier of King Crimson instrumentals.

[@paulsholar9356]

5:15 - Let Belew be Belew ..

[@francoispitre6292]

The Power To Beleive in 2023 is a scary listen

[@yarlodek5842]

4:09 you can't escape the terror modules

[@sherry-annsasmellyshrew6516]

Level Five Uses The "Funk" & "Synthy" Vibes of Part Three, And Mixes it With The Intensity of Parts Two, & Four, I Really Like That.

[@ZaphiroAnejo]

And it is the most threatening of them all, like every single part had built tension to reach the peak: Level V

[@sherry-annsasmellyshrew6516]

@@ZaphiroAnejo I Actually Made an Entire Video That Was Just The Larks' Tongues Suite(Plus Some Added Additions of The Talking Drum And The Acoustic Version of CODA: I Have a Dream), I Uploaded it Too, Unfortunately, it Got Fripped.

[@vivimos_en_una_sociedad7758]

what does the talking drum have to do with ltia@@sherry-annsasmellyshrew6516

[@stephenellis7316]

The drums…..the drums….. just give me more………👍😀

[@gilbertojimenez1095]

Level Five is a better title than larks' tongues in aspic part five in my opinion

[@SomeCuteDoragons]

Finally, someone.

[@Boston84]

That’s fact

[@justsomelurkerrr]

@@Boston84 a fact of life

[@Boston84]

@@justsomelurkerrr lol yes

[@brettmarlar4154]

That's fair to say, even if it is the fifth Larks.

[@Boston84]

This is probably my favorite KC album. It’s just amazing, simple as that

[@sleeve51]

I agree 100%

[@Johnnygrafx]

Same. The Construkction of Light is a close second for me.

[@Boston84]

@@Johnnygrafx yea that album is awesome

[@Chuck-Bob]

Its a high contender for me, and I've been a fan since the seventies.

[@jonmyers8681]

Me too, my other favorite is Red, which was also their last album 😅 I've been listening to Crimson since Discipline came out. But this was their last real album, and it's sort of a culmination of all the different styles that they did over the years, even their early jazzy stuff can be called metal, no one else had ever done that before. This album is perfect from start to finish.

[@alexgauss8452]

King Crimson is one of the only progressive rock bands that really managed to peak (again) after the 70s. Like, I actually think this is pretty cool for 2003. And I'm glad that Fripp was finally able to start working outside of the shadow of In the Court of the Crimson King.

[@robertvetter1011]

Yeah, but he returned to the "shadow" in 2015 and KC became just another nostalgia band....

[@drsnugglesfan]

Magma tho

[@rk41gator]

Pink Floyd seemed to get it together later. 1994 was pretty special. Even into 2019 the did some incredible stuff. But are right, KC and Fripp have endured and well.

[@biggusdickus1689]

@@robertvetter1011 I don't think that's fair. After such a great career don't they deserve to play whatever they want?

[@dudeman5303]

I mean he was behind a lot of other very acclaimed albums, like Red and Discipline as well which both do get a solid amount of praise. I think a lot of the prog fanbase tends to let in the court of the crimson king overshadow the rest but I think jazz fans and some experimental rock/punk groups respect a lot of the other discography. But yeah I think a lot of prog fans seem to let their debut album overshadow the rest it feels like. I am overall a pretty huge fan of prog/jazz fusion/jazz, but also a lot of punk groups and I feel like modern prog fans tend to be less experimental in the kinds of music they look into today than they used to, it feels like they see it as more generic than it's supposed to be. They hear a porcupine tree album and think it's prog even though it's more like "trying to sound like the prog bands from 20 years ago" - it's a reactionary kind of fandom now where a lot of people don't try to push boundaries but instead just take the sounds of the great bands of the past and they now just recreate those exact sounds. In the first decade of prog - everyone knew it was an approach to music rather than a "sound". The second people start just copying sounds from one another or copycat bands show up just to make a buck, that's not prog. Prog is supposed to be *progressing* rock music to boundaries previously unexplored, it does not have a "sound" like other genres do and when it comes off like it *does* then it's no longer prog (all my opinion of course, but I mean why call it prog if they're just making money off of nostalgia or other people who*were* progressive?) Tbh, The Mars Volta is a great example of a band that was able to pay homage to the prog great but still pushed the boundaries, they are the only prog band to come up in the last 20 years that I can really say did anything special. But then again, I haven't been keeping up to date with contemporary artists the last 4 or 5 years so I could have easily missed a good group.

[@79wx9z]

Crimsonists of the world unite!

[@IMightBeVanny]

All hail the Crimson King!

[@ayuh8911]

Based

[@Poseiden2]

Effectively the album's opening number, and once again the mighty Crim know how to stop you in your tracks before you're ready! That middle section is as scary as anything off Red or Thrak... so much for prog being noodly or airy-fairy!

[@lmp9726]

Their most recent best composition.

[@linnstr8609]

This is King Crimson's Dance of Eternity... amazing

[@grogg4372]

Damn this slaps. This music sounds like it was made for an epic battle, really feels like it's telling a story.

[@jamespurcer3730]

This is the most powerful and progressive thing that I have ever heard out from King Chrisom in decades.

[@andreijurca5546]

One of their best instrumentals

[@chrisbyars4422]

Excellent guitar playing by Adrian Belew!

[@motivationalpizzaman9718]

this really sounds like a video game and i love it

[@aakkoin]

Level 5 Robert Fripp

[@jonbailey5697]

King Crimson's music is so trippy.

[@Miika_Laurila]

1:03 that drumming🔥

[@horseman03]

This sounds so fucking fresh i love it

[@dr.weaklicksofcrashedcurse4535]

Here we go!

[@_laid_]

This is so underrated.

[@TLightBulb192]

That is the most amazing and worderfully chaotic guitar solo that I've heard in my entire life. What a song for the love pf god!!

[@filmusikchannel7596]

The natural evolution of Lark's Tongues in Aspic

[@stefano.salari]

I think this may be the hardest piece I've ever heard in all my life. Every time I listen to it, thrills raises over my backbone. That's so massive and gorgeous!

[@CoreyArsenault-c8t]

This albums like KC meats Radiohead meats tool like this is beyond epic and instantly lands in my top 3 KC albums

[@ryanrussell2934]

One of the ? Or best guitar solos of all time . Thanks , Adrian

[@HairyHog77]

Damn I wish we'd get a new KC album

[@steverose1977]

As Uncle Robert has said, King Crimson is its own thing. He created a monster, basically. I'd love a live album and then what?

[@vivimos_en_una_sociedad7758]

@@steverose1977 they have put out a bunch of live albums since 2008. we want new studio material. imagine how 3 drums would sound on studio. powerful.

[@steverose1977]

@@vivimos_en_una_sociedad7758 That would be wonderful. Non vedo l'ora!

[@gorskiy1]

Imagine King Crimson making a videogame soundtrack

[@deerfish3000]

The pentadodecahedron of doom.

[@MarceloKatayama]

would that be a polyhedron with 100 sides?

[@dukeviking]

my first and probably last time seeing KC was on this album tour - 20 freaking years ago already.

[@MerkinMuffly]

The playing is level 5, of course that goes without saying for every Crimson album, no other rock band comes close to there musicianship. Take that ASMR lovers.

[@notrombones5041]

Great bedtime music for small children.

[@ayuh8911]

Lol are your kids ok 😂?

[@splabbity]

"Turn it up, Dad!!!"

[@bugeanuflorin1531]

King Crimson is King, thank you

[@profk3742]

Djent aint got shit on the King

[@zackzallie8735]

More like Djent bands, Tool, Primus, industrial metal bands bowed down to Lord Fripp.

[@douglasarthur2673]

Hadn’t really occurred to me before but the drums on this track are sensational. BRAVO 👏🏻

[@Gabetrom]

One of their best songs

[@davidfsnyder]

Hair-raising THRAKs. Excellent job, gentlemen.

[@thisissentimentalillness]

Favorite piece of yours. Fabulous!

[@zalapski]

King Crimson is the only band in the world that ever made me wonder if the guitar woild truly run out of fretboard space....and that is a good thing!

[@giulianomombelli3081]

📈 Level five - hundred ‼️

[@brucebaldy]

appears to be a very nice compilation deserving to be played in the whole with its mates on album

[@nseven1117]

this sounds like boss music

[@rinoksilpshiknimenyaa]

*Boss' music sound like this

[@nseven1117]

@@rinoksilpshiknimenyaa oh yeah, I forgot King Crimson was here before video games

[@eleidiscos]

most epic song ever

[@sleeve51]

Masterful. One of their absolute best tunes!

[@TOOLMAYNARD1989]

TOOL and King Crimson ❤❤❤

[@ElekGuitar]

Super !!!

[@giorgiomartinico3774]

Work of Art!!!

[@notrombones5041]

The "Night On Bald Mountain" of rock and roll.

[@matiasignaciopaezgodoy8000]

This is my favorite Instrumental i love you guys

[@rossanomacchioni7746]

Dissonances scale , great Heavy album the Power to believe. Tey Gunn ,Pat Mastellotto , Adrian Belew and Mr Robert Fripp...

[@markgore9202]

This kicks ass

[@codyf9932]

Brilliant!!!

[@bobsalmon8882]

Reminds me of voivod, which is nice🤗

[@dkohkemper]

as of today, 11 Pink Floyd fans don't like King Crimson

[@CRaKCed_ceTAceAN]

Uhhhhhh

[@Pokey_Puni_]

Make that 12-

[@papajhonsreal]

Lame

[@dkohkemper]

@@papajhonsreal there goes another one lol

[@Nick-dw7gg]

what does this even mean lol those are two of my favorite bands

[@lordofglencoe7084]

Great track , totaly adicted to .

[@benharris-hayesaudio]

Just too good. 🤘

[@Vbusquets666]

love you , thank you so much for existing masters 💖🎶🎵🌈✨🤟🏼

[@jackbach8968]

Grandiose 😇

[@ulfingvar1]

Damn this is good! This will remain radical 100 years from now..

[@cosmicdrifter287]

Level 5 on level 10 on my hifi set.

[@slavastalkerovich2035]

Apocalyptic music!

[@lindawicker32]

No words needed 👌😵

[@DidierAyel]

Have seen this live in Montréal, Canada. Fabulous !!!

[@rudyw.15]

Amazing!!! ♣

[@mr.h3628]

Did you call me, Sir?

[@dayanmcar7578]

Love this song!

[@wolfgangmerx]

5:02. Hot damn.

[@pechoygol9265]

cool 😎

[@ExclusiveLM]

I just drop by to visit the Kings of Progressive Rock again. I'll be back.

[@Chuck-Bob]

Fuckin Mastellotto, dude. Such amazing sounds coming outta that kit.

[@prestontingley8914]

I just imagine an mk match goin hard with everyone Armageddon style

[@mateogimenez7122]

Thanks.

[@williejon1229]

Adrian!! 5:12

[@georgebrooks246]

It was awesome that warfield 20032 tourssame yr,same venue when on ceros come to you,,‘San Fran rockingsisco yes indeed9 needisay more

[@j.g.2536]

cool concert au dour festival 2003

[@athenajadegossett385]

3:27

[@dexxfilm]

So damn good

[@nikolaosmosxakis3395]

very good.......................................

[@SomeCuteDoragons]

🌞larls🌞

[@murpi338]

🌞Larls🌞 Rating: 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 out of 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞

[@dunebug233]

🌞Larls five🌞

[@hopefullyexisting1531]

🌞larls🌞

[@Shrek_es_mi_pastor]

Level 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞

[@HEHEHE_I_AM_A_MASKED_WARRIA]

🌞larls🌞

[@denizdemirtas5299]

this is soo heavy

[@The-priest-of-darkness]

This would be the perfect soundtrack for a boss battle in the 5th level of a videogame...

[@aldivagar]

El arte de esta música es que provoca sentimientos en nuestro espíritu que demuest😮ra que los distintos estados y mezcla de la materia realizan evolución

[@xaertai]

Boss music before video games

[@arekhautaluoma4276]

I have a bad habit of hearing "meet the Simpsons" over the climbing riff part >___>

[@darcsaster]

peak interlude

[@KellonMelon65]

BRING BACK MY TPTB TO STREAMING SERVICES MR FRIPP 😭😭😭

[@tookmyjob]

The first time I heard the drum samples, I thought my disc was messed up.

[@rk41gator]

Who listening is planning to see this tour (or have already gone)?

[@elon_bust]

Saw them in Delray Beach last Friday. They played this, absolutely killer.

[@AJTate-bs6li]

I saw them too last a couple Saturdays ago in St Augustine and they played this. Badass of course.

[@paulahunt5621]

Saw them in Austin, TX (Cedar Park). in Jul. Yep, I heard Level 5 for the umpteenth time on tour (this was my 6th KC show and is looking like the final one unfortunately). While I appreciate Level 5 what I wouldn’t give to have heard Part I or Part II in concert?

[@BeatlesBowieKrimson]

Saw 'em at The Anthem in DC. Last night of the tour. They seemed tired. I've seen 'em ten times since 1980.

[@rk41gator]

@@BeatlesBowieKrimson Great that this was not your first time. It is no wonder they might be tired. I saw them for the first time live Aug 2 outside and they were definitely NOT tired. Lots of energy, amazing musicians. But I can't say that they were better the 1978 Genesis I saw. I will definitely NOT see this Genesis tour. It is sad that they (or at least Phil) are a pale shadow of what there were. I prefer to remember them at their peak.

[@ahava77]

5:02 🙌🤘

[@joaobelo4177]

O rock progressivo é tudo de bom