Antoni Mateu.King Crimson "In the Court of the Crimson King" 1969

Siempre será imposible saber cómo hubiéramos respondido ante este disco cuando se publicó originariamente en 1969: qué hubiéramos pensado al encontrar esta portada en la tienda, oír por primera vez el disco entero (Schizoid Man y después todo lo demás...), compararlo con lo que se publicaba entonces... Imposible. Por ello, nuestras reacciones ante este disco nunca podrán ser “originales”. Lástima. -No descubrimos King Crimson por Schizoid Man, ni por esta canción en estaversión original, y siempre nos agradaron más otras canciones que éstas. Otra vez: lástima. 

King Crimson ‎ "In The Court Of The Crimson King" 40th Anniversary (5cd´s + dvd) 2009

It was, quite simply, a sound that shook the music world. When King Crimson emerged from the dust of the considerably more oblique and largely absurd trio of Giles, Giles and Fripp—whose one release, The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp (Deram, 1968), was aptly titled—nobody could have anticipated that this group would literally change the face of the pop world, and almost single-handedly define a new musical genre: progressive rock. Crimson co-founder/guitarist Robert Fripp has, with a number of subsequent incarnations of Crimson, only partly been successful in distancing his flagship group from that stylistic marker, but in many ways it matters not. As labels become increasingly meaningless, revisiting this seminal album reveals far more than any reductionist categorization can.