{"id":128,"date":"2006-03-17T16:41:37","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T22:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2006-03-17T16:41:37","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T22:41:37","slug":"king-crimson-larks-tongues-in-aspic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/king-crimson-larks-tongues-in-aspic\/","title":{"rendered":"King Crimson &#8212; Larks&#8217; Tongues in Aspic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/kingcrinsomlarkstongue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-759\" title=\"King Crimson -- Larks\\' Tongues in Aspic\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/kingcrinsomlarkstongue.jpg\" alt=\"King Crimson -- Larks\\' Tongues in Aspic\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> King Crimson<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Larks&#8217; Tongues in Aspic<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1973<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 8<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 2006 &#8211; A gift from Keith.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today is a &#8220;K&#8221; day. Even though I&#8217;m playing 7-inches this time through I decided to go with King Crimson&#8217;s LP &#8220;Larks&#8217; Tongues in Aspic&#8221; because:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pelczarski.com\/gonutty\/\">good friend Keith<\/a> just bought this for me on eBay<\/li>\n<li>this K-day is also for K-eith, his wife K-erah and their un-alliteratively-named son Max<\/li>\n<li>and I get to postpone writing about another Kajagoogoo record<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know much about King Crimson, but this one is Keith&#8217;s favorite. I like it too, and was surprised how &#8220;progressive&#8221;, in a good way, this record was and is. My favorite cuts are the title tracks that bookend the album. After a few minutes of almost ambient noodling the opening track slams you with a metallic riff in 7\/8 time signature. I <em>like<\/em> surprises. Except for the vocals, in some ways this album reminds me a lot of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/2005\/12\/12\/gamalon\/\">Gamalon<\/a> record I&#8217;ve already logged here. But Gamalon came along over a decade later.<\/p>\n<p>Did Gorillaz really sample the laugh at the end of &#8220;Easy Money&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: King Crimson Title: Larks&#8217; Tongues in Aspic Year: 1973 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 8 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 2006 &#8211; A gift from Keith. Keeper: Yes Today is a &#8220;K&#8221; day. Even though I&#8217;m playing 7-inches this time through I decided to go with King Crimson&#8217;s LP &#8220;Larks&#8217; Tongues in Aspic&#8221; because: my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[473,452,453],"tags":[496,670,691,785,46,908,1033],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-496","tag-experimental","tag-fusion","tag-king-crimson","tag-music","tag-progressive","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}