King Crimson-Red (1974)

 


Artist: King Crimson    

Title: Red

Label: Atlantic

Format: LP

Catalog Number: SD 18110

Year of Release: 1974

Country and Year of Edition: US 1974 Monarch pressing

Sell Price: $26.87

Sell Date: 6/19/26

Condition: VG/VG

Discogs Last Sold: 5/5/26 VG+/VG $33.33

Low: $10.00 VG/G+

Median: $27.49

Average: $27.35

High: $49.95 NM/VG+ 7/21/24

Current low price: $28.24 (Canadian) VG+/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 9

Have/Want: 1077/882

Where Sold: Quincy, IL

Time It Took To Sell:  3 years

Where and When Bought: Facebook marketplace lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No 

Generally flawless 5 track album from peak-period Crimson, Red is perhaps the best of the band or at least very close to In The Court Of The Crimson King.  The album was only issued in the US on Atlantic for a few years before EG took it over in 1977 for a half speed master version and into the CD era.  This was a decent copy that went close to it's median price-$26 and change.

"Red" and it's tangential refrain plus "One More Red Nightmare, " with it's almost Disco handclaps, open and close the first side.  "Starless" is the big John Wetton-sung finale reprising the title from the previous years album Starless and Bible Black.  The side 2 opener "Providence" start in such an inaudible fashion you begin to understand how CD's were made for music like this.

"...and the smile signals emptiness..."

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Frame By Frame (The Essential King Crimson) (1991)

Peter Gabriel-Peter Gabriel (1980)


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