this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2026
82 points (97.7% liked)

Ask Lemmy

38264 readers
1601 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

By "important" I mean that it didn't just become hugely popular, but it also changed a music genre or launched an entirely new one, or otherwise made a huge impact on music in general.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

This basically started progressive rock. I also remember being in absolute awe when learning it is from 1969, it sounds soooo clean and somewhat modern (and very good, obviously).

[–] smeg@infosec.pub 5 points 1 day ago

Completely changed rock music

[–] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This one of funny because when reading about it I hit the feeling that they had no idea or plan to what they were doing. They just wanted to sell albums and get laid. 

Then they drop this completely weird af, beautiful and haunting album which everyone of course tries to deconstruct and find the real meaning behind etc. 

Just fripp and pals goofing about in the halls of the crimson king.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

From what I've heard, progressive rock threw away the influence of black musicians that was there in blues and rock'n'roll, and continued in the European and ‘academic’/art music tradition instead.

I'm not versed in music theory anywhere near enough to tell if this is really true, though.

[–] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago

Me neither I just read a magazine about king crimson and I probably only remembered the parts I found amusing. Could be they had more cohesion than my post claims.

But the thematics of the first album is not as planned as some would like to think and fripp was very vocal that female groupies was one of his biggest drives.