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21st Century Schizoid Man

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magazine in 1974: "It's all picked down-up. The basis of the picking technique is to strike down on the on-beat and up on the off-beat. Then one must learn to reverse that. I'll generally use a downstroke on the down-beat except where I wish to accent a phrase in a particular way or create a certain
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and consist chiefly of disconnected phrases which present a series of images in a fixed pattern. The first line of each verse consists of two short phrases, while the second line is a single, more specific image, and the third is a longer phrase or a full sentence. The fourth and last line of each
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There follows an extended solo by guitarist Robert Fripp, who uses different amplification effects and plays sharply angled, almost atonal melody lines, creating dissonance and texture instead of simply displaying his
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ranked "21st Century Schizoid Man" at number 104 on its list of "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s", with Joe Tangari calling it a "seven-minute hellstorm of gonzo guitar, shifting meters, and nasty sax".
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as "a seven-and-a-half-minute statement of purpose: rock power, jazz spontaneity, and classical precision harnessed in the service of a common aim."
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in 2022, alleging that West had originally sampled the song without a licence and that Universal thus owed them unpaid royalties.
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pays homage to "21st Century Schizoid Man", both in the title and by incorporating some words from the original song.
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fire" and "death seed", which according to Sinfield refers to a "harvest of bad things" created by the use of
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ranked the solo at No. 56 in its "100 greatest guitar solos in rock" poll in 2018. As he explained to
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Before a live performance of the song on 14 December 1969 (later included on the live album
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kind of tension by confusing accents, in which case I might begin a run on the upstroke."
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King Crimson - Travel Weary Capricorn/Mars [50th Anniversary | Epitaph 1996]
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Coming right after the assaultive jazz-prog rock of '21st Century Schizoid Man'
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Orchestra, has no discernible meter. The song has been described as
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with the lyrics "Politicians' funeral pyre/Innocents raped with
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The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson Volume Two: 1981–2003
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sarcastically remarked that the song was dedicated to then-
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The lyrics of "21st Century Schizoid Man" were written by
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A Beginners' Guide to the King Crimson Collectors' Club
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s list of the "Top 100 Greatest Guitar Solos" in 2008.
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Song recordings produced by Ian McDonald (musician)
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Index


lead section
summarize
provide an accessible overview

Song
King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
A-side
Epitaph
B-side
Genre
Progressive rock
jazz rock
heavy metal
Label
Island
Composer(s)
Robert Fripp
Michael Giles
Greg Lake
Ian McDonald
Lyricist(s)
Peter Sinfield
Producer(s)
progressive rock
King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
signature song
Rolling Stone

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