King Crimson - Islands

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  • Full Album Playlist: • Islands | Full Album
    ISLANDS
    (Fripp, Sinfield)
    Earth, stream and tree encircled by sea
    Waves sweep the sand from my island.
    My sunsets fade,
    Field and glade wait only for rain
    Grain after grain love erodes my
    High weathered walls which fend off the tide
    Cradle the wind
    to my island.
    Gaunt granite climbs where gulls wheel and glide
    Mournfully cry o'er my island.
    My dawn bride's veil, damp and pale,
    Dissolves in the sun.
    Love's web is spun - cats prowl, mice run
    Wreathe snatch-hand briars where owls know my eyes
    Violet skies
    Touch my island, touch me.
    Beneath the wind turned wave
    Infinite peace
    Islands join hands
    'Neath heaven's sea.
    Dark harbour quays like fingers of stone
    Hungrily reach from my island.
    Clutch sailors' words, pearls and gourds
    Are strewn on my shore.
    Equal in love, bound in circles.
    Earth, stream and tree return to the sea
    Waves sweep the sand from my island,
    from me.
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    Robert Fripp: Guitar, Mellotron, Peter’s Pedal Harmonium and sundry implements
    Mel Collins: Flute, Bass Flute, Saxes & Vocals
    Boz: Bass Guitar, Lead Vocals & Choreography
    Ian Wallace: Drums, Percussion & Vocals
    Peter Sinfield: Words, Sounds & Visions
    Featured players
    Keith Tippett: Piano
    Paulina Lucas: Soprano
    Robin Miller: Oboe
    Mark Charig: Cornet
    Harry Miller: String Bass
    Engineer: Andy Hendrikson
    Cover Design & Painting: Peter Sinfield
    Equipment: Vick & Mike
    Recorded at Command Studios, Piccadilly, London
    Outer cover illustration ‘Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius’ by courtesy of The Institute of Technology and Carnegie Institution of Washington
    #KingCrimson
    #RobertFripp
    #Islands
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  • @markcharig1
    @markcharig1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1170

    I had a wonderful time playing the cornet on this album. Robert and the rest of the crew there were such an awesome group to be around. Being able to feature on an album created by rock legends was an experience I will never forget.

    • @xadm1ral135
      @xadm1ral135 2 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      Thank you for the wonderful solo at the end!

    • @blink-xt2bp
      @blink-xt2bp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      thank you for your part in this. you are yourself a legend as well!

    • @thelyricologist9568
      @thelyricologist9568 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      I can only envy - in the best possible meaning of the word - the feeling of playing with those guys. But also I envy you being yourself an acclaimed musician and providing us with a wonderful piece of music. :-)

    • @tommyrawlings3046
      @tommyrawlings3046 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Bravo to all of you! This is the quintessence of serene and melancholy! A masterpiece!

    • @yana_2_6_0
      @yana_2_6_0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      My man: for me, you MADE this album off that solo alone...

  • @progrockplaylists
    @progrockplaylists 3 ปีที่แล้ว +348

    I'm not friends with anyone that doesn't like this song. they aren't welcome to my island

    • @eldiosdeltocino
      @eldiosdeltocino 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      And all the friends that unknown this song, are welcome to my island

    • @zenmarqzenway
      @zenmarqzenway 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I have no island, but this island. That has him singing from the left side of, on my headphones

    • @7cosmo832
      @7cosmo832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Fun fact: i used to dislike this song... a lot... now I love it!

  • @tenzinsmith7991
    @tenzinsmith7991 3 ปีที่แล้ว +773

    The most underrated King Crimson song. Absolutely beautiful.

    • @dougmphilly
      @dougmphilly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      i'm not a fan of the album, except for this. boz was such a great singer. and tippet's piano. and that coronet solo. and finally, sinfield strings together words that we can all understand.

    • @nelsonluisfreire8969
      @nelsonluisfreire8969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This song is soooo boring

    • @tagomago994
      @tagomago994 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      @@nelsonluisfreire8969 no problem, you can go have fun elsewhere.

    • @music7
      @music7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree with you

    • @andrewwilliams9599
      @andrewwilliams9599 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      The most underrated King Crimson album. Absolutely sublime.

  • @kurarisu_
    @kurarisu_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +289

    This is the reason why the ability to hear was created

    • @user-tm7xe3qm7n
      @user-tm7xe3qm7n 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I thought this is the reason why need to trianed to hear. Going to ask my only old son to play this when the moment i will be disappeard eventually. The last song to me in the rest of life.

    • @WalkmanAssassin
      @WalkmanAssassin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      For the hearing impaired.

    • @user-tm7xe3qm7n
      @user-tm7xe3qm7n 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@WalkmanAssassin Listening 🎶 👌
      Drank too much, but you will understand what I am trying to express

  • @samuelarias9242
    @samuelarias9242 3 ปีที่แล้ว +326

    if they dont play this song at my funeral then im not going

    • @Rog5446
      @Rog5446 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I never thought of this as a funeral farewell song, but I bet some people have chosen it for their farewell.

    • @josephhutchison1983
      @josephhutchison1983 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha!

    • @justyna8156
      @justyna8156 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      They should play it in churches in general, it would have better impact on people and their meditation.

    • @AUSTIN-sz1gz
      @AUSTIN-sz1gz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @jiggersotoole7823
      @jiggersotoole7823 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@justyna8156 they should play it in shopping malls. it would start a riot. or better stiill a revolution.

  • @triangulum8869
    @triangulum8869 3 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    this song really makes you feel infinite peace

    • @ailigimmo9668
      @ailigimmo9668 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Exactly....

    • @carlosaramayo7633
      @carlosaramayo7633 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ailigimmo9668 The infinite pain and the infinite peace of solitude.

  • @dnn909
    @dnn909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Fripp turns his gaze towards the Trifid Nebula of Sagittarius, and recalls that story he read in his youth, about some monks who in their monastery observed, one night a thousand years ago, how particles were released from the moon that originated new stars in the sky. Evokes the metaphor of stars, islands scattered across the sky, and gives name to the fourth King Crimson album.

  • @thickasabrick1and2
    @thickasabrick1and2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    Mark Charig's cornet solo is just... Perfect.

    • @y2k.channel
      @y2k.channel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      when mark charig plays on a king crimson song it just makes the song like 18348393 times bettr

    • @sharonhallshipp6011
      @sharonhallshipp6011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sublime.

    • @andreasalvioli3801
      @andreasalvioli3801 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Great. Amazing.

  • @mintoto4184
    @mintoto4184 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    학창시절 누워서 잠들기 전 항상 이 노래의 카세트테잎 틀고 들으면서 스르르 잠들었던 기억이 난다. 몽롱하게 꿈속에서 상상의 낙원을 그리며 기분좋은 환상에 사로잡히게 만드는 마성의 명곡!

  • @Japanese_Tiger
    @Japanese_Tiger 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    This is the Hymn of my Loneliness and my Love. Love you, King Crimson, and thank you for all the times you with me.

  • @marcobelloni6757
    @marcobelloni6757 2 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    This song is for me the Big Bang of peace. I had it in my earphones at the hospital while being close to death, though fully conscious and fighting cancer before a transplant saved me. King Crimson's Islands was telling me 'any way this will end it will be fantastic'.

    • @mononoaware1960
      @mononoaware1960 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Glad to hear you’re alive and well my friend, stay strong.

    • @marcobelloni6757
      @marcobelloni6757 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@mononoaware1960 Thanks a lot, friend. Same for you!

    • @gabrieldzwonowski3363
      @gabrieldzwonowski3363 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I can't imagine how heavy that must've been

    • @dayotobiusa
      @dayotobiusa ปีที่แล้ว +13

      "Always has been." We are all little connected islands, sharing the birds and winds with each other while trying to make sense of this fantastic experience that is life itself.
      It is a rare thing to be aware of, how small and fast our time here is, and how it makes all our life even more amazing because of it.
      I cherish you. Because you know this better\closer than a lot of people. You have known what it is to accept your end, to really know every day is a gift. Not in the sense that you can always do more
      each higher, but in the sense that every small gesture is beautiful in its significance (personally, I've always believed the greatest, divine good is hidden in the smallest gesture of kindness, and it always puts a smile on my face), that the fact that every interaction could be your last and as such should be done as if it were, and that at the end, you are your own judge, and as long as you've lived true to yourself and your loves, you will forgive and accept your end (no one is clear of guilts and regrets., but that is\was part of the journey that is human life, it is about learning after all).

    • @jacquesdelaquaire7471
      @jacquesdelaquaire7471 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dayotobiusa How interesting it'd be to talk about that with you... ❤🤩

  • @joakasgu-kum.3910
    @joakasgu-kum.3910 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    This song is another level of beauty...

  • @obi234
    @obi234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +181

    Mark Charigs cornet solo makes me cry (from 6:05 to 8:55) ...
    It draws a distinct story in my head; a person, who lived a sad and lonely life, finds true love in the autumn of their life, which makes them happy and full of joy. But there's great tragedy in this, because their life is damn near over, and it took them so long to realize the beauty of it - but in the moment, the fact is lost on them, or they just don't care. And when they die, there is a smile on their face, because they have lived a great life.

    • @johnfowler3125
      @johnfowler3125 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He replied to the video

    • @obi234
      @obi234 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@johnfowler3125 oh man, that's sweet! Thanks for letting me know

    • @raydarable
      @raydarable 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Great profile picture.

    • @mrlightningbolt887
      @mrlightningbolt887 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Nice to see a fellow Wilson fan here

  • @Mythriak_
    @Mythriak_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +356

    This is one of the most beatuiful songs I've ever listened. And I had the privilege of watching it be played live. This song made the world a better place.

    • @music7
      @music7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      What a lucky man!!

    • @weltire
      @weltire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ...He squeezes tears, but I don't cry:) ... Only Chopin can do something like that ...

    • @luismoraless7133
      @luismoraless7133 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Man, this thing live is like a hug to the soul, I had the same luck too

    • @4karros
      @4karros 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I saw it live july 28th of this year it was extremely emotional almost made me cry

    • @natejacobs5879
      @natejacobs5879 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@4karros I am two nights removed from watching Crimson perform this live & I know what you speak of. Just a stunning piece of music.

  • @gigisonishvili7146
    @gigisonishvili7146 3 ปีที่แล้ว +229

    This is the most beautiful and calming song ever.

    • @lukaedilashvili6477
      @lukaedilashvili6477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      გეთანხმები :დდდ

    • @giorgi857
      @giorgi857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      მეც გეთანხმები

    • @fabrigasan2150
      @fabrigasan2150 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      E” la maglia del Como Calcio?😜

    • @elzagvelesiani
      @elzagvelesiani 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      გემოვნებიანი ქართველები ♥️

    • @conjointoates
      @conjointoates 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      იმენა

  • @randyginn1747
    @randyginn1747 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    The most tranquil and peaceful song ever recorded by a rock band. A Masterpiece..

  • @spexvtx
    @spexvtx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    I have been moved by this song since it’s release in 1972. It never grows old but it’s depth grows with age.

    • @jd-bl3gf
      @jd-bl3gf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Cannot say anything more

    • @josephhutchison1983
      @josephhutchison1983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Been listening to this cut since I owned this album since 1972 or '73. I got it on sale at JL Marsh record warehouse in Dallas where I worked a short time.

    • @BillJohnson-jr1jd
      @BillJohnson-jr1jd 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yupp just like wine

    • @bobsbigboy_
      @bobsbigboy_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      was released in 1971

  • @VeeeeryyyFaaaastSlooooth
    @VeeeeryyyFaaaastSlooooth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    One of the best songs ever, and Keith Tippet's piano work here is exceptional

    • @TheReaperMan275
      @TheReaperMan275 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, he (Tippet) behaved himself on this one. 😉

    • @tommyrawlings3046
      @tommyrawlings3046 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tippet was an exceptional piano player!

    • @baco82
      @baco82 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's a whole Canterbury team behind Lizard and this 😀

    • @charlytaylor1748
      @charlytaylor1748 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha ha reaper man. Mr Tippett came to our house after a gig at Oxford improvisers co-op mid-80s. He talked to my housemate about eastenders as I remember

  • @andrewwilliams9599
    @andrewwilliams9599 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    2:30 to 3:10. Like being in a church, with only Marc Charig on cornet and Fripp on pedal harmonium. Absolutely sublime.

  •  3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Fifty years have passed since the creation of this song (1971) and which I heard for the first time when I was sixteen in 1975, at the premises of the mythical record store “Showco”, which was in one of the commercial galleries in Buenos Aires in the Belgrano neighborhood.
    His owner, Juanjo Fernández Padrón, was always there with several of his friends listening to “strange things” that came on vinyl from Europe, Japan and the US. There, I also heard for the first time Peter Hamill's Van der Graaf Generator, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Premiata Forneria Marconi, and Pink Floyd.
    But it was King Crimson who blew my mind.
    The lyrics of the poet Peter Sinfield, the incredible guitar of Robert Fripp and the melodies and voice of John Wetton, made something change in me forever. Because not only had he discovered music, he had also discovered poetry.
    Happy 50 years, Islands! And thank you.

    • @BoazMoerman
      @BoazMoerman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nice story! The singer here is Boz Burrell though, not John Wetton.

    • @GraachAhim
      @GraachAhim 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yo tengo una experiencia similar, solo que en Porto Alegre, no lejos de BsAs, y la tienda de discos llamava Pop'Som en Galeria Chaves. Perdon por mi pobre castellano.

  • @blownupfishnchips9071
    @blownupfishnchips9071 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    This does not sound like a King Crimson album at all and I'm not even complaining.

    • @holderlin13
      @holderlin13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Maybe because it's King Crimson!

    • @Scottlp2
      @Scottlp2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I’ve only recently explored their works beyond Court of the Crimson king album and I still can’t get over how they have beautiful quiet pieces and what I assume death metal sounds like as well as something posted today which sounds like straight Jazz.

    • @holderlin13
      @holderlin13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Scottlp2 Maybe what you just discover is that King Crimson is not a matter of style but an invention of a King Crimson style...

    • @progrockplaylists
      @progrockplaylists 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      KC is well known for originality. this sure is outstanding

    • @davehamilton-smith9460
      @davehamilton-smith9460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Scottlp2 In that case, death metal does not sound like how you think it might.

  • @joshmolina4435
    @joshmolina4435 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Thank you King Crimson

    • @fabrigasan2150
      @fabrigasan2150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mellotron da paura👑👑🧏

  • @caiosoares2834
    @caiosoares2834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    I had written a text similar to this one on the other upload of the track, but it has been lost since TH-cam disabled the comments.
    I must thank Fripp, Sinfield, Boz, Wallace, Tippet, Charig, and everyone who made this song possible. This song helped me a lot during these strange times, ever since the albuns were available on TH-cam. When i felt like everything was lost forever, i would come back to this track, it gave me strengh and hope for better times. This will forever be the best King Crimson song for me.
    Edit: also, thank you Hirohiko Araki for getting me into King Crimson.

    • @troloquimicoxd69
      @troloquimicoxd69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Likewise bro 🤝

    • @andrewwilliams9599
      @andrewwilliams9599 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Marc Charig on cornet. His duet with Fripp on harmonium, and his solo at the end.

    • @nathanp1160
      @nathanp1160 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ditto hoss, never would've found this beatiful music if not for part 5

    • @doceunodoceuno
      @doceunodoceuno 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Marc Charig !!! That cornet...

    • @funnyvalentine8731
      @funnyvalentine8731 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      that last statement, i feel that too. King Crimson is indeed a total hidden gem... i'm so happy I found this band

  • @moshebarnoach3070
    @moshebarnoach3070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    this may be the most beautiful song ever composed.

    • @michaelgiordani3967
      @michaelgiordani3967 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thats Echoes from Pink Floyd

    • @moshebarnoach3070
      @moshebarnoach3070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@michaelgiordani3967 Close ... and if, in some other dimension, where King Crimson did not exist, i would agree wholeheartedly .

    • @michaelgiordani3967
      @michaelgiordani3967 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@moshebarnoach3070 King Crimson its ok.
      But Pink Floyd are the holy fck gods

    • @plompiderunglaubliche8764
      @plompiderunglaubliche8764 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@michaelgiordani3967 nah king crimson are better they use way more instruments and are more skilled players and their songs sounds more expressive

    • @plasticweapon
      @plasticweapon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@michaelgiordani3967 echoes isn't "beautiful" (at least not in the kind of way we're talking about now).

  • @rulostulos4891
    @rulostulos4891 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Que momento para estar vivo.

  • @kathowed
    @kathowed 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    For mine, the most heart-rending track of yearning from the rich and vast KC catalogue.
    And that cornet solo? Achingly beautiful! Mark Charig strives with such passion and conviction. I get goosebumps every time I hear it.

  • @miguelherrera8840
    @miguelherrera8840 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    THE MOST DEPRESSIVE AND AT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SONG I HAVE EVER HEARD! rest in peace Ian Mcdonald
    king crimson

  • @Happyal-qt3xs
    @Happyal-qt3xs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Headphones on, lights off, I could lay down and listen to this for hours and hours

  • @kw19193
    @kw19193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Although many may prefer "Starless" when it comes to holding the claim of KC's most beautiful song I, for one, believe "Islands walks with that honor. Sublime to its core and deeply moving a song that succeeds on every level, not an easy thing to do. Too, Pete Sinfield's lyrics are worthy of being singled out, rich with allusion, imagery, and alliteration they are close to very best he achieved in his collaboration with Fripp (and that's saying something in light of his overall brilliance). Breathtaking. Cheers!

    • @gordonbryce
      @gordonbryce ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, I just replied to a post above and agree with your judgement of Peter Sinfield's poetry, I believe he will come to be recognised as one of the greatest lyricists/poet of his time. Maybe he should come out of semi retirement and write a paean for the best of the 1970's/80's in contrast to our present social-cultural collapse!

    • @carlosaramayo7633
      @carlosaramayo7633 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gordonbryce I was able to know, many years ago, that Peter Sinfield was mentioned in the 70s as one of the two best lyricists of Rock, along with...Jim Morrison.

    • @gordonbryce
      @gordonbryce ปีที่แล้ว

      @@carlosaramayo7633 Peter Sinfield draws from the very best of British romantic poetry going all the way back to William Wordsworth and William Blake and, in my opinion, transcends them both at times because he mixes in his clever perceptions of the late 20th century. What is sad is so much of British radio is vapid and our music scene lacks depth and real musicianship now, when compared to the sublimest moments of prog. rock. Ah! Things come and go. The way of life!

    • @TheReaperMan275
      @TheReaperMan275 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And this would turn out to be the last collaboration between Peter Sinfield and Robert Fripp, who fired him after this project. Richard Palmer James would be Crimson's next lyricist during the John Wetton years.

    • @gordonbryce
      @gordonbryce 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheReaperMan275 Peter really sits proudly at the head of the English romantic poetic tradition for the 1970's and he has not been replaced.

  • @jackhughesbooks
    @jackhughesbooks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I remember listening to this song on the ferry to Formentera when I was younger, so much younger than today. I could not believe I was going somewhere Sinfield had written about. Utter magic.

    • @duaneberry3298
      @duaneberry3298 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yes, Formentera Lady.

    • @ishallremaincalm
      @ishallremaincalm ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I also listened to this on the ferry from an island to the mainland it was magical

    • @jackhughesbooks
      @jackhughesbooks ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ishallremaincalm 😁

  • @alessandromerelli7221
    @alessandromerelli7221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    My boss sell me some records and Islands was one of them. I never felt anything like it while listening to an album. I was smiling from the start to the end and when I reached the part with the trumpet all my thoughts were lucent and estatic.
    What an opera, what a miracle is music.

  • @yromho
    @yromho 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    This is my favorite King Crimson song, Islands! !! It may be the most beautiful song.

  • @Finbarheerlen
    @Finbarheerlen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    My most beautiful song ever made. I love it since I bought Islands in 1971. So my favourite song for 50 years.

    • @kasimir-fs4oi
      @kasimir-fs4oi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Same with me except I bought "Islands" two years later, so I have to wait for my personnel anniversary.

    • @josephhutchison1983
      @josephhutchison1983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It is beauty in music!

  • @papabibo5
    @papabibo5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    This song made me cry when I first heard it, good times with good music. RIP Boz.

  • @nataliacintia1719
    @nataliacintia1719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    Mi papá eligió despedirse de este mundo con esta canción...te amo pa!!! siempre en mi ❤️

    • @eduardogamez2661
      @eduardogamez2661 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Mi papá también eligió esta canción que coincidencia

    • @CooperLawless93
      @CooperLawless93 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Sus papis tenían excelente gusto musical como para conocer y degustar este himno 🥺🙌

    • @davidhockley1082
      @davidhockley1082 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That is beautiful...Your father was clearly a man of impecable taste

    • @CristianMartinez-yd9mh
      @CristianMartinez-yd9mh ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Que bello, también pediría eso en mis ultimos momentos...un abrazo para ti

    • @michaelmorgan1674
      @michaelmorgan1674 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Debido que vivo en una pequena isla Caribenyo estos ultimos 12 anyos, puedo entender la eleccion de su papa. Puede ser lo mio

  • @LudwigHollywood66
    @LudwigHollywood66 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I’m 52 years old and just heard this for the first time about a year ago. I would consider it to be one of the most beautiful songs ever.

  • @el_mal_de_ojo
    @el_mal_de_ojo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    One of the most beautiful things I've ever had the pleasure of listening. To say it's angelic seems lacking. It gives me such a strange feeling...like miracles exist, like things will be OK.

  • @demiandorado4879
    @demiandorado4879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Increible poema musical, la belleza hecha musica!

  • @daviantasori317
    @daviantasori317 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    one of the most beautiful songs with a rustic, nostalgic atmosphere enhanced by the oboe and cornet solos. What charm ! ☮️🐟🎺

    • @andrasgyuris8009
      @andrasgyuris8009 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe it's flute, not oboe...

  • @Syntomis
    @Syntomis ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Honestly, this track is awesome! I thought only _I talk to the wind_ can make me so calm, but it seems to be even greater.

  • @PikyFen
    @PikyFen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    they didnt have to make this shit so beautiful, currently crying my eyes out cause it ended. if only they made another album like this.

  • @albertougalde1268
    @albertougalde1268 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Islands es la mejor cancion del mundo. Me enamoré de ella cuando era joven, y ha sido uno de los pilares de mi vida. Todavia no entiendo tanta belleza. Pero no es necesario entender

    • @joseluissuarez2673
      @joseluissuarez2673 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Completamente de acuerdo. Como tantas otras obras maestras de esa gloriosa época, analizarla es perder el tiempo. Simplemente usen unos buenos cascos, suban el volumen y déjense llevar.

    • @music7
      @music7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sólo hay que sentir!!!!!!!!!!

    • @academia59
      @academia59 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Simplemente bella

    • @antonioluismarinescalante2153
      @antonioluismarinescalante2153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      De acuerdo con vosotros. Escribo esto con mis cascos a buen volumen y me vuelve a emocionar.

    • @andreasalvioli3801
      @andreasalvioli3801 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Also for me. The best song of all time.

  • @Bocchichan2642
    @Bocchichan2642 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    just meet this song recently and now i'm completely addicted to her, such a masterpiece

  • @anothertime1282
    @anothertime1282 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was in Formentera in July 1968. it's a sad story, involving lost love. But how much this has always brought the memory back.

  • @oasis5023
    @oasis5023 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    예전 너무 좋아해서 매일 듣고 또 들었는데...
    오랜만에 들어도 역시 좋네요
    킹크림슨 내 학창시절을 풍성하게 보낼 수 있게 해줘서 고마워요

    • @user-br2hw9wt4m
      @user-br2hw9wt4m 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      명곡이죠.몇 곡 안되는 서정적인 곡ㅎ

  • @JaeSamantha
    @JaeSamantha 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    One of the first post-rock songs ever composed

    • @siladex-gaming
      @siladex-gaming 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      king crimson was literally everything back then

  • @yasserabdelrazek7077
    @yasserabdelrazek7077 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This album brings back fond memories of my twenties..thirty years ago...it was my first king Crimson's..given to me by a dear friend who passed away few years after it
    Whenever I hear those tunes I remember you ..R.I.P dear friend till we meet

  • @user-rw9ju2zy5u
    @user-rw9ju2zy5u 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    What a sweet voice! Boz Burrell is my most favourite singer though Crimso's history.

  • @JeffChetelat
    @JeffChetelat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Une merveille qui vous emmène en pays mélancolique. . Et le piano de Keith Tipett

  • @AdeneTzr
    @AdeneTzr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    i kinda like at the end 10:12 they all start talking and testing their insturments
    gives a sort of strange feeling like if you are there with them

  • @ignacioduran6992
    @ignacioduran6992 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    an absolute masterpiece

  • @januszstopa3383
    @januszstopa3383 3 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    It's been so many years I heard this mesmerising piece of music over the radio on a late summer evening in 1972. Poland in the middle of communist rule with no perspective of seeing the world and feeling free... And Oh, this music that takes you to another world where there is no persecution and bans but pure permeating beauty. Those were the days and ... King Crimson - the hope for peace and beauty to come some day!

    • @jd-bl3gf
      @jd-bl3gf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well said

    • @antonovt
      @antonovt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      oh that's a beautiful memory. The world is a wonderful place for things like that. Thanks for sharing that!

    • @januszstopa3383
      @januszstopa3383 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@antonovt I'm really happy you liked it! The things like this make the world go round.

    • @fedorkorobin3144
      @fedorkorobin3144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're breathing freely now, of course.

    • @timwilderspin
      @timwilderspin 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Such a moving window on your life, thank you.

  • @kimchung864
    @kimchung864 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I love every small detail of this song ... so beautiful!

  • @davidcline471
    @davidcline471 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This was the final song i put on my little brother’s mixtape years ago. Will probably never see him again.
    But i put this on there because of the way it ends, with such hopefulness.

  • @monicayazminsolissuarez3507
    @monicayazminsolissuarez3507 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Indudablemente esta es una de las canciones más hermosas de King Crimson.

    • @miguelmanzo5101
      @miguelmanzo5101 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      De la historia del Rock

    • @leopoldoramirezangeles7671
      @leopoldoramirezangeles7671 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Totalmente de acuerdo contigo... Apenas la escuché hace unos meses y no me canso de la magia y paz destila.

  • @dunebug233
    @dunebug233 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I just started getting more into King Crimson due to a certain show, and this was personally my favorite from the Islands album. So peaceful. So ironic that it was just posted on TH-cam too!

    • @piotrgpt-4178
      @piotrgpt-4178 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Aloha?

    • @gyro3454
      @gyro3454 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      jojo

    • @cshirt
      @cshirt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      “a certain show”

    • @bunnysoup6858
      @bunnysoup6858 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cshirt Obviously Sea Of Tranquility 😭😭😭

    • @rporta
      @rporta ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bunnysoup6858 the youtuber?

  • @kazutan4674
    @kazutan4674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    オイラ、このアルバムがとても、とても好きだった。深夜、自分が何物になるのか、不安でしょうがなかった二十一の頃、このISLANDSを聴くとナゼか心が安らぎ、眠ってることがよくあった。
     評論家は、他のアルバムと比べて私情的で、つまらないと酷評された。
     でも、オイラにとってevergreenそのものでした。

  • @gbarbosar
    @gbarbosar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Será quizás una de las mejores canciones de nuestra humanidad? Yo creo que sí

  • @AP-dj2kv
    @AP-dj2kv ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I just can't get enough. Piece of art.

  • @ivanr3107
    @ivanr3107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The album title and the cover have the best synergy I've ever seen/felt.

  • @philmerlot9074
    @philmerlot9074 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Not liking this album is an admission of ignorance. It is thematically very integrated.
    Formentera is in the Balearics and was a hippy Mecca in the sixties and seventies.
    Odysseus is reputed to have landed in Menorca on his travels. Menorca was famous in ancient times for its slingsmen and they were recruited as mercenaries in several campaigns.
    The Sailors Tale is about riding a terrible storm in a boat at the mercy of the gods as depicted in the Odyssey.
    I know those Islands and this album is one of the most richly evocative bodies of work I know.

    • @anthonycardott3541
      @anthonycardott3541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yeah I agree, taken in context too, we know that Boz was a rockanroll type dude, so likely not prepared to put in the effort for Crimson, but ill-prepared bandmates considered, this album has excellent tunes, and is definitely as much the product of its members' interests (to me this must be COLLINS' album!) as any other

    • @timcardona9962
      @timcardona9962 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So they're all Islands...what does that have to do with liking/not liking the album? It's nice but nowhere near KC's best

    • @philmerlot9074
      @philmerlot9074 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@timcardona9962 I can tell you've given it a lot of thought..........

    • @deathcrush6155
      @deathcrush6155 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I love this album and it's my second favourite from KC. But I couldn't disagree more with your first afirmation. Not liking one or another piece of music doesn't make anyone ignorant. And honestly that goes for any album in this wide world. Knowing that music is subjective and each has a different relation with music itself.
      Aside from that, your comment was really interesting, thanks for sharing it with us.

    • @gobbiprimus8167
      @gobbiprimus8167 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      While this song in particular is exquisite and quite serene. There are a couple of issues I have with the overall album. For one, with the exception of the title track, I never found myself really engaged with it. And Boz's vocals just don't do it for me. I personally prefer Jakko's live version of this song to the studio release.
      Finally, I think your comment is interesting, but whether or not someone likes a song/album has nothing to do with ignorance. Music taste is subjective after all.

  • @francosategna7150
    @francosategna7150 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hypnotic,metaphysical, enveloping,persuasive but deep...a monster amongst the monster tracks,made by monster musicians.....Art at its best,Boz Burrell was a Platonic monad,one of the best voice of story of the rock,Fripp'mellotron is devasting like the trumpet solo by Charig....superb and awesome the works by pianist Tippett,oboist Miller and flutist Collins...no words needed....

  • @PoteDaGanancia
    @PoteDaGanancia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This song is a experience.

  • @michaellaporte4951
    @michaellaporte4951 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The flitting wind-whispers of Fripp's guitar in the bridges are the perfect touch, like petals floating on water.

  • @ThomasSteves
    @ThomasSteves 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    certainly one of my very favorite songs.

  • @felixhayman5934
    @felixhayman5934 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    As you get older this song gets more beautiful as it is absorbed into the skin of time.

  • @pythonbyte
    @pythonbyte 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    fell asleep with spotify on and this was playing when i woke up, i knew that day was going to be a good one.

  • @spectralmaya4586
    @spectralmaya4586 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Beautifully melancholic, one of my favourite KC title tracks.

  • @rubicon-oh9km
    @rubicon-oh9km 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Been a Crimson fan for so many years and never really gave this album a chance because I had heard so many lukewarm things about it. Finally purchased an original pressing on vinyl and like it immensely.

  • @timberframingbear
    @timberframingbear ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This song and the album was quite literally a life saver.

  • @atlasking6110
    @atlasking6110 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Marc Charig though. That solo kills me, always has and always will.

  • @moreoobservatory1869
    @moreoobservatory1869 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Hearing this song live was one of my most treasured experiences as a King Crimson fan
    By far, their most beautiful song

  • @januszstopa3383
    @januszstopa3383 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Not only freely. I am overjoyed that I I lived to see the day of everybody can find interest they want to. And that is what life and freedom is about.

  • @barniebooster5044
    @barniebooster5044 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Of all the music ever made I have decided that this is my favourite. Mark, your playing is wonderful.
    Regards, Ian

  • @Happyal-qt3xs
    @Happyal-qt3xs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That part at the end where all instruments reach a crescendo just before the song fades, that fills me with goosebumps!

  • @demiandorado4879
    @demiandorado4879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Es una canción tan bella, para escuchar con los ojos cerrados y a oscuras, solo en mi isla...

  • @VinylandKicks86
    @VinylandKicks86 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    song is so beautiful both my soul & eyes cried while closed.it's a song like this that always reminds why i love music so much i couldn't live without it.

  • @ReddyObscura
    @ReddyObscura 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Well written music yet the hissing noise is left untouched since its first release. Tender and dreamy.

  • @robertjoseph8008
    @robertjoseph8008 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was fortunate to experience a King Crimson concert at the Eastown Theater in Detroit in 1971. Their evocative music has led me to explore many "Islands" through the years. The journey continues....

    • @nakim55
      @nakim55 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was also there, blues project and Proco harum opened for them.

  • @caricaturafea453
    @caricaturafea453 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm gonna cry

  • @VolodyaVolodenka1981
    @VolodyaVolodenka1981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    perhaps the best KC album from the audiophiliac point of view? so many beautiful casual details left in for us to savour

  • @marycarter8009
    @marycarter8009 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is my very favorite song in the world. Nothing better ( back in the day) smoking a joint putting on great headphones and sitting back listening to this amazing song.

  • @ivanledesma3210
    @ivanledesma3210 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The Best of the Best!

  • @elmochaorejas6122
    @elmochaorejas6122 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Una de las más hermosas piezas de KC, una belleza.
    Greettings from Mexico every one!

  • @Isabelle1962best
    @Isabelle1962best 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So different and that makes it so beautiful !

  • @danielmacdonald8349
    @danielmacdonald8349 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Not too long ago I was literally deaf in one ear. It happened around March and was just corrected about 2 weeks ago. OMG - It was awful. The worse part was when listening to music - especially in my car. No sound into my right ear. When it was corrected I put this CD in on my ride home!! Sure sounded good!!! Amazing the little things we take for granted.

  • @iamdamosuzuki_
    @iamdamosuzuki_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    It’s crazy how the second half of this song basically sounds like early 90’s Talk Talk mixed with early 2000’s Godspeed You! Black Emperor, but was recorded two to three decades earlier!

  • @enzogalli5506
    @enzogalli5506 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    a sublime and immense MASTERPIECE!!

  • @user-sq5kt7wf5e
    @user-sq5kt7wf5e 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Для меня это самый лучший альбом группы слушаешь его и кажется лежишь в поле а вокруг цветы и голубое небо над тобой

  • @leonardomalta9110
    @leonardomalta9110 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Recently listened to this piece while taking a brisk jog in the morning by a lake nearby my home. Ducks, geese, parrots, turtles and many other animals playing around. I was mesmerized with the bliss and the joy of the nature that surrounded me. Thanks, King Crimson, for this piece.

  • @blockfrog
    @blockfrog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Man this song is so beautiful

  • @annamarinabevilacqua5549
    @annamarinabevilacqua5549 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mi addormentavo con questa canzone un secolo fa in Scozia e a volte ne sogno la melodia

  • @fellini_federico
    @fellini_federico 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    revivió el arte

  • @bobduerwald9805
    @bobduerwald9805 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Put this song on , turn out the lights, and close your eyes.

  • @agustinyanez3023
    @agustinyanez3023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Islas
    La tierra, el arroyo y el árbol rodeados por el mar,
    las olas barren la arena de mi isla.
    Mi puestas de sol se desvanecen.
    El campo y la hierba sólo esperan a que llueva,
    grano a grano el amor corroe mis
    desgastados muros, los que me defienden de la marea,
    acunan al viento
    hacia mi isla.
    La fina arena sube hasta donde están las gaviotas
    y planean, tristemente planean sobre mi isla.
    Mi blanco velo de novia, frío y pálido,
    lo disuelve el Sol.
    La telaraña del amor está hilada -
    los gatos cazan, los ratones corren, los cogen por la
    fuerza en las zarzas donde los búhos conocen mis ojos,
    cielos morados
    tocan mi isla,
    me tocan a mí.
    Bajo las brisas el viento,
    paz infinita,
    las islas unen sus manos
    bajo el mar celestial.
    Oscuros muelles del puerto, como dedos de piedra
    ávidamente alcanzan mi isla.
    Agarran las palabras del marinero - perlas y calabazas
    se esparcen en mi orilla.
    Indistinto al amor, atado en círculos.
    La tierra, el arroyo y el árbol regresan al mar,
    las olas barren la arena de mi isla,
    me barren a mí.

  • @michaelstrickland4935
    @michaelstrickland4935 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Jaw droppingly beautiful peace of music

  • @win4678
    @win4678 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The most beautiful progressive rock&jazz fusion album

    • @Fran_316
      @Fran_316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Prog yes.. Jazz Fusion no.. man..
      Classic Progressive Rock Album.

    • @win4678
      @win4678 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Fran_316 oh shit, I thought it is jazz fuzion. I don't know much about jazz, could you please recommend me some of the best albums of jazz fuzion?

    • @lauragabriela256
      @lauragabriela256 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@win4678 Zappa - Hot Rats,
      Miles Davis - In a silent way

  • @pablo2281
    @pablo2281 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Gracias King Crimson

  • @olg7895
    @olg7895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for this masterpiece.

  • @andreasalvioli3801
    @andreasalvioli3801 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Formentera lady, sailors tale, the letter, prelude, island. MAMMAMIA. The best album of kc.