Which is your favorite version of Starless? (Im a new Fan)
I wanna start by saying that im a very new fan and have only started listening to King Crimson about four weeks ago.
90% of the music that I listen to is hip hop and Im a big hip hop/rap head, however I also like some rock stuff here and there and other classic artists like Stevie wonder or Michael Jackson, that being said I wanted to expand my taste a little bit as I do love every type of music and I saw that „Starless“ was the number one rated song on RYM (which is a music rating site similar to something like IMDB) so I gave it a listen and OH MY GOD it is fantastic, one of the most beautifully curated and put together pieces of art that I have ever heard, it is genuinenly probably already one of my favorite songs of all time.
Then I started hearing a lot of people saying that King Crimson is a „Live Band“ (apparently Robert Fripp said so himself as well?) and that their music is way better live, so I listened to a couple of the Starless Live versions and some of them are fantastic but some of them are also (to me) not better than the original version on spotify (mainly because I miss John Wetton’s vocals)
And because there are so many live performances and audio recordings of those performances, what is yall‘s favorite „version“ or individual performance of Starless?(preferably ones that have a high quality recording/audio that is available somewhere)
let me know!