"21st Century Schizoid Man" vs. "Inna Gadda Da Vida"

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There is a wrong answer.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 May 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

KC in a slaughter

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 12 May 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

hot rs > king crimson > iron butterfly

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 12 May 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

DOKAKA'S VERSION OF 21RST CENTURY KILLS
http://www.dokaka.com/about.html
http://133.27.46.111/%7Edokaka/media/sounds/schiman.mp3

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Friday, 12 May 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

Schizoid Man duh

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

Inna Gadda Da Vida has a great rif, but not much else to fall back on. In its day, I loved this song for about two weeks. King Crimson wins. Not even close.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, KC. Not even close.

The vocal on that song is one of my favorites ever.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

Embarrassing-and-stupid vs. embarrassing-and-self-righteous-and-stupid.

Not in that order, naturally.

I guess "Inna Gadda Da Vida", but pretty much by default.

― Pessimist (Pessimist), Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

"The Court Of The Crimson King"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 13 May 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida" is groovier and has more space. "21st Century Schizoid Man" is rock records becoming these totally engulfing, claustrophobic, cinematic, comic book environments. In short, "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida" feels more like actually GOING OUT INTO THE WORLD - going to dance at the ballroom while "21st Century Schizoid Man" feels like staying home and listening to trippy records on quaaludes.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 13 May 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

one day the djs on sydney's double J (the infinitely more interesting precusrsor to australia's triple j) played "inna gadda da-vida" for approx 10 hours on repeat. very funny listening.

― phil turnbull (philT), Saturday, 13 May 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

schizoid. inagadadawhositz could easily be cut to 3 minutes and not lose much, schizoid could go on for weeks and i'd love it.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Saturday, 13 May 2006 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

kc's alright if you like saxophones

― dave q (listerine), Saturday, 13 May 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

I DO

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Saturday, 13 May 2006 06:58 (nineteen years ago)

"21st Century Schizoid Man" vs. "Inna Gadda Da Vida" AT 45 RPM = tie.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 May 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

The opening bars of Schizoid sound to me like the theme tune to some kind of late night chat-show, probably be presented by Melvin Bragg and Germaine Greer. Therefore I'd have to go with Inna Gadda.

― Rombald, Saturday, 13 May 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Depends on your drug of choice, methinks.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Saturday, 13 May 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

I could happily exist in a world without Inna Gadda, listening to Smoke on the Water instead.

KC, clearly.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Saturday, 13 May 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I do kind of see what you mean about the talk show thing -- the saxophone lends it that aura -- but it's also pretty dark, so it'd have to be Satanic talk show.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 13 May 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

so it'd have to be Satanic talk show.

Which would, of course, be awesome.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 May 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

The multi-tracked saxophones at the end of Schizoid Man actually sound like people screaming. Therefore, Schizoid Man by a mile.

Though, in its defense, Gadda da Vidda was used in Manhunter, and Schizoid Man probably wouldn't have worked half as well as a subsitute.

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Also, screaming people-saxophones followed up immediately by twinkly-toed fairydust woodwinds of "I Talk to the Wind" = totally classic.

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

mmmmmm, quaaludes.

― JB Young (JB Young), Saturday, 13 May 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Cool Mosrites and proto-Ron Asheton tone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiGN4dhfm_Y&search=iron%20butterfly

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 15 May 2006 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

at my first and only dj experience, a friend showed up and i wanted to talk to him, so i put on Inna Gadda Da Vida to get 17 minutes of "off-time"

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Monday, 15 May 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

Schizoid man. IB's masterpiece is their album "Heavy".

― So Ho La (So Ho La), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

haha, i know i'm losing my mind cuz now i kinda like greg lake's crimson-era vocals

― gershy, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 07:32 (eighteen years ago)

I imagine I could endure ANYONE's singing, as long as they distort their voice to hell and back, just like Greggy.

I refuse to choose between either of those monolithic milestones. Both of 'em helped define my musical tastes and I won't abandon either. (But, interestingly enough, note how Erik Brann's dying-elephant guitar 2/3 of the way through "Gadda" could plausibly have led DIRECTLY to Robert Fripp's own pachyderm imitation in KC's "Elephant Talk" 13 years hence.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 08:16 (eighteen years ago)

one of these is my favourite song of the 1960's, the other is an overblown elongated wanky yawnfest. old-version gershy OTM

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

I refuse to choose between either of those monolithic milestones. Both of 'em helped define my musical tastes and I won't abandon either. (But, interestingly enough, note how Erik Brann's dying-elephant guitar 2/3 of the way through "Gadda" could plausibly have led DIRECTLY to Robert Fripp's own pachyderm imitation in KC's "Elephant Talk" 13 years hence.)

-yep, exactly. actually I'd go with "In a Gadda" myself but still dig the Mellotron on "In the Court of the Crimson King" (which is just kinda Paul McCartney getting high with those dudes from Procol Harum on a rainy afternoon) the most.

― whisperineddhurt, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

The 33rpm version of Inna Gadda from the lp sounds great played at 45.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

The elephant sounds are Belew, not Fripp, I'm pretty sure.

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

yeah but Fripp wuz walkin and blowin like a elephant and that's how Belew got a grip on what the head Crimson man was after...

― whisperineddhurt, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

That's right, that WAS Belew, wasn't it?

Dunno what I was thinking...

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Only one was covered by Boney M.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1SYJbBiyVk

― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Monday, 4 September 2023 20:13 (two years ago)

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