My Top 1000 Songs #891: Cadence And Cascade

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

Undoubtedly the most beautiful song from my high school prog phase, a stripped-down, simply gorgeous acoustic guitar & piano ballad (plus flute solo--c'mon, it's prog!) that puts the art in art rock. And also a door into myriad King Crimson what-might-have-beens.

After the remarkable triumph of the band's 1969 debut, still one of the defining moments in prog...