I first listened to LTiA by accident
Not exactly by accident, but the 80s Crimson was the version I first saw live, and their 70s albums were the "old" stuff and pretty much only available on import vinyl. But my girlfriend bought a copy of Red on 8th Street and then SABB and then someone lent me a tape of Lark's Tongues and said, "Oh yeah: This one's good too"... I wasn't into the earliest Proggy records but LTiA wasn't proggy. Well, maybe it was but when I first listened to it on cassette and headphones I noticed all the quiet on the record and then the band kind of bursting out of that black space, though sprinkled with weird toy sounds..."Shit. This ain't bad" I said. I was right.