In 2001, "Q" magazine named "Red" as one of the "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time" and Pitchfork ranked "Red" number 72 in its "Top 100 Albums of the 1970s" list, stating that "For a band that was very obviously about to splinter, King Crimson's music sounds remarkably of a single mind. On "Red", they achieved a remarkable balance between bone-crushing brutality and cerebral complexity." "Rolling Stone" ranked the album at number 15 on their list of the 50 best progressive rock albums of all time. Kurt Cobain had reportedly cited the album as a major influence.