Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

Roj M30 wrote: Nov wrote: I just found an interesting interview with Tomas over at DPRP: http://www.dprp.net/specials/2010_bodin/   Yeah Nov, I'd read that too after infandous mentioned it.   I knew Jaime Salazar was a "paid hand" but thought the rest were fully fledged "members" hence the large input songwriting-wise of Tomas, particularly early on. I'm not surprised the rest of the band save their best stuff for solo albums and projects.  I thought the last Karmakanic album was very strong .  And Tomas's solo albums are very impressive too.   Let's hope Roine decides to make a new TFK album after all.

Edited by Nov - January 08 2010 at 07:32

Roj M30 wrote: progrules wrote: Roj M30 wrote: Like Mike, the Top 200 (or even 100) is beyond me I'm afraid.   However, to give an idea of the very top of my table, my top 50 would definitely (not in order)  include:-   TFK - I Am The Sun (complete) TFK - Monsters and Men TFK - Garden Of Dreams TFK - Stardust We Are TFK - Retropolis TFK - Just This Once Pink Floyd - Echoes Pink Floyd - Sheep Pink Floyd - Dogs Yes - Awaken Yes - Gates Of Delirium Yes - And You And I The Black Dog - Psil Cosyin IQ - The Seventh House IQ - Leap Of Faith IQ - Sacred Sound Frost* - Black Light Machine Frost* - Dear Dead Days ELP - Karn Evil 9 (complete) Porcupine Tree - Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape Porcupine Tree - The Moon Touches Your Shoulder Porcupine Tree - Always Never Dream Theater - Octavarium Dream Theater - The Glass Prison Tomas Bodin - I Am (complete - is this cheating? ) Glass Hammer - Further Up and Further In Genesis - Cinema Show Genesis - Firth OF Fifth Genesis - One For The Vine Boards Of Canada - Left Side Drive Boards Of Canada - The Beach At Redpoint Boards Of Canada - Happy Cycling Luminatus - Hope The Orb - Oxbow Lakes Opeth - Deliverance ELP - Tarkus (Welcome Back My Friends version)   I know some of 'em aren't on PA but I reckon they're prog so...........and my opinion matters!!!!!     I guess I will have to check Just this Once further more. Tom also had it in his first 100. Always sounded like an ordinary TFK song to me but maybe I'm mistaking here. Same goes for PF's Echoes. I checked it lately but it didn't very much impress me. What's wrong with me ?? . (I do like many of your mentioned songs though so there's no huge gap in taste). Are you still going to do a hundred or is this it ? (I know it's a pretty tough job, 100,  did it myself so... )   Hi Henk!  How's it going buddy?   I'd actually updated it as you were posting and my list now has over 50.  I've already thought of a few more since then so who knows I may get up to 100!!   Just This Once is a great song for me, from my favourite album of them all.  I just find the instrumental section absolutely spine-chilling.  I love it.   I've been listening to the Floyd, Genesis and Yes stuff for 30 years now.  It's testimony to TFK that I think they're better than any of the old masters.

Nov wrote: I just found an interesting interview with Tomas over at DPRP: http://www.dprp.net/specials/2010_bodin/

 

Roj M30 wrote: Like Mike, the Top 200 (or even 100) is beyond me I'm afraid.   However, to give an idea of the very top of my table, my top 50 would definitely (not in order)  include:-   TFK - I Am The Sun (complete) TFK - Monsters and Men TFK - Garden Of Dreams TFK - Stardust We Are TFK - Retropolis TFK - Just This Once TFK - Silent Inferno TFK - Theme For A Hero TFK - One More Time TFK - The Merrygoround TFK - Driver's Seat TFK - Babylon TFK - End Of Innocence TFK - Rumble Fish Twist Pink Floyd - Echoes Pink Floyd - Sheep Pink Floyd - Cirrus Minor Pink Floyd - Dogs Pink Floyd - Shine On...(complete) Pink Floyd - Any Colour You Like Pink Floyd - Time Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine Yes - Awaken Yes - Gates Of Delirium Yes - And You And I Yes - Does It Really Happen Yes - Parallels Yes - Starship Trooper Yes - Mind Drive Yes - Turn Of The Century Yes - The Revealing Yes - The Ancient Yes - The Remembering Yes - Ritual The Black Dog - Psil Cosyin IQ - The Seventh House IQ - Leap Of Faith IQ - Sacred Sound IQ - Sleepless Incidental IQ - The Magic Roundabout IQ - Ryker Skies IQ - State Of Mine IQ - Headlong Eddie Jobson/Zinc - Resident Eddie Jobson/Zinc - Who My Friends Frost* - Black Light Machine Frost* - Dear Dead Days Frost* - Hyperventilate ELP - Karn Evil 9 (complete) ELP - The Endless Enigma ELP - The Three Fates ELP - Trilogy Porcupine Tree - Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape Porcupine Tree - The Moon Touches Your Shoulder Porcupine Tree - Always Never Porcupine Tree - Deadwing Porcupine Tree - Moonloop Quasar - Mission 13 Dream Theater - Octavarium Dream Theater - 6DOIT Dream Theater - Home Dream Theater - The Glass Prison Tomas Bodin - I Am (complete - is this cheating? ) Tomas Bodin - What's Going On Tomas Bodin - Me and Liz Glass Hammer - Further Up and Further In Glass Hammer - Chronos Deliverer Glass Hammer - Behind The Great Beyond Glass Hammer - Knight Of The North Glass Hammer - Long and Long Ago Glass Hammer - Time Marches On UK - Carrying No Cross Genesis - Cinema Show Genesis - Firth Of Fifth Genesis - One For The Vine Genesis - Dancing With The Moonlit Knight Genesis - The Waiting Room Genesis - Fly On A Windshield Karmakanic - Send A Message To The Heart Ozric Tentacles - Eternal Wheel Ozric Tentacles - Toka Tola Todd Rundgren - Theme From Utopia Boards Of Canada - Left Side Drive Boards Of Canada - The Beach At Redpoint Boards Of Canada - Happy Cycling FM - Slaughter In Robot Village FM - Journey Roine Stolt - Dissonata Roine Stolt - The Flower King Luminatus - Hope Rush - La Villa Strangiato Rush - Jacob's Ladder The Orb - Oxbow Lakes Hawkwind - Assault And Battery/The Golden Void Opeth - Deliverance ELP - Tarkus (Welcome Back My Friends version)   I know some of 'em aren't on PA but I reckon they're prog so...........and my opinion matters!!!!!

 

Edited by Roj M30 - January 13 2010 at 03:15

The Quiet One wrote: M27Barney wrote: progrules wrote: The Quiet One wrote: I'll do my top 10 first....   1. Thick as a Brick Part 1 - Jethro Tull 2. Echoes - Pink Floyd 3. Dogs - Pink Floyd 4. The Revealing Science of God - Yes 5. Concerto for Group and Orchestra: 1st Movement - Deep Purple(composed by Jon Lord) 6. The Illinois Enema Bandit - Frank Zappa  7. Can-Utility and the Coastliners - Genesis 8. Any Colour you Like - Pink Floyd 9. A Passion Play Part 1 & 2 - Jethro Tull 10. Yours is No Disgrace - Yes     Just one DP song in the top 10 of a DP expert ?? Explain yourself ! And No Flokis in there either, I started to compile my top 200 but I'm stuck on a valid rating system - because I reckon that a longer song that has the wow factor has got to be above a shorter track with a similar wow rating.......And in a lot of cases - the whole CD is sort of a track, i.e The Whirlwind and yet has sub parts which are also tracks ??   I'm a big fan of The Flower  Kings and the like, but I don't think I can consider them in my top 10 of all-time favorite Prog songs, that's because they're not from all-time. On the other hand, Deep purple, Pink Floyd, Yes, Zappa and Jethro Tull I have been listening to them constantly as a little kid, I can't imagine without listening to those bands in the future.

Edited by progrules - January 08 2010 at 02:42

Hey guys,

I wanted to take a moment to give a nod to a very classy guy.

Early last year, the band 3RDegree was featured as the band of the month here on PA.  I listened to the tracks and ended up really liking what I heard.  When I went to 3RP this summer, I ran into Rob Pashman of 3RDegree in his band's booth.  We ended up talking for a bit and he's a really good guy.

So, out of nowhere, I received a facebook message from him thanking me for including their song at number 20 on my list. 

I was really touched to be thanked, it was such a classy move (and I know you're watching this one now Rob).

It you guys haven't heard 3RDegree, you owe it to yourself to go to their page here on PA and listen to the samples:

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3948

Obviously, I personally love "It Works" it's a great bit of funky prog.

Either way, a very classy act right there.

I just found an interesting interview with Tomas over at DPRP:

http://www.dprp.net/specials/2010_bodin/

progrules wrote: The Quiet One wrote: I'll do my top 10 first....   1. Thick as a Brick Part 1 - Jethro Tull 2. Echoes - Pink Floyd 3. Dogs - Pink Floyd 4. The Revealing Science of God - Yes 5. Concerto for Group and Orchestra: 1st Movement - Deep Purple(composed by Jon Lord) 6. The Illinois Enema Bandit - Frank Zappa  7. Can-Utility and the Coastliners - Genesis 8. Any Colour you Like - Pink Floyd 9. A Passion Play Part 1 & 2 - Jethro Tull 10. Yours is No Disgrace - Yes     Just one DP song in the top 10 of a DP expert ?? Explain yourself !

^    The Orb?  I guess we could put them in progressive dance (don't get me wrong, I totally love The Orb, Little Fluffy Clouds was the entrance song for our wedding reception).

progrules wrote: ^ quite an update Mike ! Sad to see you're loosing interest in prog. Although I do know how it feels, even I have these moments. Funny thing is I fairly quickly recover from these breakdowns. And that's a good thing for me because if I would loose interest in prog I don't know where I would be (probably in the gutter or something). Yes, it's that important to me !!! Anyway, right now I'm still enjoying prog big time fortunately. I still like to discover new bands mainly. Maybe you should try Invisgoth. I'm curious what you think of them (recently did my review on Narcotica).

Thanks for the suggestion, I will check it out.  I have been very sympho centric in my prog listening for a few years now, so maybe I just need to branch out more (though I have quite a bit of avante/RIO type stuff as well as some fusion, Canturbury, space rock, prog metal, and a few others.................though the prog metal I like most is basically sympho with metal guitars).

Luckily, I like other types of music, and especially when playing my acoustic and singing for friends I have a variety of songs that I know (most of which are not prog at all really).  So I'll be fine regardless. Plus, the Flokis still sound great to me, so all hope is not lost