Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

i was challenged to get to 4k plays with TFK in lastfm ...

The Flower Kings

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 easy cake, what i cant decide if to keep scrabbling my fave albums or all of them by equal....

I need to put on some Flower Kings after I'm done with Isis.

^ Pablo,

No, I've got a way to hook my iPod up to my car stereo system, my computer at work, and two separate stereo systems at home.  The only time that I typically use headphones is for about the last half hour each night and even then, it's not ear buds and at a reasonable level.

I agree, earbuds scare me, it's too easy to damage your hearing.  You sound like you're a lot more careful about it these days.  You're still young enough that any damage can heal.

So I'm in a relatively crappy mood, our department is under a lot of stress and people are cracking left and right.  I combat this with The Flower Kings, their music is generally uplifting and happy.  So here's what I'm listening to:

Flower Power
Paradox Hotel
The Sum of No Evil
Retropolis
Back in the World of Adventures
Space Revolver

Someone was questioning earlier how I get so many scrobbles, there is an additional 87 Flower King songs.  Add that to the 5 Flower Kings songs that I listened to on the way in and an hour's worth on the way home and you get to one hundred scrobbles in a day as relatively easy.  This includes sixteen songs that are in excess of ten minutes.  I'm just sayin that my number of scrobbles really isn't that amazing when it's al taken into account.  I just listen to a lot of music. 

Sun of no Evil might be my favourite album

Marty McFly wrote: Roland113 wrote: I don't know if I should say thanks or not. The only reason that I have so many counts is that I'm always listening to my iPod or iTunes so everything I listen to is scrobbled.  I just did this on the 'how much music do you listen to a day' poll but I have my iPod going eleven hours a day, every week day.  Two hours of commuting, nine hours at work.  In addition, there's at least an hour every night usually two to three.  I've had my LastFM account for the better part of two years now so yeah, there's a lot of scrobbles on there.  I just always have something on as background music, it adds up. Certainly thanks. I meant is as a friendly poking. Unfortunately, I can't do the same thing when studying (of course hard) university, because I can't listen two things at once. You have it better, you can work and listen something else. It will probably even help you to work better :-D

No worries, I just heard the same thing from a few different sources at the same time.

I don't know if it's lucky or not, I found at an early age that I was very scatter brained.  My mind really tended to wander which made it difficult to focus on things, homework in particular was difficult.  I found that music was the perfect thing to occupy the part of my brain that tended to wander allowing me to focus the rest of my energy on the task at hand.  These days I work in a cube farm and music is the only thing that keeps my mind from going off track every time someone in the next cube has a conversation with someone else.

Ok, having posted back in this thread made me eager to listen to the Flokies again.

You guys got me listening to Space Revolver now, darn it !  

Still, I think possibly one of the best Flower Kings albums for a newbie to start with, since it has everything great about the Flower Kings, without being overly dense (Unfold) or uncompromising (Flower Power, Stardust........and unlike those two it's a single album, easier to digest).  It also represents their sound across the years better than something like Paradox Hotel or Adam&Eve.  Anyway, great album.

^^ Gus, I agree wholeheartedly about that.  Space Revolver is a great place to start.

^ Biff.  I vary on which of the two epics I prefer, today I actually prefer "The Truth. . . " though it had been "The Devil's Playground" for the majority of the time.  Other than that though, I really like the laid back almost jazzy feel to disc 2.  I mentioned "Grand Old World" before, but another favorite is "The Devil's Danceschool".

Roland113 wrote:   Hey Roj, I halfway expected that you were on vacation.  When are you going to Vegas again?