Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

Then again on the second spin - Brief Nocturnes is very very good ! Especially 3, 6 and 7 all of which are actually the best things they have ever recorded !!! - the rest are very solid - an excellent CD and I've still got the bonus disc to play as well!

I`m my order of IQ cd`s arrived yesterday!. not had an time to listen yet!. there are 9 cd`s to listen too!.

they are:

AYSC?
EVER
Nomzamo
TWL
TSH
TW
DM
TW on pre-order new album The Rod Of Bones................
oh I forgot Subterranea. these where from the IQ Store on line, as M27Barney pointed me with most of them thanks for the listening times a head of me long live PROGRESSIVE ROCK MUSIC................   

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES mass cd`s? I was reading reviews. all where IQ at there best so I sent for all 9cd`s...... the two I have listen too!
are amazing music. the AYSC. the singer is so so........

M27Barney wrote: As everybody knows, Dexter Frank Jr. and Don Azzaro are pseudonyms for Roine Stolt...Just wondering is he thinking subconsciously that he considers himself to be a mortal with pretensions of being like the holy trinity (Father, Son, Holy Ghost)? Seems plausible, why else have the aliases? I would agree that X is a good CD, not too sure about the latest though, might give that a spin tonight again!

According to Roine, he used those because he felt it was a bit too egotistical to have his name listed so many times on the CD liner notes.  So he has said in the past on the Yahoo group as well as a couple of interviews (as far as I can remember).  So he used the alias' to make the Flower Kings seem that much less like just his project.  You will also see Geppeto Azzaro on a couple albums........this is Tomas Bodin and was just used as kind of an in joke by him and Roine.

I also remember that those names are all anagrams of Roine's full Swedish name (he has a middle name, though I don't remember what it is)......can't recall the details there (I could be remembering this wrong also, not sure).  In any case, I think you're more than a little too fixated on the religious aspects of things where Roine is concerned


Edited by infandous - March 31 2014 at 11:16

infandous wrote: M27Barney wrote: As everybody knows, Dexter Frank Jr. and Don Azzaro are pseudonyms for Roine Stolt...Just wondering is he thinking subconsciously that he considers himself to be a mortal with pretensions of being like the holy trinity (Father, Son, Holy Ghost)? Seems plausible, why else have the aliases? I would agree that X is a good CD, not too sure about the latest though, might give that a spin tonight again! According to Roine, he used those because he felt it was a bit too egotistical to have his name listed so many times on the CD liner notes.  So he has said in the past on the Yahoo group as well as a couple of interviews (as far as I can remember).  So he used the alias' to make the Flower Kings seem that much less like just his project.  You will also see Geppeto Azzaro on a couple albums........this is Tomas Bodin and was just used as kind of an in joke by him and Roine.I also remember that those names are all anagrams of Roine's full Swedish name (he has a middle name, though I don't remember what it is)......can't recall the details there (I could be remembering this wrong also, not sure).  In any case, I think you're more than a little too fixated on the religious aspects of things where Roine is concerned

I was just putting forward my hypothesis, probably off the mark!
and I had considered the rationale that you have put forward as an alternative hypothesis! I think that yours wins! I reckon that he should have put his name instead! Such modesty is perhaps an admirable trait -but perhaps (as he should know - The Truth Shall set you free, and in this case he is imprisoned by his modesty!)

I Don't read any! I use the internet now !!! I used to get Sounds and Kerrang when I was in my teens !!!

geekfreak wrote: ok everyone on here seems to have the album TFK as the frist. but that's a solo album. ok its time for more IQ listening........

Yeah, I usually point out to people that it's Roine's solo album, but even I consider it the first Flower Kings album.  They played tracks from it for many years, while not playing any other Roine solo works, and it's in the same style as TFK's albums that came after it.  So as far as I'm concerned, it's the first FK album.

Of course, Roine has said in the past that he didn't really consider TFK's a true band (as opposed to a solo project) until around the time of Stardust We Are!!  So there's that.

infandous wrote: Oh yeah.......I haven't been listening to as much music lately as I've been too busy playing my beautiful new Fender Stratocaster!  Music sure is a lot of fun..........

My copy is 146!
Wonder how many they actually sold?

not to long to wait IQ album out soooooooooooooon........
I`m going to see them when they do a gig.