Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

progrules wrote: M27Barney wrote: Hello All, hows it all hanging out? - For Fathers Day I got "From Land to Ocean" by Galleon , a hit from the first listen - excellent stuff and 100 mins of prog goodness. I have a mini mp3 player for the gym - a must have when you have a 20K non-stop row (1 hour 20 mins) and then another 26K on the bike (for all you Americans it's 1.6K to the mile). Also , listening to Garden of dreams whilst looking out over the blue sea from the island of Kefalonia was a most uplifting experience - FK's music is ideal for the Blue Aegean lapping at your toes.....   Again you're showing great taste of music Barney ! I truly love Galleon as well and then especially From Land to Ocean. The Price, Fall of Fame and Liopleurodon are great tracks and the epic is something special even though it can't match Garden of Dreams of course. I can recommend All European Hero (1996) as well, very nice output. And have you tried the other marvelous Swedes Grand Stand already ? Another superb band from that great prog country !

I have not heard this sedish band - but obvioulsy I shall, Thanks for the recommendation ! - It's this site that actually channels you into the genre/style of choice - I have a lot to thank this site for !

^  Congrats Barney, I can only imagine how tough it would be without a job.

Good luck on the new contract.

Roj, 

What are you doing to me...you look...purple.

Unrelated, I finally got the new Beard CD.  I was a little skeptical after the last couple of albums...ok, in fairness, I was a lot skeptical.  I'm happy to say that I'm really digging the new one.  Just my initial read is that they let themselves go...musically, not ordering pizza's at nine o'clock in the evening and crying over your lost love letting yourself go.

"Jaws of Heaven" is a fantastic song and the album in it's entirety is really good.  I know that songwriting is a band process, but Dave Meros has the majority of songwriting credits and I think it's really helped.

They've always been great musicians, but they show their musicianship so much more on this CD.  I'm working on getting a more coherent opinion on the album, but all in all, I'm really liking it.

I think bands are terminally in financial trouble when it comes to financing a new album.  With the explosion of Inside Out a lot of the front money for these bands has dried up so they have to find new and more innovative ways of fronting the money for the studio time, mixing, pressing of CD's and such...

On the other hand, when you don't have anyone fronting the money, you have total creative control over the album.  I don't know if it played into the new CD at all, but this one definitely is an improvement. 

I'm listening to the older NdV CD's this morning and I think the biggest difference is the rhythm section.  I didn't notice this at the time when I first got "Spock's Beard" and the other two, but Dave and Nick are not in any way shape or form, playing to their full potential.  On X, they both are and it really adds to the music.  Also, Ryo's keyboard patches are a lot more varied and appropriate. 

This CD is a notable improvement for the band.  It's not a return to Neal Morse era Beard, it's a different band with a different sound, but on this CD, it is at least a great sound.

It's good to see the FK's get enough love to reach 100 pages on their appreciation thread

So I haven't been following this thread very well, new album maybe?

Did someone say something about useless posts?

infandous wrote: The Truth wrote: So I haven't been following this thread very well, new album maybe? Sadly, no.  Though there has been some talk from Roine about working on one (at least writing it, anyway).  See the last two pages of the thread (97-98) for more details.

I was wondering if this might be the post that takes us to the magical page 100?

Edited by Nov - July 21 2010 at 09:48