What's the best flower king extended epic?
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Topic: What's the best flower king extended epic?
Posted By: Zitro
Subject: What's the best flower king extended epic?
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 00:30
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_Stardust We Are: A melodic, coherent extended epic which brings all the album together and finishes with anthemic choruses and uplifting/intense instrumentation. _Garden of Dreams: A gigantic and diverse 1-hour long suite that gives you a ride to many different moods and genres. The epic where Tomas Bodin had a large role. _I Am The Sun: The hard rock choruses, the beautiful acoustics, the light pastoral section, the spacey finale. The epic divided in two. _The Truth Will Set You Free: a fan favorite, showing the band's instrumental prowess, as well as having memorable melodies. _Devil's Playground: another fan favorite, with its dirty guitar/sax riff, the sing-along verse/choruses "This is how you raise the Cain", the sinister heavy metal, the Frank Zappa influences, the mad Avant-garde jazz-fusion bit, the grand finale. _Love Supreme: The kind of Yes-like song that satisfies your Yes-appetite due to them not writing anything since 2001. Having great 3-part harmonies and a passionate climax. _Monsters & Men: The mid-tempo epic which summarizes why we love the band and make us wonder how they keep coming up with epics. _Love is the Only Answer: A very diverse epic ranging from AOR, hard rock, to Frank-Zappa influenced madness. Full of unexpected twists and turns. And if you consider Hummanizmo a Flower Kings epic, then the one that has one of the longest and most beautiful introductory melodies of the Flower Kings, and showcases brilliant instrumental sections where Roine handles guitars, bass, and keys. |
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 00:33
| I've only heard three of them and Devil's Playground is my fav, but no vote still |
Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 00:35
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Goodness, I love love love all but two of these (Monsters & Men and Garden of Dreams are good but the former isn't as memorable as the rest and the latter is a bit too long and choppy to me to earn triple-love). If forced to choose, I would say my favorite is one of the ones from Unfold the Future. While "Devil's Playground" has the more powerful ending, there are more standout moments throughout the entire duration of "The Truth Will Set You Free" so I'll pick that one. ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: Yorkie X
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 03:27
| hard to decide one isn't it ? ... the thing is they all have a different flavor about them and it gets down to mood at the time there is one that wowed me in a big way years back "I Am The Sun" but that was my first exposure to the band and since then theres many wonderful experiences I have had ... I can't vote .. sorry ... I would have liked to vote but I cant |
Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 07:20
Wow, what a hell of a poll.  Hard to choose here, but in the end I have to go with Monsters and Men. All of these are killers though. ------------- 
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 07:31
| "Monsters & Men" was the first song I'd ever heard from The Flower Kings (well, unless you count "Check In" a song). For me, it almost sums up everything that is good about them (and a few bad things too- like them carrying on long after the song should have ended). |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 09:03
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I love "Stardust We Are". Favorite from this bunch. E ------------- 
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Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 09:58
Devil's Playground is the best of a very good bunch IMO.
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Posted By: Darklord55
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 10:14
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Hard choice for me too. |
Great list of tunes! In a very close race, Strardust gets the nod. Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 11:06
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I'll rank the epics from best to worst (i hate using the word worst, since my least favorites are still 4-star efforts) The Standouts: _Devil's Playground/Stardust We Are (tie) The Fantastic: _Hummanizmo _I Am The Sun _Love is the Only Answer _Love Supreme The great but still least favorites: _The Truth Will Set You Free _Garden of Dreams _Monsters & Men |
Posted By: JoaoPirucas
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 11:15
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For me it's Stardust we are, Monsters & men is a close second. Omg, I didn't noticed that Love is the only answer was on the list!  ------------- 
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Posted By: unclemeat69
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 12:52
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I go with fan favorite Truth will set you free. btw where is Driver's Seat? ------------- Follow your bliss |
Posted By: infandous
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 14:32
| Garden of Dreams, no question. Of course, I notice I'm very much in the minority, but I think it is quite simply the best song they've ever done (if you can really call it a song). I love every minute of it, both studio and live versions. Great stuff. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 14:40
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I've got to admit, "Love is the Only Answer" has it's moments, but it's more mismatched than Frankenstein's monster with two different colored socks on. |
Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 15:32
it's shorter than any of the other tracks in here ... if I put this, then someone would ask why Big Puzzle/Road to Sanctuary/Sum of no Reason are not there ... plus I can't imagine it getting more than a couple of votes at most. |
I go with fan favorite Truth will set you free.Posted By: Treasure
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 18:17
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The Truth Will Set You Free
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 20:15
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I don't know the first 2 but for the rest I really love all.
You forgot Driver's Seat from Adam & Eve, which I really love too. Tough between I Am The Sun(both parts) and Love Supreme. I'll go with I Am the Sun this time. |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: September 25 2008 at 00:58
| Stardust We Are |