Thanks for the supporting comments on my issue, guys. I appreciate it (and of course we are all very right with our comments) and I would like to state one more thing about the matter: read Sean Trane's review about Caravanserai by Santana. Now this is an album he likes a lot and suddenly he can write a real review.

Roland113 wrote: ^ I haven't been able to find Thud as of yet, is it a good one?  I love "The Shaming of the True" and "The Kaviar Sessions" though it is a bit on the disturbing side of things.

^ I haven't been able to find Thud as of yet, is it a good one?  I love "The Shaming of the True" and "The Kaviar Sessions" though it is a bit on the disturbing side of things.

I just noticed I haven't reviewed a Flower Kings album yet! I think I'm going to attempt to write a review of my favorite Flower Kings album today- The Sum of No Evil.

^ Heh, I love the 'Pigeons' (no insult intended) comment . . . what else would it be construed as?  Incidentally, most people that I know prefer to use the grammatical structure of adding at least a space if not two spaces at the end of a sentence. 

As a side note, I initially made two spelling errors in the previous paragraph, but once again, through the magic of spell checker, I was able to catch the spelling errors.

Yeah, those reviews make me sad. This Mr. Trane guy should move on to another group and not continue to put down the Flower Kings, which he obviously doesn't get. I always try to pull out the positive things in my reviews, even in albums that I'm not a huge fan of.

Yeah, he is entitled to his opinion, but he should at least qualify why he has that opinion by citing specific examples from the album. From his reviews it seems that he has never really heard a Flower Kings album all the way through. As a rule I don't review an album unless I've heard it all the way through at least a few times. If I dislike the album so much that I can't even get through it a couple times, then it isn't an album I should be reviewing.

Of course, this is all just my opinion

And Space Revolver is an absolutely terrible review as well

Read my other F K critics as I don't like to repeat myself. But I will have to find something to write if my opinion (which nobody cares for anyway ;-) is to be seen - are we at fifty words yet?

Again , with this album TFK repeats their musical props without changing much of their previous formula. There is of course a solid dose of hard work that going into such an album , (which are finely crafted too and have many positive qualities to their works) >> but I am afraid it is all lost on me. Every single note appears to have been heard in different albums scattered through the prog giants of the 70's.

All kidding aside and not wanting to hurt anybody's feelings but my opinion is: spend your hard earned cash on other Swedish groups that are more worthy of your support.

Roj M30 wrote: progrules wrote: I hesitated for a long time to post this but I feel he had this coming: what do you guys think of Mr.Trane  and his reviews of our great fav band ? I think they are a disgrace for our site and can't believe they haven't been erased yet. I mean I can accept if someone has a different taste and doesn't like them but at least write a respectable review about the albums and REALLY explain why you have such a problem with them. Another possibility could be for him: write one or two reviews of a band you hate and leave them alone for the rest. But this guy really felt the urge to bash (almost) all TFK albums and thus is partly responsable big time for their relatively low averages. Well, at least I got this off my chest now, feeling better already ! I've felt that from day one.  It REALLY hacks me off.  One star, one star, one star.  So given his weighting it takes a hell of a lot of good reviews to get TFK's back where they should be. Now I'm not keen on Jethro Tull.  Do I review all their albums? sl*g them all off, give them all one star? No, if I can be bothered to review Tull I'll review one, slate it, and then leave 'em alone. Really, what was the point of all that?  It's not exactly the nicest thing to see right at the top of the TFK page.

Thirded.  I personally take offense to his review of "Flower Power".  I didn't think reviews were a place to take pot shots at others. 

Sean Trane wrote: As with most of TFK albums, this is for people who have yet to built discernement .

Seriously, is this necessary.  I think we're all passionate about our music tastes and thus a bit arrogant about our individual tastes.  This needs to be tempered with the acceptance that not everyone can get into your preferred genre.  If you don't get something, maybe you shouldn't review it . . . or

Sean Trane wrote: I rented out this album , and to my great distress was simply unable to go through the entirity of it as almost every single note appears to be either redundant or lifted from a classic album.

Maybe . . . um . . . you shouldn't review it if you haven't even listened to the whole thing.

This should not be the first review that is seen when someone looks up "Flower Power".


Also, I agree with you two in that I don't review bands that I just don't get.  Yes in particular is my pariah, I just can't get into them, I've tried and frankly, I really don't understand why they don't click with me.  I hear the Yes influences in The Flower Kings and really enjoy them.  The actual band itself does very little for me.  With that being said, why would I review "Close to the Edge" as a one a two or even a three?  It really serves no purpose and frankly would only fill my inbox with hate mail or with the evangelists trying to convert me with phrases like "you just don't get it".  You're right, I don't get it.  But back to my initial point...I'm not reviewing anything by Yes for that reason.

On, and not that I'm nit picking . . . This was apparently reviewed before the advent of the spell checker:

• millenium - not a word
• entirity - not a word
• discernement - not a word
• Youger - not a word

Edited by Roland113 - July 23 2009 at 07:33

progrules wrote: I hesitated for a long time to post this but I feel he had this coming: what do you guys think of Mr.Trane  and his reviews of our great fav band ? I think they are a disgrace for our site and can't believe they haven't been erased yet. I mean I can accept if someone has a different taste and doesn't like them but at least write a respectable review about the albums and REALLY explain why you have such a problem with them. Another possibility could be for him: write one or two reviews of a band you hate and leave them alone for the rest. But this guy really felt the urge to bash (almost) all TFK albums and thus is partly responsable big time for their relatively low averages. Well, at least I got this off my chest now, feeling better already !

^ You definitely should feel like you donated a kidney. That's one damn good review

I would have given it 4 (I think), but an excellent review nonetheless.