Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

Jealousy is probably my favorite short track.  Ghost Of The Red Cloud is great as well.
Also Touch my Heaven is fantastic (okay, 6 minutes, but that's still a short track by their standards, right).

Actually, I think Paradox Hotel has most of my favorite FK short tracks on it, just great stuff.

I also love Road To Nowhere and Hudson River Sirens Call, as well as the previously mentioned Babylon (though I don't like Cosmic Circus at all).  Dream On Dreamer is a great and really short track as well (just love the saxophone on that one).

Man, I could go on and on!


Edited by infandous - August 24 2009 at 17:17

J-Man wrote: Alright guys. I just wrote a review for The Sum of No Evil. What do you guys think? http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=235029

Great review of a fantastic album.

Thanks guys

I think this is my first review in August, Tom. After I went on vacation, I've been pretty busy.

-Jeff

Thanks, Jody

M27Barney wrote: J-Man wrote: Alright guys. I just wrote a review for The Sum of No Evil. What do you guys think? http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=235029 Good review  - I looked through a few of your reviews out of interest. See you gave ELP BSS three stars and I can understand that as ONLY the first impression of Karn-evil 9 is worth listening to - but those two parts (as one track) would get into my top 20 prog tracks of all time and thus I'd be tempted to see it as a five star album because of the one bit of genius that sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the rest of the dross that makes up the rest of the production. Just purchased The Flower King by Stolte - looking forward to listening to it this weekend..... You have a few more FK's to review looking forward to reading them. Have you heard Shooting Albatross by Abel-Ganz? - Highly recommended !!!

ELP as an entirety never clicked with me. I have Brain Salad Surgery, Trilogy, Tarkus, their S/T album, and some crappers like Love Beach, but I just can't get into them for some reason.

My next Flokis review will probably be Unfold the Future, but I have a lot of work to do with them. I have never heard Abel-Ganz, but I will keep them in mind

-Jeff


Edited by J-Man - August 25 2009 at 15:27

Nice review Jeff .  Hopefully that will boost the average somewhat, particularly given your ranking as a prog reviewer.

Edited by Roj M30 - August 26 2009 at 02:54

Roland113 wrote: J-Man wrote: Alright guys. I just wrote a review for The Sum of No Evil. What do you guys think? http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=235029 Nice review, well thought out and well spoken.  I need to get back into the habit of reviewing.  I don't think I've done anything this month.  I was busy writing up my review of 3RP, then some of the stupid politics on here lately have gotten me a little down.  It's time to jump back on the hand grenade so to speak.

M27Barney wrote: Roj M30 wrote: M27Barney wrote: Just purchased The Flower King by Stolte - looking forward to listening to it this weekend..... How the hell did you manage to get hold of that Rob?   I've been trying to find it for ages without paying a fortune, without success.  It's about as rare as rocking horse s**t on the fast lane of the M62. Thanks to progrules I do know this masterpiece.  The title track is great, Humanizzimo is a stunning epic, but Dissonata is the best.  What an incredible song.  Enjoy it!!  Well I tried Ebay (was outbid ) - a mint copy of the CD went for nearly £20 - so I tried Amazon - there were a few copies used and new - got a copy for about 12.75 inc P&P

Wow, I had no idea it was hard to get.  Greg Walker has it for $14 at http://synphonic.8m.com/.  He's been my prog dealer for many years, and is the person I got all of my initial FK purchases from back in 1999.  He is a US vendor, but I think he ships overseas as well.

For what it's worth, in 1999, I paid $18 for individual FK albums, and $23 for doubles!  They were import only then.  I still have all the original Foxtrot releases   Alive On Planet Earth was their first Inside Out release, and I got it for $12 (!) at the CD store I worked at at the time (I pestered the buyers until they got every available FK release.........sadly, most of them were sent back because no one bought them for several months, despite my pushing the band on anyone and everyone I thought might be interested, as well as playing their albums in the store when I was working).

rushfan4 wrote: They want $27 for the Agents of Mercy CD.

Got mine from Greg Walker for $20.  Still pricey, but they are $23 at Laser's Edge.  Also, the original, buy direct from Roine offer was I believe close to $30.

J-Man wrote: Alright guys. I just wrote a review for The Sum of No Evil. What do you guys think? http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=235029

Great review Jeff. When I next get time to do reviews, I will start my own TFK assault