Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

rdtprog wrote: My favorite FK Albums : (in order of preference) 1- Retropolis 2- The Flower Kings (R. Stolt) 3- Sum of No Evil 4- Flower Power 5- Unflod the Future 6- Stardust We Are 7- Back In the World... 8- Adam & Eve 9- Space Revolver 10- Rainmaker 11- Paradox Hotel

That's pretty different  to mine but if truth be told I love them all

Here's how I rate them though:

1) Space Revolver
2) Flower Power
3) Unfold The Future
4) Stardust We Are
5) Paradox Hotel
6) World of Adventures
7) The Flower King
8) Retropolis
9) The Rainmaker
10) Adam and Eve
11) The Sum Of No Evil

rdtprog wrote: My favorite FK Albums : (in order of preference) 1- Retropolis 2- The Flower Kings (R. Stolt) 3- Sum of No Evil 4- Flower Power 5- Unflod the Future 6- Stardust We Are 7- Back In the World... 8- Adam & Eve 9- Space Revolver 10- Rainmaker 11- Paradox Hotel

Aha! More 90's FK 's lovers! It ends I'm being in the minority on not really liking that stuff...

progrules wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Any thoughts on Tomas Bodin's Cinematograaf?  I am listening to his other solo albums today, but I don't have this one yet.  Apparently it can only be purchased directly from him.   That's right, Scott. You will have to order at his home. Unfortunately I don't have his address  . He's a bit of a weirdo, Tomas but I love his music and I'm a lucky guy to have all his solo stuff. I also love his contributions in TFK. He's one the very best keyboardists ever imo.   About Cinematograaf: I will review it very soon and therefor will not reveal all my comments about it right now but I can safely say: if you have the opportunity: get it ! It's worth its money. There are three long songs on it, all somewhat different and surely different from what he did in the past. By the way, I like all his solo albums. How about you ?

^^ The Flower Kings army on PA is growing .. i'am glad . and  The Flower King album is great experience too, not to mention Transatlantic , that is scarily awesome music 

Thanks. I've actually lurked these forums for so long that I didn't even remember if I had posted before.

The Tangent and Transatlantic are already two of my favourite bands. I actually found The Flower Kings through Transatlantic, who I found after becoming a fan of Spock's Beard. Who's the boss in the factory is on my shopping list. I've heard some songs from the album and I liked them a lot.

I'm still pretty new to progressive rock, but that doesn't mean I havent gotten familiar with some bands 

Another fan here. My first introduction to The Flower Kings was Space Revolver about two and a half years ago. I liked it, but at the time I wasn't that interested in progressive rock, so I didn't get anything else by them.

About a year and a half ago (yep, I'm still a bit new), I started to really fall for prog. As a blind purchase, I bought The Sum of no Evil and I fell in love. It's still my favourite The Flower Kings album. Stardust We Are, Space Revolver and the perhaps underrated Paradox Hotel aren't far behind though. Unfortunately, I don't have all their albums yet, but I have a hole open in my shelf for the missing pieces.

It was pretty great to see them a few months ago. My only gripe is that they didn't play A King's Prayer or The Sum of no Reason, but I guess you can't get everything

rushfan4 wrote: Any thoughts on Tomas Bodin's Cinematograaf?  I am listening to his other solo albums today, but I don't have this one yet.  Apparently it can only be purchased directly from him.

guys, I Am The Sun ....

Edited by angelmk - May 15 2009 at 15:16

lazland wrote: Following some recent posts, I downloaded Stardust We Are a couple of weeks ago, which I had criminally neglected to buy. It's barely been off the MP3 player since. An incredible work, Church of Your Heart and the title track must rank as two of the most wondrous and beautiful pieces of music ever performed and written, in any genre. Thanks to this site and forum, I am now a fully paid up member of TFK appreciation society, and will definitely be completing my collection with the missing LPs not in my collection. An exceptional band who are giving me so much pleasure - so thanks to all who recommended

Lazland,

Welcome to the land of all things Flower Kingish.  Glad we could help.  I agree with Stardust, for a while I was using in my alarm clock as my wake up song.  It was perfect, a gentle nudge towards the day...kind of like a 22 minute snooze alarm.  By the time we got to the end of the song, I was both fully awake and in a good mood.

So just out of curiosity, you said that you were planning on increasing your collection, what do you think you're going to get next?

Following some recent posts, I downloaded Stardust We Are a couple of weeks ago, which I had criminally neglected to buy. It's barely been off the MP3 player since. An incredible work, Church of Your Heart and the title track must rank as two of the most wondrous and beautiful pieces of music ever performed and written, in any genre.

Thanks to this site and forum, I am now a fully paid up member of TFK appreciation society, and will definitely be completing my collection with the missing LPs not in my collection.

An exceptional band who are giving me so much pleasure - so thanks to all who recommended