Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

Bumping for FRBassDevil.

Again, welcome to the forums.

Roland113 wrote: Hey here's a question, There are a batch of FK songs that are available only on the Japanese releases or special editions and such, does anyone know of a download service that has the extra tracks? I've looked for them on iTunes, Amazon and EMusic.

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Edited by Roj M30 - March 30 2009 at 03:41

So, I've only just joined in with this thread and now it's fading away on page 2 

Roj M30 wrote: Roland113 wrote: So I listened to Stardust We Are on the ride into work this morning (heard all of it but the last half hour which I'm taking care of now). I'd forgotten how good of an album it is.  It's been falling down my personal charts over the past couple months mostly due to the recent acquisition of Unfold the Future and my growing appreciation of The Paradox Hotel.  I've 'heard' in multiple reviews on here that people take issue with the amount of filler on the album.  I do not see the instrumental interludes as filler material, in fact, I think it helps set the overall mood of the album.  To further that, one of the younger girls that I work with stopped by my cube the other day while Poor Mr. Rain was playing and commented on how pretty it was. I would not have have predicted Mr. Rain as a gateway to prog but hey if it works. Roland Hi Tom, hope you're well.  I'm in total agreement buddy.   As I see it (hear it ) there's not a minute of filler on disc one of Stardust We Are; it's brilliant from start to finish.  As for disc two, Different People does nowt for me, and I have to be in the mood for Kingdom Of Lies.  Other than that, it's great, and I think the tracks which some describe as filler just provide a break before the amazing title track.   I read an interview with Roine somewhere where he said he likes to allow an album to breathe, rather than be bang bang bang all the time.  The instrumental or quieter pieces that some regard as filler can be seen as these interludes Roine speaks of, and personally I think they work well.

I'd also like to get on record saying that the little instrumentals in SWA are far from filler. A Day at the Mall is the only little song I could consider filler on that album while I consider some other non-instrumentals filler like you Roj.

I had a similar experience as you Roland. I was in a biology lab were looking at various cardiac responses to stimuli. Every group had to pick a "fun" experiment to do to try to affect heart rate. One of the fun experiments dealt with music and we were all in favor of that one. I carry my laptop to class pretty often so I had it on me that day. As the only person with music, I got to subject one of the other members of my group to the wonder of prog. We had to have some calm music to hopefully slow the heart and some aggressive music to hopefully increase the heart rate. For the calm music I picked "If 28" and the guy who was listening to it said it was really good. I gave him plenty of other prog to try to hook him, but my efforts failed.

I am quite anxious for the end of Lent so that I may resume listening to prog and be overjoyed at its reentrance into my life. So often do little snippits of songs enter my head then I am forced to follow that tune all the way to the end of the song. I hate not being as active on this thread and other prog threads because I can have no new appreciations for certain albums.

So I listened to Stardust We Are on the ride into work this morning (heard all of it but the last half hour which I'm taking care of now).

I'd forgotten how good of an album it is.  It's been falling down my personal charts over the past couple months mostly due to the recent acquisition of Unfold the Future and my growing appreciation of The Paradox Hotel. 

I've 'heard' in multiple reviews on here that people take issue with the amount of filler on the album.  I do not see the instrumental interludes as filler material, in fact, I think it helps set the overall mood of the album.  To further that, one of the younger girls that I work with stopped by my cube the other day while Poor Mr. Rain was playing and commented on how pretty it was.

I would not have have predicted Mr. Rain as a gateway to prog but hey if it works.

Roland

Watch out guys ! New TFK topic coming up. Look in the poll section. It's about their intros. One sad thing though: I noticed a few of us "die hards" still miss out on the Flower Power release and that's a pity because it's more or less essential for the poll. Sorry, can't help it. The more reason to get it as quick as you can !!!!

Hi everybody.

cacho wrote: progrules wrote: Roj M30 wrote: cacho wrote: ^ ...... I was planning to give it a 4 stars, to be honest, hahaha Just listened to it...   Glad you like it Pablo, it makes a change for me to recommend one for you .   I'd rate it as a 4.5 myself, but the first track is simply wonderful so I'd round up to 5, when I get the chance to post a review .   Ok you're the man Roy . I'm disappointed in The Captain and Cacho though . Goodness me, how good does an album have to get for a masterpiece status ?????  Cacho do you really believe Triumvirat is a better album than Karmakanic ? I saw you gave that one 5 stars. Illusions on a double dimple is a good album but at least a star less than Who's the Boss. But of course we get back to the old discussion then about matter of taste which is undiscussable of course. Still, too bad but I respect your decision. I have to, alas. The rating system, please ingnore it from my reviews, well at least pay attention most to the review. Please don't compare ratings, because you'll probably find me saying that I prefer a 4 stars album I rated to a 5 stars I rated. 5 stars aren't really that I like so much, if not that truly deserve the ''masterpiece'' label for being, dunno, just when I hear it, I know when it is, hahaha... You see, Triumvirat's Illusions, isn't so awesome, but I mean, they're 2 songs, very well arranged, with some stunning perfomances, and just by hearing it all the way through, I just can't think of it as another thing as a ''masterpiece'', which btw, in my review I noted that it WASN'T a Prog Masterpiece/Essential, if not Triumvirat's Masterpiece.   Don't get me wrong, Karmakanic is AWESOME, but I don't think the ''masterpiece'' status fit, but if I write my review for it, you'll read that I praise it A LOT!!

Edited by progrules - March 19 2009 at 08:25