Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

^ah thanks buddy, the other one was Ashra's Blackouts, a Krautrock album, it's really spacey and quite electronic, love it to use when I go to sleep, it's perfect.

^Ah, certainly, Ringo in his late days with The Beatles, but have in mind Jon Lord had that look from the same time in 1968. So..

Hey ,since we are all TFK fans here , might I pause to tell y'all how cool it is to be hangin with like minded.?
This band is consuming all my listening time. I listen to The Rainmaker in the morning on my way to work.
I think about tunes from UTF and Space Rev all day long,then I get home and listen to Paradox Hotel. I can't seem to get my fill.
I made a excellent compilation disc :Cosmic Lover
                                                                  Chicken Farmer Song
                                                                  Rollin The Dice
                                                                  I Am The Sun p2
                                                                 Monkey Business
                                                                 Don of the Universe
                                                                 The Truth Will Set You Free
 you have one ?

I am looking forward to hearing Adam and Eve [ just ordered ]  cant believe I haven't heard The Flower King yet
either . But when I get them here ,I'll burn a cd so I can get another fans perspective. What a great band .

Hi

I'm Nov and decided to sign on here as I like what you say about TFK

I had typed out a long introductory post but the whole lot just got trashed

Anyway, suffice to say that I'm a massive TFK fan and would say that they are definitely my favourite band from the last 20 years or so.

There are a couple of MASSIVE TFK threads on the Genesis forums that I contribute to, one of which is 240 pages long!! Here: http://genesisgts.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=obands&action=display&num=1172705095

So, there's lots of love for TFK in Genesis circles

That'll do for an introduction so I'll head of and contribute to the poll

Cheers

Nov

Slartibartfast wrote: Thanks for all the recommendations.  You know, oddly enough my first encounter with TFK was their cover of Cinema Show on a Genesis tribute album.  I just listened to it and am a little pissed off.  They did a good cover but on the CD it was faded out prematurely, severely prematurely.  Not their fault of course.

Slarti,

I had the same tribute CD and surprisingly enough, much the same reaction.

I stewed in my irritation for quite a few years until they released 'The Road Back Home'.  The full version is on there and you can buy the MP3 from Amazon for a buck.

Enjoy,

OK, time to throw a thank you to both Nov and Ommadawn.  You both had lists of nominations in my favorite songs poll that had a lot of similarities to mine, the biggest difference is that I didn't have 'Big Puzzle'.  Back in the World is one of the Flower King albums that I'm least familiar with, mostly cause I got it relatively recently.

So I made a point to listen to 'Big Puzzle' while I was making dinner...what a fantastic song, thank you both for turning me on to it.

Roland

My first introduction to The Flower Kings was Meet The Flower Kings (cd version). I was blown away by the first few seconds of marimba on The Truth Will Set You Free. I later got the DVD really liked it too. Roine looks so weird with the long hair and it really is the ultimate Flower Kings lineup. I luckily had the pleasure of seeing them live last year at 3RP. I sank about $100 in TFK merchandise alone (Fan Club CDs, and shirts) then got to meet them all and shook the hand of every member of the band. That last part required me staying about half an hour or so after they finished.  Then I got to drive to school for 3 hours after that (about 2-3:30, then slept for a couple hours, then another hour and a half driving). It was totally worth it.

I'll see how it works out. I have only heard one album from those bands and that is The Inconsolable Secret by  Glass Hammer. Maybe if I into any of those bands I'll consider it.

Roine Stolt's awesome. All I can say.