Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

^amen brother!

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

The 100th review of Paradox Hotel: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=216243 

Nov wrote: 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 I really enjoyed the Sum of Evil Album. To me that was like a great comeback after the disappointing Paradox Hotel. A little bit to jazzy for my taste

Edited by rdtprog - May 17 2009 at 13:14

rdtprog wrote: To me that was like a great comeback after the disappointing Paradox Hotel. A little bit to jazzy for my taste

Paradox Hotel "jazzy"?

Crumbs. What does that make "Unfold The Future" then?



To me, Paradox Hotel is one of their most straight ahead albums full of moments of incredible delight. It is worth the money for "Monsters and Men" alone which I think is one of their very best epics.

 

lazland wrote: Roland113 wrote: 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? Cheers Roland. Next will be Adam & Eve, as the successor to Unfold The Future, which I got some time ago. Through sheer laziness, I never really went further, even though I loved Stolt in Transatlantic. However, winning the Karmakanic CD in the PA giveaway, and the threads on Stardust, has finally galvanised me into action. Damn glad too

Great to hear Lazland, Adam and Eve isn't my favorite of theirs, but I know Cacho loves it as well as quite a few others.  Karmakanic is great as well, I really enjoy Jonas Reingold's style.

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um, I was going to put something more but was apparently tragically distracted by "Blues Clues"




Edited by Roland113 - May 17 2009 at 18:20

angelmk wrote: ^^ 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

Agreed, can't wait for the new Transatlantic personally, I'm hoping they end up headlining 3RP 2010 (just in case you're reading this Howard).

cacho wrote: ^I agree, Paradox Hotel is 0% jazzy influenced... It's more diverse, with straight rockers, proggy ones, acoustic.  I find it excellent... The jazzy ones are Space Revolver, Rainmaker, Unfold the Future and bits of Sum of no Evil...

Love Paradox Hotel, though I agree with the others on here, I wouldn't really call it Jazzy. 

Hmm, since we're listening Flower King CD's, I'll throw my current two cents in.  Amusingly enough, I know we did this on page three or something, so it will be interesting to compare:

11)  Adam and Eve    (Yeah, I'm totally doing it backwards for the dramatic effect)
10)  The Flower King
09)  The Rainmaker
08)  Back in the World of Adventures
07)  The Sum of No Evil
06)  Unfold the Future
05)  Retropolis
04)  Flower Power (This one has really been growing on me lately)
03)  Stardust We Are
02)  Space Revolver (also growing on me lately)
01)  Paradox Hotel

Roj M30 wrote: If the rest of the two discs was stony silence I'd give Paradox Hotel 5 stars!!!

I hate to break up the party, but I'd like to take a moment to address this nagging question of mine, what makes the flower kings so great? I've gotten several of their albums and listened to them many times, but I can't figure out what it is that everyone else seems to hear. While I do enjoy their material, it has never really impressed me. I feel as if I'm missing the point.