Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

^ Roj,

Glad you're enjoying Flower Power, The Garden did take a few listens before I really appreciated it, after about ten or fifteen I really started to enjoy it.

Regarding Adam and Eve, even though it's one of the lower rated CD's by them, it's still a Flower King's CD and better than most of the other music that's out there.  Glad you're enjoying it.

progrules wrote: [   I think it's already very surprising you have  a sort of judgement about the GoD track(s) but it's almost impossible to judge it after one listening session. Good luck with it.

Roj M30 wrote: progrules wrote: [   I think it's already very surprising you have  a sort of judgement about the GoD track(s) but it's almost impossible to judge it after one listening session. Good luck with it.     I agree it will take several listens, no doubt about that.  The overall first impression was very favourable though.  I'll try and listen to it again in the next few days.  Several parts made me sit up and think "Wow! That's good!"  No surprise there though, it's TFK and that's what we expect!   As to the rest of the album, Deaf Numb And Blind sounded absolutely awesome on first hearing.  I just love these guys.

Roj M30 wrote:   Henk, you know my collection almost as well as me!!!  I actually ordered The Flower King a month ago, but I'm still waiting on it.  It does appear a little tough to get hold of at the moment.    So as it is still not here it will be my final TFK acquisition, but at least it looks like I may have saved one of the very best until last!  The only track I know is the free stream track here on PA.  That is superb and reminds me of World Of Adventures.  That's good news for me as it's one of my TFK faves.  I just love that classic early TFK sound.  In order I rate the albums thus:

The Quiet One wrote: Hey Roger! You will definitely love The Flower King since you like so much TFK's early era. It's my favorite from the 90's, and it's up there with Space Revolver and Adam & Eve! BTW, glad you're enjoying A&E, it's such a great record!

Nov wrote: progrules wrote: Just checked the line up on Keyholder and it appears it's the same line up as on Mindrev. Nov, are you sure this is a great album ?   Hang on, let me just check........   Yeah, someone a few posts ago said:   "Regarding Kaipa, I've got a few albums but the one I would recommend to ALL of you here is "Keyholder". It is a truly stunning piece of work and one of my top 10 albums from the last 15 years or so. Seriously  - all TFK fans will love Keyholder!!"   Are you not bugged by their vocals like The Captain and me?   I normally am bugged by over-histrionic vocals. For example, I can't listen "I Am" by Tomas Bodin because of the vocals.   This has never been a problem for me with "Keyholder" maybe because the music is so extraordinarily good. There's lots of playing on the album with amazing instrumental sections and the vocals fit the dramatic music for me.   I have got the 2 albums either side of Keyholder but never listen to them     Maybe I should go for one of their seventies albums ?   That's up to you. It's like 2 different bands.   I've got a couple of the 70s albums and they are exactly what you'd imagine :- not-quite-as-good-as-Genesis-or-Camel-mid-70s-prog.   Tell you what, pm me your address and I'll send you a copy of Keyholder.

Falling behind a bit here

70's Kaipa is good stuff, don't let anyone tell you any different   I've had the second and third albums of them for a few years now.  A Scandinavian Camel is probably as good a description as any.  They are not as good as any other Roine stuff I've heard (never heard anything he did in the 80's), but they are definetly worth a listen IMO.

Keyholder is an excellent album, probably my favorite of the second era Kaipa, though I like their first one (the previous album, Notes From The Past) quite a bit as well.  I think Keyholder gets pretty weak on the last 3 tracks, but the first 5 are the best the second era ever did (haven't heard the most recent however).  Mindrevolutions just doesn't do anything for me and I completely agree that the vocals are annoying.  It's strange, as it's the same vocalists as on Keyholder,  but they only annoy me on Mindrevolutions (they don't bother me at all on Notes either).

 

infandous wrote: Well, GoD is definitely an Epic with a capitol E.  Supper's Ready is essentially "a collection of songs, some joined some not" as you say.  But GoD has more connecting material than that song.  Melodies, words, both are refrained throughout the entire thing.  I think it hangs together surprisingly well as a single entity.  But I understand why others don't necessarily see it that way.  Thick As A Brick was built piece by piece, just as GoD was.  Anyway, give it time and you will see the cohesivness of it.  But even if you don't, you'll still like it  Actually, one of the things I love about the Flower Kings is that they referecence many of their previous songs on each consecutive album.  Sometimes it's quite hard to discern, other times fairly easy.  GoD is a microcosm of their whole body of work if you ask me (at least, up to that point).  Although, I guess at nearly 60 minutes long, it's more of a macrocosm

^ I have to say that on first hearing Magic Pie did absolutely nothing for me, I didn't like it at all.  As such it was one that stood out, but for the wrong reason!!

See, personally, I give IKEA by Night five stars for the humor factor alone.  I always include IKEA on any of the "Flower Kings'" compilations that I list on here just for the amusement.

I do enjoy both discs of Garden of Dreams Stupid Girl being one of my second tier favorites of theirs.  Personally, I would say that I'm ambivalent at best on Magic Pie.  First couple of times I heard it I flat out didn't like it.  It's grown to apathy from there.  I figure if I listen to it enough times it may become tolerable.

Oh, I just listened to IKEA by night for the seventeenth time during the typing of this e-mail.

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