Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

darkshade wrote: Is this page accurate? http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=37641 I thought Roine said the album was under an hour, and that there would be a bonus disc. How does everyone feel about these new song titles? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Very cool chart, Roland, very scientific. Good work.

^ Thanks for sharing, I'll put that on my Spotify queue today.  Another neat Spotify find, the first album by Journey is really good and nothing like the Arena Rock of the Steve Perry era.  Apparently Neal Schoen (guitar) and their original keyboard player came from Santana.  Who knew . . . (ok, I'm sure many of you knew, but I didn't).

I'm not saying that the first three albums are better or worse yet, just surprisingly different (to me at least).  Granted, I've only listened to them once and still don't have a great feel for the first three.  It's part of my research for the Styx / Journey cover band that I'm in.  Just for the fun of it, I'd love to have something off of their first album for the inevitable wise guy in the crowd that asks for something really old.

Roland113 wrote: I'm not saying that the first three albums are better or worse yet, just surprisingly different (to me at least).  Granted, I've only listened to them once and still don't have a great feel for the first three.  It's part of my research for the Styx / Journey cover band that I'm in.  Just for the fun of it, I'd love to have something off of their first album for the inevitable wise guy in the crowd that asks for something really old.

The song of choice for that is probably Kohoutek.

darkshade wrote: zumacraig wrote: Roland113 wrote: I'm not saying that the first three albums are better or worse yet, just surprisingly different (to me at least).  Granted, I've only listened to them once and still don't have a great feel for the first three.  It's part of my research for the Styx / Journey cover band that I'm in.  Just for the fun of it, I'd love to have something off of their first album for the inevitable wise guy in the crowd that asks for something really old. those first few journey albums are really good.  kind of proggy and mellow.  i love the dude's voice as well. btw, been listening for the zappa influence on TFK.  what i've discovered is Roine is influenced by, what i consider, the best part of zappa...his awesome guitar playing and instrumentals a la Zoot Allures, Black Napkins, RDNZL, Inca Roads, Echidna's Arf, and Don't You Ever Wash That Thing.  i'd love to see TFK cover Zoot Allures  Fixed. The songs I added have those Zappa crazy moments that TFK love to do. The ones with the fast parts where the marimba usually stands out (because Ruth was such an amazing player). They're on Zoot Allures and Black Napkins, but more abundant in the other songs, plus many more I omitted. Roxy & Elsewhere probably represents where TFK get their main Zappa influence from (Maybe the whole 1973-1974 era as well). If you listen to that album straight through, you'd understand.

i want a TFK t-shirt with the deluxe package

Roine Stolt wrote: To show we're real men we decided to start the new album with a 25-minute epic centrepiece.

Anybody heard the new Rush CD? - No long tracks on it so I won't be bothering, bout time they did a 78 minute re-visit of 2112/Hemispheres rather than the electro-pop they have been churning out since 1982....Just got round to reviewing Anima Mudi - The Way - this is a must have CD for any fan of Symphonic prog - I just listened to it again and it's just got better and better with every spin - I love every second of the CD and not a feckin saxophone to make my teeth grind..... 

Prog needs more trombones and trumpets, if you ask me. There's enough prog with sax.

I'm sure it was just in jest M27Barney, but there's sax in many genres besides Jazz. How about Rock n' roll, R&B, funk, soul, pop, jamtronic, Carribean music, Blues, etc....?