Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

Roland113 wrote: rushfan4 wrote:   The lists in the bottom of my postings are me recording what I listen to on Last.FM.  I scrobble the plays from my iPod to iTunes and from there they get recorded on Last.FM.  Most of my music listening from the past 5 years has been recorded there.  Hey Scott, Did you have to change your link a while back?  My lists stopped showing up at one point, I assumed that the site went down but now that I'm noticing yours and making the jump that my assumption was in fact . . . wrong.

It seems to me that we did have to do an update on Progfreak a while back.  I think that they had changed their code or something, and so we needed to update the link on Progfreak in order to make the signature work.

My girlfriend is pretty open to new music, though she tends to like stuff that sticks in the mind, and is focused on "love" themes (ugh).  Which has meant I've had to hear a lot of 80's stuff I had hoped to never hear again.  She is, however, a huge Pink Floyd fan so it's not all bad (she listens mostly to "classic rock" stuff, so mostly very tolerable for my tastes).

However, she has taken lately to randomly picking a CD or 2 from my collection.  This has led to me hearing stuff again that I haven't heard in ages, or only listened to a couple of times after buying.  This has been most enjoyable (especially since it means no 80's pop or hair metal is playing ).

Anyway, I realized that there is almost nothing in my collection that I don't like to some degree or other.  Of course, my collection is small compared to many of you........only about 500 CD's (I have one CD rack that holds 450 normal size CD's.........but I have a fair amount of doubles and odd size boxes in there as well.........then I have several stacks of at least 10 CD's each around the stereo).

Anyway, it's been a nice change to have her pull out stuff I haven't listened to in quite a while, but is still quite good.  Last night it was early Steve Hackett (Please Don't Touch), the night before was Eloy (Dawn and Ocean).


Edited by infandous - September 19 2012 at 08:52

rushfan4 wrote:   The lists in the bottom of my postings are me recording what I listen to on Last.FM.  I scrobble the plays from my iPod to iTunes and from there they get recorded on Last.FM.  Most of my music listening from the past 5 years has been recorded there.

M27Barney wrote: And one's I have and (possibly) NEVER spun - Testimony by N.M - I opened up the box t'other day (I have the special edition) and a folded inner fell out - explaining all the tracks.....read that and was affronted by usual christian fookwittery & assorted bollockary.... - placed box back in collection......

You're on the internet - It's safe to wikipedia it - it's not a device that could earn you a fatwah if you google it either....

M27Barney wrote: Right then , where do I start - ooooh aye - testimony - I got it from EBAY - and it was a mouth watering 0.99p + 1.00 p & p - so I bid & won (10 minutes left) - bought from sombody in Devon...(I keep all my receipts - I am very anal with anything I buy)...that why my wife knows I'd never go with a prostitute - they don't do receipts..... VDGG - I hate the singing....Aye and the music is just tooo weird for me as well...looks like most on here share similar tastes more or less - except infandous obviously - I'll bet a tenner he's got a mangle and there is a shortage of cats in his neighbourhood..... Also looks like I'm at the gig this sunday with just me mate and No 2 son..... Whats with thos lists at the bottom of  Scots postings??? I'm dead nosy me....

Sorry, don't know what a "mangle" is to you British folks.  I do have a cat of my own, and she sounds much sweeter than any VDGG sax break   However, as I've said, I completely understand why someone wouldn't enjoy the vocals.  I guess the band as a whole is something of an acquired taste (though I acquired it right away).  I tend to like a lot of avant stuff though, so perhaps that is why I enjoy it.  I'm not strictly a sympho prog guy, though that is still my favorite sub genre to be sure.

rushfan4 wrote: infandous wrote: Roland113 wrote: M27Barney wrote: Roland113 wrote: Hey Rob (Barney) . . .  I was listening to "I am the Sun" this morning and something hit me.  There's the bit in the middle that you refer to as 'the daft part'.  All this time I thought that you didn't like it just because of the weirdness and the 'Heart in San Francisco' bit.  It just hit me today . . . it's the sax, isn't it? Aye - I am not that fond of the old saxophonist - I consider it a JAZZ instrument - wherever you have a sax bit - should have been a mini-moog/hammond organ/guitar twiddle backed by luscious mellotron........ This is possibly why i think that VDGG is WAY overrated - that and I hate the singing for some reason.... Don't get me started, I got something by Van der Graaff Generator out of the bargin bin years ago and am still bitter over the loss of that dollar.  It's good for clearing the house and that's about it.  Seriously, I think the conversation goes something like this . . .  Tom:  I think I'm going to put on some Van der Graff . . .  Marianne (wife of Tom):  Hey Tori (daughter of Tom) Daddy needs some alone time, let's go grocery shopping. Tom:  But we just went shopping yesterday. Marianne:  I'm certain there's something that we forgot. Love, love, love Van der Graaf Generator.  Easily in my top 10 bands of all time.  Love saxophones as well, especially in prog rock.  I could understand not liking Hammill's vocals, though I liked them the first time I heard them.  The sax though..........I've known other people who couldn't stand the sound of it, and I just don't understand that at all.  To each his own, I guess.   With VDGG, I generally refer to the sax playing as the sound of strangling cats, as that is what it reminds me of.

When I think of the sound of cats being strangled, I think of James LaBrie, not VDGG.  But again, to each his own.

rushfan4 wrote: infandous wrote: Roland113 wrote: M27Barney wrote: Roland113 wrote: Hey Rob (Barney) . . .  I was listening to "I am the Sun" this morning and something hit me.  There's the bit in the middle that you refer to as 'the daft part'.  All this time I thought that you didn't like it just because of the weirdness and the 'Heart in San Francisco' bit.  It just hit me today . . . it's the sax, isn't it? Aye - I am not that fond of the old saxophonist - I consider it a JAZZ instrument - wherever you have a sax bit - should have been a mini-moog/hammond organ/guitar twiddle backed by luscious mellotron........ This is possibly why i think that VDGG is WAY overrated - that and I hate the singing for some reason.... Don't get me started, I got something by Van der Graaff Generator out of the bargin bin years ago and am still bitter over the loss of that dollar.  It's good for clearing the house and that's about it.  Seriously, I think the conversation goes something like this . . .  Tom:  I think I'm going to put on some Van der Graff . . .  Marianne (wife of Tom):  Hey Tori (daughter of Tom) Daddy needs some alone time, let's go grocery shopping. Tom:  But we just went shopping yesterday. Marianne:  I'm certain there's something that we forgot. Love, love, love Van der Graaf Generator.  Easily in my top 10 bands of all time.  Love saxophones as well, especially in prog rock.  I could understand not liking Hammill's vocals, though I liked them the first time I heard them.  The sax though..........I've known other people who couldn't stand the sound of it, and I just don't understand that at all.  To each his own, I guess.   With VDGG, I generally refer to the sax playing as the sound of strangling cats, as that is what it reminds me of.

Roland113 wrote: M27Barney wrote: Roland113 wrote: Hey Rob (Barney) . . .  I was listening to "I am the Sun" this morning and something hit me.  There's the bit in the middle that you refer to as 'the daft part'.  All this time I thought that you didn't like it just because of the weirdness and the 'Heart in San Francisco' bit.  It just hit me today . . . it's the sax, isn't it? Aye - I am not that fond of the old saxophonist - I consider it a JAZZ instrument - wherever you have a sax bit - should have been a mini-moog/hammond organ/guitar twiddle backed by luscious mellotron........ This is possibly why i think that VDGG is WAY overrated - that and I hate the singing for some reason.... Don't get me started, I got something by Van der Graaff Generator out of the bargin bin years ago and am still bitter over the loss of that dollar.  It's good for clearing the house and that's about it.  Seriously, I think the conversation goes something like this . . .  Tom:  I think I'm going to put on some Van der Graff . . .  Marianne (wife of Tom):  Hey Tori (daughter of Tom) Daddy needs some alone time, let's go grocery shopping. Tom:  But we just went shopping yesterday. Marianne:  I'm certain there's something that we forgot.

Love, love, love Van der Graaf Generator.  Easily in my top 10 bands of all time.  Love saxophones as well, especially in prog rock.  I could understand not liking Hammill's vocals, though I liked them the first time I heard them.  The sax though..........I've known other people who couldn't stand the sound of it, and I just don't understand that at all.  To each his own, I guess.

 

M27Barney wrote: Roland113 wrote: Hey Rob (Barney) . . .  I was listening to "I am the Sun" this morning and something hit me.  There's the bit in the middle that you refer to as 'the daft part'.  All this time I thought that you didn't like it just because of the weirdness and the 'Heart in San Francisco' bit.  It just hit me today . . . it's the sax, isn't it? Aye - I am not that fond of the old saxophonist - I consider it a JAZZ instrument - wherever you have a sax bit - should have been a mini-moog/hammond organ/guitar twiddle backed by luscious mellotron........ This is possibly why i think that VDGG is WAY overrated - that and I hate the singing for some reason....