Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

The Road Back Home isn't an immediate recommendation.

I have it and enjoy it . . . 

On the other hand, I have no problem with shorter poppier songs.  If you're getting it for prog craziness then you'll be sadly disappointed.  If you don't scoff at a three minute pop tune done by great musicians, then you may like it.  The release itself was designed to appeal to a wide range of people, most of which are not Flower King fans already.  

It's kind of like Flower Kings Lite.  It gets you hooked enough to buy the upgrade.  If you already have the professional edition, getting the lite version can be a little underwhelming.

I do find it interesting and a fun CD.  He took the first part of "I Am the Sun, Part 2" and kept it as a separate piece very light and poppy and (as I've mentioned before) a favorite in our car / house.

On a totally unrelated note, my daughter that you've all heard about for a while now has turned 5 and is developing a taste for music.  She's very good at picking up songs from the car and singing them later.  I've caught her singing Francis Dunnery and Journey now.  It's pretty cool to watch.

I'm not fat or yellow - so Homer Simpson isn't me - I'm sort of a northern England version of Richard Dawkins mentality meets the Adam charicature off FK's A & E - Only a bit more hairy - I also think that clarinet is perfectly acceptible in prog as would be the cor anglais..........and I was once chased about two miles across Manchester by the Jon Belushi appreciation society (Northern England branch) - but fortunately they were all wearing suits and also their shades and pork pie hats kept falling off so I clean escaped.....

nov, styx/journey band!  awesome.  i saw styx and yes summer 11 and styx blew the roof off.  i also saw styx in a small casino which was so fun. also saw journey/def leppard.  say what you will about he summer classic rock circuit, seeing those bands live is one hell of a good time.  one hit after another!  i was in a touring jamband in the 90s.  we played all original but were influenced by phish, grateful dead.  interestingly, our music was a bit heavy and dark.  one fan said we sounded like santana with king crimson.  go figure.  i played keys and i loved the songs with lots of parts.  20 min songs were so fun but a nightmare pulling together.  my other favorite mode is acoustic a la neil young.  never really played in a straight rock band.  my dead cover band is now defunct.  it was for fun and charity and it got too serious.  i told the drummer that he was patronizing and he just couldn't go on.  

infandious, thanks for the info on RBH.  i'm gonna get it.  i love all that tech detail stuff as well as listening for changes in remixes.  also, it seems that it would be a good family car album.  

finally, ironically i am on a huge Tangerine Dream trip right now.  their first albums are so out there.

I'm getting curious. I love TFK for their prog sound, of course, but I also enjoy a lot some their more relaxed songs, like Cosmic Lover, Different People of Ghost of the Red Cloud. Some are among my favourites by them. Getting a more poppish TFK records could be a very interesting thing.

Oh boy, I had no idea how much musical talent we have here in this little sub-forum.  All the guys here in tribute bands playing out in big clubs, etc...  I am a bit jealous. 

 

Would it help if I said I played guitar in a RUSH cover band or that I played a duet for over an hour with Keith Emerson???

 

How bout that my daughter is only 2 but she knows that Sunday TV is for NFL football and not the Baby First channel???(Every other day she controls the TV...)

 

 

@DM: dude, we could have a styx/dead/rush/journey cover band!  what would the name be?  i'll have to think about that.  and as far as the 2 year old goes, does she have some baby mozart in 5.1?

@barney: cosmic joker...love it.

y'all are my cosmic lover!  especially dark shade and infandous, of course.

 

Brilliant Rob, one of the best I've seen for a while.  Mad dog presses the button, just like the days of George Dubya .

 

It's really weird, most Americans I've spoken to (yes, how did I get into a politics discussion at a Stevie Nicks concert at The Joint in Las Vegas )  are desperate to see the back of Obama yet on this side of the pond we're scratching our heads wondering how you guys could possibly vote in Romney.  Might he improve the economy?  Well I think the recession is on the way out so yes it might well improve, but that'd be the same no matter who was in power, just like over here.  However if Romney does make it in to the White House if I was Syrian or Iranian I'd be investing in a Kevlar Air Raid shelter, pronto!!