Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

Nov wrote: This thread suddenly feels like The Big Bang Theory........... We are the nerds and Kati is Penny.

Stolte threatened to give over all the Vocal duties to Hasse a few years ago. Aargh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thnakfully he didn't do it. It's great to have a voice that nobody else has.

odinalcatraz wrote: Stolte threatened to give over all the Vocal duties to Hasse a few years ago. Aargh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thnakfully he didn't do it. It's great to have a voice that nobody else has.

Well, my favorite FK album is still Retropolis.  First one I heard, and still the one I like to listen to the most.

My least favorite is Adam & Eve, with the Banks following closely (just can not get into it no matter how many times I spin it.....maybe in the spring and summer it will click for me, since I usually listen to the TFK the most during those times......they just seem like a warm, sunny weather type band to me).

The Whirlwind is good, not great, IMO.  I think it works really well all the way through, but does have large helpings of cheese throughout.

I think Gildenlow was great in the Flower Kings, and great in PoS.  I haven't heard the Road Salt albums, but have been curious about them.  At some point I'll get around to them, maybe.

My favorite band of the moment has been Beardfish, since before the holidays when I got Destined Solitaire and Mammoth.  Just an incredible band, can't wait to pick up the new one  (just need that and the first album to complete my collection).  Have to check out Gungfly as well soon.

As to Roine's vocals, they are brilliant.  He has character, which is something that can not be said about the vast majority of prog rock vocalists (even though many of them are excellent despite not having character to their voice).  Yes, he has his poor moments, but that doesn't detract from his greatness as a vocalist.  I can hear though, how he might be unappealing to some people (much like I love Peter Hammill's vocals, but understand why many don't).


Finally, I love Zappa, but find the Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar albums (or, as now, one 3 CD album) to be quite dull and impossible to get all the way through.  His leads are great, but without the context of the songs themselves, it's just not the same (though there are of course some tunes that are just guitar solos, which are fine, but again, better in the context of a complete show or album).  This from someone who got into Zappa mainly because of his guitar leads.  Just my opinion, as always.


Edited by infandous - January 28 2013 at 07:57

infandous wrote: Well, my favorite FK album is still Retropolis.  First one I heard, and still the one I like to listen to the most. My least favorite is Adam & Eve, with the Banks following closely (just can not get into it no matter how many times I spin it.....maybe in the spring and summer it will click for me, since I usually listen to the TFK the most during those times......they just seem like a warm, sunny weather type band to me). The Whirlwind is good, not great, IMO.  I think it works really well all the way through, but does have large helpings of cheese throughout. I think Gildenlow was great in the Flower Kings, and great in PoS.  I haven't heard the Road Salt albums, but have been curious about them.  At some point I'll get around to them, maybe.

M27Barney wrote: Bloody hell - I'm off for a few days - and suddenly there's a new pretty face and you lot are sweating like a blind lesbian at a fish market!!!! Oh well - soz you can't get the time off Roj, but I really want to see the gig - so I'll be shmoozing down the M6 some time during the day......You know me - anyway it's a Friday - you could get winter vomiting bug - everbody has had that (unless you've used that reason already - ok - say you've been bitten by a brown recluse spider that sneaked out of that bunch of bananas your uncle brought back from Barbados ) You know it makes sense....

The Wolverhampton gig has been moved to the larger Wolfrun Hall - in the same building as the Slade Rooms I believe - tickets must be selling fast!

Roj M30 wrote: 2 days without a visit and about 4 pages missed. Big thanks to Kati for giving the thread a big boost of impetus . Rob, my main problem with the gig is I can't finish work until about 5 at the very earliest so I could be in trouble making it in time.  Unfortunately I don't have the days to be able to take a day off either.

lazland wrote: Roj M30 wrote: 2 days without a visit and about 4 pages missed. Big thanks to Kati for giving the thread a big boost of impetus . Rob, my main problem with the gig is I can't finish work until about 5 at the very earliest so I could be in trouble making it in time.  Unfortunately I don't have the days to be able to take a day off either. You are hereby ordered to add to the country's burgeoning sickness absence record. In fact, typing this, I can tell you are felling a little bit peaky

 
Don't worry good sir, I'll get there one way or another.......

Roland113 wrote: [QUOTE=zumacraig] 'ello Roland! great points.  i'm the exact same way with daniel.  i hate to say it, but the daniel tunes on UtF may have been better served by having hasse sing them.  in fact, i wonder if there was any bad blood between daniel and hasse.  daniel did kind of come in a take some of his parts.   as far as adam and eve go, that album would've been a masterpiece if the the daniel tunes were not on there and Driver's Seat had a different arrangement.  the intro to that song is so damn awesome.  i wish they'd come back into it at some point and had roine or hasse sing the part daniel did.  i'm not complaining though, i love that song. i too wonder about roine and his concern about fans and critics.  f**k 'em as far as i'm concerned.  he has to follow his muse.  our opinions are really none of his business.  it's just us wasting time on PA!  i gotta say, i am very curious about what's coming this year record wise.

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