Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

Roland113 wrote: Tom Ozric wrote: If no-one here is moved by the track 'Rising The Imperial' then you must've died a long time ago....... Hey Tom (Ozric), Welcome to our little neck of the internet.  I think Craig mentioned this above, but yeah, Raising the Imperial is fantastic and Jonas Reingold's fretless work is phenomenal on that one.  The whole CD is enjoyable to my ears but yeah, that's a good one. Here's hoping that they write another CD sooner rather than later, five years is a long wait.

Agreed !!  And newbie Felix L on the dums was a rare find - he's does a fantastic job and I hope he sticks around for a while - get it 'sticks' - drums........

dennismoore wrote: Roland113 wrote:   Ahhh, that explains it.  No, I love IQ, I absolutely can't stand "Harvest of Souls".  Yes, my review of "Dark Matter" was rather critical of the song, but that is the exception rather than the norm.  Everything else on the CD, I love.  I love "Sacred Sound" and "Born Brilliant" is . . . well . . . brilliant.  Fantastic mood in that song. Also, I'm not saying that I am against the old Hammond / Mellotron sounds, I just prefer the neo sounds.  Kind of like I prefer "Paradox Hotel" over "Stardust We Are".  Both are among my top albums.  I think I gave Nexus a day on Spotify a while back and they were decent.   This is exactly what I would expect from a fish with no ears.   Bah!    Harvest of Souls rocks!   "The World is lost, alas, America......so praise the Lord and pass the ammunition......hide where you can we will shoot you where you stand!"...   That is classic!   Sure sounds like you do hate classic keyboards, I bet you have a cheesy Casio keyboard under your bed and you play, Todd Rundgren's "I don't wanna work...." while nobody is watching.  Am I close on this???   Ok, here's the serious portion of this.  I understand how some can say "Harvest" is derivative of Genesis, but I have learned you can criticize all bands if you wanted to on that basis.  All groups have influences.  For me I hate derivative prog, like World Trade or Starcastle,   IQ stands on it own to me.  My only complaint is that the guitar player's tone sucks.  Very muddy & compressed sounding.   Oh, and nobody can prefer anything over Stardust We Are, here in this FK thread, that is plain and simple heresy.         Your penance for this transgression:  Yep, you guessed it.  Play The Chicken Farmer Song five times very loud.

Glad to see you guys 'drumming' up support for Felix.  I wonder  how he got 'snared' into the TFK camp.  I hope he's enjoying his 'brush' with prog fame!  I bet he's getting a 'double kick' out of he whole thing!

Roland113 wrote: Siloportem wrote: darkshade wrote: But DT wouldn't be DT without James' vocals. I was very disappointed in not getting a BC&SL tour DVD, especially because I'm sure we would have gotten the full performance of the 12-Step Suite included. There are rumors we might get a performance of The Count of Tuscany on the new DT DVD on a bonus disc since they performed that song, along with The Great Debate, during the summer 2011 portion of the ADTOE tour. See now that sounds good! I'd love to get a good live version from the great debate. And James goes with DT like bread with peanut butter.      Points for the obscure food analogy.

Not where I live. I eat that those every day.

dennismoore wrote: Roland113 wrote: dennismoore wrote: Roland113 wrote:   Ahhh, that explains it.  No, I love IQ, I absolutely can't stand "Harvest of Souls".  Yes, my review of "Dark Matter" was rather critical of the song, but that is the exception rather than the norm.  Everything else on the CD, I love.  I love "Sacred Sound" and "Born Brilliant" is . . . well . . . brilliant.  Fantastic mood in that song. Also, I'm not saying that I am against the old Hammond / Mellotron sounds, I just prefer the neo sounds.  Kind of like I prefer "Paradox Hotel" over "Stardust We Are".  Both are among my top albums.  I think I gave Nexus a day on Spotify a while back and they were decent.   This is exactly what I would expect from a fish with no ears.   Bah!    Harvest of Souls rocks!   "The World is lost, alas, America......so praise the Lord and pass the ammunition......hide where you can we will shoot you where you stand!"...   That is classic!   Sure sounds like you do hate classic keyboards, I bet you have a cheesy Casio keyboard under your bed and you play, Todd Rundgren's "I don't wanna work...." while nobody is watching.  Am I close on this???   Ok, here's the serious portion of this.  I understand how some can say "Harvest" is derivative of Genesis, but I have learned you can criticize all bands if you wanted to on that basis.  All groups have influences.  For me I hate derivative prog, like World Trade or Starcastle,   IQ stands on it own to me.  My only complaint is that the guitar player's tone sucks.  Very muddy & compressed sounding.   Oh, and nobody can prefer anything over Stardust We Are, here in this FK thread, that is plain and simple heresy.         Your penance for this transgression:  Yep, you guessed it.  Play The Chicken Farmer Song five times very loud.     Have you considered switching to decaf?   Have you considered communicating with a bit more than small single sentences?  At the rate you are going you are not even a match for my toddler!    Seriously, I just stopped coffee all together.  Funny you should suggest that.  Gonna try life without caffeine, we'll see how that turns out...

I quite caffeine myself about 5 years ago (except for dark chocolate.......life is not worth living without that  ).  Not had any problems at all.  I find that the exercise of walking 3 kilometers to work every morning gives me energy to keep awake during the day.  No more insomnia since then either.  The headaches were killer though (I first quite coffee, then after nearly 3 days of splitting headaches started drinking regular tea for roughly a year......when I quite the tea there were no headaches, just some tiredness for a few days).  I still do have some caffeine from time to time (aside from the chocolate, which I don't have every day anyway).......occasional green tea, occasional 3 or 4 sips of my girlfriends coffee on the weekends.

dennismoore wrote: Roland113 wrote: dennismoore wrote: Roland113 wrote:   Ahhh, that explains it.  No, I love IQ, I absolutely can't stand "Harvest of Souls".  Yes, my review of "Dark Matter" was rather critical of the song, but that is the exception rather than the norm.  Everything else on the CD, I love.  I love "Sacred Sound" and "Born Brilliant" is . . . well . . . brilliant.  Fantastic mood in that song. Also, I'm not saying that I am against the old Hammond / Mellotron sounds, I just prefer the neo sounds.  Kind of like I prefer "Paradox Hotel" over "Stardust We Are".  Both are among my top albums.  I think I gave Nexus a day on Spotify a while back and they were decent.   This is exactly what I would expect from a fish with no ears.   Bah!    Harvest of Souls rocks!   "The World is lost, alas, America......so praise the Lord and pass the ammunition......hide where you can we will shoot you where you stand!"...   That is classic!   Sure sounds like you do hate classic keyboards, I bet you have a cheesy Casio keyboard under your bed and you play, Todd Rundgren's "I don't wanna work...." while nobody is watching.  Am I close on this???   Ok, here's the serious portion of this.  I understand how some can say "Harvest" is derivative of Genesis, but I have learned you can criticize all bands if you wanted to on that basis.  All groups have influences.  For me I hate derivative prog, like World Trade or Starcastle,   IQ stands on it own to me.  My only complaint is that the guitar player's tone sucks.  Very muddy & compressed sounding.   Oh, and nobody can prefer anything over Stardust We Are, here in this FK thread, that is plain and simple heresy.         Your penance for this transgression:  Yep, you guessed it.  Play The Chicken Farmer Song five times very loud.     Have you considered switching to decaf?   Have you considered communicating with a bit more than small single sentences?  At the rate you are going you are not even a match for my toddler!    Seriously, I just stopped coffee all together.  Funny you should suggest that.  Gonna try life without caffeine, we'll see how that turns out...

DM-so is Harvest of Sous the new Chicken Farmer Song?      As far as Euro talk goes, you wrote 'realise' in you last post!

I need to cut back on my coffee intake.

Nov wrote: Guys, Our boys have done brilliantly in the annual DPRP (Dutch Progressive Rock Page) readers poll  Have a look here: http://www.dprp.net/dprpoll/2012/index.php LONG LIVE THE KINGS!!

Edited by Nov - February 12 2013 at 06:30

Glad to see HFMC on that list.  i pretty much agree, but i think TFK beats BBT...just my opinion.  The other interesting thing is how some of the top albums were also the biggest disappointments!  hilarious.  sign of a good album is whether its polarizing or not :-)