Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

zumacraig wrote: 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 :-) i'm psyched to hear the setlists for the impending tour with morse.  i need to recheck when it starts.  the boys must be busy practicing.  i can't imagine their rehearsals.  i can just hear roine saying...'okay, let's just run through Numbers one more time and call it a day'....everyone groans!   btw, felix doesn't seem to have a 'sound' like zoltan or portnoy.  he holds his own though.  the live footage i've seen he's a bit stiff, but that was early so i'm sure he and the band are more loosened up now. as Nove said, long live the kings!

As you might have guessed, I put down Banks Of Eden as my biggest prog disappointment of the year, because for me it really was.  I didn't expect it would make the list though (though that album came in at number 6 biggest disappointment, so I wasn't alone apparently).


Edited by infandous - February 12 2013 at 10:26

infandous wrote: zumacraig wrote: 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 :-) i'm psyched to hear the setlists for the impending tour with morse.  i need to recheck when it starts.  the boys must be busy practicing.  i can't imagine their rehearsals.  i can just hear roine saying...'okay, let's just run through Numbers one more time and call it a day'....everyone groans!   btw, felix doesn't seem to have a 'sound' like zoltan or portnoy.  he holds his own though.  the live footage i've seen he's a bit stiff, but that was early so i'm sure he and the band are more loosened up now. as Nove said, long live the kings! As you might have guessed, I put down Banks Of Eden as my biggest prog disappointment of the year, because for me it really was.  I didn't expect it would make the list though (though that album came in at number 6 biggest disappointment, so I wasn't alone apparently).

I love them, too, especially their earlier albums.

I'm not as keen on the later stuff, but I still buy each new album as it comes out.

is Eggs and Dogs any good?

zumacraig wrote: is Eggs and Dogs any good?

 
Eggs and Dogs is a great album.  Not as good as I Am (that would be difficult) but great in it's own right.  People who dislike I Am due to the pained vocals may well find this to be more to their liking, Michael Stolt does the honours pretty well.  As always with Tomas' solo albums it shows just how much of an influence he has on the TFK style, but being Tomas it's symphonic prog with some slices of hard rock guitar and a sizable twist of quirkiness.  The track Private Skies sounds like Tomas' personal tribute to Cinema Show - it's superb.  Whilst the epic doesn't really justify it's 21 mins or so there's only one poor track on there, American Standards which really is poor.

As Gus has mentioned it's really strange how Marcus sounds fantastic on this album, as if he's more inspired, something that was lacking in his TFK studio work.

Controversial I know, but I'd place this and I Am alongside several later TFK albums in terms of quality and I Am actually above TSONR for certain.

On the caffeine subject, I never drink coffee during the week.  I only treat myself to a couple of coffees every weekend, however it must be accompanied by a dash of cream.  I don't drink tea.  Generally being the healthy european I am I tend to drink water mainly, fresh orange juice in the mornings.  If I have a coke or pepsi it will be of the diet variety.

Horizons wrote: I really hope that isn't referring to the Buddhism comment..

listened to some of eggs and dogs over at tomas' myspace.  not for me, at least right now.  i'm trying to fill out my tomas collection and i'll be damned if most of his stuff is way out of print and too expensive!  frustrating.

yeah, i don't want to buy used CDs if i don't have to.  i want to support the band.  i may just end up downloading from iTunes or something.  IAM seems like the one i need to definitely have a hard copy of.  i owned sonic and pinup guru years ago, but they got lost in several moves.  i was really into the band back in the late 90s, but fell away until 2011.  i wish they could keep this stuff in print.  i really want cinematograaf too, but that's way out of print.  can't even find any used copies.   we have such an irrational system of commerce!

No, Who's the Boss is going out of print!  At least the Roine stuff seems to stay in print.  

I found those 23 pounds.  Would you like them back?