Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

what is the best Tangent album?  i've only really listened to the first tone, which is pretty good.

 

Hmmmm, this is a difficult one - I haven't actually listened to Tormato for more than a decade....Drama possibly once within the past five years?

Drama is better than Tormato but it's still not proper Yes...sort of Buggles-prog.....Who can take Trevor Horn seriously!!! If I go to the prog-rack of pleasure and cast my eye upon the Yes section.....why would I spin Tormato/Drama when I have the incomparible TFTO or CTTE or Relayer or GFTO........Tormato is such a let down after GFTO - it makes you wonder if it was just chucked out to gather in some cash......Even the title and cover are utter sh*te...Hipgnosis - hold your heads in shame you set of arty-farty fook-wits......

Anyway that made me feel better - catharsis is such a lovely word don't you think.......

Listeneing to Perilous as I type - very Yes like but better than Tormato/Drama - Oh yes indeed......

 

It doesn't sound like you gave me the last word. 

The whole of The Count of Tuscany is amazing imo, especially the ending.

I must buy some of "The tangent", my dismissal of Signals is obviously a direct comparison of the subliminal works that preceded it.....I despair that a band of such talent spent the next 30 years producing commercial dirge, surely a double CD revisiting mid 70's pomp wouldn't have been too much trouble for them.......Sad Really....

yeah, i find it utterly fascinating how bands lose their muse.  rush lost it long long ago, as did Yes.  it's really too bad.  artists tend to have a period of 10 years where they effortlessley create amazing works and then spend a good 30 trying to recapture the magic.  the thing with these bands is that it's the production.  rush working with some alt rock producer does them no favors.  they need to record bass, drums and guitar and vocals.  no over dubs, no compressioin, no reverb...NOTHING.  same with Yes.  if they did this, they'd be hailed more than they are for the drivel they've been putting out for years.  i wanna hear ged's bass up front and alex's guitar awash in flange panning the entire speaker set up.  and i want a fat snare right in the middle with toms panning as well.  

i've found rick ruben's work interesting over the last few decades as he's produced these so-called masterpieces by older artists.  the truth is, he does nothing.  he under produces and johnny cash's acoustic album is hailed as a masterpiece.  i'm just absolutely amazed at how stupid artists are about their own craft sometimes.

looks like our boys are playing ROSfest.  if this is on of only a few dates in the USA, i may be coming to visit you Infandous and Roland!

Good music is good music, and post-MP has a lot of it. Their musicianship was being executed in the albums very well. Some of Geddy's best bass work is after Moving Pictures. Sure the music isn't like Cygnus X-1, but songs like The Analog Kid, Leave That Thing Alone, Force Ten, etc etc are still great songs. 

Why would a band want to keep making the same music for 40 years? I know i wouldn't. That's why a lot of these retro bands sound so cheesy, too bad they can't really keep up with modern music. 

...........Sad Really....