Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

He guys, we often talk about the TFK related bands and solo artists but then we always forget about Kaipa. It's Rione's first band and was around them already in the seventies ! I just heard a song by Kaipa on Morow and it didn't sound bad at all. Though their album Mindrevolutions was not impressive to me. Especailly the vocals are below par. Anybody who knows Kaipa really well and did they ever make a masterpiece ?

Edited by progrules - June 03 2009 at 08:47

Roland113 wrote: Roj, I'm curious as to what you think of Flower Power, let us know once you listen to it.

Mindrevolution doesn't strike me as prog. I may get some flack for this but the vocals made me think of Disney songs or something along those lines. It took me a while but I think I've finally levelled off at liking 80--90% of the album. I've also got Angling Feelings and their 70s stuff but those are pretty new and I haven't really listened to them.

I haven't listened to TFK as long or as often as I used to recently. I imagine once the weather gets better around here and it actually feels like summer, they'll come back to the front.

I haven't heard any Kapia, yet either, though not really willing to due to reviews, however I might one day check their best rated album...

BTW Roger, very nice review!


Edited by The Quiet One - June 03 2009 at 15:31

Nov wrote: Regarding Kaipa, I've got a few albums but the one I would recommend to ALL of you here is "Keyholder". It is a truly stunning piece of work and one of my top 10 albums from the last 15 years or so. Seriously  - all TFK fans will love Keyholder!!

Roj M30 wrote:   How do those bloody prog reviewers find the time.  Henk?  How?

I should do more reviews, I look at a review as an opportunity to write, a way to practice my 'art' so to speak.  Most of the time, when I sit down and the juices are flowing enough, rather than write a review, I focus the energy on the Sci-Fi novel that I work on in my spare time.

It takes a concerted effort for me to write a review, and sadly, I'm usually not focused enough or focused on something else.

progrules wrote: Just checked the line up on Keyholder and it appears it's the same line up as on Mindrev. Nov, are you sure this is a great album ?

Roj M30 wrote: progrules wrote: Roj M30 wrote:   How do those bloody prog reviewers find the time.  Henk?  How?       Eh ... well ...just a bit in between and so. I remember I did my first 100 reviews in 2007 between 7.15 and 8.30 each morning (usually three or four a day) at my work because at that time I had a slow computer and then posting a review is not really a good idea. If I look back now at those reviews they are short and quite poor really with the exception of a few. Not that they are so great right now but slightly improved I would say. Anyway after these first 100 in 3 months the admin team was apparently so impressed with the quantity they wanted to promote me. I tried to prevent them from making a mistake but they insisted . No, this is a joke.  But after this I got into a bit of a dip and didn't write any more reviews from march 2008 until august. After that I got back in a sort of rhythm until now with appr. 3 each week. But there can be weeks without reviews when I'm having a small dip again. In those cases I'm simply not motivated to write reviews.   Besides this all I feel some people (don't know about you guys on this thread) are making to big a deal out of doing a review. I mean, ok, you have to give it your best shot but sometimes I get the feeling some people think it's the end of the world if their review isn't good enough. Well, I can tell, most of my reviews aren't good enough if you compare them to professional reviews. But that's not what we are doing on this site. We're just a bunch of amateurs who are doing the best we can. And that's all there is to it. Just do your review in a relaxed way without pressure and you will just have fun as it should. Just my thoughts about it.   Ok in the same time I did this post I could have done a review as well. Thanks Roger !!    You know I was only joking Henk!!   Well, I got my backside into gear and posted a review of Space Revolver this morning.  Now let's think.  I wonder how many stars I gave it...... .....

progrules wrote: . I mean, isn't it a shame that none of their studio albums is above this magical number ? I hate it !!