Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

WHOA! "One Whole Half" is a bonus track on The Rainmaker, which is on Karmakanic's debut album, though it's a different version. Reminds me of a Jonas Hellborg track, with some John Scofield influence there too.

Stolte - has produced some of my all-time favourite guitar solo's - Very indulgent solo's indeed - make the hair stand up on the back of your neck...but the keyboard solo's.....Banks, Emerson, Wakeman, Badens and Orford have all produced far superior keyboard solos....and my all time favourite Hammond organ solo...Take a Bow Mr Dave Greenslade....Drum folk....the slow intro with mellotron which then has the most atmospheric Hammond solo ever...acemans...

M27Barney wrote: I was pondering about the Flowerkings and the wonder..... that from the mid nineties this swedish outfit dared to produce symphonic prog long and indulgent......Then I was looking at the reviews on Topographic Oceans by Yes....Do FK's fan-base think that the original - 4 Epic offering is the benchmark that all over-indulgent symphonic prog could be judged against? I think that TFTO is only marginally inferior to CTTE and GFTO and the equal of Relayer......A definate five star effort and masterpiece....who's with me?

I don't know what connection between FK and Yes you want to demonstrate. But to me CTTE is better, than TFTO, and i am a FK's fan. Is this clear?

Tales is good, but meanders way too much to be considered as good as Relayer, Close to the Edge, The Yes Album or Fragile, IMO. 

Horizons wrote: I never meant to portray dislike for Roine's playing, i've just felt indifferent after his solos or rhythm methods.

I didn't think you were - but you implied that his playing was generic, which was what I took issue with. If it doesn't thrill you, though, then that's fine.

I agree that disc 1 of Flower Power should have been its own album, titled "Garden of Dreams".

But then what to do with the remainder of disc 2?

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Also, I listened to the bonus tracks for The Rainmaker, and all I can say is.... Why were they not included in the actual album?????? Aside from the last one, they're better than half the songs on The Rainmaker.

Darkshade, kudos to you for an excellent review of BoE .  Even better seen as you're a collab .

Finally giving Wheel of Life a listen. I like it a lot. But it's not in the same league as Who's the Boss and Perfect World.

"Do U Tango?" is nuts.


Edited by Anthony H. - July 06 2012 at 12:18

I'm a big fan of Wheel of Life, "Alex in Paradise" is probably my favorite Karmakanic song.  

Yep, agree with Wjohnd, `Fly From Here' is not too bad. It's all very superficially listenable. Nothing truly challenging or memorable, but very pleasant and easy to listen to, something to put on in the background and not have to pay too much attention to. OK, so it borders on `old man' prog a little, but I don't think anyone would have expected it to be more than that.

Beautiful cover, though! Well worth snapping up the vinyl copy for that alone.

Oh, and of course, considering some write them off as being nothing more than a Yes clone, the new Flower Kings album wipes the floor with `Fly From Here' on every conceivable level lol!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - July 06 2012 at 19:47