Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

infandous wrote: darkshade wrote: I like Paradox Hotel and all, but it's still one of my least preferred TFK albums. However, I really enjoy Adam & Eve and The Rainmaker, and I'd probably rank them somewhere in the middle. Paradox Hotel is a great album, the only track that doesn't do anything for me is the one so many on here love, Monsters and Men.  Adam & Eve remains my least favorite FK album, mainly because I don't care for either of the epics, and Starlight Man and Cosmic Circus irritate me.  The rest is great though. Rainmaker is actually a very solid album, and I'd probably place it somewhere in the middle of my FK listing (maybe bottom middle, but still).

It doesn't look like they have it any more.  I bought it off of there back in 2009.  I don't remember what it sounds like.  I've not listened to it in quite some time.  Sounds like a good reason to give it another listen.

zumacraig wrote: M27Barney wrote: The thing is (with an expanding prog collection) - I have realised that Pan European and Central/South American prog - is a rich vein of prog that I have yet to mine...... I have Cuban, Argentinian, Italian, French, Dutch, Polish, German, Swedish and French CD's but I am sure that there is absolutely loads yet to get - and it's a personal mission to own every single CD that Stolte has played on..... that's quite a mission.  have you heard Fantasia?  i'm curious about that one.  Stolt also has this band called the flower kings which you should check out.......' as far as adam and eve go and rainmaker....well, rainmaker is my favorite tfk album.  my fav song is on there, last minute on earth.  one of my top epics is on adam and eve, driver's seat.  love em. btw, listening to the new fusion syndicate.  billy sherwood and a sh*tload of guests.  not too bad.  nice sounding, but not that memorable.

Edited by M27Barney - October 17 2012 at 14:24

darkshade wrote: Monsters & Men took quite a few listens to understand its greatness, more listens than I usually give to an epic but you guys proclaimed how tough of a nut it is to crack, but I think it's a wonderful track. I agree that that ending is epic, and the album in general has some of Roine's most powerful solos.

This is a strange one - because I absolutely loved it from listen 1. - the finale made my hair stand on end with it's brilliance and power...It was GOD that took me about five or six listens to appreciate it's natural beauty and start to lterally - DIG the garden....hoe hoe hoe

Edited by M27Barney - October 18 2012 at 06:22

M27Barney wrote: darkshade wrote: Monsters & Men took quite a few listens to understand its greatness, more listens than I usually give to an epic but you guys proclaimed how tough of a nut it is to crack, but I think it's a wonderful track. I agree that that ending is epic, and the album in general has some of Roine's most powerful solos. This is a strange one - because I absolutely loved it from listen 1. - the finale made my hair stand on end with it's brilliance and power...It was GOD that took me about five or six listens to appreciate it's natural beauty and start to lterally - DIG the garden....hoe hoe hoe

Well, I've listened to Monster's & Men countless times since that album was released (I bought it shorty after release back in 2006), and it's never failed to bore me.  It's not terrible (no FK song really is, IMO), but it just does nothing for me. If I had to guess, I'd say I've heard it at least 30 or 40 times since 2006.  Roine's disappointment with how the song turned out is enough evidence for me that it's not one of their better songs   Also, my own ears have told me this over and over again.  Again, I don't mind listening to it, but like Tom I sometimes skip it because it just seems like a chore to get through before the really good tunes come on.

Garden Of Dreams only took about 3 plays through the entire thing to make me decide it was a masterpiece, but I knew I liked it on the first listen (just need to absorb the whole hour to decide it was their best "song" ever).

zumacraig wrote: Ytse_Jam wrote: Deal with it. DM is gonna go ape sh*t!! love it!

My dear Craig of the Zuma Clan,

dennismoore wrote: M27Barney wrote: - the next your dressing up in your wife's clothing - pretending to be Celine Dion ..." AAAAAAAARGH............ Allow me to pop up here ever so subtly.   Barney my dear Lad,   You posted this exact rant a few score pages back.  What is this preoccupation with men dressing up in women's clothing???   Just wondering.     P.S.  I do love your rants and general tenacity, keep it up my friend!

Aha - somebody was paying attention  Maybe I should have visualised a trannie Barbara Streisand instead then! with the old hairbrush & big hair - I've dressed up in wimmins clothing a few times - I have done it to cook my Mrs and her (female) friends a meal - all to raise money for charity....And i can assure you - I am the most unconvincing female impersonator in the entire northern hemisphere on the account of being about 7 foot tall in high heels - and I have a very prominent adams apple and more hair on my body than a silverback gorilla.....Some men are closer to ladyboys than others....I have hair growing out of every bodily orifice - I have to shave my ears and pluck nose hairs twice a week!!!

Edited by M27Barney - October 18 2012 at 15:07

infandous wrote: ^ I REALLY didn't need to read that.  Now I can not unread it.  The horror.

This one is an easy fix!

infandous wrote: M27Barney wrote: darkshade wrote: Monsters & Men took quite a few listens to understand its greatness, more listens than I usually give to an epic but you guys proclaimed how tough of a nut it is to crack, but I think it's a wonderful track. I agree that that ending is epic, and the album in general has some of Roine's most powerful solos. This is a strange one - because I absolutely loved it from listen 1. - the finale made my hair stand on end with it's brilliance and power...It was GOD that took me about five or six listens to appreciate it's natural beauty and start to lterally - DIG the garden....hoe hoe hoe Well, I've listened to Monster's & Men countless times since that album was released (I bought it shorty after release back in 2006), and it's never failed to bore me.  It's not terrible (no FK song really is, IMO), but it just does nothing for me. If I had to guess, I'd say I've heard it at least 30 or 40 times since 2006.  Roine's disappointment with how the song turned out is enough evidence for me that it's not one of their better songs   Also, my own ears have told me this over and over again.  Again, I don't mind listening to it, but like Tom I sometimes skip it because it just seems like a chore to get through before the really good tunes come on. Garden Of Dreams only took about 3 plays through the entire thing to make me decide it was a masterpiece, but I knew I liked it on the first listen (just need to absorb the whole hour to decide it was their best "song" ever).

M27Barney wrote: I've dressed up in wimmins clothing a few times - I have done it to cook my Mrs and her (female) friends a meal - all to raise money for charity....And i can assure you - I am the most unconvincing female impersonator in the entire northern hemisphere on the account of being about 7 foot tall in high heels - and I have a very prominent adams apple and more hair on my body than a silverback gorilla.....Some men are closer to ladyboys than others....I have hair growing out of every bodily orifice - I have to shave my ears and pluck nose hairs twice a week!!!