Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

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M27Barney wrote: Roland113 wrote: rushfan4 wrote: M27Barney wrote: ^ Jebus another to add to the feckin list....... OY STOLTE - stop guesting on CD's your costing me a mint..... That tracks not bad - spoilt a bit by the weedy pigeon violin sound.... This album might set off your Neal Morse religion aversion. This is Barney that we're talking about here, magnets can set off his religion aversion alarm. My anti-religion stance is based purely on good sound pillars of scientific enquiry and humanitarianism...... religion poisons peoples minds like no other meme's except those based on racial purity...... In every case religious piety = total lunacy Mind you we have a 21st century witch hunt taking place in the UK at the moment where a lot of dead geezers are being labelled at posthumas paedophiles - and they can't possibly defend themselves unless those psychics can really contact the dead.... It's hard to imagine if they have really thought about the mass hysteria that's taking hold of the masses here in blighty......... Anyway - Peace to all those thinkers out there - we will win in the end....perhaps.......

The thing is I just don't get Blogging? I mean - you have to spend serious time doing it!!!

Nov wrote: zumacraig wrote: is there really anything other than Flower Kings and Spock's Beard to listen to?     I've been listening to Beware of Darkness and The Flower King nonstop.  so great! Well, Spock's Beard were my introduction to the "3rd Wave of Prog" back in about 1997 and when Neal left them, The Flower Kings took over as my favourite current band. So, those two bands have been very important for me as well. However, I now have another band to add to those two - Big Big Train  If you haven't heard them yet, just buy "English Electric Part 1" which is currently the favourite album for 2012 on this site. See here: http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?syears=2012#list I am currently getting into their previous album "The Underfall Yard" which is also sounding excellent. for some reason big big train has not moved me.  i've tried several times to get into them, to no avail.  i'll keep them in mind though.

M27Barney wrote: The thing is I just don't get Blogging? I mean - you have to spend serious time doing it!!! And I don't think that The Black Forest is a wibbler - it's a grade A five star CD and is possibly better in consistency than 50% of the flower kings CD's...... HoHoHo Opinions are like arseholes - everybody has them.... Rob.

zumacraig wrote:   well, this makes me want to really give them a chance.  i down with anything English Pastoral Symphonic Rock!!  i did not know that Nick was in that band.  cool.

Nov wrote: Roland113 wrote: Regarding Big Big Train, I've got 'The Difference Machine' and really like it, I haven't picked up English Eclectic yet, its a winner you say? It's "English Electric"  It is an out and out winner, especially if you appreciate Selling England / W&W style Genesis. Just look at the reviews on this site and have a listen to this:

Like SEBTP ? - I am going to have to purchase it then aren't I -!!!! - I'm not a big fan's of first four CD's maybe fifth time lucky...

Nov wrote: Roland113 wrote: Regarding Big Big Train, I've got 'The Difference Machine' and really like it, I haven't picked up English Eclectic yet, its a winner you say? It's "English Electric"  It is an out and out winner, especially if you appreciate Selling England / W&W style Genesis. Just look at the reviews on this site and have a listen to this:

As someone who absolutely loves Selling England and W&W style Genesis, I have to say I just don't hear it in the English Electric album.  I mean sure, the influence is there I guess (instrumentation, "Englishness"), but the music does not have the same appeal as those early Genesis albums for me, not even close.  Certainly not the "freshness" those albums had when I first heard them (and with W&W, my first listen was about 5 years ago!).

I listened to The Difference Machine repeatedly back in the year after it came out, and just could not connect with it at all, even though it seemed like something I should like.  I've heard the entire English Electric album as well, and got pretty much the same reaction.  I will say they seem quite skilled, their production is pristine, and the music is not particularly boring.  That's the best I can muster, and I really don't understand the stir they've created lately in the prog world.  They seem fairly ordinary to me, and I find it hard to get through either of those two albums without my attention drifting (a problem I never encountered with early Genesis stuff).

i listened to the new BBT on spottily and i have to say that there is something more to it than the plethora of samey sylph bands out there now (magic pie, knight area, etc.).  i think i might pick it up.  love the synth solos and harmonies are excellent.  i need to get a little more used to the singer.  

M27Barney wrote: maybe I was too hasty with the first four? - I have made the mistake of experiencing negative vibes when my expectations were set for something different than I was actually hearing....