Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

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 infandous wrote:

 zumacraig wrote:

 'ello Roland!
great points.  i'm the exact same way with daniel.  i hate to say it, but the daniel tunes on UtF may have been better served by having hasse sing them.  in fact, i wonder if there was any bad blood between daniel and hasse.  daniel did kind of come in a take some of his parts.  

as far as adam and eve go, that album would've been a masterpiece if the the daniel tunes were not on there and Driver's Seat had a different arrangement.  the intro to that song is so damn awesome.  i wish they'd come back into it at some point and had roine or hasse sing the part daniel did.  i'm not complaining though, i love that song.

i too wonder about roine and his concern about fans and critics.  f**k 'em as far as i'm concerned.  he has to follow his muse.  our opinions are really none of his business.  it's just us wasting time on PA!  i gotta say, i am very curious about what's coming this year record wise.

See, as far as Daniel is concerned, I think the songs he sings on A&E are the only redeeming qualities of that album (well, the title track isn't great, but I like it a whole lot better than Cosmic Circus or the opening epic).  Driver's Seat might have been better with a different arrangement though, agree with that.  Of course, I'm not really a fan of Hasse's vocals, when it comes right down to it.  He's gotta a lot more shrill over the years, to my ears......though I think he and Roine do sound great together.  I would have been fine with Daniel replacing Hasse, but I doubt most other fans would agree (and really, I'm not sure that would have worked out very well in the long haul anyway).

Also, Roine invited Daniel into the group and wrote parts for him to sing, so I don't think there was any bad blood at all (judging from Hasse's facebook posts and other writings, he's a very easy going guy).  I honestly don't think Hasse would have sung those parts as well as Daniel did.  On the Carpe Diem live album, Roine and Hasse attempt to cover Daniel's vocals on A Vampire's View.  They do okay, I guess, but Hasse is really straining on the "powerful" parts, and it's not pretty (to my ears, anyway).

Roine's the best singer in TFK's, for my money, though I would never say Hasse is "bad" by any stretch.  I just find that with each new album, I find his vocals less appealing (though I still think he sounds fantastic on Retropolis, Stardust We Are, Flower Power and Space Revolver.......after that is when he slowly started to grate on my ears more with each album).

yeah, i know you and dark shade like the tune Vampire's View.  that is an interesting song, i think it messes with the flow of A+E.  i just love hasse as a person and singer.  he's so damn cool on stage and in interviews, he is so easy going.  my family and i have been joking about where he's going to sleep when TFK come through town and the band stays with us.  the kids want Hasse to sleep on the top bunk in their room!  
as far as his voice goes, he's in his 40s now, so that might be it.  he's definitely more rough on the latest HFMC disc.