BETCHAWANNADANCESTOOPID!!

The Flower Kings

Symphonic Prog

2.22 | 38 ratings

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ZowieZiggy
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Good musicians playing directionless music produced a directionless record. Useless music. Whether you are a TFK fan or not. No emotion, no passion : tasteless. Not even experimental.

Actually, this long album (remember this is TFK) could be twice as long as three times shorter : it wouldn't change since there is basically no "song" format.

The opener "The Bridge Fetish" is absolutely dreadful. The "short" next song "This is the Night" is probably the only bearable one unless you are going to fall into extasy while waiting for the "Daytripper" moment during the awfully long "Betchawanna". What a big deal !!!

Several looooooong minutes (eight or so) that will remind you the same notes from this "Beatles" song, converted into a jazzy and poor improvisation. Not to speak about the moment when the vocals enter the scene. Fantastically weak. Did you say regressive rock ? I am not even sure that the reference of this song was a sales argument since it is difficult to buy this release (but who the hell would buy this ?).

Even the "promise" of "More improvised & irritating dance music for your collection" mentioned on the back cover won't be fulfilled (many thanks since I just hate dance music).

"Bellydancers From Hell" is extremely boring. Jazz noises all the way through. While "Don't Forget to Flush" has not even funny lyrics since it is an instrumental track (can't talk about a song, really). Boring to death as the next one : a bonus track ! As if we need bonus tracks of that stuff !

Through my reviewing process, I thought I had hard times. But "Abacab", "Union", "Talk" or "Open Your Eyes", some Santana, Uriah Heep, ELO, Kansas or ELP stuff I have rated with one star are masterpieces in comparison with this one.

Just ignore this of course. I just figured out that I have been losing over an hour of my time...One star (and this is overated).

ZowieZiggy | 1/5 | 2007-8-3

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