Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

How to list my top 20 albums?  I'm not sure I can do it as it changes fairly regularly.  However, I will list 20 in no particular order that have stood the test of time for me and/or I just think are brilliant.

Asgard - Arkana
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Comus - First Utterance
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Present - Triskaidekaphobie
ELP - Tarkus
Rush - Permanent Waves
Scorpions - Lonesome Crow
Jesus Christ Superstar (original recording)
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Flower Kings - Retropolis
Flower Kings - Unfold The Future
Klaus Shulze - Mirage
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Tomas Bodin - I AM
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Frank Zappa - Lather
IQ - The Wake
Deus Ex Machina - De Republica


I've tried to put in a lot of variety here, but as others have stated there are so many more I could add that are on the same level as these in my mind.  And, to be honest (and true to this thread) just about every Flower Kings album could easily be included (only Adam & Eve really is a lesser album to me, though even that one has it's great moments for me).  Even though they are the only band mentioned more than once, I could easily have added more Yes albums, more Genesis albums, more ELP albums, more Gentle Giant albums, and more Zappa albums.  The ones listed of those bands are just my favorites, but all have other albums I would consider top 20 depending on my mood.





Edited by infandous - Yesterday at 13:13

Originally posted by M27Barney   I am a little prone to exaggeration.....

Dial Emma..............

Originally posted by natewait I used to be a big Pain of Salvation fan and would have put The Perfect Element Part 1 in my top 20 easily...but I've kind of fallen out of love with them, especially after being pretty disappointed by Scarsick. I think it is about time that I revisit them and remember what I used to love about them so much...

Scarsick is a really poor album. I almost don't consider it to be part of their discography. There's just something about PoS that is so unique that no other bands can capture. I would say it's probably the contrast between beautiful vocal harmonies, metal riffs, and sheer magic that I find to be so present on TPE.

None of this is on Scarsick, however. It has some cool moments, but the absolutely awful and immature lyrics in addition to the lack of what made me become a PoS fan in the first place doesn't appeal to me at all.

Originally posted by The Quiet One ^wow! never thought you were such a big fan of Script, I really love that album too. Seems I need to listen to Pefect Element, Part 1 someday...

You don't have that?!!?!?!? Quick! Run to your local record store and buy it before it's too late!!!!



In all seriousness, it is an excellent concept-driven album. Just everything there is perfect IMO. It was #2 for a while, but after listening to it some more recently, I bumped it up one.

These are my top 20:

1. The Perfect Element, Pt. 1- Pain of Salvation
2. Scenes From a Memory- Dream Theater
3. Foxtrot- Genesis
4. Snow- Spock's Beard
5. Crimson- Edge of Sanity
6. ?- Neal Morse
7. Still Life- Opeth
8. BE- Pain of Salvation
9. Bridge Across Forever- Transatlantic
10. Selling England By The Pound- Genesis
11. Sola Scriptura- Neal Morse
12. The Shaming of the True- Kevin Gilbert
13. Symbolic- Death
14. Remedy Lane- Pain of Salvation
15. The Sum of No Evil- The Flower Kings
16. Abbey Road- The Beatles
17. Close To The Edge- Yes
18. Images & Words- Dream Theater
19. Script For A Jester's Tear- Marillion
20. V- Spock's Beard

I know I probably forgot many....

^great idea!

From top of my head, my top 10 any genre:

- Come Taste the Band - Deep Purple
- Meddle - Pink Floyd
- The Yes Album - Yes
- Who Are You - The Who
- Crime of the Century - Supertramp
- Obscured by Clouds - Pink Floyd
- Stormbringer - Deep Purple
- Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
- Trespass - Genesis
- Zappa in New York - Frank Zappa

^I rate GftO 3 stars, but really do not enjoy it, the first few minutes of Awaken and from Parallel.

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Originally posted by M27Barney Originally posted by Roland113 Originally posted by The Quiet One ^are you kidding me, I just give an opinion and he starts saying sh*t about my tastes? And in case he didn't know, I love Yes, but never been a fan of Going for the One, I even think Drama is better to it, by a large margin. I don't think Gus' (Infandous) initial remark was directed at you Pablo, more at Barney and I with Gus on this one. Barney, I think somewhere in your defense of "Awaken" you turned your defense of the album you love into a series of thinly veiled sarcastic jibes at Pablo which was really uncalled for.  I think you can make your point without getting personal.   Sarcastic Jibes, hmmm perhaps guilty as charged, but where did I get personal? I merely suggested that preference for Animals was indeed a Floyd fans perogative, and then extrapolated from that view point a bias towards Floyd and perhaps animosity towards Yes (which a helluva a lot of Floyd fans would confess to). Drama > GFTO ? not sure that I subscribe to that pov... However Drama > Animals, Yes, Yep thats about right........ Peace.

Animals > Drama >>> Going for the One

Now. Peace. (and if you didn't read, I love Yes)