Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

zumacraig wrote: RE: UtF... They should've released the entire studio jam as a bonus disc!

Yeah, that would have been a great idea!  I don't think Roine thought it was worth releasing though, aside from the excerpts he did release.  I'm just guessing of course.  At the time, I think he was pretty pleased about it on the whole, which is why the excerpts were put on the album in the first place.  I'm not sure how much I would listen to the entire thing to be honest, but it would be interesting to hear.

infandous wrote: zumacraig wrote: RE: UtF... They should've released the entire studio jam as a bonus disc! Yeah, that would have been a great idea!  I don't think Roine thought it was worth releasing though, aside from the excerpts he did release.  I'm just guessing of course.  At the time, I think he was pretty pleased about it on the whole, which is why the excerpts were put on the album in the first place.  I'm not sure how much I would listen to the entire thing to be honest, but it would be interesting to hear.

Roland113 wrote: So has anyone else been having issues posting here with Google Chrome as of late?  I can't post at all from my work computer using Chrome anymore and last night, Chrome was starting to have issues as well . . . With that being said, I had a great post typed up saying that all was well, sorry I haven't been around much lately, my wife's surgery went well, recovery is going pretty good, she finally got her neck collar off last week and I'm starting to get a bit of free time back.  Life is good on our end and I had a list of random comments from the last five pages or so . . . all lost . . . I'll try to be a little more active again now that things have calmed down on the home front.

Good to hear about your wife, glad she's just about recovered.  Sorry to hear about Chrome and this forum.  I don't use Chrome for most things, just for work applications because it's faster than Firefox and IE.  I've got so much invested in Firefox, I just haven't been able to bring myself to switch (all my favorite sites opened in tabs ready to go when I launch the browser, add ons, browsing history to find things I saw weeks ago, etc.............all stuff that's not hard to get in Chrome, I'm just lazy and haven't felt like doing it since I've never had any issues with Firefox).

Aye, we want all good things to be happening to the forum members all of the time. I listened to "Lifesigns" (CD name and band) on Friday - 2013 CD, very good in parts but unfortunately the good bits are all in separate tracks so no one track stands out.......mind you the last track is by far the standout one to my ear.....

Roland113 wrote: ^  Thanks Mike,   Yeah, I may have to use Explorer for this forum alone . . . oh well.   Interestingly enough, one of the lost bullet points was about Christantinople.  I didn't like the song when I first heard it, but strangely it's become a grower for me.  I find it somewhat akin to 'The Waiting Room' off The Lamb.

 
Strangely Tom, The Waiting Room has always been one of my favourite Genesis tracks and pretty much my favourite off The Lamb.  I remember back in the day when Rob first introduced me to The Lamb and was astonished that out of all the fantastic tracks on the album I somehow liked The Waiting Room best .  I suppose as a big Floyd fan I'd always appreciate the weirder side of things, however the second half of the track is truly fantastic.

That just confirms that your all a bunch of weirdos - I reckon if I got a steel dustbin and suspended it from the ceiling, upside down so that you could stand under it. You lot would gladly do that while I beat the side of said bin with a large wooden mallet whilst making Random whooping sounds whilst also strangling a deranged tom-cat and standing on assorted small mammals to make them squeak in various mysterious ways - you lot would serious get off on such an experience......and say that it was the work of pure genius !!!

^ I am not a fan of "Random Noise" passages in music, You may as well have a passage of silence as this is non-music.....I am a big fan of ambient chords sections - which could replace said talentless fillers. Examples would be the "Waiting Room" - which should have been an extension of the fine music which soars out of the final clank/explosion...also the bloody ornithological passage in "Echoes". I don't count the ambient passage in GOD because it is saved by the background mellotron and sampled voices......similarly "Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats". How anybody could find the "Waiting room" part 1 the best track on "The Lamb" defies belief however.....Best track has to be selected from Lillywhite Lilith/The lamia/Back in NYC/The Cage/Slippermen suite/ or the sublime instrumental Ravine.......THE GENESIS ORACLE HAS SPOKEN !!!

^  Apart from our obvious polarity regarding Recycled, which I think is going to happen between two music addicts whose taste is likely to converge and then diverge along the sine wave that is graphed by time and each individual CD in our collections that correspond.......

Forgive my absence.  I've been indulging in some AOR.  If you remotely like that stuff, you gotta check out the band Line of Fire.  OMG!!

zumacraig wrote: Forgive my absence.  I've been indulging in some AOR.  If you remotely like that stuff, you gotta check out the band Line of Fire.  OMG!! Saw on the yahoo group that Roine is re-releasing Fading Ghosts of Twilight with several remixed tracks.  This kind of stuff pisses me off.  I mean, the album is not even 5 years old and now it needs a remix?  Why not a edit out the cheese ball spoken word stuff and remaster with pristine dynamic range?  Oh well.

I have been listening to a lot of AOR lately.  Strangeways.  Work of Art.  FM.  Jimi Jamison.  Mecca.  And of course, the torchbearers, Foreigner and Journey.