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Apologies then, it seemed sarcatsic but I accept your answer and I'm sorry.

We get a lot of people that come in for one post, typically with a similar sounding post to your initial one meant to be derogatory so I am naturally defensive if something seems to be along those lines.  There was a lot of sincerity in my post thoigh, I really don't think any of us really expected this thread to be a stalwart of the site when it started. 
 
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Originally posted by Roland113 Roland113 wrote:

Apologies then, it seemed sarcatsic but I accept your answer and I'm sorry.

We get a lot of people that come in for one post, typically with a similar sounding post to your initial one meant to be derogatory so I am naturally defensive if something seems to be along those lines.  There was a lot of sincerity in my post thoigh, I really don't think any of us really expected this thread to be a stalwart of the site when it started. 
 
Hope to see you around.

I understand your reason. I didn't come to PA only to write a few posts like those mentioned by you did. These post wasn't meant to be derogatory. I don't want to offend anyone here. I'm a newbie here (just only a few months) and it is cool to see this site, forum so big with so many nice people listenning to prog and sharing their passion with others. I hope I'll be here for a long time and we'll have an occasion to talk in the future. Smile
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Originally posted by melotron98 melotron98 wrote:

Originally posted by Roland113 Roland113 wrote:

Originally posted by melotron98 melotron98 wrote:


Originally posted by TheCaptain TheCaptain wrote:

I'm well aware that TFK don't get as much love on PA as I think they deserve

LOL Really? LOL
 
You do realize that you're quoting something from five years ago, right? 
 
I think at that point, no one had the idea that this thread would go on for this long and frankly, at this point, we're mostly a group of friends that use this thread to keep in touch with occasional forays into discussing the Flower Kings.  Like any group of friends, we've seen people come and people go.  As the active members change, many of the same topics get revisited.  Shoot, at this point, a few of us are pretty much able to tell you everyone's favorite albums, epics, short songs, keyboard solo, guitar solo and on and on and on.

Yeah, I get your sarcasm, but when this started five years ago (we didn't have broadband back then), the band didn't get a lot of attention.  At this point, the thread has probably outgrown the name but still, you're welcome to join us but it's mostly a bunch of old friends talking that were originally brought together by a band.
 
So what's your favorite Flower King album?
 
 

Hey, hey don't shout at me. I  didn't want to cause that. Cry All I meant was that it is nice that such band as The Flower Kings  became a quite known band on PA and is still getting popularity. Honestly, I didn't see any other appreciation thread here that has so many posts E.g. RPI thread has about 300 pages now. 300 pages for asubgenre and here we have over 400 pages for one band. Band that wasn't known five years ago and now is really popular here. Personally, I believe I wouldn't have checked The Flower Kings' music if I hadn't found that enormous thread. I can't say now what is my favourite The Flower Kings album. I know only 3 albums: Stardust We Are, Back In The World of Adventres and Banks of Eden and honetsly I like them all. I'll be able to answer your question if I listen to the whole discopgraphy  - surely I'll do that in the future but now I have a time when I'm really interested in RIO and Zeuhl and I look for more music in those subgenres.

So, please do not attack me. It wasn't sarcasm, I only wanted to show in a humorous (?) way that I'm glad that PA has been developing so well, that people here found a lot of great music I can discover now and that it is from my point of view quite interesting what PA was those 5 years ago. Big smile


Actually, the RPI thread is the second 300 page thread.........they created a new one after the previous one went past 400 pages.  Still though, we FK fans are a pretty dedicated bunch Big smile
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Originally posted by melotron98 melotron98 wrote:

Originally posted by Roland113 Roland113 wrote:

Apologies then, it seemed sarcatsic but I accept your answer and I'm sorry.

We get a lot of people that come in for one post, typically with a similar sounding post to your initial one meant to be derogatory so I am naturally defensive if something seems to be along those lines.  There was a lot of sincerity in my post thoigh, I really don't think any of us really expected this thread to be a stalwart of the site when it started. 
 
Hope to see you around.

I understand your reason. I didn't come to PA only to write a few posts like those mentioned by you did. These post wasn't meant to be derogatory. I don't want to offend anyone here. I'm a newbie here (just only a few months) and it is cool to see this site, forum so big with so many nice people listenning to prog and sharing their passion with others. I hope I'll be here for a long time and we'll have an occasion to talk in the future. Smile


Welcome to the thread and to the band Clap

I think you'll find quite a lot to like as you work through their discography!
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well I`ve been listening to the three albums which are IMO the greatest TFK albums, SWA, TFKPTE and PH. I always turn to those three more than there other classic albums some here will disagree with my three album. which is cool by me, I`ve still enjoying DR and Transatlantic albums...   
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All right, I've been a Flower Kings fan since 1999, and I have no idea what "TFKPTE" is.  Care to enlighten me?  I have everything they've ever released, including fan club CD's, and I'm just at a loss (looked over their discography on here, no luck).

Aside from that, I agree about Stardust, but the other two for me would TSoNE and Retropolis.


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See, I love most of Stardust We Are, but at about the halfway point of disc 2 I just need for it to be over and end up skipping to the finale.

My three favorites?  Paradox Hotel, Space Revolver and Unfold the Future.

TFKPTE = The Flower Kings Poke the Elephant?
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I think it should be MTFKPTE or MTFKLPTE

Meet The Flower Kings Playing Their Epics

It is a bloody great collection.
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It's a Flower Kings - Transatlantic hybrid - Flower Kings SMPTE (only Stolt was missing Tongue).
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ok sorry for the miss spelling. was rushing to finish and out to work. call it a Madchester thing if you wish LOL...
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Originally posted by Siloportem Siloportem wrote:

I think it should be MTFKPTE or MTFKLPTE

Meet The Flower Kings Playing Their Epics

It is a bloody great collection.


Ah, now it makes sense.  Not the greatest "live" performance, since it was edited together from many takes and Hasse completely overdubbed all his vocals (he had the flu that day), but certainly my dream set list from the band.  I love it for that, and the performances are pretty much perfect thanks to how they recorded it.
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Ok, I know there's a similar separate thread elsewhere on here PA but I'm just interested to see what all us regulars (and anybody else for that matter) are listening to these days.  I tend to listen to an album each day on my commute but perhaps more at weekends.  So, this is sort of a "What albums did you listen to today TFK-thread stylee" thing.

I'll start::  

Monday - Dee Expus - The King of 33  (excellent 'neo prog' with Mark Kelly on keys)
Today -  Joe Satriani - Strange Beautiful Music 

What will tomorrow bring?
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about the state of the progressive music scene its quite full. of amazing music to soaking in the music, old favourites too!.
Monday TFK=PH, Queen = ADATR, Fish = VITWM
Tuesday Paul Weller SR/PW...

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I`ve been out of the loop here for sometime due to ill health so how have you all keeping, is it the music that will hold us together...
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I don't know think I listened to much of anything yesterday, was hanging with the child.  Today and lately, I've been getting into "Radiation" by Marillion.  Good stuff there.
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I've been listening to the first three CD's by Moon Safari - I like the music but not so keen on the boy-band singing it has to be said!!!
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I've been listening to IQ "Road Of Bones", Izz "Crush of Night", Flower Kings "Stardust We Are", Echolyn "The End Is Beautiful", Beardfish "Mammoth", Agents Of Mercy "The Dark Forest", and Glass Hammer "Chronomotree".  Those are the CD's in my car, which have been in rotation for a couple weeks now.

Just picked up the new Abel Ganz album and the CD/DVD set of Hacket's recent Genesis music tour.  Haven't had a chance to listen/watch those yet, but will very soon.
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^Nice idea Gus.

Cds in my car at the moment (yes, I am old school)

District 97 - Hybrid Child
Arena - Contagion
Joe Satriani - Strange Beautiful Music
Opeth - Pale Communion
ARC - Arcturus
Marillion - Happiness Is The Road
Ian Boddy/Erik Wollo - Frontiers
Glass Hammer - Perilous

And this morning a third listen for the new Opeth album.  It's much better than Heritage, more focused, though still missing that killer heaviness of yore.  A definite influence of Steve Wilson's The Raven album in Pale Communion, certainly very atmospheric and some nice mellotron, sorry Tom Wink.  Track two, Cusp of Eternity would have fitted on Rainbow Rising, no problem.
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^ Hey Roj, did you pick up a copy of Contagion Max?
 
(sorry, no cd's in car, my iPod has a ton of music)
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Originally posted by Roland113 Roland113 wrote:

^ Hey Roj, did you pick up a copy of Contagion Max?
 
(sorry, no cd's in car, my iPod has a ton of music)

No, I've not got this but as I love Contagion I will definitely look into it.  Is this the one that includes the two eps? (I've never been able to get hold of those.  What's the verdict on this Tom?

Incidentally this morning - Haken - The Vision.
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^I've just read your review - the only one that's up as a matter of fact!!

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