Flower Kings Appreciation Thread - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I always thought The Rainmaker was vastly underrated.

I feel kinda the same, however to me personally the first segment (first 4 minutes) of Love is the Only Answer is one of the best TFK compositions ever. The mood changes are simply incredible IMO. Especially the "So the craziness" portion. It takes you by surprise, cause out of the blue, while your mind is being sugared up by all that ear-candy jazz, it hits your eardrums with its pounding drums, screamish vocals and muted "metal" guitar. Roine's a freaking genius.

Zappy wrote:

Biff Tannen wrote:

Richey Edwards wrote:

I'll most likely end up buying all of their albums regardless.

There ya go. The later albums aren't as good in general, although Paradox Hotel and Banks of Eden are both tremendous.

For me, albums like The Sum of No Evil, Desolation Rose and The Rainmaker are good to have since they have their moments, but it's pretty clear that they do not touch their best albums.

I truly can't second that. DR and TSONE are amongst the best of their catalogue in my book...

Gotta chime in here. TSONE is probably my second or third favorite FK album, and I'm really not that fond of Banks (mostly it's the epic I find just seems plodding and doesn't hold my interest......the other songs are good to great though). TSONE, for me, is some of the best writing and performing I've ever heard from Roine and the boys, a truly great album, IMO. To me, it's almost a perfect FK album.

Desolation Rose is decent, but the "bonus" CD is better than the main album. The Rainmaker was a disappointment to me when it first came out, but now I think it's pretty good, and has two absolute classic FK tunes on it.

Edited by infandous - November 17 2017 at 12:10

infandous wrote:

dbeckton89 wrote:

I always thought The Rainmaker was vastly underrated.

As I said in my previous comment, I think the problem for those of us who've followed them since the beginning (or nearly so, in my case), was that it just seemed very weak compared to what came before and even more so to the album right after it, Unfold.

However, over the years I've come to really enjoy The Rainmaker and I think there is some top quality material on there. Still wouldn't rate it all that high on my ranking of FK albums, but I actually like ALL of them to different extents. Rainmaker doesn't fall into the "love" category for me though, but it's still very good.

both valid points but on a purely personnel note I totally love it equally to the before and after albums

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hmmm only time will tell

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For the FK fans.....what is their best album overall and what is your favorite single track....?

Thanks.....:)

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FAVORITE LP:

Space Revolver

FAVORITE TRACK:

Love Supreme

Favorite Album: Adam&Eve

Favorite Track(s): Love Supreme, Astral dog

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Not listened to any FK's for a while now - currently i'm digging Nightwish - their last two releases ARE AWESOME!

May wait for the good weather - I think that FK's is best played in summertime - or is that just me?

I am probably in the minority in thinking The Sum of No Evil is their best album, but really the differences in quality are not huge across albums. Unfold the Future is excellent, so are Space Revolver, Flower Power, Desolation Rose....

I still have to get into the Nightwish discography (lots of interest, but no time...)