Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

Originally posted by Mirror Image Originally posted by infandous All the talk about Retropolis............... It's my favorite Flower Kings album, but for almost purely sentimental reasons because it was the first I ever heard.  However, even if that wasn't the case, it would rank very high on my list, easily top 5.  Unfold The Future is easily their best album, in my view, and taking out the sentimental favorite of Retropolis, would be my number one. I'm finding this out first-hand myself as I listened to Banks of Eden for a second time through earlier, but I'm really enjoying Banks of Eden even better than I did the first time. Retropolis is the first Flower Kings album I heard as well. I suppose I need to shake off my sentimental attachment to it as well and listen to each album on its own terms.

Originally posted by zumacraig my first was Stardust We Are.  so i  have a sentimental attachment to it.

Originally posted by infandous Originally posted by Nov Originally posted by Ytse_Jam Banks of Eden is definitely better than Space Revolver IMO! I have to disagree with this 100% Just my opinion though (and I do love BoE) Nov, I'm with you here.  I think SR is a better album than BoE.  Though it should be noted that I don't have a high opinion of BoE at the moment......

We'll see what  Roj thinks - i know that he loves SR....but has BoE done enough to get near??

Originally posted by M27Barney Originally posted by Roland113 Steven Wilson is glorified and long modern rock . . . love it, but I always wondered why they were considered progressive outside of their song length.  "Blackest Eyes" and "Trains" could have easily been radio hits to name a few. My first Flower King CD was Retropolis as well.  Weird coincidence, huh?  I do love Retropolis and would put in my top five CD's by them.  Top three remain "Paradox Hotel", "Unfold the Future" and "Space Revolver".  Four and five are "Banks of Eden" and "Retropolis", though those two are probably tied for fourth at the moment. "Stardust We Are" would have a higher rating if it didn't die about three fourths of the way through, there's a batch of tracks towards the end that I struggle to get through. Aye - Just think how good this CD would hve been if they had extended out the title track to 80 minutes for CD 2......

Space Revolver is clearly better.  77 minutes of wonderful music, there's only the 2 min Froberg song that's ordinary.  That era was my TFK fave.  The Stardust-Flower Power-Space Revolver trilogy is unbeatable.

I'm still warming up to Retropolis. I understand it's a great album, just hasn't sunk in. I DO like how many of TFK's album ratings on this site have all gone up, and they now have at least a couple that are over 4.00 rating.

I find wonderful things in all their albums. They all have their own special something. From my experience, even a TFK fan's least favorite album is still a great album.

Retropolis is easily a top 5 TFK record in my book.  Stunningly consistent, and has some of their best songs ever. 

I will admit that, although I love Banks of Eden, and consider it one of the band's best, older TFK albums should be in that list and/or have higher ratings that BoE. I don't really care about the top 100, but none of the band's classic material in that list, but BoE is? C'mon.

As far as TFK haters go, since PA began, how have newly released TFK albums been rated? Did they start out with good ratings, then plummet once haters started coming in? Or was there always lover and haters rating the albums at the same time? It seems more people enjoy BoE than previous albums, and that haters aren't around, or care to rate/review the album. I mean, it's been out almost 2 months now, surely the haters would have been hatin' on the site by now.

He'll lobby for half-star ratings so hard just so he can give half a star to Banks Of Eden.

Edited by darkshade - August 07 2012 at 15:40