Bes album to start with the Flower Kings
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Topic: Bes album to start with the Flower Kings
Posted By: el böthy
Subject: Bes album to start with the Flower Kings
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 16:38
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I find this band quite interesitng, but there are songs I like and some I dont. The ones I dont are Big puzzle from Back in the ... and There is more to these world from Retropolis. Mainly because of how ...happy they are? Can that be it? Well, it can, but its also something in the music....I dont know, and I dont really care much for the voice of who ever sings in both. But songs like In the eyes of the World, Vampiers view and specially Black & White are really nice!!! So I was thinking if you think one album from they has that "vibe" from the last 3 songs I mentioned...I was thinking of Adam & Eve, because as Gildelöw is there too maybe its a bit more...not-happy But...whats your advise? ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 16:47
| Unfold the Future is simplying the best and most complete album they've ever made. Highest recommended. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 16:48
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Just start with Back in the World of Adventures and work your way up through their catalogue. -------------  |
Posted By: Crushed Aria
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 16:58
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I started out with Adam and Eve, and have had to put a bit of time into their other albums before I liked them.
Adam and Eve is definatly the best to start with as it is their most acessable. However their best is easily Unfold the Future or Retropolis. ------------- 
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 17:57
I recommend Space Revolver to start with. But IMO all of their albums except Adam & Eve and The Rainmaker are accessible. I think that this poll will end up pretty indecisive ... so choose any album you like. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
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Posted By: cucacola54
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 19:53
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Star Dust We are ------------- Most listened albums last week 
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Posted By: raindance
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 20:32
| SPACE REVOLVER most accesible and melodic! In fact this was the last great record they recorded!!!!!! |
Posted By: elpprogster
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 21:02
| ANY OF THOSE; I THINK THE BEST PLACE TO START WITH FK IS THE LIVE ALBUM ALIVE ON PLANET EARTH |
Posted By: ulver982
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 22:01
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I started with Adam & Eve. Then I got Back in the World of Adventures and then I think it was Rainmaker. Adam & Eve is a good start for sure. Also, I really like Rainmaker, even though most say it's not very good. I still think Road to Sanctuary is one of their greatest songs. ------------- Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement, are roads of genius. Silence is the music of the future. |
Posted By: aybara
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 22:53
| I voted Back in the World.. simply because it's their first album. But the best Flower Kings record yet is their live album Meet the Flower Kings. Here you get some of their best epics, including the fabulous Humanizzimo, from Roine Stolt's solo-album (although many of the later band-members also participate) The Flower King. |
Posted By: Prosciutto
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 15:56
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I know that FK are far from being innovators of prog rock but Roine Stolt is a very good 70's style prog songwriter and Tomas Bodin is outstanding emulating the great keyboardists of prog history. I tend to recommend the earlier Flower Kings albums for starters: Back in the World of Adventures, Retropolis, Stardust we are as well as Roine Stolt's solo album The Flower King for it was where it all started. ------------- Don't be a prog-hole, please... |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 17:29
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Whatever you do, dont make the same mistake that i did and start with the rainmaker, I find it a bit hit and miss but essentially a decent album, couldnt say what was the best to start with though. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: karmaminstrel
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 18:30
| Space Revolver would be my choice, or try Back in the world of Adventures, both excellent albums. |
Posted By: MarkCsigs
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 18:16
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My choice isn't listed. I love the live album "Alive on Planet Earth" and it gives a good sampling of their early albums.
------------- I repeat myself when under stress. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 22 2005 at 04:15
Best not to start with them!! ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |