Flower Kings Favorite Song - Part 1
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Topic: Flower Kings Favorite Song - Part 1
Posted By: Roland113
Subject: Flower Kings Favorite Song - Part 1
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 10:53
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Hello all, It's time for a new Flower King's Poll, basically I'm interested in what your favorite songs are. Similar to my Spock's Beard poll from last year, I'm not trotting out a list of my favorite FK songs and asking you to vote, instead I'm looking for nominations from you. I'll let the nominations go for about two weeks or so then tally up the nominations. Once we get to that point, I'll take the songs with the most nominations and create a new poll with those as the choices. I'll start the ball rolling by nominating: I am the Sun (1&2 combined) Minor Giant Steps Serious Dreamers Looking forward to hearing from you, Roland ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 11:16
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Monsters and Men One More Time Stardust We Are End on a High Note ------------- 
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 11:39
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In no particular order: "Love Supreme" "Monsters and Men" "Minor Giant Steps" "End on a High Note" "One More Time" ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: Ommadawn
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 11:47
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let me see... ► Garden Of Dreams ► Stardust We Are ► Serious Dreamers ► Monsters And Men ► The Truth Will Set You Free ► Big Puzzle ...and so on... |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 11:57
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I Am The Sun (Part 1) Love Supreme A Kings Prayer Minor Giant Steps The Flower King (does this count as TFK? if not then Monkey Business) |
Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 12:16
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In no particular order: "Melting Pot" "Stadust We Are" "Rumble Fish Twist" "King's Prayer" "Sum of no Reason" ummm, I just feel like putting 20 more songs. |
Posted By: unclemeat69
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 13:14
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my 2 cents: psychedelic postcard truth will set you free circus brimstone stardust we are devil's playground and so on and on... ------------- Follow your bliss |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: February 22 2009 at 13:34
Good Question Cacho, Yes, I am including Ronnie Stolt's "The Flower King" in the Flower King's body of work. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
cacho wrote:Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: February 23 2009 at 03:08
Great idea Tom  !
I could nominate about 50, but I'll keep the list short:-
Stardust We Are
I Am The Sun
The Merrygoround
Retropolis
Monsters And Men
Black And White
Back In The World Of Adventures
Take a look at the post by progrules on the FK appreciation thread!!!!!
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Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: February 23 2009 at 10:15
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The Truth Will Set You Free
Silent Inferno
Devil's Playground
Selfconsuming Fire
Love Supreme
In the Eyes of the World ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: bassman4
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 18:43
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The Truth Will Set You Free Cosmic Lover [the bass part is hilarious] I Am The Son p2 Chicken Farmer Song Rollin' The Dice |
Posted By: Marlon
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 19:26
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Love Supreme One More Time End on a High Note A Vampire's View Minor Giant Steps Newbie to TFK, but I'm becoming addicted on their sound. Great Band!!!! |
Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 20:40
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Love Supreme Cosmic Circus Astral Dog Self-Consuming Fire What if God is Alone? A King's Prayer Ghost of the Red Cloud It was hard enough to narrow it down this far. I don't think I can go any further. Also, congrats Marlon for discovering the greatness that is TFK! ------------- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: February 25 2009 at 20:40
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Marlon, Welcome to PA and to the Flower Kings as well, thanks for nominating. You'll find a lot of people on here who are fans of the Kings and we're always happy to add another to our ranks. Roland ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 03:08
Seconded! |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 05:00
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Splitting I Am The Sun into two parts really makes my decisions difficult when it comes to polls like this.
I guess I have to vote for it, but I must admit that World of Adventures nearly beat it out. ------------- 
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Posted By: Marlon
Date Posted: February 26 2009 at 16:39
It's nice to have a place to discuss prog music.  I know that's a little off-topic but I wanted to have some indications about which TFK album should I buy now. I do have Sum of No Evil, Paradox Hotel and Adam & Eve. Tks a lot!
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Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 03:27
Hi Marlon. I would go for Stardust We Are and Space Revolver, as they are my 2 favourites. The debut album is also great as is Unfold The Future. SWA, SR and the debut were very immediate for me, I loved them on first hearing. UTF is a tougher listen at first, but it is well worth dedicating plenty of time to it and once you get it (took me 4 or 5 listens) it is awesome. To be honest you can't go wrong with any!! Incidentally, you have one of the 2 I don't have yet, Adam and Eve. How do you find that one? Which of the 3 you have is your favourite? |
Posted By: Marlon
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 05:50
Adam & Eve is a great album, the music is so beautiful and, at the same time, complex (as prog should be). It's a little bit different than the others, the atmosphere seems a little bit darker in some of the songs but, as I said, it's really good! I'm kind of in love with the three albums and right now it's difficult to say which one is the best, but in the last couple of days I've been spinning Paradox Hotel a lot! |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 09:35
You're welcome Marlon, My musical recommendation as to where to go next would be Space Revolver if for no other reason than to own 'I Am the Sun'. With that being said, I only discovered the Flower Kings two years ago and left the order of my acquisitions up to fate. I started by trolling the used CD stores in my area and picking up what I could find there. I set a limit for myself that I wasn't going to pay more than $10 per disc ($20 for a double disc). Once I exhausted that resource, I started ordering through Amazon, not directly from Amazon but from the 'used and new' option. At that point I upped my limit to $12 per disc to compensate for shipping. Over the course of the last two years, I've gotten them all with 'Unfold the Future' arriving as a Christmas present. They're all good if you ask me. Incidentally, Right now there's a copy of 'Stardust We Are' on Amazon for under ten dollars. That is a great place to start. Enjoy, Roland ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 27 2009 at 09:40
Yes it is Marlon, welcome aboard! I recomend you, being a big fan of Adam & Eve, to go with the The Flower King by Roine Stolt, or Space Revolver by TFK. When you get one of those, just go forward or backwards, they're all awesome! |
Posted By: Nov
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 09:25
I'm new to this forum and have posted my introduction in the TFK thread  Here are my absolute favourite Flower Kings tracks: 1) The Truth Will Set You Free 2) I Am The Sun (Parts 1 and 2) 3) Monsters and Men 4) Garden of Dreams 5) Stardust We Are 6) Devil's Playground 7) Big Puzzle 8) Back in the World of Adventures 9) In The Eyes of the World 10) Church of Your Heart I could go on of course Cheers Nov |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 09:42
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^ha, you do seem to like LONG songs, don't you?
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Posted By: Diaby
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 09:57
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Love Supreme
Selfconsuming Fire
End on a High Note
Stardust We Are
Ghost of the Red Cloud
Actually, there are a lot more. ------------- yeah |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 18:09
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Ok, I'll let the nominations go on for another day or two. With that being said, I'm adding one more to my list of nominations. The Devil's Playground I'm still getting to know "Flower Power", "Back in the World", "Unfold the Future" and "The Flower King" as they were my most recent acquisitions. I'm willing to put The Devil's Playground up there as a nomination. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Nov
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 19:48
It took me a while to get into this track because initially TTWSYF kind of over-shadows it on UTF. However, I was lucky enough to see them in London open the show with "Devil's Playground" and it completely blew me away. From that gig on, I absolutely loved this track |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: February 28 2009 at 21:38
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I can see that, they did 'The Truth' last year at 3RP and I'm sad to say that I barely knew the song at the time. I like it now, but of the two, I strongly prefer 'The Devil's Playground'. The ending has some of the best fretless work that I've heard in a long time and the vocals are fantastic.
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Posted By: mobby
Date Posted: March 01 2009 at 00:53
| GO WEST JUDAS.. |
Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: March 01 2009 at 01:25
Very good, Roger. If you wouldn't have said it, I would ! By the way, have you seen the post of the illusive Zitro, he's awake too !!!!!!!!!!!!!! At last, the party is complete.
By the way, In my top 50 list I forgot to mention Three Stories. Anybody knows this great song ? ------------- A day without prog is a wasted day |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: March 07 2009 at 13:05
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One bump, I'll probably tabulate the nominations this weekend if there are any last minute nominations.
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