Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

Count me in with those PAers that are fans of Roine Stolt and The Flower Kings and their offshoots.  I'm currently spinning Karmakanic's Entering the Spectra, which is of course Flower King related.  And to think that I have Dream Theater and Mike Portnoy to thank for my fandom via Transatlantic, possibly the most awesome supergroup ever (although ELP kind of have a stranglehold on that title ).  I am a huge fan of all of the feeder bands into Transatlantic: TFK, Marillion, Spock's Beard, and Dream Theater.  I have also had much luck with most of TFK's band members' solo albums and side projects.  TFK were definitely an awesome find that has led to many excellent albums. 

Roj M30 wrote:  Well done Captain!!  I've long thought of starting such a thread.   Nice to see my good friend Pablo is first on the scene too.  How are you buddy?   I love The Flower Kings, as do a few others on here.  They seem to be very under appreciated though, which I can't understand.   I would expect progrules and zitro may show up here, amongst others.    This band is my best discovery EVER.  If I had not found PA, I would probably never have got to hear TFK, and that is a shocking thought.  I have almost all their albums, I'm missing Flower Power and Adam and Eve.  I now have Paradox Hotel but have not heard it yet.  My favourite albums by TFK are:-   1.  Stardust We Are 2.. Space Revolver 3.  Back In The World... 4.  Unfold The Future 5.  Retropolis   I really can't believe that no TFK album is rated at 4 stars or above.  For me, they are all better than 4 and a few of them get 5.  In fact, Stardust We Are and Space Revolver both got into my Top 6 albums of all time!   Have a look on prog polls too everybody.  I have posted a new TFK poll there.   Once again, nice one Captain and Cacho.

I'm fine, thank you Roger, how are you?,

I still need to get Stardust, Flower Power and Rainmaker. 

I'm going to have lunch now, I will post my top 5 songs of the Flower Kings later, hope you do that as well

 Well done Captain!!  I've long thought of starting such a thread.

Edited by Roj M30 - January 16 2009 at 03:22

I'm well aware that TFK don't get as much love on PA as I think they deserve, but gosh darndit, I love 'em. I'll always think I've listened to them too much, but then a song of theirs will come up while I have my music library on shuffle. I always follow this up with another song of theirs that I feel is a good addendum to the first one, then I'll go through my bootlegs of theirs to see if I have a live version of any of those songs. If I do, I'll be forced to listen to it which usually ends up with me listening to the entire show with a huge stupid grin on my face.
I know I can't be the only fan of this incredibly talented group of Swedes so let's show some love for Roine and company.