Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

I finally picked up Eggs & Dogs "You Are" a few months ago. I listened to it once, fell asleep, and kinda forgot about it.

^Definitely one of prog's greatest swan songs.

Headz up all you Flokis, I was spinning Paradox Hotel, just to get my Monsters and Men fix....I still think that the Monster Guitar solo is Stolte at his very best...However, My youngest had some interesting music emmanating from his bed-room... I liked what i heard, then he went and bought the CD (his 2nd CD) he has had my collection to go at since he became prog-aware about two years ago...The CD arrived, I listened and for a debut album it's bloody marvellous possibly in the top five releases of 2010 that I've heard...Debut in 2010 thats your clue.

Listening to UtF disc 2, and hadn't realized Daniel Gildenlow had lead vocal duties on Fast Lane. Pretty cool. I think I enjoy his vocals in the context of TFK more; being uplifting and everything, instead of the dark vibe from PoS...

The Truth Shall Set You Free absolutely blew my mind last night it's sooooo epic. The classical feeling during the last few minutes was sublime!


Edited by darkshade - April 05 2011 at 11:02

TFK are slowly becoming an obsession for me. Because of this, I have been going on other forums to read about them and such, and a curious question came to mind.

Why have the band been on hiatus and when are they coming back?

I dont know if this has been discussed on this thread, and I figured this would be an appropriate place to bring it up. I know there has been some tension within the band, but isn't it Roine's band anyway? Can't he do whatever he wants with it? To be honest, Im not so thrilled with Agents of Mercy, and Transatlantic may not come out with their 4th album for a couple of years. So why no TFK?


Edited by darkshade - April 05 2011 at 14:31

Also, the Agents will be touring the US soon. You should definitely try to make it to one of the shows if you can. Seeing the Agents/Karmakanic show two years ago definitely gave me a new appreciation for them. They put on one of the best shows I've ever been to (and I've seen a lot of great shows these past few years).

Edited by Harry Hood - April 05 2011 at 23:30

darkshade wrote: I love Karmakanic. The first AOM didn't do much for me, is the other one better?

Haven't checked in here in a while.

You Are.  Great album, love it myself.  Even American Standard, though that is certainly the least enjoyable song on the album.  I think what throws people (and threw me, initially), is that it's not a strictly "prog" album.  There is a 70's rock vibe going on as well, and I think they went for mood and emotion more than flashy playing.  Anyway, I think I AM is a much better album in every way, but that You Are is a very good album in it's own way.

As to Agents, I prefer Dramarama, though there are a few songs on the the first album that I think are better than anything on Dramarama, if that makes sense.  I just feel Dramarama is a more fully realized album that sounds like a band rather than Roine and some hired musicians.  I also like how it has a proggy first half and a more mellow second half.  The whole "retro" sound also is more pronounced than on the first album.  Still, like I said, a few songs on the first one are excellent.

As to the Flower Kings, Roine has made some comments in the past couple months that hint at a return (mentioning a "discussion with Inside Out" in reference to a question about a return, as well as saying earlier this year that he was thinking about working on some new FK tunes).  So don't get your hopes up, but who knows?  The Tomas and Zoltan situation was the result of Zoltan not liking Tomas' playing, and putting down Tomas as not very good.  Tomas basically told Roine either Zoltan goes or he goes, and Roine chose to stick with Tomas.  I can only assume that the animosity had died down when the recorded TSoNE and did one show together.  I seriously doubt that Zoltan will be the drummer on any future FK album, but you never know (plus, Zoltan prefers to play jazz, though I guess is happy enough playing on Karmakanic albums......though I'm not sure if he's the drummer on the new Karmakanic album coming out soon).

infandous wrote: As to the Flower Kings, Roine has made some comments in the past couple months that hint at a return (mentioning a "discussion with Inside Out" in reference to a question about a return, as well as saying earlier this year that he was thinking about working on some new FK tunes).  So don't get your hopes up, but who knows?  The Tomas and Zoltan situation was the result of Zoltan not liking Tomas' playing, and putting down Tomas as not very good.  Tomas basically told Roine either Zoltan goes or he goes, and Roine chose to stick with Tomas.  I can only assume that the animosity had died down when the recorded TSoNE and did one show together.  I seriously doubt that Zoltan will be the drummer on any future FK album, but you never know (plus, Zoltan prefers to play jazz, though I guess is happy enough playing on Karmakanic albums......though I'm not sure if he's the drummer on the new Karmakanic album coming out soon).

He's not, what from Ive heard. Also, if TFK came back full swing, I wonder if Karmakanic could co-exist (I'm sure it could). It sucks, because Zoltan is one of the best sounding prog drummers today

darkshade wrote: He's not, what from Ive heard. Also, if TFK came back full swing, I wonder if Karmakanic could co-exist (I'm sure it could). It sucks, because Zoltan is one of the best sounding prog drummers today