Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

Roj M30 wrote: infandous wrote:   I guess Flower Power CD1 is my absolute favorite thing they have ever done (really just Garden Of Dreams, though Astral Dog is a wonderful extended Roine solo).  However, the second CD is my least favorite, so maybe I shouldn't pick that album?    This is pretty much how I feel too.  No matter how many times I've heard it there's nothing quite like an hour with the cans on and your eyes closed listening to the magical Garden of Dreams.  The second disc is a real let down in comparison (there's still good stuff on there, don't get me wrong) but this album would be a 5 star jobby for me even if disc 2 was Roine (or Salazar)  fiddling about on the harmonica or trying to learn to play the didgeridoo.  Disc 1 is just sooooo good.

Yeah, there IS good stuff on CD2, though I think there is also some of their weakest stuff as well.  Even the good stuff is sort of middling I would say, though the first track is classic Flower Kings and the Psychedelic Postcard / Hudson River Sirens Call sequence is excellent.  I also like the Afterlife coda, how it wraps up the album so well, but by that point I'm usually worn out from the sheer length of the thing.  I've tried to just listen to CD2 by itself, but it's still a pretty weak disk, even on it's own.  I think I still gave the album 4 stars in my review, with CD1 being 5 stars and CD2 being something around 2.5 or 3 stars.  Had CD1 been released by itself as an album, it would have 5 stars for sure, and be their masterwork.  As it is, only Unfold got a 5 star from me (but I try to be very sparing with my 5 stars.......though probably most of my 4 star FK reviews could easily be bumped up to 5 stars).

I agree, Flower Power should have been disc 1 only. Disc 2 should have been it's own album, called "Deaf Numb and Blind"

I can't wait to give this band a listen. I'm so excited.

Golden,

^ Very cool, you'll have to let us know what you think.

I actually enjoy CD2 of Flower Power a lot. Deaf, Numb, and Blind is one of my favorites.

Spock's Beard need your votes in the prog world cup poll as they are neck and neck with GY!BE.

I get a bit fed up with these fans of "Post Rock" (whatever that means) sneering at Symphonic Prog.

Keep an eye out for The Flower Kings in this competetion coz they are soon to be up against Radiohead and GY!BE if they get through the rounds. Can't see them beating Porcupine Tree in the semis though.

Cheers

Nov

Nov wrote: Spock's Beard need your votes in the prog world cup poll as they are neck and neck with GY!BE. I get a bit fed up with these fans of "Post Rock" (whatever that means) sneering at Symphonic Prog.

Hmm, interesting.  I am a huge fan of Symphonic Rock.  But I voted for GY!BE in that poll.  (I'd also pick them over TFK; sorry!)

I have no issue with post rock, aside from the fact I find GY!BE intolerably boring.  I haven't tried anything else, since I understand that they are more or less the creators of the genre and by many accounts it's finest purveyors.  Still, I'm always open to trying new music.

I would vote just about any sympho band over GY!BE......completely because of taste, nothing more.

A post-rock band i always talk about is Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson.