Meet the Flower Kings

Meet the Flower Kings Artist: The Flower Kings
Label: Inside Out U.S.
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 693723604626
EAN: 0693723604626
ASIN: B0000D96OD


Release Date: 2004-09-09

Meet the Flower Kings


Related Categories:

General General
Categories | Rock | Styles | Music
Progressive Rock Progressive Rock
Categories | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music
Progressive Rock Progressive Rock
Categories | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music
General General
Categories | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music
Pop Rock Pop Rock
Categories | Pop | Styles | Music

Tracks:

  1. Truth Will Set You Free
  2. Garden of Dreams, Pt. 1
  3. Garden of Dreams, Pt. 2

Tracks:

  1. Humanizzimo
  2. Circus Brimstone
  3. Silent Inferno
  4. Stardust We Are

Similar Items:

  1. Paradox Hotel
  2. Alive on Planet Earth
  3. Flower Power
  4. Space Revolver
  5. Stardust We Are

Album Description

Subtitled - On Stage Playing Their Epics. German live release, recorded on Feb. 10th 2003 in Uppsala City Theatre, featuring seven tracks. Inside Out. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Amazing performance.......2007-03-13

The truth will set you free...Garden of Dreams (part I & II)
Stardust we are ...how could you ask for more ?
Brillant and amazing, great musicians and awesome live sound.
I just love it !

4 out of 5 stars Every little thing................2007-01-23

I love this band.

This recording visually is flat. Its like a studio setting with an audience.

BUt......

Its about the music. What wonderful recording! The best rendition of "Garden of Dreams" ever.

If you are here deciding to buy this or not, your obviously a fan of this band and the music is familar to you.

I have seen this band live and this DVD does not capture the magic nor the humor they have. When they are not filming, their are a bit more chatty amung themselves and the audiance. Very clever personalities and obviously very bright.

This is very different than the "Instant Delivery" DVD which is heavy in the new album.

The Music and selection is wonderful. Thats what its about anyway!

Fans buy it! If your new to this band, this is not a bad way to "Meet the Flower Kings"!

4 stars. Why? 3 for its video production and 5 for the music! Video is not bad, but this is a modern recording and not up to the standard. The new one is much better in this regard. Also IM not crazy about the editing job they did. No big deal, just skip thru the "travel log" to the next song.

They are an amazing band!

Special edition has both the DVD and audio only cds.

Its a better CD than DVD!

4 out of 5 stars Masterpiece.......2005-12-15

Very good live album. Amazing, in fact.

To start off, I deducted one star only because it is a live album, with little to no audience contact. They didn't sing along, they were barely spoken to... To me, that interaction makes live albums memorable.

But this live album is rediculously good nonetheless.

I love the Flower Kings. I love anything and everything that Roine Stolt touches (okay, not too fond of Kaipa...). And adding my absolute favorite vocalist as backup doesn't hurt, either. Yes, Daniel Gildenlow of Pain of Salvation fame is here to contribute some guitars, keyboards and vocals. It really adds a lot to the songs.

I've never been a fan of 'The Truth Will Set You Free'. It honestly just never did anything for me. Its not bad, but it just isn't phenomonal.

The Garden of Dreams, however, is fantastic. The entire song is done here in amazing sequence. This is truely a masterful track, even considering the studio version was one of the greatest progressive songs of all time.

Humanizzimo is another amazing track. It's the focal point of Roine Stolt's first solo album, The Flower King. And with the full band, and with Gildenlow's vocals, the song is spectacular.

Circus Brimstone is kind of random, but it allows the band to show off their skills. And Silent Inferno was excellent, like the original.

Stardust We Are is done in it's entirety, and very well so. It's heavier than the original, and the end is more majestic. It even has an amazing jazz improv section in the middle of it.

Overall, this is an amazing live album. Despite the lack of an audience, it's a must-buy if you're a fan of intellectual music.

2 out of 5 stars It's REALLY a LOOONG SOONG!.......2005-02-07

I like "prog" a lot, actually, and I'm all for "epics," as The Flower Kings call the several long pieces they've put on this live 2-CD set. The Kings are also all very talented players. But this set is a lot to wade through to, unfortumately, very little pay-off at the end. Probably the least attractive aspect of the music are the song lyrics, which are basically variants on "let's all love each other," which while a great sentiment is hardly the stuff of an epic. Plus there's a lot of empty virtuousity; saying that's often a cheap shot from people who just don't like "prog" no matter who does it, but on this set the playing just gets really elegant while going absolutely nowhere. I have to have this on as background music while I'm doing other things or else I find myself looking at my watch waiting for it to end.

I'm not one to say that music, whether it's "prog" or anything else has, has to be short to be effective. I just feel that if you're going to do a long piece, you'd better have something interesting to say. The Flower Kings may have something interesting in the studio versions of these and their other"epics," but it's pretty boring here.

4 out of 5 stars Too much noodling makes it kind of boring.......2004-03-13

To often it sounds like the Flower Kings are trying to be a jam band, but instead of great improvision, it only comes out as noodling, thus kind of boring.

Well crafted songs and each Cd is over 75 minutes long, well worth the price

By the way, why does Amazon include a 'NO' in 'was this review helpful to you?'. People are only human and don't like opinions that differ from themselves, thus the 'NO' makes it too easy express such displeasure.

Are they trying to discourage negative reviews, hence not purchase the CD. Such reviews only help a person in not being dissatisfied a product that received positive reviews

Music Album:

  1. The Other Palm Springs ~ Silver Scooter
  2. Childhood's End - El Fin De La Infancia
  3. The Robbs ~ The Robbs
  4. Evening Games ~ Satellite
  5. Your Murder Mixtape ~ The Banner
  6. Spaces in Between ~ Ben Christophers
  7. Season's End ~ Marillion
  8. Let's Get to Second ~ Chomsky
  9. Secret Garden ~ Bruce Springsteen
  10. Funtime ~ The Tall Boys

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Bastion of Sanity ~ David Binney

It's Fine It's Andy ~ Andy Martin

On the Bandstand With Man Behind ~ Jerry Gray

Great Big Bands ~ Various Artists

Mambo of the Times ~ Tito Puente

Niza ~ Niza

Love Songs from the Upper Rouergue ~ Various Artists

Something ~ Various Artists

It's My Style: Barefoot ~ Various Artists

Senko Hanabi ~ Skoop on Somebody