I never paid much attention to Kings X, until I heard Faith Hope Love playing in the record store one day! (See album review below.) This page must have been linked from a Kings X website somewhere out there, because all of a sudden I got flooded with email from other Kings X fans, who were a) praising my good taste on liking this band's music, or b) chiding me for not having all their albums! How bizarre.

"Gretchen Goes to Nebraska"

1. "Out of the Silent Planet" (5:44)
2. "Over My Head" (4:47)
3. "Summerland" (3:17)
4. "Everybody Knows a Little Bit of Something" (3:57)
5. "The Difference (In the Garden of St. Anne's-on-the-Hill)" (3:08)
6. "I'll Never Be the Same" (4:57)
7. "Mission" (5:00)
8. "Fall on Me" (4:03)
9. "Pleiades" (4:42)
10. "Don't Believe It (It's Easier Said Than Done)" (3:06)
11. "Send a Message" (4:02)
12. "The Burning Down" (5:15)

Quite a pleasant album to listen to. It's not the best one they've done by far, but it definitely has more of the unique Kings X "feel" to it than anything else I've heard...

"Faith Hope Love"

1. "We Are Finding Who We Are" (4:39)
2. "It's Love" (4:34)
3. "I'll Never Get Tired of You" (3:46)
4. "Fine Art of Friendship" (4:21)
5. "Mr. Wilson" (3:39)
6. "Moanjam" (6:05)
7. "Six Broken Soldiers" (3:32)
8. "I Can't Help It" (3:53)
9. "Talk to You" (4:36)
10. "Everywhere I Go" (3:53)
11. "We Were Born to Be Loved" (4:52)
12. "Faith Hope Love" (9:23)
13. "Legal Kill" (4:42)

Like I said earlier, I heard this CD playing in the record store one day, and was instantly blown away. Beautifully harmonic vocals sung over complex guitar riffs -- "We Were Born...", in particular, has more change-ups than any song I've ever heard! And the title track is just fantasic, purely epic.

"Kings X"

1. "The World Around Me" (2:56)
2. "Prisoner" (4:14)
3. "The Big Picture" (5:03)
4. "Lost in Germany" (4:52)
5. "Chariot Song" (5:22)
6. "Ooh Song" (4:01)
7. "Not Just for the Dead" (4:47)
8. "What I Know About Love" (5:38)
9. "Black Flag" (4:01)
10. "Dream in My Life" (4:57)
11. "Silent Wind" (4:10)

I ignored this CD for a long time, since I wasn't impressed by "Black Flag" and I figured that FHL was merely a one-timer. Then my friend bought this CD, and when I listened to it, I nearly found it better than FHL! Absolutely marvelous.

"Dogman"

1. "Dogman" (4:01)
2. "Shoes" (3:29)
3. "Pretend" (4:36)
4. "Flies and Blue Skies" (5:00)
5. "Black the Sky" (4:32)
6. "Fool You" (4:31)
7. "Don't Care" (4:39)
8. "Sunshine Rain" (4:35)
9. "Complain" (3:19)
10. "Human Behavior" (4:28)
11. "Cigarettes" (5:52)
12. "Go to Hell" (0:51)
13. "Pillow" (4:24)
14. "Manic Depression"--live (4:59)

I'm not particularly fond of this one, since they changed their style to simpler blues rock with less orchestral overtones. Their live cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Manic Depression" is pretty good, though.

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