Scanning the Greenhouse

Infobox Album
Name = Scanning The Greenhouse
Type = Compilation Album
Artist = The Flower Kings


Released = June 23, 1998
Recorded = 1994 - 1998
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 73:20
Label = Outer Music, Avalon Records
Producer = Roine Stolt
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fvfwxqrjldte link]
Last album = "Stardust We Are" (1997)
This album = "Scanning The Greenhouse" (1998)
Next album = "Flower Power" (1999)

"Scanning The Greenhouse" is the first compilation album by Swedish progressive rock band The Flower Kings.This album features songs from their first four studio albums (including Roine Stolt's solo album "The Flower King") and focuses more in long tracks, almost all of them with more than 10 minutes. It was released at the time The Flower Kings was visiting USA for the first time.

The album was also released in Japan through Avalon Records and features a cover of Genesis song The Cinema Show, the band's original contribution to the Genesis tribute album "The Fox Lies Down", in place of the song Compassion.

Track listing

All songs by Roine Stolt except where noted.
# "In The Eyes Of The World" – 10:38
# "World Of Adventures" – 13:37
# "Pipes Of Peace" (Tomas Bodin, Stolt) – 1:19
# "The Flower King" (1998 re-recorded version) – 11:40
# "There Is More To This World" – 10:15
# "Stardust We Are, Part 3" (1998 re-recorded version) – 9:56
# "Retropolis" – 11:10
# "Compassion" – 4:45

Personnel

* Roine Stolt: vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion
* Tomas Bodin: keyboards, vocals
* Hasse Fröberg: vocals, guitars
* Michael Stolt: bass, vocals
* Jaime Salazar: drums
* Hasse Bruniusson: drums, percussion