Stardust We Are

Stardust We Are is the third studio album by progressive rock band The Flower Kings, which was released in 1997. It is the band's first double-CD studio album and includes the epic composition and title track, "Stardust We Are," which has since become one of the band's signature songs.^[2]

Stardust We Are
Studio album by The Flower Kings
Released	11 April 1997
Recorded	December 1996 – early 1997
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	130:14
Label	Foxtrot Records
Producer	Don Azzaro
The Flower Kings chronology
Retropolis (1996) Stardust We Are (1997) Scanning the Greenhouse (1998)

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Track listing

All songs written and composed by Roine Stolt, except where noted.

Disc One

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"In the Eyes of the World"		10:38
2.	"A Room with a View" (instrumental)	Tomas Bodin	1:26
3.	"Just This Once"		7:54
4.	"Church of Your Heart"		9:10
5.	"Poor Mr. Rain's Ordinary Guitar" (instrumental)		2:44
6.	"The Man Who Walked with Kings" (instrumental)		4:59
7.	"Circus Brimstone" (instrumental)	Bodin, Stolt	12:03
8.	"Crying Clown" (instrumental)		0:58
9.	"Compassion" (Actual song length is 4:45; hidden instrumental track follows)		8:40
Total length:			58:32

Disc Two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Pipes of Peace" (instrumental)	Bodin, Stolt	1:19
2.	"The End of Innocence"		8:29
3.	"The Merrygoround"		8:17
4.	"Don of the Universe" (instrumental)		7:02
5.	"A Day at the Mall" (instrumental)	Bodin	0:45
6.	"Different People"		6:19
7.	"Kingdom of Lies"		5:47
8.	"If 28" (instrumental)	Bodin, Stolt	2:15
9.	"Ghost of the Red Cloud"		4:37
10.	"Hotel Nirvana" (instrumental)		1:49
11.	"Stardust We Are"		25:03
Total length:			71:42

Credits

• Roine Stolt – electric & acoustic guitars, lead vocals, keyboards
• Tomas Bodin – Waldorf synthesizer, Hammond organ, Mellotron, piano, pipe organ, Rhodes piano, Optigan, accordion, effects
• Michael Stolt – bass guitar
• Jaime Salazar – drumkit
• Hasse Bruniusson – percussion
• Hasse Fröberg – lead and backing vocals

Guests

• Ulf Wallander – soprano saxophone
• Håkan Almkvist – sitar, tabla

Production

• Hippiefied Art – book
• Stefan Bodin – photography
• Lilian Forsberg – photography
• Dexter Frank Jr. – engineer, mixing
• Per Nordin – photography
• David Palermo – artwork, image design