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Thread: Best Flaming Lips Album
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05-28-2005, 10:17 AM #1
Best Flaming Lips Album
Which one should I buy? The Soft Bulletin? Which one? Tell me now.
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05-28-2005, 01:23 PM #2
both Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots are really good.
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05-28-2005, 01:41 PM #3
Yoshimi. My knowledge is a bit limited, but that shit is some concept genius.
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05-28-2005, 07:46 PM #4Mr. Old Lady
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I think working backwards chronologically is probably the best way to start. I think the more recent the work the more accessible it is.
So:
Yoshimi
The Soft Bulletin (if you like Yoshimi and the Soft Bulletin there are several other discs worth of other music they made during this time frame, The Soft Bulletin Companion Discs, Yoshimi wins, the AOL sessions, Okie Noodling, X-mas on Mars tracks, Spongebob, Late Night Tales White Stripes cover etc...)
Zaireeka
Clouds Taste Metallic
Transmissions from the Satelite Heart
(this is where I quit going backwards, I downloaded a few of their older tracks....and well....I think they've come a long way. Most of the old stuff doesn't do much for me)
Hit to death in the future head
Priest driven ambulance
Telepathic surgery
oh my gawd
hear it is
There are great tracks on Zaireeka, clouds and transmisions, but there's no question the lips really hit stride with The Soft Bulletin. It and Yoshimi are currently probably in my top 20 albums of all time.
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05-28-2005, 09:12 PM #5
Thanks duders. Since you insist, it looks like I'll have to buy Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi.
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05-29-2005, 03:32 AM #6
watched 'fearless freaks' last night. Those guys are so fantastic. Wayne Coyne seems like a truely interesting cat. Good movie, check it.
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05-29-2005, 08:39 AM #7features a sintered base
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I was just reading about that movie, guess it's a pretty interesting docu-pic done by a friend/neighbor of theirs. The band admits that they used to be really crappy, but I guess the implication is that they've improved--I think I've only heard one song of theirs since that 'jelly' single they had.
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05-29-2005, 11:58 AM #8Mr. Old Lady
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Fearless freaks is rock solid. There's another thread about it over in the regular forum.
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06-09-2005, 09:00 PM #9
My vote would definately be soft bulletin. yoshimi has probably the most broad apeal I think and these clouds taste metalic rocks.
yoshimi fans should check out the kleptons remix.
they give it out for free if you have a torrent client
http://www.kleptones.com/pages/The%2...Robots.torrent
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06-10-2005, 02:31 PM #10Originally Posted by meatdrink9fine
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06-10-2005, 02:56 PM #11Mr. Old Lady
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Originally Posted by tuffy109
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06-10-2005, 04:20 PM #12Originally Posted by meatdrink9
is said those two ARE their best. hands down. those albums had energy. the new ones are like pink floyd without roger waters.
of course it's subjective, as is my comment of you being dumb.fine
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02-23-2006, 03:02 PM #13
Anyone else heard the new Lips album: "At War With The Mystics?"
Decent. Gratuitous use of fuzz. The first song "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" is pretty good, but the rest is a little weak when compared to Yoshimi and the Soft Bulletin. Pompei Am Gotterdamerung is straight out of Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii(figuratively.)
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02-25-2006, 10:29 AM #14
Yoshimi is pure Karo syrup. it's like eating a gigantic Pecan Pie. if you like that kind of sweetness, it's very good. I think it's fey, twee, happy (in a derogatory sense). and if I want twee I would prefer to listen to Apples in Stereo. and a concept album? rarely a good idea, IMO, but The Olivia Tremor Control's Dusk at the Cubist Castle can't be out-done in that arena.
I have Yoshimi and I listen to it to fall asleep.
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02-27-2006, 02:27 PM #15
The new album is awesome. It's along the lines of Yoshimi but I think I like it more.
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02-27-2006, 10:39 PM #16Mr. Old Lady
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I've got to admit that the new album hasn't really grabbed me yet. I'd heard 4 or 5 songs of a few months ago and none of them really grabbed me. I liked Mr Ambulance Driver better after the video. Pompeii is hands down my early favorite. These guys went in a completely different direction and were a lot less serious with the subject matter this time. There's a good Drozd interview on flaminglips.com regarding the new album. Obviously I'll keep spinning this thing, but....the new grandaddy is rocking my world. It hasn't left my CD player since I got it. Too bad they broke up. Hopefully they'll get a bunch of hype and good press off this album. There atleast needs to be a couple farewell concerts. I'd put "just like the fambly cat" above "sumday", but not quite "sophtware slump".
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02-27-2006, 10:56 PM #17Mr. Old Lady
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BTW, Pompeii really does kick ass. Maybe I'll warm up to more of the tracks..we'll see.
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02-28-2006, 12:19 AM #18
Ok glad to see some of you are in agreement. Frankly, I think this album had more potential, but the vocal melodies are just not jumping out like Yoshimi did...bubblegum space rock or not. Maybe it's the production. Wayne's voice is just not cutting through with as much conviction.
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02-28-2006, 12:34 PM #19Originally Posted by meatdrink9"I knew in an instant that the three dollars I had spent on wine would not go to waste."
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03-13-2006, 04:25 PM #20
Fey?? Twee?? Whatever, dude, it's sublime. Going in the other direction, try some Cobra Verde.
I understand Yoshimi in 5.1 surround sounds great, but i'm not about to buy another copy.
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03-17-2006, 08:27 PM #21Originally Posted by StokeSmack
as to Cobra Verde, aye there's some fun. Doug Gillard -- his old band Death of Samantha I saw open for Sonic Youth at Maxwell's in early 1987, back when I still lived on the right coast and at that time in the Joy of Zee. CV backed GBV on what, 2, 3 albums? Do the Collapse, some others... I think?Last edited by uncle crud; 03-17-2006 at 08:31 PM.
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03-24-2006, 08:41 PM #22
RE: CV backing GBV, Mag Earwig, for shure, not sure about the others. But Viva La Muerte by the CV, their first LP, melts the wax off my boards every time. Pure unadultared North Coast sickness. Death in Small Doses.
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10-18-2020, 11:44 AM #23
Hit To Death In The Future Head is the FLips album I always gravitate towards. It is easily one of my favorite albums, period.
It is kind of their major transitional album, too, in regards to their evolving sound. It still has all the noize and abrasion of their earlier work, but begins to showcase their growing fascination with mellow, smooth psyche.
Yoshimi is also great, but it is more like an 80s-era Yes album (think Tormato) than a FLips joint, imho.
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