Will The Flaming Lips ever make an album as good as this one again?

Will The Flaming Lips ever make an album as good as this one again?

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no. other bands will

Has someone looped the beginning of The Spark That Bled and made some sad boy rap shit over it yet?

I hope you didn't mean for that period to be in there

i clearly did. give me one good reason to believe that the flaming lips will top the soft bulletin

hehe i posst uello imaeg

give me ONE good reason another band will mkae another album as good as the soft bulletin

there are and there certainly will be other great musicians in their prime writing great music in the form of albums and releasing them to the public

MGMT- Little Dark Age

unless you are talking about MGMT's little dark age I'm afraid i cannot agree

i am perfectly fine with that

Why don't they sell CDs with the 5.1 tracklist?

It should be obvious by now they won't

>CD
>5.1
is this even technically possible?

Because it's not the correct tracklist

my bad i misread

what the fuck is the correct tracklist?
There's different one's for every region, and the US one doesn't even have slow motion.
just the tracklist, it doesn't have to be in 5.1

>what the fuck is the correct tracklist?
If you have to ask, you'll never know
>and the US one doesn't even have slow motion.
Excluding subpar songs is a good thing user

Buggin' > Buggin' (Mokran mix)

The vinyl is the correct tracklist and includes Slow Motion.

I don't think The Flaming Lips still understand what "psychedelic" means, their last shit had nothing to do with the sound (something I don't care that much) nor the spirit (something really important) of the genre. It's like Wayne thought the only ingredients needed to be a Psyche band are being silly and having colorful imagery.

>blocks you're path

I didn't get the sense that they were trying to be Psychedelic for the last album.

Lmfao bro try hearing Yoshimi once.
They're quite literally yin-and-yang. Yoshimi is better because it came after/after going through such darkness. You can accept mortality and still find happiness, as Yoshimi shows.

How was Oczy Mlody not psychedelic in spirit? Sure there's the colorful imagery, but is the spirit not being unafraid to describe such fanciful, colorful ideas? The phrase of the album title meaning "The Eyes of the Young"?
'As a pure and innocent child your brain was a castle that got infiltrated and can never be rebuilt again'? Pretty psych shit to me, mayne.

listening to it again right now, I don't know what I was thinking. This is pretty clearly psych

Yoshimi only has one good song

Okay that's a flabbergasting opinion, holy fucking fucking wow. What one would you say that is?

(I also can't imagine how you could only like one yet dislike the rest when none are too drastically different from each other stylistically)

Oczy Melody would have been reviewed way better if the cover art wasn't so shit

prove me wrong

The Terror was released only 5 years ago and that was fantastic. They have another good Album in them. War at the Mystics isn't much better than Oczy Mlody and that was released in 2006. They always rebound

I think that's alright in the British school of psychedelia, but in America things were kind of different, the concept is a lot more tied to protest, expanding the mind, exploring the unknown and all that stuff.
So, while it can be alright for the rest of you, I really think they have been sounding insincere, vapid and hollow for some projects (especially on that Beatles' cover album)

But the album *is* about expanding the mind. Telling people to not be so afraid of exploring their states of consciousness through use of drugs, especially since they *can* bring us closer to that child-like state of constant wonder.

Also I definitely don't link psychedelia to protest. Perhaps only in promoting drug use and 'empathy for all', lol

Alright, I guess "good" isn't the right word. The album is pretty solid, but nothing stands out to me except part 1. The rest is just filler honestly.

Most hippies were activists tho, and didn't restrain themselves with giving a political rant in the middle of their concert.
I think you're right in the sense that, yeah, they do have that classic childlish flavour that psychedelia has most of the time, but, at the same time, I do think it's kind of basic, insincere and boring, like, the lyrics to MGMT's self titled are a lot more complex and actually have some interesting ideas lying around (the album kind of sucks but that's another story, the lyrics tend to be great).
(Sorry for bringing MGMT to the tale, I'm sure everybody is starting to hate them because of all the spamming, but I find a lot of similarities between their self titled and The Flaming Lips, the influence is obvious, and in most of it's duration, it's the reason why I don't like it that much.)

Still, wow. Not counting Pt. 2 as it's own song cause I count it as an interlude-y extension of the first part, Pt. 1 is actually my least favorite song on the whole thing. The only other contender being the next song, In the Morning of the Magicians. The rest I think is fantastic. I love how Soft Bulletin was like a culmination of the downtrodden 90's alt-rock sound, and then Yoshimi came out afterward and melded some banging beats onto their analog noodling. I love it. I guess that is most pronounced on the track you said, but no love for a tune like "Ego Tripping" or "Do You Realize??"

Guess all I can recommend beyond that are the bonus tracks, if you haven't heard them already. "Up Above the Daily Hum" is great, but "If I Go Mad (Funeral In My Head)" is mind-blowing. It's one of the only songs that gives me chills every time – not gonna lie, I even got chills just typing the fucking name out like a true soyboy, jesus. A part in there is just one of the most stunning, simple moments of music I've ever heard.

Well, you have a point there. But (I've only become a fan from around the time The Terror came out and then went through their albums...though for some reason I've yet to hear Mystics?) were the Flaming Lips *ever* that kind of outspokenly protesting band like you describe? Your first comment I replied to seemed like they'd only lost the way with the latest release, whereas I gathered that they kind of said what they wanted to in their songs and didn't really 'stir the pot' outside of those. Am I wrong?

As much shit as it gets, that MGMT s/t is underrated. There's definitely an aural thread of the Lips in there somewhere. As much as I defend Oczy Mlody, too, I will admit that there's not very much of substance that's said (from the lyrics I could discern, anyway, lol). On a gem like Yoshimi they contrasted the silly battle vs. the Robots with kind of a 'pure vs. corrupt', 'happiness-overcoming-the-sadness' kind of thing.

I'll revisit the album with all this in mind. Thanks

The Soft Bulletin vs. pic related
Who comes out on top?

Nice, man! Hopefully things improve for you – that's always nice, haha
Honestly I suppose my opinion of it is a bit skewed, being that the first time I heard the album (Yoshimi) I was taking my first solo acid trip. I connected super hard with alot of the lyrics and just that general idea of analog+digital that I mentioned, which I love to do myself.

For what it's worth, also, a group named 'The Kleptones' released a remix tape in 2004 called 'Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots' which mashes up rap acapellas with the Yoshimi tracks. That was a fun project, too.

Happy listening, though, fellow user!

>mfw I tune my guitar to have open maj7 chords and then use a slide

Yerself is Steam would come out on top over every Flaming Lips

Why is it so hard to find a cheap copy of the cover of ITCOTCK?

Wayne thinks the only ingredients needed to be a psych band is drugs. When I saw them perform The Soft Bulletin in full a few years back, he was high as shit the entire time and the show ran over by about an hour because he stopped to deliver stoned 10-20 minute rants between songs.

>a cheap copy of the cover
you wot

>1 for sale
>$500
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huh
I had no idea this existed

It's better than it has any reason to be.

youtube.com/watch?v=mIoQnIt6owM

It actually is, DTS-CDs play in normal CD players if you connect it to a surround receiver using a digital cable (optical or coax). Won't play at all through an analog output though
I actually have a CD like that of Yoshimi I burnt 10 years ago

No
Nope

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