ITT: Combo Breakers
ITT: Combo Breakers
Asher Butler
Kayden Jenkins
Truly this
Broke a 26-year run of good to perfect albums, probably one of the greatest in rock history
Colton Thompson
The Terror wasn't any good and neither was At War With The Mystics
Oliver Morris
The Soft Bulletin isn't all that great either. I would rather listen to Deserter's Songs and Opus 40 is the only memorable track on that album
Asher Butler
Bob Dylan - Self Portrait
William Thompson
Do you like any Flaming Lips albums? Also no way Deserter's Songs is better than The Soft Bulletin
I will give you Holes though, that song is spectacular
John Miller
Wyatt Green
B-but I liked it
Carter Thomas
The Terror is one of their best albums silly
Jackson Brown
Listen user.
I dig the Flaming Lips as much as the next guy, they have some incredible records in their discography. I saw them live last year and it was one of the most incredible things in my fucking life.
But this album is not good, and if you don't think so you're in denial.
Justin Reed
Asunder is even worse than this one
Xavier Howard
What did you like about it? I just heard a bunch of half-baked electronic/dream pop soundscapes with awful DUDE WEED lyrics thrown on top, almost as an afterthought
They've dipped into that area before, but never as far as on "There Should Be Unicorns" or "Do Glowy"
Some would say At War with the Mystics was the end of their streak, but I think there's a great album in there if you remove "Haven't Got a Clue" and the first half of "It Overtakes Me"
Oczy Mlody was just completely boring
Noah Walker
Owen Parker
That red-hot streak of three albums released within a span of two years?
Zachary Anderson
>Do you like any Flaming Lips albums?
I like Embryonic, In A Priest Driven Ambulance, Telepathic Surgery, Hit to Death in the Future Head, Transmissions From The Satellite Heart, Clouds Taste Metallic, And Yoshimi.
I could take or leave anything else.
There is no way I would take The Soft Bulletin over Deserter's Songs though. Neither is that great of an album but at least Mercury Rev had the sense to use real strings
Luke Martinez
And yeah Oczy Mlody sucks but How is a good track
Michael Myers
Asunder was the combo breaker
Jaxson Long
All good picks honestly
Surprised you like Yoshimi but not The Soft Bulletin though, considering a lot of people (myself included) see Yoshimi as an inferior Soft Bulletin
Owen Hall
So is The Castle & One Night While Hunting for Faeries and Witches and Wizards to Kill
Colton Reed
the Soft Bulletin is barely psychedelic at all compared to every other Flaming Lips album, it's basically a wonky "electronic beats" album (which is admittedly ahead of its time) with warbly indie vocals. If you're not in the mood to listen to it, it's aggressively annoying. Yoshimi is psychedelic above all else, it's basically impossible to describe correctly without mentioning that, and it's also one of the only Flaming Lips albums you could describe as refined and tasteful. In other words, they're in completely different worlds. Also Yoshimi actually has good lyrics if you care about lyrics (I do)
Jaxon Howard
Again I really don't like the synthesized strings used on The Soft Bulletin. And to me the songs just weren't there. To me it just sounds goofy and like they lost their way. All psychedelic influence was gone. The same thing happened to mercury rev with Deserter's Songs, but Holes and Opus 40 and even Delta Bottleneck Stomp or whatever it was called stand so far ahead of anything on Soft Bulletin. All is Dream by Mercury Rev is actually better than Deserter's Songs, by the way. After All is Dream, forget it. They were done.
Yoshimi, you have The Fight Test which is a Cat Stevens rip off but still good, In The Morning of Magicians, Ego Tripping At the Gates of Hell, It's Summertime, and Do You Realize. It was such a more well produced album than Soft Bulletin too.
Ethan Diaz
:(
Nolan Johnson
THIS
Kayden Hernandez
hate to say it but
Gavin Cruz
Jack Russell
Nathaniel Walker
Fair enough
I see yer point(s)
Oliver Sullivan
legendary
Alexander Adams
Aaron Edwards
Nicholas Cruz
Nope
Jace Harris
Yoshimi's second half is some of the worst material they've ever written.
>Yoshimi actually has good lyrics
Neck yourself, you moody loser.
Henry Moore
Yes.
Kevin Watson
the real combo breaker was TPAB tbqhwyfamalamadingdong
damn is the new combo 2 moves in
Nolan Clark
Jose Garcia
this was good tho
Asunder was the stinker
Carson Lee
Joseph Perez
>Soft Bulletin is basically a wonky "electronic beats" album
Are you retarded?
Brayden Turner
completely agree. It was just rehashed shit they've played live for the past 5 years.
With their newest album, it was at least new material but it would have been a better album if it isn't wasn't gybe. It's not a bad album on its own, it''s really not, but when we compare to their discography, it's rubbish.
It's a sad, if not depressing day to admit one of your favorite bands has become total trash