Tag: Flaming Lips
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The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (20th Anniversary 5LP Super Deluxe Edition Box Set)
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (20th Anniversary 5LP Super Deluxe Edition Box Set) (Warner Records) While The Flaming Lips had already established themselves in the pop and rock communities by the time Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots was released in 2002, the album holds the distinction of being the one that really…
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The Flaming Lips – The Hypnotist EP
The Flaming Lips The Hypnotist 12” EP (Warner Records) 2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots and, to celebrate, Warner Brothers has embarked on an impressive campaign to re-examine the album (stay tuned for more on that later) but, without question, one of the most unusual parts of that endeavor is…
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The Flaming Lips – Greatest Hits Volume 1 (LP)
As a general rule, I must confess that Best-Of compilations seldom thrill me. While the odd set does prove to be the rule’s exception (like Nirvana’s black album, the set that Morphine released several years ago, ChangesoneBowie, Hot Rocks and All For Nothing/Nothing For All turned out to all be great sets), most best-of comps…
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Flaming Lips – Oczy Mlody LP
A deeper look at the grooves pressed into the Oczy Mlody LP by The Flaming Lips. It has been pretty evident that The Flaming Lips were in need of a change over the last few releases. The band just wasn’t sure what needed to happen in that capacity and so elected to throw everything at…
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The Flaming Lips – Heady Nuggs, 1994-1997: 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic
As most fans know, The Flaming Lips had already gone through a few semi-seamless transitions by the time they were ready to begin making Clouds Taste Metallic. By then, they’d already been DIY Okie punks and goth-y pseudo rockers, and had even managed to sort of put together an arresting estimation of their first genuinely…
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Round Eye – s/t
Wow. A band grabbing listeners and shaking them by the head just to see the confused look on their faces isn’t a particularly common occurrence anymore (the Mothers Of Invention used to do it, Butthole Surfers were really good at it, Flaming Lips have had some great moments in the mindfuck field too), but no…
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The Flaming Lips – With A Little Help From My Fwends
The problem with trying to critically review anything from The Beatles’ songbook is that many potential listeners are going to flay it apart as they listen very closely for flaws – any flaw at all. A lot of that has to do with The Beatles’ standing in pop culture and musical reputation; their songbook is…
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Bands In Tandem – A Flaming Lips Brainstorm Gives Birth to Electric Würms (so says Steven Drozd)
Steven Drozd has already had a very busy year. So far, 2014 has seen Flaming Lips begin recording a cover album focused on The Beatles’ work (With a Little Help from My Fwends, to be released on October 28, 2014). They’ve also embarked on a tour of the United States that has featured more than…