After the symphonic majesty of The Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips return with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, a sublime fusion of Bulletin's newfound emotional directness,...
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After the symphonic majesty of The Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips return with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, a sublime fusion of Bulletin's newfound emotional directness,...
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The Flaming Lips usually tend to use their B-sides and between-album releases to stretch musically, and the Fight Test EP -- which gathers the B-sides from the two-part U.K....
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All hail the Flaming Lips, a band that seems to be doing the impossible. While most bands shoot their wad early in their career with their best work on their first, second...
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A catchall of random tracks from all over the place, most previously unissued, Providing Needles served as a fun stopgap release between Transmissions and Clouds Taste...
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Besides the title track, this includes "Translucent Egg" and "Turn It On (Bluegrass Version)" from the American version of the single. Those who own the stateside pressing...
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"Turn It On" itself makes for just as great and radio-friendly a track from Transmissions as the quirky "She Don't Use Jelly," so quite why it didn't get as huge is a bit of...
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The same extraordinary madness that infected the best work of Brian Wilson rears its head on the shimmering and melodic Clouds Taste Metallic, a masterful collection which...
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Even if it contained nothing but the sound of the run-off groove, the Unconsciously Screamin' 12" would be essential merely for its packaging, a unique hypno-graphic sleeve...
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The latest Flaming Lips foray is an ambitious project that takes the vintage idea of quadrophonic sound to inventive new heights. The album is actually a set of four CDs...
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A combination of the words "Zaire" and "Eureka," Zaireeka is a term coined by Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne symbolizing the fusion of anarchy and genius. It's a perfect...
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With the exception of the superb In a Priest Driven Ambulance, the Flaming Lips' early albums for the Restless label are at best hit-or-miss affairs; A Collection of Songs...
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The Lips' debut shares many '60s influences with R.E.M., but they take it in a much weirder, rockier direction. (More Kinks than Byrds in the...
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Hearing Hear It Is years later, after all the band had done up to the new century, makes for an almost surreal experience. No swirling orchestral parts, no Beach...
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With Hit to Death in the Future Head, the Flaming Lips make the leap to major-label status as though it were the moment they've been waiting for all their lives. Though not...
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With a few more studio tweaks and tricks at play, part of the band's continual efforts to find out just what could be done with a studio, Telepathic Surgery is pretty much...
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In a Priest Driven Ambulance ranks as the first truly brilliant Flaming Lips album; the first effort to feature guitarist Jonathan "Dingus" Donahue, it's a loose concept...
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Starting with either a sample or a cool replication of a legendary one-off line in the Beatles' "Revolution No. 9" -- "Take this, brother, may it serve you well!" -- the...
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Besides the woozy and wonderful title track (the Lips' long overdue and utterly enjoyable radio breakthrough), this four-song single collects a number of amusing and...
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The addition of guitarist Ronald Jones and drummer Steven Drozd recharges the Flaming Lips' batteries for the superb Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, another...
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Forget about their deranged early '90s smash, "She Don't Use Jelly," Flaming Lips
are now older, wiser...and, well, softer. Where previously master Lip Wayne...
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So where does a band go after releasing the most defiantly experimental record of its career? If you're the Flaming Lips, you keep rushing headlong into the unknown -- The...
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Beyond the three versions of "Waitin' for a Superman" available on this enhanced CD single, this disc is noteworthy because it contains the only two single-disc mixes of...
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