I remember the CD had two versions of Race for the Prize and Waiting for Superman on it. I think the album is strong all the way through, but Buggin' is a track I'd single out as one I really like. The fact that the orchestral instruments are programmed through synth patches gives the album its own sound, a bit of a psychedelic flavor. I think the album is seen as too precious by some of their fans, but I'm a fan baroque pop generally and I like the focus here on melody and the fuller arrangements. I heard Yoshimi and At War with the Mystics when they came out and though I liked both, I've always felt that The Soft Bulletin was the Flaming Lips' peak. This album has a lot of nostalgic attachment for me, it was probably one of the first indie/alt albums that I really became familiar with via my older brother. Indieheads Essentials (October 17 Update)īest of the Year Results: 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014īest of the Decade Results: 2010's Similar Subs Su - Weekly Suggestions Indieheads Community Sa - General Discussion, Best Music You Discovered This Week Tu - Top Ten Tuesday, For Your Considerationįr - What have you been listening to?, New Music Friday Weekly ScheduleĬheck out the Daily Music Discussion every day of the week!
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And we can’t possibly imagine what it will sound like.AMA Archive | Community Album Review Archive | Canadian Indie Rock Canon Archive | Top Ten Tuesday Archive | New Music Friday (November 12th) | Album of the Decade Results | EOTY 2020 Results | Rate Announcement: Ultimate Grunge Rate | AOTY 2020: Write-Ups If The Soft Bulletin is any indication at all, they can do anything they please. It’ll be interesting to hear what the Lips do next. “The Gash” is just too singular to adequately describe. “The Spiderbite Song” is a shotgun wedding between a tender piano ballad and the industrial noise of things falling apart. “The Spark That Bled” infuses a fey, Belle and Sebastian-esque ditty with Led Zeppelin-like funky swagger. “A Spoonful Weighs a Ton” sounds like a collusion of Bach and Tricky. One imagines Coyne in front of a full orchestra, urging them to keep up as he sings, “Ooh, those bugs / buzzing ’round…” on “Buggin.” But the Lips orchestrated the entire album in their studio, sometimes manipulating more than 200 separate tracks to achieve Bulletin‘s vast symphonic excess. On top of it all, Coyne’s sweet but ravaged voice yields tender lyrics that tag a catalog of Lips stalwarts, such as insects, spirituality, and superheroes. It’s a cliff of sound, propelled by drummer Steven Drozd’s tremendous pounding. The sound is massive and complex gongs, harps, grand piano, bells, pipe organ, strings, oboes, choral harmonies, and, strangely, very, very little guitar squall all merge into one wall – no, wall of sound doesn’t do it justice. Although Bulletin steps back from Zaireeka‘s over-the-top indulgence, it manages to be symphonic, bombastic, outrageous, and damned catchy – while still oozing the band’s unique weirdness. But the Flaming Lips only uses these as a launch pad for rocketing into ethereal sonic space. As with those albums, Bulletin shares a love of cosmic, vaguely psychedelic pop and a closet full of pet sounds. The Soft Bulletin is absolutely colossal, a testament to their position as the vanguard of a movement that includes Spiritualized’s Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, Mercury Rev’s Deserter’s Songs, and Olivia Tremor Control’s Black Foliage. He was growing up and away from the splenetic psychedelic freak-outs of earlier albums and emerging as a first-rate composer – perhaps the first alt-rock star to earn such status. That album, along with the Lips’ Parking Lot Experiments, offered proof that Coyne wasn’t playing by the same rules as everyone else. Anyone who had the gumption to actually listen to Zaireeka, a song cycle that could only be heard by playing four CDs at the exact same time on different stereos, knows that head Lip Wayne Coyne and his Oklahoma City brethren had it in them. The Flaming Lips’ particular and peculiar genius comes to full fruition on the stupendous The Soft Bulletin. The tenth anniversary of this amazing album - we take another look back, with this review by Tod Nelson from, 1999… The Flaming Lips – “The Soft Bulletin” (1999)ĭecemat 3:59 pm ( Music, Reviews & Articles, The Flaming Lips)
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