FLAMING LIPS WEEK!
Clouds Like Metallics was fine; in Zaireeka they were completely crazy and experimental as we can read in this excerpt from Wikipedia:
"The departure of Jones and a general dissatisfaction with standard 'rock' music led to the three remaining members of the group to redefine the direction of the band with the experimental Zaireeka (1997), a four-CD album which is intended to be heard by playing all four CDs in four separate CD players simultaneously. The music incorporated both traditional musical elements and 'found' sounds (as in musique concrète), often heavily manipulated with recording studio electronics."
With Soft Bulletin (1999) and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002), The Flaming Lips finally reached the mainstream. The first "was lauded by critics and fans alike and topped numerous 'Best of 1999' lists."¹ Yoshimi goes further:
"Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots appeared in the best albums of the decade lists of many music magazines, such as Rolling Stone (#27) and Uncut (#11). Fortune magazine called the album 'a lush and haunting electronic symphony.' Calling the album 'as strange as it is wonderful,' Billboard magazine explained, 'Beneath the sunny, computer-generated atmospherics and the campy veneer of talk about gladiator-style clashes between man and machines with emotions, Yoshimi is actually a somber rumination on love and survival in an unfathomable world.' Giving the album four-out-of-five stars, Rolling Stone called the production 'ambitious'. Uncut declared 'even by their standards, Yoshimi is astonishing' before declaring it the greatest album released in the magazine's lifetime."
Thereafter, the recognition and also the music style of Flaming Lips became more and more consistent. The band are now considered one of the most inventive band of all time!² ³
"The departure of Jones and a general dissatisfaction with standard 'rock' music led to the three remaining members of the group to redefine the direction of the band with the experimental Zaireeka (1997), a four-CD album which is intended to be heard by playing all four CDs in four separate CD players simultaneously. The music incorporated both traditional musical elements and 'found' sounds (as in musique concrète), often heavily manipulated with recording studio electronics."
With Soft Bulletin (1999) and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002), The Flaming Lips finally reached the mainstream. The first "was lauded by critics and fans alike and topped numerous 'Best of 1999' lists."¹ Yoshimi goes further:
"Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots appeared in the best albums of the decade lists of many music magazines, such as Rolling Stone (#27) and Uncut (#11). Fortune magazine called the album 'a lush and haunting electronic symphony.' Calling the album 'as strange as it is wonderful,' Billboard magazine explained, 'Beneath the sunny, computer-generated atmospherics and the campy veneer of talk about gladiator-style clashes between man and machines with emotions, Yoshimi is actually a somber rumination on love and survival in an unfathomable world.' Giving the album four-out-of-five stars, Rolling Stone called the production 'ambitious'. Uncut declared 'even by their standards, Yoshimi is astonishing' before declaring it the greatest album released in the magazine's lifetime."
Thereafter, the recognition and also the music style of Flaming Lips became more and more consistent. The band are now considered one of the most inventive band of all time!² ³
Their wasn't any snow on Christmas Eve
and I knew what I should do,
I thought I'd free the animals all locked up at the zoo
I opened up the fence where the peacocks were,
the lamas were unleashed
The snakes and seals could all get out,
but they refused to leave....
All of the animals agreed they're not happy at the zoos
But they preferred to save themselves,
they seemed to think they could...
The elephants, orangutans, all the birds and kangaroos
All said thanks but no thanks man, but to be concerned is good...
It started to snow on Christmas Eve in the middle of the night
Walkin' through the state park zoo and everything is white...
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