― Shane Murphy, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marc, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yeah, like Radiator and Rings Around the World. *flees rapidly*
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think one of the key differences fans will notice is how focused this one is, compared to the wandering eclecticism of the previous effort. They were definitely zeroing in on a vibe here, and they got it. While some tracks will remind listeners of 'The Soft Bulletin' (particularly the mortality probing first single "Do You Realise",) large expanses of this record sound more in line with Grandaddy's space rock tendencies than it does 'Pet Sounds'.
I'm in love with this record, just like I was the previous effort. I'm really pleased that the Lips didn't deliver 'The Soft Bulletin II' here, and went off somewhere else (successfully).
― scott, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Oops.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 6 January 2003 12:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Binturong, Monday, 6 January 2003 12:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/43910-flaming-lips-to-record-six-hour-song/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PitchforkLatestNews+%28Pitchfork%3A+Latest+News%29
Goddammnit they are awesome!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
Damnit i hate these guys now. So well, 15+ years of fandom. Everyone who ever gave them shit for turning into a gimmick band is 100% right. Time to sell all my old CD singles on amazon... =(
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 15 March 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
I take back everything i said on that Erykah Badu thread, fuck these fame whores.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 15 March 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
why?
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 15 March 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/54360-the-flaming-lips-and-miley-cyrus-are-working-on-music-together/
eh?
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Saturday, 15 March 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
That news is incredibly devastating to me.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 15 March 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
they've always done stuff like that, e.g., covering kylie minogue's can't get you out of my head years ago. i dunno. i imagine their collaboration with miley cyrus is 50% genuine interest, 50% ironic self-amusement.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 15 March 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
THAT IS UNLESS YOU RECOGNIZE THAT MILEY CYRUS AND PARIS HILTON ARE THE NOS. 1 -- 2 BEST MUSIC ACTS IN THE LAND.
then it's like 65%/35%.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 15 March 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
The difference is Kylie Minogue & Madonna are actual artists.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 15 March 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
you have dishonored hanna montana!
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 15 March 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
and the supposed author of "Jesus Shootin' Heroin"!
― Mike Dixn, Saturday, 15 March 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
so collaborating with edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros and chris martin gets a pass but miley cyrus is where the line in the sand gets drawn?
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 15 March 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link
those are all people in the music industry, that much is correct
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 15 March 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
They take on the world, you know?
― Mark G, Saturday, 15 March 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
Ke$ha too, remember
― continually topping myself (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 15 March 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
Was their recent record any good? I loved Embryonic, but I heard almost zero about the followup.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 15 March 2014 23:15 (ten years ago) link
@ Adam please include "reason for selling" in your Amazon listings, OK? thx
― continually topping myself (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 15 March 2014 23:17 (ten years ago) link
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion)
Last album was excellent. It was so bleak and beautiful. Shame it was so underrated.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 16 March 2014 00:57 (ten years ago) link
These fuckin' guys:
Flaming Lips are also working with Tame Impala and Miley Cyrus on a remake of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Will this come before or after the full-length Kesha collaboration? Also, that quote was taken from this article about the new companion piece to DSOTM.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 31 March 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
they also put on an incredibly tedious live performance
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 31 March 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
Was their "Stone Roses" ever not madly limited/expensive/etc?
― Mark G, Monday, 31 March 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
Why can't they manage one interesting cover album? Why the predictability/
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 31 March 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
Also, I hear they fired Kliph.
Every time I hear that Yeah Yeah Yeah song I think it's the Wiggles or something. I really liked The Terror though.
Only mentioning cause that happened today.
― Evan, Monday, 31 March 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
the DSOTM thing is a pretty clever gimmick IMO
― coops all on coops tbh (crüt), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 04:08 (nine years ago) link
Can't help but feel these guys are seriously testing people's patience, and I don't mean in a good way.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I'm a huge fan but I have no interest in any of this stuff. The Terror is a great album, if it had been the follow up to Embryonic without any of those other releases in between it would have probably got a lot more attention than it did.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
― coops all on coops tbh (crüt), Tuesday, April 1, 2014 4:08 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
...and an April Fools Day prank.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
Makes sense- the line about Wizard of Oz didn't add up
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
Man, no joke, my iTunes shuffled up that "Yeah Yeah Yeah" song minutes after opening this thread. Gosh, that's got to be one of the most annoying songs ever made. It's really incredible how under the radar the last couple of pretty heavy psych records went. It's shame the band's public face has become so silly and novelty and whimsical, because the music is going dark. A pretty sharp turn from their usual brand of Muppet Rock.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
I can still enjoy Yeah Yeah Song but there are a few songs on that album I never need to hear again. Free Radicals, The Wizard Turns on and Haven't Got a Clue are all a waste of time. Haven't listened to that album all the way through in a long time now.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 01:17 (nine years ago) link
So, it's an April Fools Day joke, and the music actually exists.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 11:40 (nine years ago) link
Like the RHCP, if you can't tell the difference between a joke and the real thing, that spells trouble.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 12:06 (nine years ago) link
Some drama/gossip to liven things up:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2014/04/the_flaming_lip_21.html
Kliph wasn't fired for calling Wayne out on his midlife crisis b.s. (although if anyone in that band had the nuts to bring it up to Wayne, it would be Kliph!) He was fired for taking a stand against Wayne's new buddy - the daughter of OK's tea-bagging, homophobe governor Mary Fallin - when she donned a Native headdress for a racist publicity stunt. When Kliph called her out on social media for being a shithead to the Oklahoma Native community who complained about her headdress publicity stunt, she tattled on him to Wayne. Wayne actually told Kliph he was fired for insulting Fallin publicly. On a kinda-related note, word from Wayne's inner circle is that he was so geeked about getting an invite to Governor Teabagger's mansion for a party with a bunch of 20-something Republican hipster wannabes (friends of the Gov's daughter) that he was practically begging his band mates to go with, an invite that everyone else in the band felt was pretty lame and to which everyone else declined. Not Wayne tho. He and Fallin are pretty tight...he recently posted an even more offensive picture of his dog wearing an authentic looking Native headdress in response to the Oklahoma Native community's backlash against Fallin for her headdress stunt. No one in the band dares speak out on this one bc they have families to support and Wayne has bogarted all the Flaming Lips earnings and keeps them all on a pretty short financial leash. He is like the innocent little boy in Citizen Kane that just eventually went bad...it just happens to some people. He is now a full fledged, desperate-for-attention, shameless, tasteless fool. Who is smack dab in the midst of a midlife crisis...his glittery makeup is something his 20-year old girlfriend makes him do!! Hahahahaha!!!!
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
Ugh. Fuck Coyne. This only confirms what I've felt since the way he handlded the Badu video. Shame I still like so much of his music.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thelostogle.com/2014/04/01/new-wayne-coynes-jumping-on-the-headdress-controversy-bandwagon/
Pretty plausible story when all's said and done. It's a shame he became such a huge shithead in his 50s. Maybe he's always been one?
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
I for one intend to take every claim made by an anonymous Brooklyn Vegan commenter as gospel.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
I don't know who "kliph" is or why they got fired but it only took a 5-second Google to find out that all that stuff about coyne being an offensive cunt is true
― forum enthusiast (wins), Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
try googling kliph and flaming lips smartypants
― waterbabies (waterface), Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
I don't care enough
― forum enthusiast (wins), Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
Hah first Miley now Funny or Die, Wayne you really want me to burn all my old CDs don't you?
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
On a personal level, I've been done with Wayne since he was such an asshole about releasing that Badu video. Focusing on just the music part, I'm not as bothered by a Miley collab as I am them covering another fucking classic rock sacred cow. Let it go! It just frustrates me because the last two studio albums have been great and I want them to pursue more in that direction instead of all this dicking around covering albums.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 April 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2014/04/drummer_kliph_s.html
There you go.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
Ok I like the "Lucy in the Sky" and Miley does a good job singing that one note. But the Beatles album as a whole has some really bad performances on it.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 27 October 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
It's more in line with those 70s dollar bin moog compilations than anything else.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 27 October 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
Still a lot of fun tho.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 27 October 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
Band becomes more and more of a dud.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 27 October 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
Why the creepy ending?
Thought Miley was awesome on ADITL too.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 27 October 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Saw Wayne on the cover of this yoga magazine while I was in line at Whole Foods yesterday.
http://mantramag.com/wayne-coyne-flaming-lips/
― raccoon shipoopi (how's life), Monday, 27 October 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
Can totally picture him being the perv at the yoga class
― Οὖτις, Monday, 27 October 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
aw with a little help from my "fwends"
http://media.giphy.com/media/Ge5OxoHdDZj4k/giphy.gif
terrible band
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 04:58 (nine years ago) link
Lucky for crits that the dumb high-concept collabo records dovetail w/ Coyne's very visible descent into public asshattery
― Simon H., Tuesday, 28 October 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
Vocals on "Getting Better" sound like they were done in one take while the singers were checking their phones. Actually most of the performances on this sound like first takes.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
Ugh... just tried sitting through this and it's p much awful all the way through
― Darin, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
Embryonic really surprised me and I enjoy the trippier stuff they've done of late more than anything since the early 90s, but i recently discovered that i don't like looking at Coyne in videos and live clips anymore. dude just sends off creep vibes to me now.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
i saw them once and he talked for at least 1/3rd of the set and the part of the visuals that were of the band were like zoomed in on his face and like going up his nose throughout. that was the start to my not caring about the flaming lips
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
It's funny, it seems to me the band finally recovered from the unfortunate Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi period with some interesting records (Embryonic, Heady Fwends and to a lesser extent The Terror) only to once again begin to flounder and disappear up Wayne's ass. I don't get how Drozd just keeps going along with whatever. He seems so much smarter than that and could prob. come up with something a bit more interesting on his own. Much like Nick Cave is/was indebted to Mick Harvey, Coyne owes much to Drozd. Harvey always did the heavy lifting for Mick and the same could be said for Drozd.
Just look what happened to the Bad Seeds after Mick left. They seemed like a bad Las Vegas Bad Seeds cover band last time I saw them. I imagine the Lips would suffer considerably if Drozd decided to take a hike.
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
Drozd solo album would be amazing.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
It's been twenty years since the Flaming Lips released Clouds Taste Metallic, their seventh LP as well as their last album to feature guitarist Ronald Jones. Today, the band announced a deluxe reissue of the record featuring rarities, B-sides, and other ephemera, out November 27 via Warner Bros. Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic will be available in a number of configurations, including a three-CD collection and a seven-LP boxset. Check out the tracklisting for the CD boxset below. http://pitchfork.com/news/61371-the-flaming-lips-announce-clouds-taste-metallic-20th-anniversary-reissue-box-set/Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997 CD Box Set:Disc 1: Clouds Taste Metallic / The King Bug Laughs (Oddities and Rarities)01 The Abandoned Hospital Ship02 Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles03 Placebo Headwound04 This Here Giraffe05 Brainville06 Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World07 When You Smile08 Kim's Watermelon Gun09 They Punctured My Yolk10 Lightning Strikes the Postman11 Christmas At the Zoo12 Evil Will Prevail13 Bad Days (aurally excited version)Disc 2: Due To High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles For Your Balloons01 Bad Days02 Jets Part 2 (My Two Days As An Ambulance Driver)03 Ice Drummer04 Put the Waterbug in the Policeman's Ear05 Chewin' the Apple of Yer Eye06 Chosen One07 Little Drummer Boy08 Slow Nerve Action09 It Was a Very Good Year10 Sun Arise11 Life on Mars12 Ballrooms of Mars13 Hot Day14 Nobody Told Me15 Magician Vs The Headache16 She Don't Use Jelly (Live @KJ103)Disc 3: Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles (Live in Seattle 1996)01 The Abandoned Hospital Ship02 Unconsciously Screamin'03 Take Meta Mars04 Moth in the Incubator05 Put the Waterbug in the Policeman's Ear06 Lightning Strikes the Postman07 Bad Days08 She Don't Use Jelly09 Chewin' the Apple of Yer Eye10 When You Smile11 Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles12 Love Yer Brain13 Placebo Headwound
http://pitchfork.com/news/61371-the-flaming-lips-announce-clouds-taste-metallic-20th-anniversary-reissue-box-set/
Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997 CD Box Set:
Disc 1: Clouds Taste Metallic / The King Bug Laughs (Oddities and Rarities)
01 The Abandoned Hospital Ship02 Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles03 Placebo Headwound04 This Here Giraffe05 Brainville06 Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World07 When You Smile08 Kim's Watermelon Gun09 They Punctured My Yolk10 Lightning Strikes the Postman11 Christmas At the Zoo12 Evil Will Prevail13 Bad Days (aurally excited version)
Disc 2: Due To High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles For Your Balloons01 Bad Days02 Jets Part 2 (My Two Days As An Ambulance Driver)03 Ice Drummer04 Put the Waterbug in the Policeman's Ear05 Chewin' the Apple of Yer Eye06 Chosen One07 Little Drummer Boy08 Slow Nerve Action09 It Was a Very Good Year10 Sun Arise11 Life on Mars12 Ballrooms of Mars13 Hot Day14 Nobody Told Me15 Magician Vs The Headache16 She Don't Use Jelly (Live @KJ103)
Disc 3: Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles (Live in Seattle 1996)01 The Abandoned Hospital Ship02 Unconsciously Screamin'03 Take Meta Mars04 Moth in the Incubator05 Put the Waterbug in the Policeman's Ear06 Lightning Strikes the Postman07 Bad Days08 She Don't Use Jelly09 Chewin' the Apple of Yer Eye10 When You Smile11 Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles12 Love Yer Brain13 Placebo Headwound
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 25 September 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
Gotta say it's kind of a lame set, all previously released except for that live show, which is indeed pretty awesome. Where are the Peel session cuts? Where are the unmastered mixes? No DVD copy of the cool "Making of Clouds" short film? Looks like there are a few Peel sessions but still missing stuff that was on the singles releases.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 25 September 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Hrrrrrrrm.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/14/miley-cyrus-to-play-naked-show-with-flaming-lips
― Turrican, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
I guess that is the appropriate amount of gimmickry to invoke given how dreadfully boring and dull the musical material is.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
the ol nudity sells industry trick
high art
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
Oh fuck..!!! @mileycyrus is planning a show where her, the band ( us ) and the audience are all COMPLETELY naked with milk ( well white stuff that looks like milk) is being being spewed everywhere .. It’s a video ( in the works) for #mileycyrusandherdeadpetz song The Milky Milky Milk…
white stuff that looks like milk
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
If their goal is to literalize masturbatory self indulgence as art then mission accomplished, I guess.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
http://www.stereogum.com/1906350/the-flaming-lips-announce-new-album-oczy-mlody/news/
"The Castle" is a cool name for a song. the song itself almost put me to sleep tho.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 20 October 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/1999149/the-flaming-lips-plan-to-press-vinyl-records-with-miley-cyrus-urine/news/
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 1 June 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
Telepathic Surgery has made a nice commute soundtrack this week. Drums sound really big on this one and the guitars are good and trashy sounding. I got to wonder how many speakers 'UFO Story' cooked over the years with people turning it up to hear what they were saying and then getting blasted by the noise when it kicks in.
― earlnash, Sunday, 3 March 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
telepathic surgery is so awesome! earl nash otm four years ago. and that drum sound sounds like a cardboard box getting thwacked but i love it. what happened to this band...??? so sad. but i love those early years. this is really bringing me back. so much fun.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 17:42 (one month ago) link
Around the time of Yoshimi the Lips started operating as if Wayne's lyrics and singing should be the focal point of the band.
At some point after that Wayne supposedly got into a stoner phase and everything got mushy and sloggy.
The Fear was super good though, and there's a lot of good stuff after Yoshimi but it takes work to find it.
Want to know the story behind Ivins quitting, but I don't think anyone's talking.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 1 March 2024 08:07 (four weeks ago) link
“You’re fxxked if you do and you’re fxxked if you don’t. Five stop mother superior rain”
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Friday, 1 March 2024 08:28 (four weeks ago) link
I think the rot set in around Zaireeka. after that they became more about gimmicks and wacky stage props, and I remember being mildly disappointed by the Soft Bulletin while everyone else seemed to be raving about it. then Yoshimi came out and it was rubbish. haven't really bothered with them since then, I have listened to a couple of albums, didn't like At War With The Mystics at all, thought Embryonic was ok but never went back to it. haven't heard anything since then.
my late wife used to call Wayne "Nu-Wayne" because she couldn't reconcile him being the same person as the guy in the band she used to love.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 1 March 2024 14:03 (four weeks ago) link
excluding the collabs i think embryonic -> the terror is the best era of this band
― ivy., Friday, 1 March 2024 14:08 (four weeks ago) link
i did hear one latter-day album that seemed nice and noisy. can't remember what it was though. yeah soft bulletin didn't do anything for me. there was brianwilsonitis across the country around that time. mercury rev caught a bad case of it. never recovered.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 March 2024 14:08 (four weeks ago) link
oh my gawd... meant so much to me when that came out. holy shit. so cool.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 March 2024 14:10 (four weeks ago) link
I'm not sure if I'd go as far as "best" era, but yeah the Embryonic > The Terror was a huge leap forward after the "sillier" era, imo. Been a bit diminishing returns since then, though I thought American Head was decent enough to have me cautiously optimistic about where they go next.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 March 2024 14:48 (four weeks ago) link
They had been a band 15+ years before they really had a big hit. That is a long time. It’s kinda wild to think of them as an 80s band, but they were.
It’s just rare for any musical artist that far into a project to keep going let alone keep growing and keep the older fans satisfied. Things change.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Friday, 1 March 2024 14:52 (four weeks ago) link
things do indeed change. i learned how to get out of bed in the morning in that time.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 March 2024 14:57 (four weeks ago) link
They had been a band 15+ years before they really had a big hit. That is a long time. It’s kinda wild to think of them as an 80s band, but they were.― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Friday, March 1, 2024 6:52 AM (thirty-three minutes ago)
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Friday, March 1, 2024 6:52 AM (thirty-three minutes ago)
Wait, they had a bigger hit than "She Don't Use Jelly"?
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 1 March 2024 15:28 (four weeks ago) link
"Jelly" was their only charting song in the U.S. (#55)
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Friday, 1 March 2024 15:54 (four weeks ago) link
7 Skies H3 was good but I haven't gone back to it much. Oczy Mlody was pretty sludgy.
Zaireeka was the first time I paid attention to them and I bought it for the novelty of the thing. It was at the right time: in college and hanging out with the art kids. Then Soft Bulletin and I fell for them really hard. The SB shows were kinda junky in a very endearing way. The occasional props were toys and puppets that you could find at a novelty shop; they were totally rinky-dink but it worked in the context of these heavy songs about mortality the human existence. Wayne seemed like just a sincere guy.
I can't fault them for getting big and traveling on their path. I took my daughter to a later show and she loved it and we had a lot of fun. Musically, I'm not sure what I 'd want from them at this point. They got too sugary with Yoshimi & Mystics and then they veered into the more experimental stuff, the collaboration eps, the epic long songs, gummy releases, etc., and that was so much so fast and scattered. There's probably a lot of good stuff hiding in those releases but I don't have the patience at this point. American Head is back-to-basics but not as good.
Priest Driven Ambulance through the Soft Bulletin is an amazing run. "Slow Nerve Action" rules. And Hit To Death In The Future Head. They've got tons of good stuff. The Ronald Jones years might be my favorite. The layered guitars with lyrics that often read as nonsense but fit together just right. They introduced me to Smog!
― Cow_Art, Friday, 1 March 2024 16:10 (four weeks ago) link
Wayne revealing himself to be a creep in the whole Erykah Badu contretemps soured me on these guys, although I’d only paid attention to the early warners albums.
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 1 March 2024 18:20 (four weeks ago) link
Yeah, that was gross.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 March 2024 18:57 (four weeks ago) link