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I choose the mighty "Unconsciously Screaming"

― frankE (frankE), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

lightning stikes the postman

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

everything's exploding

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Kim's Watermelon Gun.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"In the Morning of the Magicians"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

A Spoonful Weighs A Ton

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Driving to Work in the Year 2025 (Youre Invisible Now)

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Hold Your Head

― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Mountainside

― milaca, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll be boring and pick "Do You Realize??"

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Race for the Prize" (whichever version is track 1 on 'The Soft Bulletin')

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

A Spoonful Weighs A Ton seconded.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Turn It On"

once they turned all smiley and orchestral I got bored.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"she don't use jelly"!!!

― Sean M (Sean M), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

turn it on!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

If it's only one, then 'Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everybody wants to Live Forever)' Or whatever the fuxor it's called.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 19 August 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it really obvious to pick Waiting for a Superman?

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest"

Best country song ever.

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Another vote for Mountainside.

― dlp9001, Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Are You a Hypnotist?"

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Deathporn seconded

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" by a five million plastic human hamster balls.

― Scott Warner (thream), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

FIGHT TEST.

― Cheek, Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The Gash

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 19 August 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything they've made is terrible, save for the redeeming song, "All We Have is Now."

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Thursday, 19 August 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Race For The Prize

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it really obvious to pick Waiting for a Superman?

I don't know, but it's my number two, mainly because of the drumming. I'm going to be boring and pick Yoshimi, not because I think it's their best song (which it isn't even close to), but because it's fun, it's dumb, and I like it.

― JC-L (JC-L), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus Shootin' Heroin

― Adammmmm, Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

God Walks Among Us Now.

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Gash"

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Mountainside

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I thought the answer to this thread was "true."

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Five Stop Mother Superior Rain"

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

im with spencer and stewart

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Be My Head!

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"bad days" - "flowers on the wall" + bonham on drums = the winner

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"Oh, I thought the answer to this thread was "true." " HUR HUR HUR

i'd say ... "psychiatric exploration of the fetus with needles."

― jake b. (cerybut), Thursday, 19 August 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

zaireeka

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 19 August 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

The Train Runs Over the Camel But Is Derailed By the Gnat

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 02:31 (twenty years ago)

deathporn

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 02:50 (twenty years ago)

slow nerve action

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 02:58 (twenty years ago)

"She Don't Use Jelly": worst single of the 1990's?

― Pessimist (Pessimist), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh come on. Try Deep Blue Something "Breakfast At Tiffany's" and countless other post-Nirvana "alternative" one-hit wonders.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:44 (twenty years ago)

I will admit such songs are, for the most part, not-very-good -- but they're also eminently ignorable. I can't imagine ignoring "She Don't Use Jelly" -- it's not only bad, it's ostentatiously bad. The lyrics are deliberately unpleasant; the queasy slurring of the tune is dizzying. And that chorus -- oh, good heavens. I literally can't imagine anything more annoying than this song -- it is the musical equivalent of an unidentifiable thing coated in an equally unidentifiable viscous substance. Possibly Vaseline, possibly not. All I know is, I don't want it near me.

― Pessimist (Pessimist), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:54 (twenty years ago)

aw.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh, now I feel guilty. Not guilty enough to change my mind. Guilty enough to listen to some of their later work, maybe.

And then again, maybe not.

― Pessimist (Pessimist), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:58 (twenty years ago)

"Jelly" was always redeemed for me by that weird queasy slide riff, especially when it comes in like a rush for the outro. I never really liked anything else about it, fwiw.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 05:03 (twenty years ago)

"She Don't Use Jelly" is not exactly one of their best, I'll give you that.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

i pick "rainin' babies"

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

dude "she don't use jelly" kicks ass! get one clue.

that said, "hit me like you did the first time" for me.

― I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Frogs!

Pretty headwrecking video too!

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

SLOW NERVE ACTION

― Joseph B. Cowart (flamingrev), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 19:49 (twenty years ago)

eleven years pass...

hesitant to tell the real reason the nobel peace prize is given, yeah

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 3 June 2017 02:34 (nine years ago)

felt good to burn

― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 4 June 2017 14:17 (nine years ago)

Vein Of Stars

― kitchen person, Sunday, 4 June 2017 14:39 (nine years ago)

the southern oklahoma cosmic trigger contest

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 4 June 2017 14:53 (nine years ago)

there you are

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 4 June 2017 15:17 (nine years ago)

slow nerve action

― Unchanging Window (Ross), Sunday, 4 June 2017 18:45 (nine years ago)

'See The Leaves'

― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 5 June 2017 18:06 (nine years ago)

Fight Test

― flappy bird, Monday, 5 June 2017 18:14 (nine years ago)

Kim's Watermelon Gun (ideally, turned up to maximum volume)

― Guy Pidgeotto (Tom Violence), Monday, 5 June 2017 18:19 (nine years ago)

Jets

― Mike Dixn, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 01:55 (nine years ago)

Is there anyone on here old enough to have seen them with Ronald? I saw him with the FLips 3x from 1992-1995 and was definitely the highlight of every show for me. Definitely the first time I'd ever heard anyone play a ring modulator live. He understood space and restraint but could go off the deepend with the best of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN7lEAShGjM

So yeah "Turn It On" esp. live for reasons in the video. Going from noise odyssey to country flatpicking (with a slide!) then adding heaps of Frippertronics atmosphere during the loud parts.

Ronald seems lost to the great underappreciated weirdos of rock annals. Where is he now?

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 02:47 (nine years ago)

Fight Test is an odd one, in that its not weird at all...

― Mark G, Thursday, 8 June 2017 17:18 (nine years ago)

three years pass...

The Abandoned Hospital Ship

― Mule, Saturday, 13 March 2021 17:07 (five years ago)

'Feeling Yourself Disintegrate'

― pomenitul, Saturday, 13 March 2021 17:08 (five years ago)

Per Broccoli’s post from three years ago, Lips w/Ronald is pretty high up there on my list of concerts I would see if I had a time machine. I caught an early Soft Bulletin era show and didn’t realize he wasn’t in the band anymore and while it was a good show for other reasons, I was pretty disappointed at the lack of guitar pyrotechnics

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Saturday, 13 March 2021 17:50 (five years ago)

Are all of these "poo"?

― JimCarrey, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 04:01 (five years ago)

It should be 'What is the light?' but I once came late out of a bar in Lausanne and decided to walk home with Yoshimi; I walked into a church courtyard just as it started snowing and 'Morning of the Magicians' came on and it was one of those perfect conjunctions of music and setting. I only have to hear a few notes of it to be back in the snow and the lights and the darkness. So that.

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:20 (five years ago)

If it's only one, then 'Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everybody wants to Live Forever)' Or whatever the fuxor it's called.
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:38 PM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

The Train Runs Over the Camel But Is Derailed By the Gnat
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, May 16, 2006 10:31 PM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:07 PM (fourteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

POO: OTT Flaming Lips song title that is not an actual Flaming Lips song

― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 07:01 (five years ago)

"Fight Test"

― "Salvation Army FUCK!" (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 10:40 (five years ago)

two years pass...

feels increasingly obvious that it's Pilot Can At The Queer Of God. what an anthem

― imago, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 08:01 (three years ago)

Nice one. I recently went on a YouTube quest for live Flaming Lips circa 1994, when they were the greatest band going, and found this amazing document. Ronald was a genius. Check out the version of Mountainside here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mql8FwMHfx4

― three of the doctor's valuable bats are now dead (broom air), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 20:56 (three years ago)

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