The Flaming Lip?! Hurts me to say...

[Zorg]

I've only ever dipped my foot in. Now I want to take a dive, someone point me to the deep end so I don't crack my head off the bottom of the pool. Thanks.

Any posts about the missing s will be put on file.

[dei]

The Flaming Lips*

[cb240]

Try any album of theirs made between 1999 and 2002, can't go wrong.

[Zmev]

Yoshimi

[ToolBox]

Clouds Taste Metallic

Simply put.

[dei]

The Soft Bulletin

[Zebra]

Hit To Death in the Future Head

It's a really cool psychadelic/dream-pop/fuzz album.

[dei]

You Should Download All Of Them Since No Albums Has Been Repeated Twice

[ThaFleastyler]

The Soft Bulletin is my favourite.

[Iai]

Anything except the new one.

[DrunksWithGuns]

The Soft Bulletin

[Zesty Mordant]

Anything except the new one.

123, seriously.

[Anxious]

Clouds Taste Metallic to start off.

[sgrevs]

Anything from Transmissions to At War With the Mystics.

They're all good, even the new one.

Clouds Taste Metallic is definitely my favourite though, not by much over The Soft Bulletin

[musicisgood]

Anything pre-1999.

Clouds Taste Metallic!!
In A Priest Driven Ambulance
Oh My Gawd
Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
Hit to Death in the Future Head

Those are my favorites (Approximately in order, though my only firm one is Clouds Taste Metallic as my favorite!). I think they went in a really far less interesting direction starting with the Soft Bulletin, although I dig a few tracks on both Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi... the new one sucks. They were way cooler when they were a lo-fi awesome rock band than this new over-produced synth-heavy Lips. You should by the sweet colored vinyl re-issues of their old albums

[Senor_Whippy]

Buy these in the follwoing order:

1. The Soft Bulletin (1999)
2. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robot (2002)
3. Transmissions From The Satellite Heart (1993)
4. The Fearless Freaks (DVD) (2005)
5. Hit To Death In The Future Head (1992)

[musicisgood]

I really can't believe that there are people who are supposedly familiar with old Lips material that prefer the new stuff.

I can understand people that started with one of the newer albums liking them, but it blew me away when I went back to discover the old stuff how much better their old records are than anything where they started using their synthesizers like crazy. Don't get me wrong. I love electronic and synthesized music... but really, records like Clouds Taste Metallic and Transmissions From the Satellite Heart BLOW AWAY Soft Bulletin or Yoshimi.

Crazy.

I think this would be an interesting poll... to see if people enjoy the lips more pre-Soft Bulletin or Soft Bulletin and beyond...

[Senor_Whippy]

I think this would be an interesting poll... to see if people enjoy the lips more pre-Soft Bulletin or Soft Bulletin and beyond...

That would be a good idea. It could go either way. I'm on the post-Soft Bulletin side through. So anyway how about this poll thread starter?

[I Was A Kaleidoscope]

I didn't really like The Soft Bulletin much.
Am I weird?
I mean, it's not bad or anything. But what's so good about it?
All the synthy strings and crap are a bit too cheesy for my liking.

[musicisgood]

I didn't really like The Soft Bulletin much.
Am I weird?
I mean, it's not bad or anything. But what's so good about it?
All the synthy strings and crap are a bit too cheesy for my liking.


I'm with you. I think it's super cheese. They went in a terribly cheesy direction with that record, and they'll probably never return to their days of actually being a good band..

[sr800bkBassist]

the ones i have:

-Hit to Death in the Future Head- psychedelic fuzzy noisy punk
-Clouds Taste Metallic- overrated, but still kinda fun. a little droney and lo-fi, i guess?
-Transmissions From the Satellite Heart- fun alternative rock, kinda similar to Clouds.
-Soft Bulletin- happy fun, more progressive and such with huge choir and string sections, big epic moments, more theatrical. may seem cheesy at first but if you can get past that, it's a great album.
-Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots- very electronic and spacey, kinda like The Soft Bulletin just with less strings and brass, and more synths and weird guitar FX.
-At War with the Mystics- a good balance between the theatrics and epic-ness of the new stuff, but the raw energy and more stripped down guitar-rock feel of the old stuff. a little overhyped though.

[Wlokos]

The Soft Bulletin's my favorite album of all time, but it took a little while for it to grow on me. Just about all of the albums by The Flaming Lips are great, but I prefer the recent stuff to the earlier albums.