Album Rating: 5.0

"Slow Motion" is a pop song...I actually like this one better than "The Spiderbite Song" or "Fight Test" now, because it's such a great singalong. The people who don't own the European version are really missing out.



This is my favorite album now. I have had a special connection to "Race For The Prize" since a week or two ago. I was on a project week at a bungalowpark in the woods, for school, and every night people visited each other cabins in the dark to party and hang out. I became very very drunk on tuesday night, to a point of throwing up constantly for about an hour. The next morning I woke up feeling totally miserable fysically and mentally. I was still very hungover, and I had a killing headache. Before I was called apon to participate in the next activities I fell asleep on the floor.



When I returned to my cabin I decided to run around the park. "Race For The Prize" was a great running song, and I decided to listen to both versions (the album version and remix). Classmates saw me running and thought I really lost my mind...but after jogging on those two songs, my sickness wasn't just driven out of my system...it gave me a positive feeling that has lasted until today. Also that wednesday was the day I met a girl of my dreams...so it all worked out.



Ever since I've been trying to listen to "Race For The Prize" at least once a day



P.S. I officially quit drinking alcohol two days ago...

Congratulations, Orby. Amazing album, too.

I have this on vinyl. It's so pretty.

Personally I can't see why everyone says this album is so incredibly brilliantly amazing. It's not like I haven't given it a chance, I've had it for months and it's got some good tracks. I'd say it's a solid record, even a very good record. I'd give it a 4.2/5.

I think I agree with your ratings. Yoshimi has some amazing songs, but some boring ones, the closer track especially.

I personally think Buggin is one of the best songs on the album... [/controversy]

Yeah, Buggin' is pretty amazing.

I too love Buggin'.

Album Rating: 5.0

The thing that sets "Bulletin" apart from "Yoshimi"for me is the fact that it's a more personal record. "Yoshimi" has musically the same range of highlights...but the production is a bit more muffed. The melody's on Bulletin stand out more because the production is a bit edgier.



And yeah, Buggin' is a great song...especially when you're in love (like me).

Good review, two of my favorite Flaming Lips songs ever are 'Feeling Yourself disintegrate' and 'Sleeping on the Roof'.

[QUOTE=OrbDragon]And yeah, Buggin' is a great song...especially when you're in love (like me).[/QUOTE]

:eek: Ohh! Tell us more :p

I'll probably buy this one after Christmas, when I splurge on me birthday. Ooh, love stories! *winky*

I still think this is an excellent album, but not 5/5 material, for me anyway. I loved it initially, then it gradually lost it's magic a little.

Album Rating: 5.0

"Buggin'" is one of the greatest songs by anyone ever. So there, yeah, I said it.

Saw these guys on "Austin City Limits," and the opened with "Race For The Prize." It was such a surrealistic, beautiful song. And the whole time people were playing with balloons in the audience, and Wayne Coyne was throwing confetti around.

So yeah, that song is great.

Album Rating: 5.0

I don't believe there is a better song to wake up to than "Race For The Prize"...that song has saved my life.

i love this CD.

but IMO, "the Spiderbite Song" isn't too great.

I'd give this CD a definite 5/5. All the subtleties of a band like Radiohead, but touching and warm at the same time. This is another album that keeps growing long after you thought you were fully into it. One of the few CDs I have where I actually like the lyrics. Every track on here is a winner, and it's just filled with great little moments all over the place.

I just love: The synth chorus on Race for the Prize, the moog interludes and the final "Love" on A Spoonful Weighs A Ton, the clumsy chorus on The Spiderbite Song, and the gong in the beat to the Gash. It took me forever to figure out that the title of the CD was a play on The Softest Bullet Ever Shot.

This is music for the future. This is music ahead of it's time, behind of it's time, oblivious to all of the pop that surrounds it. It's simply mindblowing. Wayne Coyne is crazy, but a mastermind.

Even though this CD is in the rock section of your local record shop, it is beyond traditional rock form. The songs incorporate everything from choirs, gongs, string orchestras, and beyond. Although, I will have to say, the Flaming Lips are and probably always will be an acquired taste in the age we live in.

For me, it was the instant that the choir part kicked in, surrounded by gongs and drums and electronics in 'The Gash', that I realized, this is not your everyday rock music.

And besides, even if you don't like the Flaming Lips; getting stepped on by a crazy guy in a bubble is not ordinary stuff.

Album Rating: 4.5

The Flaming Lips kick ass...The Gash is easily the best track from this cd..



and I think this cd is better than Yoshimi...



anyone heard their new track? ITS AMAZING!This Message Edited On 08.17.05

Album Rating: 5.0

I'm glad someone revived this...but I must say, my review was pretty darn

awful. And this is one of my favorite albums ever. I wouldn't mind with

someone re-reviewing this. This Message Edited On 08.18.05