Sunday, September 9, 2007

The Flaming Lips-The Soft Bulletin (1999)

Wayne's World Masterpiece Pt. I.

Rating: 10.0/10.0

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✔Race For The Prize (Remix)
✔A Spoonful Weighs A Ton
✔The Spark That Bled
✔The Spiderbite Song
✔Buggin' (Remix)
✔What Is The Light?
✔The Observer
✔Waitin' For A Superman
✔Suddenly Everything Has Changed
✔The Gash
✔Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
✔Sleeping On The Roof
✔Race For The Prize
✔Waitin' For A Superman (Remix)

Wow. The Flaming Lips major breakthrough proved to be an album that changed the way I listened to music. While not as good as they're next album (Yoshimi), Soft Bulletin beats most bands best albums. "Race For The Prize", in two different versions, is probably the best song on here. The string line grabs you in and gets you. "Spoonful" is a song with wonderful vocals. This album is full of guitar that "Shimmers". Its on "The Spark That Bled", "Feeling Yourself Disinigrate", and the fantastic "Waitin For A Superman". The Instrumentals ("The Observer", "Sleeping On The Roof") are quite amazing. Lots of strings, electronic beats, and great guitar are what this album's about. Listen to it in 5.1 Surround to get the full effect of the album.

Top 3:
-Race For The Prize
-Waitin' For A Superman
-Feeling Yourself Disinigrate

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OLDNIK said...

I'll have to disagree about The Soft Bulletin V Yoshimi!
While to you TSB may have been a breakthrough, to those who are old enough, and wise enough to have been following them since their major label debut
"Hit to Death in the future head" in the early 90's was their breakthrough album! Let's not forget 'She don't use Jelly" from "Transmissions from a satellite heart" a big MTV hit at the time.
The Flaming Lips are no doing a Don't Look Back tour playing the whole of the Soft Bulletin album, and it's been recognised as a classic album, and a more consistant album than Yoshimi, while Yoshimi has some great standout tracks like "Do you realize" and is a great album, for sheer flow, and track arrangement, The Soft Bulletin is at least equal to Yoshimi, if not better. It's cover is also better too!