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FLAMING LIPS SOFT BULLETIN TRACK LIST FULL

FLAMING LIPS SOFT BULLETIN TRACK LIST FULL

Spin (7/99, pp.126-7) - 9 (out of 10) - ".THE SOFT BULLETIN may be the most extraordinary rock record you'll hear all year.a symphonic work of fully realized cosmic pop, full of surging sweeping melodicism and expansive, heart tugging tunes."Įntertainment Weekly (7/9/99, p.78) - ".a vertiginous rainbow swirl that crams so many ideas into so many tight spaces that each track is like a perfectly rendered Joseph Cornell box." - Rating: A THE SOFT BULLETIN raises such pre-millennial realist/fantasy notions in the midst of a 90s "Tomorrow Never Knows," and in the process setting a high bar for the last great rock-era records of the 20th century. Songs like "Superman," "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" and a half-dozen others, hint at the hopelessness of life's outcome while maintaining a sense of faith (a common Lips theme). The music adds a context of grandeur to Coyne's lyrics of Zen and the cosmic joke.

Long-time producer and Mercury Rev studio savant Dave Fridmann helps with the completion of a Spectorian sonic canvas, full of epic gestures (glorious sweeping strings arrangements) and brilliant details (well-placed thematic samples).

Obviously, the experience greatly influenced the band's direction, because on THE SOFT BULLETIN the Lips again scrap the guitar-bass-drum rock standard, sculpting instead a huge hi-fi record akin to a post-modern PET SOUNDS with the vision of a humanist OK COMPUTER.

With their multi-disc opus ZAIREEKA (four CDs meant to be played simultaneously on four different players), the Flaming Lips radically expanded the scope of their melancholy psychedelia, as pop tunes became modernist soundscapes, part-Pink Floyd, part-John Cage.

Recording information: Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, NY (04/1997-02/1999).

Recorded in Cassadaga, New York, New York between April 1997 and February 1999.

Producers: The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker.

Additional personnel: Scott Bennett (bass).

The Flaming Lips: Michael Ivins (vocals, guitar, bass) Steven Drozd (vocals, guitar, drums) Wayne Coyne (vocals, guitar).In 2012, the band celebrated the day by releasing some editions of Heady Fwends with the band’s blood inside. The Flaming Lips are frequent contributors to Record Store Day, having in the past released records filled with beer.

The Soft Bulletin Companion, a limited-edition release being sold as a part of Record Store Day, will be the first time that the song is put onto vinyl. In spite of this, the CD’s outtakes and alternate songs developed a cult following to the point that its track “The Captain” made it onto their Greatest Hits, Vol. The Soft Bulletin’s companion piece has been around since the album’s 1999 release, but was only distributed to press, family and friends. The tour comes after the release of their latest album American Head, though the announcement comes with the release of an older, sought-after gem. As restrictions lift without the aid of human-sized hamster balls, The Flaming Lips are bringing their performances to the road again for a tour that starts this August. The band, who have played in bubbles before, brought bubbles to their audience to put on a safe show in late 2020. The Flaming Lips, being strange, have always been more suited than most to adaptation to our strange new world post-COVID-19.