Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community (https://thetfp.com/tfp/)
-   Tilted Music (https://thetfp.com/tfp/tilted-music/)
-   -   This thread is dedicated to The Flaming Lips (https://thetfp.com/tfp/tilted-music/46464-thread-dedicated-flaming-lips.html)

Nefir 02-21-2004 04:33 PM

This thread is dedicated to The Flaming Lips
 
I've just discovered this amazing band, and was so moved that I listened to The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, back to back, several times! Their music has, warmth, feeling, and emotion. Their songs tell stories that make me think and wonder. This is something most bands these days are incapable of doing.

My favorite songs have to be:
-Spoonful Weighs a Ton
-Waitin' for a Superman
-One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
-Do You Realize?

I do not know what they remind me of... their songs are nothing like the progressive rock/metal I normally listen to, with the exception of "uncategorizable" bands like Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, etc. - and the Flaming Lips seem closer to this short list than to the rest of my playlist.

Anyone else fall in love with this band? What do you think of them? What other bands have a similar feeling?

josh_s08 02-21-2004 09:00 PM

I'm not sure what i think. I have the 2 albums that you have said and i am still undicided. I guess they put on a hell of a live show, and would of loved to see them with beck. I like them then i dont. Its weird because when i got the albums, i loved them, and now i havent listened to many songs. I guess time will tell.

anleja 02-21-2004 10:02 PM

I would love to hear the album they released which is 4 cds you are supposed to listen to simultaneously. Anyone hear it, by chance?

lucidity 02-22-2004 04:18 AM

I saw the flaming lips in concert years ago. They opened for Stone Temple Pilots. They were pretty god awful live. The other oh, 6, people who actually showed up to see them open actually cried out 'You suck' often. I felt bad for em.

lordjeebus 02-22-2004 05:57 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by anleja
I would love to hear the album they released which is 4 cds you are supposed to listen to simultaneously. Anyone hear it, by chance?
I own a copy of this, it's called Zaireeka.

I've only listened to it three times because setting it up is so much trouble. It's not as good as it could be in my opinion but it's interesting.

Part of the experience is that CD players will get out of sync, making the music slightly different each time. But what that really means is that you get these annoyingly slightly off beats sometimes.

wordssmith22 02-22-2004 04:24 PM

yoshimi battles the pink robots was hit or miss for me, not very memorable outside of do you realize? and the title track.

Bob Biter 02-22-2004 04:43 PM

I fell in love with The Flaming lips upon hearing "Race For The Prize" the very first track of "The Soft Bulletin". Beautiful song. Great album.

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots was also hit or miss for me, with the first half hittin' and the last half missin'.

Nefir 02-22-2004 07:06 PM

Seems to be alot of mixed feelings so far.
As an album, the Soft Bulletin appeals to me more than Yoshimi, but when it comes to their earlier work, I found that the samples I listened to were nowhere near as good as the aforementioned two CDs.

Zaireeka sounds like a really curious album.... I might check it out, just to see what its all about.

notaneel 02-22-2004 09:27 PM

one of my favorite bands of all time....Yoshimi and the Soft Bulletin are classic albums...but my favorite Lips album is Clouds Taste Metallic...Zaireeka is a trip...it's fun to experience, but setting up four cd players is a bitch...

Mephex 02-22-2004 09:30 PM

I reallly enjoyed Yoshimi, they really inspired me to make my own music. I guess I'm not sure what exactly it is about their music that makes me happy, but it does :)


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 08:19 PM.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0 PL2
© 2002-2012 Tilted Forum Project


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360