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OK - You guys may not believe this, but I downloaded this album 2 months before its release and have been listening to it for weeks.
Here's the review I wrote for Amazon:
Being a semi-recent Flips fan I am not the best barometer to measure whether it's a 'return to roots' or 'more of the same'.
What I can say is that after many, many listenings I can honestly say it will take many more to get my head around this record.
On first listen I was ecstatically singing along to "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah Song" then getting confused by the sudden turn of minimalist funk of "Free Radicals". Then the saddest ballad in the world "Sound of Failure".
The rest of the album continued to turn unexpected corners, leaving my expectations trembling and confused. Was this awful? Was this brilliant?'
The only choice was repeated listening. And it paid off. Each song is so amazingly great in its genre that it makes the following track wiggle like a worm on a hook.
Only after repeated listenings can one appreciate the gestalt of the album. It's a 12-part course of unique flavors and styles. Last week 'Free Radicals' was my favorite track. This week it's 'Sound of Failure'. Next week maybe 'Mr. Ambulance Driver' will grab me the way it's grabbed most people.
In any case, The Flaming Lips are following their own muse, and I'm happy to join the queue.
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You love them but won't pay to listen to them? Of course, I'd only listen to them for free, too. Or maybe I could get paid to listen to them?
Sinking a Music Pirate
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit
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Dear LA Times.
Thank you so fucking much for wasting half my life with your ridiculous and never-ending free sign-up perpetual-motion questionaire. Yes, there's some redundancy in that last statement, but it hardly compares with your fucking big waste of time!
I hope you suffer a bad case of personification, catch the bird flu, and die!!!
You fucking tree-eating piece of shit!!!!
--cranefly
Oh, by the way. Thanks, Greg. For the article.
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Perpetual Motion Questionaire? I just want them to stop delivering the damn paper on Friday and charging me for it.
Go Flaming Lips Go. Or as they are known around these parts, Beck's backup band.
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Actually I downloaded it 2 months before it was released.
I will be buying it shortly.
Besides - If I buy one T-Shirt or CD at a show they get about 70% more than the royalty from the CD through a retail outlet.
So SCREW THEM for playing at Bimbos where 90% of their Bay Area fans couldn't get tickets!
Serves 'em right for making me buy 'Yoshimi' twice (CD and DVD Audio)!
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I'd like to apologize for my little outburst.
Sorry you had to see that.
I just get a little bent out of shape when I'm registering to look at a small article, and they want quite a bit of info. My email address? Okay, fine, sell it so I get more junk mail. Name, first and last. Why? Street address. Excuse me? Male or female. Aren't there laws against requiring this info? And these are all required fields. R-E-Q-U-I-R-E-D! Yearly income? Required!!! Year born? Required!!! What is this fucking shit! Who the fuck do they think they are! The NS-fucking-A? They fucking require all this shit, and a bunch more. Required!
Who does the LA Times think it is? Jesus fucking Christ! LA Times? Get ready for your closeup now.
Of my FIST!!!!
You fucking bloody assholes! Your paper isn't worth wiping my ass on! It isn't worth burning, let alone reading. You make Farenheit 451 read like a Utopia! I hope everyone in the world goes blind so you don't have any customers!!!
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They let me read it for free. Are you on some kind of watch list that constantly requires your information. Maybe your name is sending up red flags at the NSA?
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit
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I saw this last night as well. The main question was how do they breathe in those bubbles?
I thought it was really creative, though.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm
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Do you know what 'hotboxing' means? That was my first thought when I saw those bubbles. Hot bubblin.
I want a space suit. A functioning space suit. Like one of these:
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Um, sure. I will now look up hotboxing. I do know what hot bunking means.
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I had to look up hot bunking.
For hot boxing, think Spicoli's van.
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Got it.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm
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06-14-2020, 12:19 PM
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I've mentioned 'hot box' on DOOM before but not in a memorable way. Twas more of that post-show DM rambling code talk way...
http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...5#pid22695
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