"The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. (Badu, Ono, Ke$ha, etc.)" Sun Apr-22-12 11:10 PM by Madvillain 626
Anyone heard this? Dropped on RSD, a collection of collabs the Lips have done over the past year with everyone from Tame Impala to Chris Martin to Biz Markie.
This is a lot better than I expected. The jawn with Bon Iver stands out on the first listen and the 10 minute cover of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face with Badu works on all levels. The Chris Martin collab sound like a lost Radiohead cut.
It all comes together and works as an album. It's awesome to see 50 year old having so much fun making music. I haven't even tried to listen to the 6 hour song they dropped last year. Still one of the best live acts you can see.
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2. "probably because you know it's not gonna be good despite what you read" In response to Reply # 1
like pretty much the Flaming Lips entire career which subsists of gimmicks & gadgetry in place of things like lots of good songs.
I'll give them hustle credits somehow transcending being the 'She Don't Use Jelly' guys & stretching out a long career through a tireless passion for parlor tricks but this group's been bubble-bouncing atop the heads of critics & true-believer-smoke-and-mirror-deceiver types to levels that would make Radiohead feel embarrassed.
Anyone who paid for four copies of the 'Zareeka' album & played it with the accompanying four seperate stereos for each track or sat through a six-hour 'song' by this band is a musical masochist whose thoughts on art and/or life should be disregarded immediately.
3. "RE: probably because you know it's not gonna be good despite what you re..." In response to Reply # 2
>like pretty much the Flaming Lips entire career which >subsists of gimmicks & gadgetry in place of things like lots >of good songs.
They actually have lots of good songs, and lots of good albums. I crack a smile at the gimmickry but I don't listen to "Zaireeka" or their six hour experiment (I've only heard a bit of the former and none of the latter); I *do* listen to "Soft Bulletin, "Yoshimi," "Embryonic" and "Transmissions" on a regular basis, and still find plenty worthy going back for.
7. "It wouldn't surprise me" In response to Reply # 6
They've shown a great propensity to not take themselves that seriously and just throw out stuff they think fans might enjoy. I mostly stick to their regular studio albums. When they take themselves a little more seriously they tend to be really good (though I disliked "At War with the Mystics," but that was a rare misfire).
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