Best Ever Albums

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 20:02:45 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/30/2014 00:02

CLOSED

Thanks for the patience 🫢

Results are:

16: Christmas On Mars by The Flaming Lips
Points From Number 1: 235

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15: The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends by The Flaming Lips
Points From Number 1: 223

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14: The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and Whit...aming Lips
Points From Number 1: 216

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13:Hear It Is by The Flaming Lips
Points From Number 1: 203

12: Oh My Gawd!!! by The Flaming Lips
Points From Number 1: 176

11:At War With The Mystics by The Flaming Lips
Points From Number 1: 151

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10: Hit To Death In The Future Head by The Flaming Lips
Points From Number 1: 147

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9: Telepathic Surgery by The Flaming Lips
Points From Number 1: 146
First Place Votes: 1

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7: The Terror by The Flaming Lips
Points From Number 1 (TIED WITH ZAIREEKA): 126
First Place Votes: 1

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7:Zaireeka by The Flaming Lips
Points From Number 1 (THE TERROR): 126

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6:In A Priest Driven Ambulance by The Flaming Lips
Points From Number 1: 102
First Place Votes: 3

5: Embryonic by The Flaming Lips
Points From Number 1: 98
First Place Votes: 1

4:Transmissions From The Satellite Heart by The Flaming Lips
Points From Number 1: 87

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3: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips
Points From Number 1: 63
First Place Votes: 3

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2:Clouds Taste Metallic by The Flaming Lips
Points From Number 1: 33
First Place Votes: 4

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1: The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips
First Place Votes: 13

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BEA's TOP 5 SONGS

Note: Place number 5 has a 4 way tie

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Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 03:19:52 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/24/2014 07:19

So psyched that my Lips have once again embraced their inner freak flag! I’d kind of given up on them after the one-two pop punch of Yoshimi and Mystics since they seemed to be catering to what would play well in a festival setting - fun, anthemic pop songs. I could almost picture Wayne pitching what props and pratfalls would accompany each song as they were composing them. And I didn’t blame them at all. They deserved it! But, it definitely seemed that the Lips had become more of a multimedia festival experience. So, it’s nice to see these erstwhile Peter Pans of Alt Rock once again taking some chances and … the dreaded m word… maturing. Sounds like they’ve been listening to a lot of Liars.

Freaking Fantastic
In a Priest Driven Ambulance
Clouds Taste Metallic

Almost Heaven
Hit To Death in the Future Head
Soft Bulletin

Almost There
Transmissions from the Satellite Heart

Fuck it, Lips Go Crazy (Again)
The Terror
Embryonic

The Not Ready for Prime Time Players (so close I can taste it)
Telepathic Surgery ( Side A stands for Awesome)
Oh My Gawd!!! (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 6 rule)

Lips Go Pop
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
At War With the Mystics

Adolescence Can be Rough
Hear It Is

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 03:17:13 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/24/2014 07:17

newbands1 wrote:

Re-listening to the Lips 90's output i think that the run of albums from Priest Driven Ambulance to Soft Bulletin trumps Pavement's discography as the best 90's "indie rock" band

😲

that's just crazy talk, newbands. ( 😜 )

Let's do Pavement next!!!

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

newbands1 — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 02:40:49 GMT

Author: newbands1

Posted: 08/24/2014 06:40

Re-listening to the Lips 90's output i think that the run of albums from Priest Driven Ambulance to Soft Bulletin trumps Pavement's discography as the best 90's "indie rock" band

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 17:45:10 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/23/2014 21:45

CubaZed wrote:

24 Hour Notice

Errrr turns out I'm working a sale tomorrow early in the morning closing out an office and might not be back till past 9 PM. Results Monday Morning.

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

HazeyTwilight — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:19:48 GMT

Author: HazeyTwilight

Posted: 08/23/2014 15:19

HazeyTwilight wrote:

Albums:

1. Clouds Taste Metallic
2. The Soft Bulletin
3. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
4. Zaireeka
5. Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
6. Hit To Death With The Future Head
7. At War With The Mystics
8. Embryonic
9. In A Priest Driven Ambulance
10. The Terror
11. Telepathic Surgery
12. Christmas On Mars
13. The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
14. Oh My Gawd!!!
15. Hear It Is
16. The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side Of The Moon

Songs:

1. Bad Days
2. The Spark That Bled A Machine in India
3. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
4. Psychiatric Exploration of the Fetus With Needles Kim's Watermelon Gun
5. Are You A Hypnotist? (What A) Wonderful World

My final ranking order.

Listening to their discography has been an eye-opening experience for me. To discover the various stages and experiments The Lips have been through has been extraordinary and it makes me appreciate them even more. Some of those experiments may have ended turmoil (trial and error) but these are just reflective of my first listens (barring the top three albums) and hopefully they will grow on me in the near future. Heck, my current ranking could change in a few years time! I feel proud for actually completing one of these things properly and thank you CubaZed for dedicating this Let's Rank to one of the greatest bands of all time. From observing this thread, this might result into the most interesting Let's Rank so far. Shows that with a diverse band and catalogue; you can have diverse opinions. 😉

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 10:50:00 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/23/2014 14:50

24 Hour Notice

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

junodog4 — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:24:45 GMT

Author: junodog4

Posted: 08/21/2014 17:24

1. Soft Bulletin
2. Yoshimi
3. Zaireeka
4. Clouds Taste Metallic

5. War With the Mystics
6. Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
7. Embryonic
8. In A Priest Driven Ambulance
9. Hit To Death In The Future Head
10. Telepathic Surgery
11. The Terror

12. The Flaming Lips & Heady Fwends

Only one album I don't enjoy. �'�

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 01:06:05 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/20/2014 05:06

1. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
2. Clouds Taste Metallic
3. Zaireeka
4. The Terror
5. Soft Bulletin
6. At War With the Mystics
7. Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
8. Embryonic
9. In a Priest Driven Ambulance
10. Heady Fwends

11. Dark Side Tribute

Can't pick five favorite songs, though "Bad Days" is probably in there.

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

Muslim-Bigfoot — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:15:10 GMT

Author: Muslim-Bigfoot

Posted: 08/19/2014 17:15

Albums:
1. The Soft Bulletin
2. Clouds Taste Metallic
3. Embryonic
4. Telepathic Surgery
5. Hit to Death in the Future Head
6. Zaireeka
7. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
8. The Terror
9. Oh My Gawd!!!
10. At War with the Mystics

Songs:
1. What is the Light?
2. The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine
3. Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles
4. A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
5. Chrome Plated Sucide

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

drakonium — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:53:46 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 08/19/2014 15:53

1. In A Priest Driven Ambulance
2. Yoshimi
3. The Soft Bulletin
4. Clouds Taste Metallic
5. Hit To Death
6. Transmissions
7. Embryonic
8. At War With The Mystics

I don't like Embryonic though. For songs :

1. Five Stop Mother Superior Rain
2. Yoshimi Pt. 1
3. Race For The Prize
4. Unconsciously Screaming
5. Do You Realize

I'm not sure at all about the songs ranking though, except for the #1.

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

NickVolos — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:24:36 GMT

Author: NickVolos

Posted: 08/19/2014 13:24

1. The Soft Bulletin
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2. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
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3. Clouds Taste Metallic
4. Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
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5. The Terror
6. At War with the Mystics
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7. Hit To Death In The Future Head
8. Oh My Gawd!!!
9. Doing The Dark Side Of The Moon
10. Embryonic
11. Hear It Is
12. In A Priest Driven Ambulance
13. Telepathic Surgery

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

newbands1 — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:02:35 GMT

Author: newbands1

Posted: 08/19/2014 02:02

Actually besides the 2009 Dark Side of The Moon cover album

They also did

2013 - The Time Has Come to Shoot You Down… What a Sound (Stone Roses Cover album)
2014 - Flaming Side of the Moon (DSOtM Companion,supposedly meant to sync with Wizard of Oz but turned out to be an April's Fool joke)

and later in this year they will be releasing a Sgt. Peppers cover album with Miley

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

Antonio-Pedro — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:13:46 GMT

Author: Antonio-Pedro

Posted: 08/18/2014 23:13

Wow great to see you guys like "telepathic surgery" better tham I expected, love to see it well represented

I think I will not have much time to listen to them this week If I do I will probabluy change for now:

Telepathic Surgery
Yoshimi & pink robots
the soft bulletin
In a priest driven Ambulance
At war with the mystics

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

lightmyway — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:26:55 GMT

Author: lightmyway

Posted: 08/18/2014 22:26

1. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
2. The Soft Bulletin
3. Embryonic
4. Zaireeka
5. Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
6. Clouds Taste Metallic
7. The Terror
8. At War With the Mystics
9. In a Priest Driven Ambulance

Kind of a hit or miss band really. Top 3 are really the only ones I like, Zaireeka gets bonus points for gimmickyness

5 songs:
1. Race for the Prize
2. Are You a Hypnotist?
3. Fight Test
4. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
5. The Spark That Bled

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

WindowAbove — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:21:52 GMT

Author: WindowAbove

Posted: 08/18/2014 19:21

1. Embryonic
2. Clouds Taste Metallic
3. The Soft Bulletin
4. Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
5. In a Priest Driven Ambulance
6. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
7. The Terror
8. At War With the Mystics

songs:
1. Convinced of the Hex
2. Race for the Prize
3. Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World
4. Evil
5. See the Leaves

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

Mercury — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 13:51:40 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 08/18/2014 17:51

Haven't heard mich of their stuff. Never really got into them. Of the albums I've listened to...

1. Clouds Taste Metallic
2. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
3. The Soft Bulletin
4. At War With The Mystics

And I don't know and love enough songs to take part in that.

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

mickilennial — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 13:44:00 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 08/18/2014 17:44

Skinny wrote:

I think they just went way too far in the pop direction, didn't suit them for me personally. It's largely overproduced rubbish, in my opinion. That isn't to say there aren't songs I like on the album, but it's quite easily my least favourite Lips record (of the proper studio albums, anyway). Yoshimi was the first one I fell in love with, but I find that sounds dated and overproduced these days too. That period just lacked any subtlety, which is fine for some, not so cool for others (me included). Much preferred the direction they took on Embryonic, which was a well-timed move away from their concessions to a mainstream, festival-headlining market. But whatever, they're one of my favourite bands ever, and they just happen to have one album I really struggle to enjoy for the most part. That's still a pretty stellar career.

I felt it was very similar (but not the same) to Yoshimi in songwriting, production, and instrumentation in general. Yoshimi just has better mood and fluctuates between songs better. Though if I'm going to be honest with you I don't think The Flaming Lips have ever been subtle. But yeah, as long as you enjoy songs off Mystics I don't even have a problem to whine about...

Anyway favorite songs off the top of my head:

Race For The Prize
Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung
Do You Realize??
Turn It On
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, pt. 1

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

craola — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:36:51 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 08/18/2014 15:36

I haven't listened to their entire discography (yet), but from what I've listened:

Re: CLOSED Let's Rank 17: The Flaming Lips

Skinny — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:18:04 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 08/18/2014 15:18

Oh shit, top five songs:

1. Unconsciously Screaming
2. Lightning Strikes the Postman
3. The Spiderbite Song
4. This Here Giraffe
5. Five Stop Mother Superior Rain