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- Posted: 07/14/2021 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3860): Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
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Today's album of the day
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 2002.
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Overall rank: 110
Average rating: 83/100 (from 1543 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Fight Test
2. One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
3. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt.1
4. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt.2
5. In The Morning Of The Magicians
6. Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
7. Are You A Hypnotist??
8. It's Summertime
9. Do You Realize??
10. All We Have Is Now
11. Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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DommeDamian
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EyeKanFly
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- Posted: 07/14/2021 23:52
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Man I absolutely adore this album. "Fight Test" is better than "Father and Son", don't @ me.
Maybe this album is a little tamer than most of the Lips' other albums, and maybe they didn't succeed on everything they attempted here, but damn if it doesn't all fit together wonderfully. While I know that the Lips do not consider this to be a concept album, I still feel like I've been able to gather a story out of the whole thing. Something like the Orpheus and Eurydice myth I guess? I'm not so great at following the story in well-known intentional concept/rock opera albums like Tommy, The Wall, or American Idiot, so my interpretations may always be off-base.
Whatever, point is that this album is great. It's always hovered in my top 25 or so, and I still love it dearly.
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theblueboy
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- Posted: 07/15/2021 11:34
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| EyeKanFly wrote: | "Fight Test" is better than "Father and Son", don't @ me.
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I actually agree. I love the lyrics to that song and the chorus has sweet melody.
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theblueboy
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- Posted: 07/15/2021 11:36
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The Lips were the masters of existential indie pop at this point. That said, I haven't revisited this album in yonks.
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- Posted: 07/15/2021 16:03
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| DommeDamian wrote: | | better than Soft Bulletin, that's for sure. |
We all have our opinion. I find personally the Soft Bulletin better and more consistent than Yoshimi. They are two great albums in their ways, they offer a different vibe. To me Yoshimi is more a roller coaster of highs and lows. The sound is generally more refined but it lacks the "rawness" of SB which I really like!
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meccalecca
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- Posted: 07/15/2021 17:05
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| Tinjou wrote: | | We all have our opinion. I find personally the Soft Bulletin better and more consistent than Yoshimi. They are two great albums in their ways, they offer a different vibe. To me Yoshimi is more a roller coaster of highs and lows. The sound is generally more refined but it lacks the "rawness" of SB which I really like! |
Agreed. I think Soft Bulletin sounds more playful, whereas Yoshimi is the band streamlining their sound. That said, it's still one of my top 3 or 4 Lips records.
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EyeKanFly
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- Posted: 07/15/2021 17:06
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| Tinjou wrote: | | We all have our opinion. I find personally the Soft Bulletin better and more consistent than Yoshimi. They are two great albums in their ways, they offer a different vibe. To me Yoshimi is more a roller coaster of highs and lows. The sound is generally more refined but it lacks the "rawness" of SB which I really like! |
I agree with all of this. That said, while I think SB is more consistent, Yoshimi's highs are even higher, and its lows aren't much lower, so it's very hard for me to pick between the 2.
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Tinjou
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- Posted: 07/15/2021 19:01
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| EyeKanFly wrote: | | I agree with all of this. That said, while I think SB is more consistent, Yoshimi's highs are even higher, and its lows aren't much lower, so it's very hard for me to pick between the 2. |
I agree, the highs are even higher. "Fight Test", "Do you realize?? and the very end of "One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21" always give me massive goosebumps!
My favorite song of all (call me unoriginal) is still "waitin for a superman" though.
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AAL2014
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- Posted: 07/18/2021 19:59
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I feel this record has some absolutely standout melodies on top of, of course, some pretty top notch production and sound-play.
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