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- #1
- Posted: 10/06/2020 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3580): The Soft Bulletin
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Today's album of the day
The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1999.
Country: 
Overall rank: 104
Average rating: 83/100 (from 1345 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Race For The Prize (Remix)
2. A Spoonful Weighs A Ton
3. The Spark That Bled
4. The Spiderbite Song
5. Buggin' (Remix)
6. What Is The Light?
7. The Observer
8. Waitin' For A Superman
9. Suddenly Everything Has Changed
10. The Gash
11. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
12. Sleeping On The Roof
13. Race For The Prize
14. Waitin' For A Superman (Remix)
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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mickilennial
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- Posted: 10/06/2020 20:02
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one of the best albums from the 90s
probably the lips best
feels like im on a wave
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Spyglass
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- Posted: 10/06/2020 20:05
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I find it a little too "safe" for me to call it their best album, but it's still five-stars. The Flaming Lips are my favorite neo-psychedelia band, and this is my third favorite behind Yoshimi and Embryonic.
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- Posted: 10/07/2020 08:10
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Certainly my favorite from the Lips. The opening track is so fitting in our current times.
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on such a winter's day
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DommeDamian
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Skinny
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- Posted: 10/07/2020 08:50
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One of their four '90s masterpieces, each of which show off a different side of the band - the strung-out, noise-glam stomp of In a Priest Driven Ambulance; the scuzzy power-pop of Hit to Death in the Future Head; the bright, spidery, Neil Young-on-acid ramblings of Clouds Taste Metallic; finally, to cap off a really incredible decade in which they added numerous strings to their bow, the swirling, quasi-apocalyptic, deliberately catchy walls of orchestral and electronic sounds found on this, perhaps their greatest achievement. Diminishing returns ever since - and maybe Wayne's increasingly childish public persona, too - have seen a significant dent in their reputation, I feel, with only Embryonic coming close to hitting the heights of their '90s peak(s), but they were one of the most endlessly (re-)inventive and consistent rock bands of that decade.
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Yann
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- Posted: 10/07/2020 11:19
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Same path as Mercury Rev. Some indistinct indie-noisy albums, and then comes a producer (Dave Fridmann) who spawns two classics: the Soft Bulletin and Deserter's Songs (both with beautiful, and quite similar, cover artworks).
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junodog4
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- Posted: 10/08/2020 02:22
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| Skinny wrote: | | Diminishing returns ever since - and maybe Wayne's increasingly childish public persona, too - have seen a significant dent in their reputation, |
What has he done? I haven't heard anything, so I'm curious (but also cringing)
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EyeKanFly
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- Posted: 10/08/2020 02:38
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| junodog4 wrote: | | What has he done? I haven't heard anything, so I'm curious (but also cringing) |
Also curious about this.
I saw them live about 10 years back and they were incredible. Also worth checking out is FL playing The Soft Bulletin in its entirety with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra at Red Rocks. For sure a quality live album.
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- Posted: 10/11/2020 10:19
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Never loved it nearly as much as Yoshimi, but it's still an amazingly beautiful sounding album. A bit like a modern Pet Sounds, with wonderful harmonies and melodies throughout.
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