Zaireeka (studio album) by The Flaming Lips
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Zaireeka is ranked 11th best out of 46 albums by The Flaming Lips on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Flaming Lips is Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots which is ranked number 119 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,863.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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80/100 ![]() | 06/24/2024 18:08 | ![]() | ![]() | 77/100 |
55/100 ![]() | 04/12/2024 20:51 | ![]() | ![]() | 49/100 |
60/100 ![]() | 02/04/2024 17:59 | asimpkins | ![]() | 69/100 |
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80/100 ![]() | 01/01/2024 22:33 | ![]() | ![]() | 83/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.3/100, a mean average of 75.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.6.
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Heavy, immersive, inventive and emotional, Zaireeka doesn't seem to get the love it deserves, presumably because people either view it as a gimmick or just can't find a way to play it (CDs/Vinyls are expensive and require 4 devices, not available on Spotify, YouTube laden with ads, etc). I'd say it's up there with Transmissions and Clouds in terms of quality, but still is totally its own thing. Really does feel like an experience.
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I've yet to experience this album properly, but the songs are great and the idea behind the album is really cool.
I work for a school and run a club that listens to full records once a week. This is the only album I have done every year, the very last album of the year. So much fun with high schoolers.
One of my favourites from them and just about scrapes into my top 100 greatest albums chart, which is no mean feat ! "Zaireeka" is unashamedly experimental and melodically complex, but actually the songs are quite accessible and quite frankly excellent. It's a brave step into the unknown for the Lips who flirt with the progressive pop that defines some of their later records, but as it is, this is a grand achievement and a slightly forgotten one at that.
I don't even have to listen to this simultaneously through 4 speakers around my room to recognise that this is a staggering record (for your information, there are a few uploads of "Zaireeka" on YouTube where all four CDs are compressed, so check it out if you're unable to listen to it in the intended way).
Also, it's not just filled to the brim with uniformly great compositions, it provides a crucial turning point between their noise rock records in the past decade and their poppier psychedelic records in the future. "Zaireeka" is a brave step forward from "Clouds Taste Metallic" where they experiment with an eclectic range of sounds and frequencies, coalescing together to form extravagant chaos. This isn't just for die-hard fans of The Flaming Lips, it's for music lovers everywhere... and hopefully I'll listen to it at a Zaireeka event at some point in my life, I imagine the experience will be completely different.
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Really inventive and brilliant album which, like all of the Lips' work, deserves far, far more praise than it gets
If you don't want that many complications to listen to an album, there's a version around that condenses all four CDs into one, so the album can be listened to normally without needing more than one player.
Having listened to that, it may lose some of the wow factor, but the album still sounds great, with its characteristic Flaming Lips sound.
Best tracks: Your Invisible Now, A Machine in India
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Certainly not a 0.0 album like Pitchfork thinks it is!
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@junodog4/I did it, and bloody cool, you just don't need to have 4 portable mp3 player. I just did it using 4 other music player software on Computer, anyway nice album.
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What a cool concept. Each album works on it own, and there are 14 different combinations of discs to listen together before you try all four. What an ambitious project. Playing all 4 together actually works. Try it. Get 3 other music nerds, grab some portable players, sit in a room and time out the play buttons. It's worth it for the social experiment, and it sounds pretty cool too. This should get greater acclaim than it does on it's status as an artistic project and musical event.
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