Keep a stiff upper flaming lip (Hit To Death In The Future Head - Flaming Lips)

Member Name: hulahoop

Product:	Hit To Death In The Future Head - Flaming Lips
Date:	05/10/00 (63 review reads)
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The Flaming Lips are really interesting to listen to - they can develop a great style and fantastic music in one album and then a few years later come out with something that sounds pretty juvenile (not necessarily a bad thing!) and more naively produced.

'Hit to Death in the Future Head' is an example of some of their better stuff. It is one of my favourite albums, and definitely favourite Flaming Lips one. Fantastic thumping drums and electric guitar come from Micheal, Jonathon and Nathan. They form the original line-up when combined with Wayne Coyne on vocals. As with most Flaming Lips stuff it takes a little getting used to, but after a while is completely addictive.

'Hit to Death....' is quite bizarre and a little unsettling at times with lyrics dealing with disillusionment and bitterness. They are also quite graphic and evocative - 'hold my slippery brain, and kiss my forehead' always makes me feel a little queasy - but are dealt with in such a way that the album is not in the least bit depressing or low. Each and every song appeals to me in some way, from the very strong guitar tracks, 'Halloween on the Barbary Coast' and 'The Magician vs the Headache', to the more drums and vocally defined 'The Sun' and 'Felt Good to Burn'. The Flaming Lips are interested in effects and these are used in various very interesting ways.

The Flaming Lips were like anything I had ever seen or heard when I went to their gig a few months ago. Musically they are brilliant, as they were in 1992 on 'Hit to Death...' and as they are now, mastering gongs, theramins and the like. I find their graphics really exciting (maybe I am just sad), but lyrically they are superb. I really really recommend this to anyone who likes things that are a little different. This is a good album to start off with, along with 'The Soft Bulletin'.

ps sorry about the title, I'm running out of inspi
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