Oh My Gawd! - Flaming Lips

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - Flaming Lips

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is co-produced by Dave Fridmann, who is well known (ish) for making Mercury Rev sound so angelic and orchestral. The Flaming Lips live have been known to feature more people dressed in silly animal costumes than a whole series of Trigger Happy TV. This disc was barely out of theediscerning's CD player tray for a couple months at the end of last year. Put this down to laziness, or just the brilliance of the music, but the vote should be for the latter. Uncut declared Yoshimi... CD of 2002, and so does theediscerning. Theediscerning bought it in a promo edition, with just a card wallet, so cannot comment on packaging, ...

Transmissions From The Satellite Heart - Flaming Lips

get lost in the crowd, you re happy but nervous" something about this line, and the way it is sung really makes me feel quite emotional. The guitarist of The Flaming Lips for two of their albums (this and Clouds Taste Metallic") was a man named Ronald Jones. Ronald is a tragically underrated guitarist perhaps because he left/was fired from Flaming Lips just before they hit the big time as it were. Jones was very shy and reserved and spent most of his time in his bedroom with a vast range of effect pedals, just making noises and soundscapes. In the years since his departure, the band have used synthesisers and even crazy surround sound listening experiences ...

Transmissions From The Satellite Heart - Flaming Lips

people, who had discovered the band via 1999's popular "Soft Bulletin" album. So I asked myself, "Where can a fan of more mainstream music get on board The Flaming Lips train?" And the answer I came up with was here, at Transmissions from the Satellite Heart. In places the album fuses their on-going obsession with meadering psychedelia to a newer and more structured rock approach. The result is two very accessible tracks, "She Don't Use Jelly" which has subsequently become a staple of the band's live act, and "Turn It On" which charted in the USA. The rest of the album is a little more difficult to appreciate on ...