The Flaming Lips Poll

HA:
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/108769/clouds_taste_metallic

(doesn't say how many stars this originally got, but I think it was 3 IIRC)

glad CTM came through as the winner, as i've slowly been getting back into the lips lately and it's mainly through this album that i've come to appreciate them all over again. a pock on 'yoshimi' though.

i just got the 'demastered' version (the band's preferred version) and it's a much better tracklisting. also gets rid of those sucko "remixes."

1 Race for the Prize Flaming Lips 4:08
2 A Spoonful Weighs a Ton Flaming Lips 3:32
3 The Spark That Bled Flaming Lips 5:54
4 Slow Motion Flaming Lips 4:01
5 What Is the Light? Flaming Lips 3:16
6 The Observer Flaming Lips 4:04
7 Waitin' for a Superman Flaming Lips 4:11
8 Suddenly Everything Has Changed Flaming Lips 4:17
9 The Gash Flaming Lips 3:54
10 Feeling Yourself Disintegrate Flaming Lips 4:02
11 Sleeping on the Roof Flaming Lips 5:17
12 The Spiderbite Song Flaming Lips 3:09
13 Buggin'

Where is this version? I tried to play this album(CD) at a low level, and couldn't believe how bad it sounded.

It's the CD part of this, I think:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soft-Bulletin-5-1-CD-DVD/dp/B000DN5W0W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1238402826&sr=8-1

I seem to be in the minority, but I think the remixes of the Soft Bulletin tracks are far superior to the "demastered" ones. Pity they're all out of print now.

Seems to be that there's a pretty good argument here that the Lips were the best band of the 1990's.

You could replace "of the 90s" with "ever" and you'd get no argument from me.

Dere Flaming Lips,

Plz rerelease "Zaireeka" on one CD

Plz

Plz

Love,

But that would defeat the whole purpose of the album!

Dude, it has been 12 years. They have made their point. However, I have heard the album once. It was EFFORT. It was also a completely amazingly awesome piece of music that I REALLY want to hear again. Without inviting all my friends and their hi-fis over. Or shifting equipment around the house. Great, revolutionary, uncompromising etc....now just give us the goddamn music

a 7.1 mix would get em pretty much there

If you like the sound of Wayne Coyne going "Track number one this is CD number one number numberthreenumberfour" and then a whole roomful of college kids yeling "FUCK!!" at least twenty times, then Zaireeka is the album for you.

But Snrub...it don't have to be this way

Also, when I and some schoolfriends ran the Zaireeka experiment, we synched it pretty well. The slight out-of-synch-nesses were all part of the fun. But it's time. It's time for those songs, in synch, without the fun of the set-up, without the glorious unpredictability. It's time.

louis unified zaireeka is widely available on the internet fyi

But if they officially acknowledged unification, we'd officially be able to acknowledge the songs in their pristine format, and there'd be a useful flurry of positive criticism headed Coynewards

plus I like owning groovy CDs

This has not stopped me from finding a copy of unified Zaireeka online.

No self-titled 1984 debut EP on LSD Records with "My Own Planet" on it, no credibility.

Zaireeka is an amazing album, absolutely amazing. I think "Riding to Work in the Year 2025" is my favorite Flaming Lips song ever.

I was really into them in high school and thru Soft Bulletin but kind of go in and out of phases nowadays. Their 90s output, tho, is top notch. Really hard to pick a favorite of any of them.

there'd be a useful flurry of positive negative criticism headed Coynewards

Fixed.

This album should not be rereleased in its unified format, ever. Why spoil the fun? Why take one of the decade's most baffling, uniquely interesting experiments and turn it into just another album? Why take away the mystery? Part of the fun, Wayne has always said, is never hearing the same album twice...

Yoshimi

So awesome In a Priest Driven ambulance got so many votes. "There You Are (Jesus Song No. 7" has an amazing solo

how dafuq did soft bulletin not win this

I'd put all the other 90s albums ahead of soft bulletin.

Yoshimi is where they lost me, but they got me back briefly with Embryonic.

There You Are (Jesus Song No. 7" has an amazing solo

damn right it is. that song gives me chills, and the coda chord progression is so sad and beautiful. imo it's proof that they had something of a Soft Bulletin in them even before Steven joined the band.

^ Fuck yeah :)

how dafuq did soft bulletin not win this