glueman wrote:Seriously? Do tell....

It's a Shawn Cassidy kind of love.

From afar.

If you have ever encountered Yoshimi playing music in any context, I don't see how you could feel any other way.

Gramsci wrote:I never liked Jonathan Richman and I don't like this shoddy tribute version neither.

Unacceptable.

Having heard the all of the new album yesterday I have to say that it marks a sad but inevitable end to the three album hotstreak that started with clouds taste metallic.

Its a bit like listening to the always inventive steven drozd trying to drag a wagon o' seventies flavoured crap up a hill - even he can't carry the band doing such straightforward and pedestrian material. Not much fearless or freaky about it at all.

Although I may just be projecting subconcious anger onto Wayne Coyne, because last August he knocked me and a large part of a festival crowd over while walking over us in a giant inflatable hamster-ball.

Large numbers of people falling down and crushing, not much fun, but it did convey the lips' "you're all gonna die" motif effectively.

see
http://www.zengrrl.com/grfx/blogpix/mtv-wayne.jpg

ivan wrote:Having heard the all of the new album yesterday I have to say that it marks a sad but inevitable end to the three album hotstreak that started with clouds taste metallic.

Their hot streak started with Hear It Is.

ivan wrote:Although I may just be projecting subconcious anger onto Wayne Coyne, because last August he knocked me and a large part of a festival crowd over while walking over us in a giant inflatable hamster-ball.

It's nice to see that Wayne can have a good time at your expense.

ah it wasn't all that terrible.
Its funny actually they played bohemian rhapsody with some really well edited projections from the parade through Rome in Anthony and Cleopatra, and it seemed brilliant on the night.
I found an mp3 of the performance later and it was completely unlistenable, absolutely terrible sounding.

I heard three songs from the new one... one was uptempo, lighthearted, and fun, and two were boring ballads.

I gotta say, though - this one's got some incredible cover art.

I love the Flaming Lips, more or less across the board, but particularly from Hit to Death through Yoshimi. I've only heard "The Wand" from the forthcoming one, but I have high hopes.

We shall see.

Yes!!! Hit to Death is amazing!
I love ....Ambulance, but it seems like nobody ever mentions Hit to Death....good call.....