Listened to the first half of the forthcoming Lips record on an airplane, on Xanax. Which is how I would recommend it be done.

I am listening to it now, at home. Moments of brilliance, but I don't feel it lives up to the track they've been on since Zaireeka, Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi. It's like they're trying to move beyond that somehow, but I'm not sure if it works.

I will give it time. Not bad at all. And I still love the Flaming Lips...

I can't say I much like their early material - it's not very interesting.

Clouds Taste Metallic was really good, Soft Bulletin great.

Yoshimi turned me off them for a bit.

The new one is growing on me; I like its self-indulgent qualities. Reminds me of "Not Available" in that regard.

Any more thoughts on the new one? Prindle has an interesting review here. Anybody see it on vinyl anywhere?

John W. wrote:Any more thoughts on the new one? Prindle has an interesting review here. Anybody see it on vinyl anywhere?

May 23 is the release date for the vinyl copy. There will be two versions:

180g black wax & colored wax (2 LPs)

In regard to the new release one thing that I find pretty interesting is this is the first time in their career that they've made an album that references previous work. I hear bits of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and The Soft Bulletin all over this record. I don't like that. Another interesting point is the recent bluntness of Coynes' lyrics. I don't like that either. Here's what I really don't like: "It Overtakes Me." I've been listening to the Lips for a very long time and I'm not that hardcore of a fanboy where I find myself fawning over every single song they've created. "It Overtakes Me" takes the state of being cringed to a whole new level.

With all of that nonsense said I like the album a lot. It starts off strong, kind of lags in the middle, and ends beautifully. "The Wizard Turns On...The Giant Silver Flashlight And Puts On His Werewolf Moccasins" continues their string of amazing instrumentals, and the jittery glam-rock inspired "Free Radicals (A Hallucination Of The Christmas Skeleton Pleading With A Suicide Bomber)" showcases inventive drumming and neato Flaming Lips' noises. It's a strong album with a couple of weak parts. Nowhere near crap.

I have listened to it many times, and I do not like this new Lips record very much. It's the first Lips record in who knows how long where at least half of the songs are sorta rotten.

If you could whittle it down to 4 or 5 good tracks, it would make a decent EP.

Carry On.

I'm not massively into the last two Lips records, they have a very overprocessed sheen, and too many effects to mask the lack of melodies. Still, a good run from them - let's remember them, a stage aflame, Donahue making the most ghoulish freak noise ever and them rocking the fuck out. You only have one peak. That was it.

Though Zaireeka gives me chills.

I completely agree with the over-processed quality of the last two records. Hell, Wayne's even hitting all of the right notes with his voice. Wayne has been auto-tuned. Crap.

Still love 'em, though.

i absolutely love the new record. i think pretty much everything of theirs that ihave ever owned or heard, other than that fearless freaks garbage, was good, and even better on repeat.

oh man, and when they played that austin city limits... oh man and when chan marshall came up and joined them for a zep cover, and when she sucked so incredibly super intensely bad during the entire thing and then would stop playing guitar only for you to realize that they never plugged her in in the first place... geez. fucking awful. just terrible. that chick.

but flaming lips? great.

p.s. i just realized i basically posted the same thing many months ago but see, i'm still thinking about this cat power flaming lips thing. man oh man.

kenoki wrote: i think pretty much everything of theirs that i have ever owned or heard, other than that fearless freaks garbage, was good, and even better on repeat.

Are you talking about the documentary or the film premiere bonus bootleg CD? I thought it was great that they decided to give Kliph free reign to pick and choose classic live performances for a legal boot. Great sound quality as well. They've also re-released the bootleg including a b-side to At Way With the Mystics called "Enthusiasm for Life Defeats Internal, Existential Fear (Progressive Dixieland Mix #2)." This song is fucking gorgeous and should've been included on the proper album.

anyone else here thinks that yeah yeah yeah song its really annoying ?