at war with the mystics

[Tyler]

Honestly the Spiderbite song is about the only track on that PERFECT album that i don't like. Slow Motion is definitely better.

As for MrJ...i just really don't know what to say.

[James]

I kinda like Buggin' at the end, but Spiderbite is a much better song.

You say Spiderbite is a better song than Slow Motion?

Fits better on the record. Of course, I'm very biased to the fact that the US version is the one I'm used to. I can't get used to it being on the record...

[mr_j]

As for MrJ...i just really don't know what to say.

i've heard that phrase before, in relation to many different subjects, so methinks you should just sit back and enjoy the mystery

[kip]

I'm surprised "Clouds Taste Metallic" hasn't crept into the discussion. For anyone who hasn't heard this record - with all of it's amazing moments, please go and have a listen.

[Dalya]

That sounds like some shit I would say.

TRUE. and you'd make me feel like an idiot for not agreeing with you. what a jackass.

[Dalya]

i love almost all the flamins lips albums, especially clouds taste metallic, but to me Soft Bulletin is the first time the awesomeness sounds intentional. if that makes sense. everything before that sounds like theyre just fucking around lucked into ggreat albums. soft bulletin has some sort of structure, meaning, and much more experimentation than they previously had. yoshimi is very different from SB but more of the same. this album is pretty sad (as in the emotion, not pathetic) compared to all past albums so i think thats why its getting especially mixed reviews. maybe its their Sea Change. they are a cockroach band that will never die even if they do come out with a couple of mediocre albums.

p.s. track 2 reminds me so much of blue orchid by the white stripes its not even funny. did anyone else notice this?

[ifihadahifi]

p.s. track 2 reminds me so much of blue orchid by the white stripes its not even funny. did anyone else notice this?

I was commenting the other day that both of these songs have a Prince sound to them.

[kip]

i love almost all the flamins lips albums, especially clouds taste metallic, but to me Soft Bulletin is the first time the awesomeness sounds intentional. if that makes sense. everything before that sounds like theyre just fucking around lucked into ggreat albums. soft bulletin has some sort of structure, meaning, and much more experimentation than they previously had.

Now that you point that out, I see exactly what you mean. It's funny to trace their musical development from records such as "In A priest Driven Ambulance" & "Oh My Gawd..." - sheer chaos and crazy tape loopiness - all the way up to intentionally choreographed records like Ziareka. It does seem that Soft Bulletin was the first really cohesive record that took more of a thematic approach to the whole end result. I think Steven Drozd has a lot to do with how things have turned out post Clouds...isn't that when he began composing music for the flips?

You ahve a good ear Dalya!

[sam]

Listening to Mystics makes me feel sort of unstuck in musical time, like Slaughterhouse Five. Bouncing around from 70s prog rock to 3rd stream orchestral jazz, etc.

[Dalya]

true. i cant really listen to the whole thing at once. track 1 and 2 are for happy drive-around-when-its-sunny moods and the rest is for lazy sundays/rainy days.

[Doomius]

The album as a whole has been growing on me. I must admit that I enjoy The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song and the W.A.N.D. most of all, very high energy! The rest of the album although good, I have to be in a certain mood to really enjoy, like sitting on a porch watchin the rain come down!


Is it just me or is there a certain 70's vibe injected throughout the whole album.

[eebs]

i managed to catch 45-50 minutes of the radio one live broadcast of last night's birmingham show - anyone interested in a copy?

it was on from 10-11 uk time so would also be on the bbc player for the next week (steve lamacq show)

[katie]

okay. so i bought this cd two days ago and have not stopped listening to it since. i'm amazed at the lackluster reviews of it from most people.

the songs everyone likes ("yeah yeah yeah" and "w.a.n.d.") are not the best songs on this album, in my opinion. i really like both of them, and think that yeahyeahyeah is perfect to start off the album, but the standouts to me are "the sound of failure," "the wizard turns on," and "it overtakes me." ESPECIALLY "it overtakes me." glorious!

i like how i can hear tons of different influences in there - paul simon for "yeah yeah yeah," pink floyd on "the wizard turns on," the eels on "it overtakes me," bowie on "free radicals" - but through and through, this is a Lips album and you can freakin' hear it.

blown away. this is the kind of album that makes me take the long way home so i can listen to it for longer. that makes me appreciate the sun shining in massachusetts after a straight week of rain behind me and a week of rain ahead. that makes me see dance in my mind's eye. I AM INSPIRED and i have wayne coyne and my flips to thank.

[sam]

I really like "the wizard turns on" as well. Without lyrics, its hard to gauge if that reference is the one I think it is, or is it?

Isn't there a touch of Ozric Tentacles going on here as well?

[katie]

"the wizard turns on" is the instrumental with the siiiick guitar.

and i've never heard ozric tentacles, so i can't judge that. they any good?