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The great thing about Flaming Lips' records is that each new one renders all its predecessors obsolete. Clouds Taste Metallic continues the fine Lips tradition of quantum improvement. It's an elaborately orchestrated masterwork of crashing cymbals, chiming bells, tinkling pianos, buzzing guitars, chirping birds, humming projectors, exploding cities, cheering crowds, and vocals stacked to the stratosphere. Each song goes gleefully over the top, but every ridiculous element somehow seems just right. While the carnival atmosphere and silly song titles distract you from band leader Wayne Coyne's serious ambition, the album's power bubbles up from hidden depths and eventually overwhelms you. The smoldering packages in "Lightning Strikes the Postman" and the sleeping millions dreaming about killing the boss in "Bad Days" are funny, but they're also unnerving, and the band builds a whole song out of the sad truth that "Evil Will Prevail". The sense that this isn't all just fun and games makes happier moments such as the cosmic orgasm of "When You Smile" sound like something much more than a hippie's wet dream. This album isn't music to take drugs to; it's the drug itself. --Tim Quirk
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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For anyone who has only gotten into The Flaming Lips since Yoshimi or The Soft Bulletin (like me), you will not be even slightly disappointed by this album - it's every bit as good as either of their two most recent releases. While maybe not quite as polished as the two most recent albums, it's a little more zany and upbeat than the Soft Bulletin, and tracks like Bad Days and Evil will Prevail are amongst their very best. Now available for a fiver there is no excuse not to buy it. Do it now. I mean it...
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Most people won't find this review very helpful anyway, but here goes. The Flaming Lips just seem to get better and better with every album, although many argue that 'The Soft Bulletin', released in 1999, is better than 'Yoshimi battles the pink robots', released in 2002. Also, it has often been said (and deservedly so) that the Flaming Lips really don't sound like anyone else. I can't compare this album to any album by any other people. The only other album that bears even a slight resemblance to this one that I can think of is their own 'Transmissions from the satellitte heart'. With this album they developed their sound even further than had previously been done, and as a result, the album doesn't have one bad track on it. True, some songs are better than others, but none of them are truely bad. One good thing about the album is the strangely affective lyrics. 'They punctured my yolk' genuinely makes me feel sad, even though I don't know what the song's about. 'Bad days' is a brilliantly uplifting song, and 'When you smile' is a truely wonderful song, that really does make you smile wide. Better than any of their earlier albums (except perhaps 'Hit to death in the future head'), this is a good place to start with the Flaming Lips.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This was the first Flaming Lips album I bought, and having bought the rest since I must say its still my favourite. To me the beauty of the Flaming Lips music is their inherent hopefullness in the face of a seemingly meaningless state of life we all have found ourselves shaing. While The Soft Bulletin deals with this in a splendor of melancholic lushness, Clouds Taste Mettalic perfectly encapsulates this continuous theme using a knowingly calculated yet almost "accidental musicalness". It takes the energy of the earlier more lo-fi albums, such as Hit To Death... and Transmissions from the Satelite Heart, while being well on the way, in terms of production and song writing to The Soft Bulletin.
Some of this energy seems to come from the guitarist Ronald, who uses his guitar in a truely unique and original way; as an intrument of many sounds rather than a chord producing stringy-box. This album is consistently brilliant. There aren't any bad songs on it, just better ones. Eeeeee.
Some of this energy seems to come from the guitarist Ronald, who uses his guitar in a truely unique and original way; as an intrument of many sounds rather than a chord producing stringy-box. This album is consistently brilliant. There aren't any bad songs on it, just better ones. Eeeeee.
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Clouds Taste Metallic
Their early work was but a shadow of what was to come. `Clouds Taste Metallic' is the definitive Flaming Lips experience! Read more
Published 2 months ago by EvansJJ
Twisted pop masterwork from the always brilliant Flaming Lips.
By this stage in their career, The Lips had progressed from the lo-fi psychedelic slacker rock of early albums like Oh My Gawd! Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2008 by Jonathan James Romley
Buy it for 3 awesome tracks....
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Published on 2 Jan 2008 by mookster
The Flaming Lips yet again prove why they are one of the great bands...
The Flaming Lips are band that are always embracing the weird and wonderful side of life and have a great time doing so as well as constantly evolving their off kilter space age... Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2006 by Whipelsmacker
Clouds taste metallic
Whilst thinking about the endless drivel that seems to be forever in the charts, I searched for an escape and this album is it. Read more
Published on 27 May 2004 by "austpoll"
Pure bliss
Coming close to ten years old and it still hasn't lost any of it's appeal. So original and so complete. Read more
Published on 20 Dec 2003 by "willp666"
My dead budgie sent me here
Wayne Coyne is a modern legend. The man with the grizzled beard who dances around like a madman, throwing confetti, bursting balloons, singing with glove puppets of nuns, pouring... Read more
Published on 18 July 2003 by Wee Jimmy
a kaleidoscope
Ditching much of the rawness of previous works (telepathic surgery, hit to death...) the lips come up witha truely focused album that seems to be a natural predecseeor to the soft... Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2002 by Mr. Nicholas Davies
A band that sounds like no other ...?
For all the hype (albeit deserved) that surrounded the Lips' last release, "The Soft Bulletin", this was their first great record, and remains their highest point so far. Read more
Published on 27 Dec 2001
Different but no less indispensible
I bought this album after 'The Soft Bulletin', and I have to say, at first I was slightly disappointed that it was so different from it's successor, however, therein lies the... Read more
Published on 1 July 2001 by will.sabido@ukonline.co.uk
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