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Whereas the majority of bands at this time were very rigid and unvaried across the span of one album, the lips diversity made their albums stand out.
From the heavy opening few songs to the more melodic numbers, you cant help but find something you like, and for many, you'll love it all.
The opening two songs will blow your mind. Everything Exploding is an instantly enjoyable track providing an immediate hook to get you into the album. Whast follows is musical genious at its best. One Million Billionth Of A Second On A Sunday morning is a 10 mnute masterclass on how to write a rock song. the story behind it is wonderfull, a tale of thinking things over a little too hard as your mind in its boredom goes for a wander.
Other highlights include the fantastic Cant Stop The Spring, with another catchy chorus, a great "turn it up as loud as you can get away with moment".
Ive listened to this album so many times, and like everything by the Flaming Lips, not only does it not tire, it only gets better each time.
Buy this (and every other lips album)now. Wayne coyne is the greatest musician, songwriter and musical entrepreuner (however you spell that word) of all time. Yes, ahead of John Lennon, Elvis and Freddy Mercury. And that is a FACT.
Anyway, as for the album, as is to be expected, its an amazing blend of wonderfully beautiful music and shockingly tuneful noise rock, all rolled into 1 of the greatest albums of all time.
Everything's Explodin' sets the scene perfectly, with it's instantly singable chorus, but it's equally inaccesible music. One million billionth of a millisecond on a sunday morning is perhaps the best song title of all time, and also one of the most sweeping, majestic rock opera's ever, if your not breathless by the end your, quite frankly, a corpsicle.
As with all Lips albums and songs, it's hard to give them a score, because the albums are more living, breathing entities than a collection of songs, they are so far and away from everything else that to compare them to anything is nigh on impossible. If i had to make a comparison, however, i would most likely compare this to (sorry) another Lips album, Telepathic Surgery, which is equally awesome, but maybe a little less accesible.
All in all though, this will be unlike anything you've experienced before, and the Lips to me arent so much a band as a religion.
Long Live The Lips!
I find it hard to believe that I never ventured beyond that Dont Use Jelly song of theirs when I was a kid. While they have had some interesting releases in recent years, the further back you go in the Lips catalougue you can find some really rad stuff. This album for instance is great... smarmy punk fused garage act like a set of bones that hold together the albums flesh of harmonious dirges; a little bit sad and crippled, with scattered sound, but still rather beautiful. Within are plenty of psychedelic breakdowns and a crash fest or two. They put a lot of unique production behind the soundscape as well, the nine minute second track (read the title on your own its too long and crazy for me to remember) switches between rockin guitars to easy beating acoustic and piano grooves. If you like the Lips of modern day art rock fame, I think you may just find this bit every bit as interesting. Its got more of a raw sound to it. Really these guys could bust some heads back in the day...
Telepathic Surgery here I come...
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