- Audio CD (14 July 1995)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Restless
- ASIN: B000003BFO
- Other Editions: Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 267,904 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Everything's Explodin' |
| 2. One Million Billionth Of A Millisecond On A Sunday Morning |
| 3. Maximum Dream For Evil Knievel |
| 4. Can't Exist |
| 5. Ode To C.C. (Part I) |
| 6. The Ceiling Is Bendin' |
| 7. Prescription: Love |
| 8. Thanks To You |
| 9. Can't Stop The Spring |
| 10. Ode To C.C. (Part II) |
| 11. Love Yer Brain |
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Even thought Oh my Gawd was at an early stage of the lips career, they were already showing quality above anyone else.
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.
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.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
even before you listen to this album, you know, because it has come from the warped genius that is Sir Wayne of Coyne, that it is going to be special. Truly, he is a one off, an original talent the likes of which we haven't seen before and probably won't see again.
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!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
TAKE THIS BROTHER, MAY IT SERVE YOU WELL....
2 May 2009
Format:Vinyl
I've been trying to build up a collection of early Flaming Lips stuff, ever since I discovered that they have a pretty good set of eighties garage and pseudo-psychedelic titles. I just aquired OH MY GAWD!!! on a limited edition vinyl bit from 2007. It was a toss up between this and their 1989 release, Telepathic Surgery.
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...
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...
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Phase Two of the Flaming Lips quest for sonic perfection
22 Feb 1999
Format:Audio CD
After the release of "Hear It Is" (preceded by their eponymous debut EP), the Flaming Lips spent a while on the road, honing their chops and composing and tightening up the material that would comprise their follow-up. As such, "Oh My Gawd!" thoroughly delivers on the promises made on the first two records - and then some. The songs are more cohesive, the playing is tighter, and the direction, if you can call it that, is considerably more focused. Right off the bat, "Everything's Explodin'" sets the tone for the record with lyrics like, "Boy, you're so loud that you could wake the dead, and some of the living, they're waking, too." Tongue in cheek, perhaps, but accurate; almost everything here expands on the themes on "Hear," from the Pink Floyd-isms of "One Million Billionth of a Millisecond On A Sunday Morning" to the piano-smashing (literally) and Beatles tape-loop of "Love Yer Brain." That, and everything in between, shows a band interested in growing and building on their previous work. "Oh My Gawd!" isn't the ultimate achievement for the Flaming Lips, but it is the next evolutionary step for a rock group already obviously unique in a sea of sameness. The Lips make music for the Lips first, but are happy when anyone else gets the joke; as they put it in "Explodin,'" "If you don't like it, write your own song."
More hidden tributes...
14 July 2007
Format:Audio CD
There's a couple of other obscure references here besides the obvious Beatles samples; like the first 45 seconds, the verses and the ending of "The Ceiling Is Bendin" which are a spot-on cover of the Alice Cooper Bands' song "Levity Ball" (from their first album PRETTIES FOR YOU). Not to mention the classical sample at the end of "Can't Stop The Spring;" any guesses?
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