- Audio CD (30 Aug 1996)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Restless
- ASIN: B000003BGI
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 241,845 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Shine On Sweet Jesus-Jesus Song No.5 |
| 2. Unconsciously Screamin' |
| 3. Rainin' Babies |
| 4. Take Meta Mars |
| 5. Five Stop Mother Superior Rain |
| 6. Stand In Line |
| 7. God Walks Among Us Now-Jesus Song No.6 |
| 8. There You Are-Jesus Song No.7 |
| 9. Mountain Side |
| 10. Wonderful World |
| 11. Lucifer Rising |
| 12. Let Me Be It |
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Format:Audio CD
After a brilliant but unstructured first 3 albums, this was the one where Wayne Coyne finally got it right.
Bringing in the guitar genious that is John Donahue (of Mercury Rev) they created an Album which for a long time was their best work.
Not a concept album, but a "themed" album, big difference. Micheal Ivans of the Lips revealed that all ten of these songs are religion based, even though only 3 are stated to be.
Bringing in the guitar genious that is John Donahue (of Mercury Rev) they created an Album which for a long time was their best work.
Not a concept album, but a "themed" album, big difference. Micheal Ivans of the Lips revealed that all ten of these songs are religion based, even though only 3 are stated to be.
People often interperet musics meanings in their own way, what it says to them. For me this album is about bad things that happen in the world and religions lack of an explanation as to why they happen. Each song contains elements of peoples misfortunes and religious references, leading into the final song, a cover of Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World".
After the damning of religion, the album concludes with this almost sneering, sinister cover, as Wayne practically spits out each word about how wonderful our planet is, with Donahue's creepy distorted guitar riff playing in the background. The perfect way to end an album, summing up the previous nine songs into 3 and a half blissful minutes.
Another masterpiece from Wayne and the Lips, a stunning must have album, just what weve come to expect from the worlds greatest band.
Format:Audio CD
This really is the Lips at their finest. After the patchy Telepathic Surgery album, this is quite unbelievable. Every song, execept Take Meta Mars, is quite exceptional, unique, rocking. Five Stop Mother Superior Rain is the best track, just for the chorus, unprintable here. Each track is printed on the back as being 3 minutes 26 seconds long, but it isn't. Lots of great god songs, which have nothing to do with god. If you're intrigued about the Lips, maybe this isn't the album to buy first, but ultimately you will come to the conclusion that this is their finest.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Your eardrums belong to us
12 Jun 2002
Format:Audio CD
This was the 3rd Lips album that I heard (after Transmissions and Clouds) and the one that converted me from a casual fan to a diehard. Everything comes together for this album (their last for the strugging Restless Records) as future Mercury Rev frontman Jonathan Donuhue adds a huge musical punch, adding extra sonic walls of blistering guitars and scorching feedback, creating an alternate universe of joyous noise-pop/rock.
Every song is a classic hard-rocking jam, from the pounding "Unconsciously Screamin" to the deafening feedback-laden "God Walks Among Us Now". The album even adds two bonus tracks from the Screamin' EP: "Lucifer Risin" and "Let Me Be It". My favorite, however, is the downright beautiful cover version of "What A Wonderful World".
The Lips never got as head-banging as this again. Click on that Buy button right now!
Every song is a classic hard-rocking jam, from the pounding "Unconsciously Screamin" to the deafening feedback-laden "God Walks Among Us Now". The album even adds two bonus tracks from the Screamin' EP: "Lucifer Risin" and "Let Me Be It". My favorite, however, is the downright beautiful cover version of "What A Wonderful World".
The Lips never got as head-banging as this again. Click on that Buy button right now!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Great Early Stuff
24 April 2000
Format:Audio CD
I've been listening to the Flaming Lips quite a bit ever since "She Don't Use Jelly" became a semi-hit a while back. I just recently heard this album for the first time and I'll have to say I'm incredibly impressed and wish I had gotten this a long time ago. The sound on this album is very different from what they sound like now. It's very much a guitar-based sound and the Brian Wilson and 60's pop influences that really came through on their later stuff like "Clouds Taste Metallic" have yet to appear. Yet, this album is startlingly original; there isn't any other band that they really remotely sound like. The songs are all great, especially "God Walks Among Us" and "Mountain Side", two particularly caustic tracks that are incredibly catchy as well. "Mountain Side" in particular gets me; midway through it goes off into this noise breakdown for a few minutes only to go right back into the song again. To top it all off, the album ends with a great, unexpected cover of "What a Wonderful World". How can you get much better than this?
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
an amazing album
8 Sep 1999
Format:Audio CD
this is actually the album that got me back into the flaming lips. it's really just fine, every song is wonderful and different and GOOD. lots of jesus/god songs, that really have nothing to do with jesus or god, as far as i can tell. i've never heard the american release, the one with the bonus tracks stuck right in the middle of the album, but i know that the ten tracks i have are among the flaming lips best. this album would be worth it on the merit of any of the single songs alone. buy it.
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