- Audio CD (14 July 1995)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Restless
- ASIN: B000003BGD
- 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: 285,018 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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THE FLAMING LIPS Telepathic Surgery (1989 US 14-track picture CD album - their third album including 2 extra tracks - Fryin Up and Hells Angels Cracker Factory - which are not included on the vinyl issue picture sleeve with deletion drill hole through the barcode)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
this is early lips at there best, along with oh my gawd, it sums up what the band was about perfectly
skipping from balls of pure noise (hari krishna stomp wagon, michael time to wake up) to beautiful pieces of music that will leave you breathless (u.f.o story, the spontaneous combustion of john), listening to this album will leave you with no doubt that the lips are an amazing band.
and they just got better, with the soft bulletin and yoshimi proving theyre not going anywhere
LONG LIVE THE LIPS!
Buy it, Love it, Live it!!
Format:Audio CD
The greatest and craziest disciples of classic Pink Floyd came out of Flaming Lips, whose art bridged the punk ethos and the hippie burlesque. Their aesthetics was in many ways derived by cartoons: shapes that were grossly naive and easily identifiable, stereotyped characters that bordered on parodies, simplified and often implausible situations. The sound created on 'Telepathic Surgery' (1989) is wildly demented, exaggerated guitar surges and maniacal drumming patterns allied with stylistic collages create a soundscape that has to be heard. Abrasive crescendos crash amid roaring motorcyle engines, tingling piano motifs and thrashing cymbals. The tempo takes Neil Young's guitar nuerosis to a new level of unorthodoxy and psychosis. This sound is taken to its extreme on 'Hell's Angel's Cracker Factory', one of rocks most extraordinary and monumental ever pieces. 'Telepathic Surgery' is one of rocks post-modern classics.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Wild Album, Best of the Early Years!
12 April 2003
Format:Audio CD
Not nearly as brilliant as Priest Driven Ambulance, but definatly a wild, heavy album. This is probably the bands best 80's album (although Oh My Gawd!!! comes quite close to earning that title). No Lips collection is complete without it. Hell's Angel's Cracker Factory is worth the price of admission alone!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
That's heavy, dude!
24 April 2002
Format:Audio CD
The Lips continued their spaced-out journey with their 3rd album, Telepathic Surgery, in 1989. Next to Oh My Gawd!, this is definately one of the weirdest Lips albums. The cover is also priceless: a man standing in front of a barren field, holding a hubcap to his face.
The stand-out tracks include:
1. the brief but strange "Spontaneous Combustion Of John" and "Shaved Gorilla"
The stand-out tracks include:
1. the brief but strange "Spontaneous Combustion Of John" and "Shaved Gorilla"
2. the hilarious "UFO Story" where Wayne tells the band about his encounters with UFOs as a kid, complete with a beautiful piano ballad stuck right in the middle.
3. "Chrome-Plated Suicide", which deserved to be a chart-topper
4. The 25-minute plus epic "Hell's Angel's Cracker Factory", which contains endless guitar and drum solos, backwards vocal samples, an opera singer, motorcycles revving, an answering machine, tape loops, and more. Worth the price of the CD alone. It also never appeared on the vinyl or cassette version, and never even was released as a single!
If you're looking to dive into the world of the Lips, here's a good place to start. Buy it, as Wayne would sing, "Right noooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!" :-)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
That's heavy, dude!
24 April 2002
Format:Audio CD
The Lips continued their spaced-out journey with their 3rd album, Telepathic Surgery, in 1989. Next to Oh My Gawd!, this is definately one of the weirdest Lips albums. The cover is also priceless: a man standing in front of a barren field, holding a hubcap to his face.
The stand-out tracks include:
1. the brief but strange "Spontaneous Combustion Of John" and "Shaved Gorilla"
The stand-out tracks include:
1. the brief but strange "Spontaneous Combustion Of John" and "Shaved Gorilla"
2. the hilarious "UFO Story" where Wayne tells the band about his encounters with UFOs as a kid, complete with a beautiful piano ballad stuck right in the middle.
3. "Chrome-Plated Suicide", which deserved to be a chart-topper
4. The 25-minute plus epic "Hell's Angel's Cracker Factory", which contains endless guitar and drum solos, backwards vocal samples, an opera singer, motorcycles revving, an answering machine, tape loops, and more. Worth the price of the CD alone. It also never appeared on the vinyl or cassette version, and never even was released as a single!
If you're looking to dive into the world of the Lips, here's a good place to start. Buy it, as Wayne would sing, "Right noooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!" :-)
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