- Audio CD (28 Oct 1997)
- Number of Discs: 4
- Format: Box set, Limited Edition, Import
- Label: Warners
- ASIN: B000002NIQ
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 86,257 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand | |||
| 2. Riding To Work In The Year 2025 (Youre Invisible Now) | |||
| 3. Thirty-Five Thousand Feet Of Despair | |||
| 4. A Machine In India | |||
| 5. The Train Runs Over The Camel But Is Derailed By The Gnat | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand | |||
| 2. Riding To Work In The Year 2025 (Youre Invisible Now) | |||
| 3. Thirty-Five Thousand Feet Of Despair | |||
| 4. A Machine In India | |||
| 5. The Train Runs Over The Camel But Is Derailed By The Gnat | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand | |||
| 2. Riding To Work In The Year 2025 (Youre Invisible Now) | |||
| 3. Thirty-Five Thousand Feet Of Despair | |||
| 4. A Machine In India | |||
| 5. The Train Runs Over The Camel But Is Derailed By The Gnat | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand | |||
| 2. Riding To Work In The Year 2025 (Youre Invisible Now) | |||
| 3. Thirty-Five Thousand Feet Of Despair | |||
| 4. A Machine In India | |||
| 5. The Train Runs Over The Camel But Is Derailed By The Gnat | |||
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A quick glance at the Average Customer review score for this will tell you everything you already need to know, I'm sure. But having only recently experienced Zaireeka, I feel it's necessary to show sme appreciation (even if it is the form of a little-read Amazon review).
I bought this album after a LONG deliberation period. I've always wanted it, owning the two most recent Lips' albums and the earlier 'Hit To Death In The Future Head' (also brilliant). But this, in my opinion, is their finest work and you'd be missing out not to give it a whirl.
It's true when they say that the album will change with every listen. Whole songs differ depending on where you sit, how loud stereos are and how close you synched them (which, I might add, Wayne Coyne acknowledges that certain songs are designed to go out). On our first play through, the players ended up about 4 seconds apart, but this was just enough to give off a fantastic reverb that shot around our heads like crazy. Melodies harmonise with each other across the space, echoes are sometimes heard before you even hear their originator and crescendos pulse around in three part drum solos.
Quite simply, this was a very, very cool experience that is specifically designed to pull friends and fans together bring their CD players around and sit in awe.
I wonder what TWO copies on the go would sound like...
31 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Unbelievable! The majesty of the Flaming Lips coming from 8 directions at once. Spark that j sit back and be amazed. Honestly, I have heard music so beautiful it made me cry before but I'd never heard anything so beautiful it made laugh.
A bit tricky with just me and my mate trying to start these tracks at the right time but it doesn't even matter that much. Basically you seem to have two CDs that try to play the tune generally and two CDs of samples and sound effects that fade in and out and merge with each other.
One great thing about this album is that you will hear something and go "Whoa! Turn that CD up" then try to figure out which stereo it's coming from and you can mix it to your ideal, listen to what you want to listen to. The ingenious thing is that this record naturally ends up loud because you turn one CD up, not the other 3 down, and as the records progresses you end up having turned them all up.
The songs are fantastic too, especially 25000 Ft of Despair (I think that's what it's called)...just wait for that aeroplane sound to shoot across the room from all the speakers.
It's time for lunch now so I'm gonna leave this here but I could talk about this record all day.
I know some people will complain about not being able to play it for lack of CD players... or hands but that makes it more special. Get together with your friends and you'll never tire of it... just cos you won't get to hear it that often.
This is real innovation - the Lips should be worshipped as deities or something. Everyone should know about this album.
A bit tricky with just me and my mate trying to start these tracks at the right time but it doesn't even matter that much. Basically you seem to have two CDs that try to play the tune generally and two CDs of samples and sound effects that fade in and out and merge with each other.
One great thing about this album is that you will hear something and go "Whoa! Turn that CD up" then try to figure out which stereo it's coming from and you can mix it to your ideal, listen to what you want to listen to. The ingenious thing is that this record naturally ends up loud because you turn one CD up, not the other 3 down, and as the records progresses you end up having turned them all up.
The songs are fantastic too, especially 25000 Ft of Despair (I think that's what it's called)...just wait for that aeroplane sound to shoot across the room from all the speakers.
It's time for lunch now so I'm gonna leave this here but I could talk about this record all day.
I know some people will complain about not being able to play it for lack of CD players... or hands but that makes it more special. Get together with your friends and you'll never tire of it... just cos you won't get to hear it that often.
This is real innovation - the Lips should be worshipped as deities or something. Everyone should know about this album.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
When a band is already one of the most unique, and among the most innovative in the music biz, what can they do to get even more innovative? The Flaming Lips answer that question in a unique and surreal way in "Zaireeka," which may be the most unique album ever recorded. Whether it's genius depends on how you view music.
Four discs make up "Zaireeka." When played simultaneously, they create a maelstrom of sound. Setting it up with four CD players sounds a bit arduous, but the experience is worth it when songs like the brilliant "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (You're Invisible Now)" burst out of the multiple speakers. It gives an expansive feeling to the music, as if it's billowing out like smoke and surrounding the listener in a big cushy wall of sound.
The songs have an experimental feeling to them. Some, like "Okay I'll Admit I Really Don't Understand" and "Machine in India" are lacking in complexity when compared to the remaining songs. But in every song, the shimmering multiple layers of sound interweave together, befuddling and dazzling me. A mere disc couldn't hold this much sound. Dogs barking, surreal guitars, gothic organs and pounding drums are much louder here than anywhere else.
It's hard to tell how clear the sound is because of its intensity; it sounds like there are dozens of melodies being played together at times. And fans of the Lips' masterpiece "Soft Bulletin" should check this out. The sound of Zaireeka, once I got used to it, made me think of reminiscent of a bigger, more complicated twin of "Soft Bulletin."
"Zaireeka" is an unparalleled experience that few bands could even dream of, let alone actually make. If you're in the mood for 4-D surreal soundscapes, then this is your thing. A marvelous album.
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Published on 29 Feb 2008 by M. J. Farnworth
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Zaireeka might sound like an entry in the Turner Prize with its four discs to be played at the same time in syncopation- but it makes complete sense when listened to in this way... Read more
Published on 28 Nov 2002 by Jason Parkes
madcap genius
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