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  • Audio CD (7 Mar 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Azuli
  • ASIN: B0006TL9JQ
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 51,831 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Unravel - Bjork
2. My Ship - Miles Davis
3. Speed Of Sound - Chris Bell
4. A Bit Of A Pain - Faust It's
5. 2HB - Roxy Music
6. People - Alfie
7. Flim - Aphex Twin
8. Galileo - Mice Parade
9. Up The Down Escalator - The Chameleons
10. Seven Nation Army - Flaming Lips (Exclusive Recording)
11. Playground For A Wedgeless Firm - The Chemical Brothers
12. Saudade - Love & Rockets
13. Monochrome - Lush
14. Sleep Comes Down - Psychedelic Furs
15. River Man - Nick Drake
16. On Fire - Sebadoh
17. Pyramid Song - Radiohead
18. I'm Not In Love - 10CC
19. Another Green World - Brian Eno
20. The Jist - David Shrigley (Exclusive Spoken Word Piece)

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Album Description

The Flaming Lips have grown over the last twenty years from a group of inspired amateurs to one of today's most powerful and influential bands. On LateNight Tales, they select the music that has influenced their lives and their work. The results, as you might expect, are an eclectic melange of the cool and the quirky: from Radiohead to 10CC and from Lush to Miles Davis. This also includes and exclusive recording of their rendition of "Seven Nation Army".


CD Description

A truly eclectic compilation, this installment of the LATE NIGHT TALES series features tunes selected by Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne. For fans of the revered Oklahoma band, the initial attraction will likely be the Lips' take on the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army", a rare track recorded during a BBC radio session. However, what really impresses here is the range of other artists that Coyne has brought to the table. The mood is established with Bjork's hauntingly beautiful "Unravel", which is immediately followed by "My Ship", a gentle tune by jazz legend Miles Davis. Later, the styles shift from dreamy electronica (Aphex Twin's "Flim") to anthemic rock (the Chameleons' "Up the Down Escalator") to melancholy folk (Nick Drake's "River Man"). Coyne enthusiastically comments on every track in the liner notes, making it clear that this excellent collection is a labour of love by a performer who's never stopped being a fan in his own right.

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars In the band's van on the American Prairie, 16 Mar 2005
In the great sleeve notes to this collection, Wayne Coyne reminices on the time each band member had to make a couple of compilation tapes to last for an entire tour in their old van. As this could be for Months, the choices tended to be honest reflections of each tapers taste. This asthetic continues in this fine compilation, an eclectic mix with an overriding sense of the other worldiness which defines much of the Lips output.

For the Lips fan it illuminates the band's own unique musical take on life, for the oldies it reminds us to replace some of that classic vinyl (Psychedleic Furs - what a great track) and for anyone there are some real eye openers (especially for me Mice Parade and Faust).

So this is fine for a chilled nite in, but even better to slip into the player as you start that road trip in the USA from coast to coast.

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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Driving At Dusk During The Winter In the Distant Future..., 9 Mar 2005
By degrant "degrant" (London) - See all my reviews
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The Flaming Lips, if nothing else, write great liner notes and describe their and other bands' music with a rare verve. This is less a chillout mix than a well packaged and produced compilation of songs which the Lips would be proud to have released (while passing the time driving across the interior of the US). One can easily why as the compilers are blessed with fine taste. The album starts off brilliantly. The otherworldy strains of Bjork run into Faust via Miles Davis and Chris Bell who has been a staple of compilations and cover versions since This Mortal Coil in the late 1980s.

The album finishes fantastically with probably the finest moments
from both Nick Drake and Radiohead in "River Man" and "Pyramid Song" respectively. The only blip of the final tracks is 10CC's "I'm Not In Love" which I cannot stand (check out Talking Heads' unrelated song of the same name from their second album which would have been a better choice). However, quality control is restored with the beautiful "Another Green World" by Brian Eno concludes the album proper (save for a spoken word piece by David Shrigley of whom I had never heard previously - imagine Aidan Moffat speaking over the more industial elements of Bjork's latest offering).

If there is a weakness to the compilation, it is in the middle which comprises songs by the like of the Chameleons, Love and Rockets and Psychedelic Furs which, while by no means bad songs, do not provide the same chill as the surrounding material.

Despite the depth of musical riches, the highlights for me were two. In reverse order, the Aphex Twin's "Flim" serves as a reminder that, when Richard James wants to, he can create music of unsurpassed beauty. To my shame, "People" by Alfie was completely unknown to me. It is quite simply the best song Pulp and Belle and Sebastian never wrote and should be re-released and made number one.

Meanwhile, this has whetted the appetite for the next Flaming Lips album properly. Enjoy.

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3 of 60 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars should say on the cover that it is from various artists, 6 Dec 2005
I listened to the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and really liked a few songs, upon which a friend gave me this album, but unfortunately did not notice that it was not by the Flaming Lips.
I found it very disappointing that the front cover does not say that it is not by the Flaming Lips, but by various artists!!!
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