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Their music isn’t, how you say, universally accessible, and the weirdness gets same-y, but no one else has posited a parallel universe in which the Sixties and the Nineties exist simultaneously, allowing for a peculiarly convincing brand of monolithic robotic swirl. The Soft Bulletin remains one of my favourite Flaming Lips albums, despite me struggling with it to start with, and there's enough been said and written about it already that I will concentrate on the format, rather than the content, for this review. Homepage of the Oklahoma psychedelic alternative rock band the Flaming Lips. The remix is amazing, the video extras are amazing, I only wish that the radio sessions and extras were available on the audio cd on this edition (even though they are all on the Soft Bulletin companion) Read more.
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Densely textured, awkward but somehow melodic, The Soft Bulletin finds these pop oddballs with their poker-faced humor firmly intact - “When you got that spider bite on your hand/I thought we would have to break up the band,” sings Wayne Coyne in his strained Neil Young-style voice, referring to an accident that could only have happened to the Lips, and did. The Flaming Lips’ The Soft Bulletin, released in May or June 1999, depending on which side of the Atlantic you were on, is an album about many things the passage of time, the meaning of love, the importance of human connection and, ultimately, how the looming presence of death intensifies experience.It seemed to look backward and forward simultaneously. The Soft Bulletin is (so far) The Flaming Lips masterpiece. Once you’ve labored in cult obscurity, fielded rumors that John Tesh wanted to cover one of your songs, appeared on Beverly Hills 90210, composed an orchestra for forty automobile tape decks and enjoyed a minuscule Top Forty blip, what do you do for a follow-up? The eccentric Oklahoma outfit Flaming Lips serenely release another baffling, winning, neopsychedelic recording.