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is my favorite Flaming Lips song. It makes me feel like I'm floating away on a cloud while watching home movies.

 

What's yours?

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Given all the times in the past I've gone on about how much I can't stand the cartoon characters they've become, which, in turn, makes me a little sad because they were one of the first bands I felt passionately about back when I was getting into "good" music, my absolute favorite Flaming Lips song, "Waitin' for a Superman," is one that, much like a lot of The Soft Bulletin, points in the direction they've gone over the last decade. The current incarnation of the Lips has done a lot to turn me off that album, being that everything they've done since has been a shinier and more polished reworking of that particular record. I mean, fucking "Do You Realize" is Air Supply.

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I think the order I got into the Lips was Clouds Taste Metallic and Soft Bulletin before doubling back for Hit to Death.. and Transmissions..., so I don't really have any sentimental attachment to the earlier style like you do, but I share your disdain for the more recent stuff. I thought I liked Yoshimi but I got sick of everything but the title track and "All We Have Is Now" about a month in.

 

Say, "Placebo Headwound" is really awesome too. I'm glad I demothballed this album today.

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I wish they'd done a few more albums that sounded more like In A Priest Driven Ambulance. I like the way that album is skewed just enough towards listenability that it avoids being annoying and becomes awesome and transcendent. Thin line.

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It might be time to try The Soft Bulletin again. I'd have to find it, though; it's not on my computer nor my iPod. I still have the CD, but most of my CDs are in boxes. Maybe a project for tonight.

 

This thread did inspire me to listen to Clouds Taste Metallic, which is on my iPod. First Lips album I ever bought (I was around when "She Don't Use Jelly" was a hit, but I was still a little too wrapped up in grunge for it to connect) so it has some nostalgia value. Even without it, CTM is just a really fun record.

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I'm only familiar with Yoshimi, the opening track as my favorite of that album. I should hear another album by the Lips. Which one do you gents suggest that album should be?

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One time I was walking home and it started to rain, so I sat under a tree, and it was by this like, pond, but I live in Florida so it was still sunny out, and as such a rainbow appeared. "Yoshimii Battles the Pink Robots" came on my iPod as I watched this rainbow arc over a pond. It was pretty cool.

 

Anyway, my favorite is She Don't Use Jelly. Is that cliche? I'm not sure I really care, that's definitely my fave.

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Has anyone seen Christmas On Mars yet? My copy just recently came in the mail, but I've yet to watch.

 

I got a copy from Netflix, which I ripped, but I made a pact with at least one good friend a half a decade ago (no exaggeration whatsover) that we would see it together, so I am going to sit on it until the next time I go back home.

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i think yoshimi might be in my top 5 albums of this decade. who cares if do you realize sounds like fucking air supply. its a great song. if a little over-sentimental and corny.

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