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The Flaming Lips

The Soft Bulletin

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PLAY QUEUE 1 Race For The Prize		save
PLAY QUEUE 2 A Spoonful Weighs A Ton		save
PLAY QUEUE 3 The Spark That Bled		save
PLAY QUEUE 4 The Spiderbite Song		save
PLAY QUEUE 5 Buggin'		save
PLAY QUEUE 6 What Is The Light?		save
PLAY QUEUE 7 The Observer		save
PLAY QUEUE 8 Waitin' For A Superman		save
PLAY QUEUE 9 Suddenly Everything Has Changed		save
PLAY QUEUE 10 The Gash		save
PLAY QUEUE 11 Feeling Yourself Disintegrate		save
PLAY QUEUE 12 Sleeping On The Roof		save
PLAY QUEUE 13 Race For The Prize		save
PLAY QUEUE 14 Waitin' For A Superman		save

MOG Editorial Review

Though the Flaming Lips are know as some of the greatest left-field rockers making music today, their reputation was a little different before the release of this 1999 landmark. The band had first appeared on the mainstream radar with the 1994 alt-rock hit "She Don't Use Jelly," but had since faded into modern-rock obscurity, mostly making headlines for the challenging four-disc effort Zaireeka, but The Soft Bulletin changed the game for the band. Combining their love of science fiction and jarring-yet-sincere lyrics with a more electronic-driven sound, the album was equal parts poppy and strange, with songs like "Racing for the Prize" and "Suddenly Everything Has Changed" feeling like proper rock anthems. It was the record that opened up a world of possibilities for the Flaming Lips, one that finally let them use all of their eccentricities to their advantage, and the rest is history.
AMG Review of Soft Bulletin [UK]

Jason Ankeny
All Music Guide

So where does a band go after releasing the most defiantly experimental record of its career? If you're the Flaming Lips, you keep rushing headlong into the unknown -- The Soft Bulletin, their follow-up to the four-disc gambit Zaireeka, is in many ways their most daring work yet, a plaintively emotional, lushly symphonic pop masterpiece eons removed from the mind-warping noise of their past efforts. Though more conventional in concept and scope than Zaireeka, The Soft Bulletin clearly reflects its predecessor's expansive sonic palette. Its multidimensional sound is positively celestial, a shape-shifting pastiche of blissful melodies, heavenly harmonies, and orchestral flourishes; but for all its headphone-friendly innovations, the music is still amazingly accessible, never sacrificing popcraft in the name of radical experimentation. (Its aims are so perversely commercial, in fact, that hit R&B remixer Peter Mokran tinkered with the cuts "Race for the Prize" and "Waitin' for a Superman" in the hopes of earning mainstream radio attention.) But what's most remarkable about The Soft Bulletin is its humanity -- these are Wayne Coyne's most personal and deeply felt songs, as well as the warmest and most giving. No longer hiding behind surreal vignettes about Jesus, zoo animals, and outer space, Coyne pours his heart and soul into each one of these tracks, poignantly exploring love, loss, and the fate of all mankind; highlights like "The Spiderbite Song" and "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" are so nakedly emotional and transcendentally spiritual that it's impossible not to be moved by their beauty. There's no telling where the Lips will go from here, but it's almost beside the point -- not just the best album of 1999, The Soft Bulletin might be the best record of the entire decade. [A U.K. version was also released.]