The same extraordinary madness that infected the best work of Brian Wilson rears its head on the shimmering and melodic Clouds Taste Metallic, a masterful collection which completes the Flaming Lips' odyssey into the pop stratosphere. The Pet Sounds comparisons are obvious -- two of the highlights are titled "This Here Giraffe" and "Christmas at the Zoo" -- yet not unfair; like Brian Wilson, Wayne Coyne has refined his unique vision into something both highly personal and powerfully universal. Similarly, while Coyne's lyrics remain as acid-damaged and inscrutable as ever, his densely constructed songs convey emotional complexities far beyond the scope of their head-case titles ("Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles," "Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World"); galvanized by equal parts newfound maturity and childlike wonderment, Clouds Taste Metallic is both the Flaming Lips' most intricate and most irresistible work.
Nothing is better than finding a great soundtrack to a movie. There are 2 things that can happen that will leave a bad taste in your mouth however. First, the soundtrack could have music that was never in the movie to begin with. One such soundtrack that came out recently was the one for "Wedding Crashers". I think only one song off the soundtrack was in the otherwise mediocre film. The other i...
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Nothing is better than finding a great soundtrack to a movie. There are 2 things that can happen that will leave a bad taste in your mouth however. First, the soundtrack could have music that was never in the movie to begin with. One such soundtrack that came out recently was the one for "Wedding Crashers". I think only one song off the soundtrack was in the otherwise mediocre film. The other i...
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do smiley faces really need eyes?Think about it. I know they don't need noses, that's obvious, the nose has no expressive capabilities in 2D. And even though eyes are expressive on a persons actual face, I don't think they do much on smileys.think about this while enjoying the Flamink Lipses.
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I’ve been on a serious vinyl kick for nearly a year now. There’s just something about records, y’know? They just sssssmell good!But I bring this up because I’ve also got an entire plastic mountian megaload a of CD collection (topping out over just 1,000, I think), and I’ve been neglecting them for quite some time. That is, until a coupla days ago when I decided to give this whole MOG .CO
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I am new to MOG, saw that you could upload MP3's for people to listen too. So I thought people should know about this song. It is a not so heard song by the Flaming Lips - Brainville. If people like I may post another Lips song in a few weeks.
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