AMG Review of Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
Jason Ankeny
All Music Guide
The addition of guitarist Ronald Jones and drummer Steven Drozd recharges the Flaming Lips' batteries for the superb Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, another prismatic delicacy that continues the group's drift toward pop nirvana. In typical fashion, the record's left-field hit, the freak-show singalong "She Don't Use Jelly," bears little resemblance to the album as a whole; the remainder of Transmissions is much more sonically and structurally ambitious -- the towering "Moth in the Incubator" keeps generating new layers of noise before erupting into an amphetamine waltz, "Pilot Can at the Queer of God" dive-bombs with kamikaze recklessness, and the slow-burning "Oh My Pregnant Head" is as mind-expanding as its title.
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In the spirit of the Mog love fest, I give you the CBW Masacree in 3 parts (harmonies optional).I am from Devon, Pennsylvania home a tiny dot of a town that bleeds into the others around it on the infamous Main Line of Philadelphia. The Main Line is called this because it was at one time the main road from Lancaster to Philadelphia. Later it somehow became the bastion for all things W.A.S.P.y....
There's a scene in Cool Hand Luke, where Paul Newman's character, Luke Jackson, hears of his mothers death and quietly sits down with his banjo, and plucks out this tune. It doesn't really make too much sense in the grand scheme of the whole movie, and lyrically, I'm not sure how it relates to death. But it is one of those "actor moments" in which you can see the depth an actor has put into a...