3/30/2024 0 Comments The flaming lips soft bulletin 5.1![]() There's a distorted sound to the drums on the first track. But dressed with a weird American glittery excess, self indulgence, and hope that seems out of touch with practical reality. This is thier Revolver, or maybe thier Kid A. In the Climate Pledge Arena of America's greatest bands, there will one day be a Flaming Lips banner hanging proudly in the rafters, somewhere next to the Grateful Dead, the Mothers of Invention, and KISS. I untintentionally saw them a couple more times as they got bigger and Wayne started rolling over us all in the audience inside a giant clear balloon and convincing people from the crowd to jump onstage and dance naked. Wayne sang through a microphone that blew out green smoke and crushed fake blood over his forehead. Glitter everywhere, splashing off the drums. Random people in furry costumes danced around the stage. At the time I didn't fully get what they were going for on stage. Matt and I unintentionally saw the Lips a couple years after Soft Bulletin came out at the Seattle Pier with De La Soul, Kinky, and CAKE. Still raw like their early stuff, but dropped the guitars and picked up electro beats, glossy detuned disney synth strings. They tapped into something new with this album. They make me proud to be American in the age of American decline.
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