Hey you said comments are welcome. And I just saw this point of interest for the first time
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Originally Posted by Mankycaaant
No.2 Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
Wtf? Only three letters but I feel an adequate description of this album. What this was supposed to be, I have no idea. An album in which the Flaming Lips decided to push the boundaries of how much distortion and radio static can be classed as experimental music. Bringing in a whole host of odd special guests from a variety of music fields, yet none being able to save this record from being too out there for its own good.
The only positive I can come up with is that this record is unique. But sometimes sticking to what works, y'know works.
This is just a showcase in an alternative to alternative music and in turn makes its niche market so small that the only people this album probably appeals to are those who made it. I like The Flaming Lips, but they seem content in alienating me with this record which just flat out sucked.
No doubt someone will say I just don't understand this. Well I'm not sure I want to understand this strange strange album. Strange in a Charles Manson way, not in a good way.
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I have to disagree with this as always. Mainly I am doing this because the album does what Flaming Lips have practically always done: Make weird, experimental pop music that's more in line with Barrett Floyd than the Beatles. Even Yoshimi had very evident traces of psychedelia and prog that don't mesh well with modern popular formats, but still kind of succeeeded a little maybe. At least with my mother. Even their poppy pop bugglegum charleston chew stuff has their own little ticks; for example, "yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah" plays with negative space (to an extent) and political/philosophical content. This is NOT ok on the radio, and oftentimes, with more dedicate music listeners, because they think it's corny or what have you. They also have women shooting rainbows out of their vaginas live.
My point is the fact that they definitely didn't just get weird all the sudden. They've been involved with experimentation, avant-garde, and conceptual art since their beginning. But the other side of my argument is that they actually have a good bit of melody and great production work on this. As annoying as Ke$ha is (if you ask me which you didn't or won't or shouldn't) she contributes infectious vocals and an infectious melody the band wrote, and the song is dirt nasty like her pop is in a better way. The Bon Iver collaboration, though very minimal, involves the listener and the repeated drum line is so hypnotic, you can't help but get caught up in it. WEell i guess you can because you did.