Title: "My cosmic autumn rebellion (The inner life as blazing shield of defiance and optimism as celestial spear of action)"
Format: Track
Written by: The Flaming Lips
Performed by: The Flaming Lips
Genre: Dreampop/Psych pop
Taken from: The Flaming Lips album
At War with the Mystics
Year: 2006
Acclaim: I think none. The album won a Grammy, but this was not one of the three singles released from it. Of course, I know nothing about The Flaming Lips, so maybe it's one of their best loved songs. If so, please let me know.
With a title like that, it's probably fair to assume that this really has nothing to do with the season, but it does have autumn in its title so it qualifies. Has a beautiful dreamy opening, on organ, piano and with twittering sounds that I think are meant to be birds. The vocal is very relaxing and it looks to be a really beautiful ballad which I'm already falling in love with. Really didn't expect this. Reminds me very much of The Alan Parsons Project. Now it's taking a bit of a leap and a powerful guitar is soloing as the percussion drives it along in a much harder, yet still somehow laidback vein. Back to the singing we had at the beginning, and it looks like it's going for a powerful end. Another fine solo, and I think I may need to start listening to this band more.
Things I like about this : Everything. I love the soft but passionate vocal, the organ, the guitar solos, the way everything comes together, the whole dreamy feeling the song gives me.
Things I don't like about this: Nothing.
Rating: 