Flaming Lips - Embryonic

at war with mystics blows my mind.

  Philip Glass said:

They won't ever be able to top the Soft Bulletin, so they better start making something... different

they did.

they made yoshimi, which was their y3k electronic album.

then they made mystics, which is their 70's soul/funk album.

yeah, i 100% take back what i said about mystics. really really really awesome album.

i'm currently obsessing over this band. their output is just too good.

ooh, there's a 3 track sampler of this album out and about.

if these tracks are anything to go by it sounds more along the lines of 60s>80s psychedelic stuffs as opposed to anything flaming lips. not too sure where i stand on it, but it's only 3 tracks of an all over the place double album, so i'mm still looking forward to it.!

  On 7/4/2009 at 7:37 PM, pigster said:

yeah, i 100% take back what i said about mystics. really really really awesome album.

i'm currently obsessing over this band. their output is just too good.

Good man!

At War with the Mystics is one of those rare albums for me that just keeps getting better the more I hear it.

And 60's-80's psychadelic sounds like a good direction to me. I have faith it will be awesome.

  On 6/27/2009 at 6:53 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

Priest driven ambulance lacks Ronald Jones, from memory. He's what made early lips fucking classic.

jonathon donahue did that... ronald learned how to play guitar from listening to priest driven ambulance and hit to death

and the new album sounds more like a natural continuation of their last 3 albums than a return to 90s era lips

kind of like yoshimi with gimmicky old school garagey production

it leaked?

that was based on the 3 trk promo

check out silver trembling hands on their myspace

i suppose that continuity is only to be expected as they have always really been defined by their main songwriter (talented one) and for several albums now that has been steven drozd

Yeah - the one about a 'hex' and 'trembling silver hands' are up on their myspace page

Quite low fi but sounds intruiging

Definitely not as cheesy as 'At War...'

Album out October 13th ...

http://pitchfork.com/news/36217-hear-the-crazy-new-flaming-lips-song-see-the-leaves/

NEW SONG "See the Leaves" in the link above! Checking it out now... apparently its noisey.

love the new track. Cant wait for the album to drop.

my oh my it's mixed loud. really digging this darker sound tho.

  On 8/14/2009 at 8:19 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

  On 7/21/2009 at 12:33 PM, LUDD said:

  On 6/27/2009 at 6:53 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

Priest driven ambulance lacks Ronald Jones, from memory. He's what made early lips fucking classic.

 

 

jonathon donahue did that... ronald learned how to play guitar from listening to priest driven ambulance and hit to death

...and then proceeded to make early lips fucking classic.

 

Donahue went on with mercury rev, which was good until they turned to shit circa '97

Almost correct, except Mercury Rev were fucking brilliant until they turned to shit circa '97

and i don't understand the first bit of your post though... i already corrected your initial statement and explained how Dingus had already made early lips classic on priest driven and hit to death. Without dingus there would be no Ronald Jones involvement. Flaming Lips were better before he joined to be fair, as great a guitar player/human being as he was/is.

Have you seen the fearless freaks documentary, ugh... what an unbearable cunthole Jonathon Donahue turned out to be. Totally fucking tragic dicklicker... their later critically acclaimed (by the likes of Q and Mojo magazine) records are fucking awful.

  On 8/14/2009 at 10:40 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

Yeah man I'm not disagreeing with you at all, just saying it was a result of both of them. For the record, Hit to Death is my favourite lips album, but I don't think it's as "good" as Transmissions or Clouds (know what I mean?)

 

I haven't seen fearless freaks but what does he do that makes him seem like such an ass?

he's barely in it tbh, but when he is he just comes across like a totally pretentious "i'm a weirdy too cool for school druggy weirdo freak rock dude" like an Acid Bono perhaps? *shudders at the thought*

all the more wanky when compared with how cuddly and happy wayne coyne is.... i dunno... he's just a dick..

also ... nobody seems to rate At war with the mystics, but I think it's a much better record than yoshimi which seems to be universally loved

and on these matters, my opinion is as good as concrete fact. essentially it's tautological.. my opinion IS fact . they are they same thing

yeah yeah yeah song did absolutely nothing for me. having that as first track + single + short attention span that doesn't last longer than one song = me totally dismissing the album when i first heard it.

I'm really digging the sound of these new tracks...

convinced of the hex is sick

  On 8/14/2009 at 9:11 AM, LUDD said:

  On 8/14/2009 at 8:19 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

  On 7/21/2009 at 12:33 PM, LUDD said:

  On 6/27/2009 at 6:53 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

Priest driven ambulance lacks Ronald Jones, from memory. He's what made early lips fucking classic.

 

 

jonathon donahue did that... ronald learned how to play guitar from listening to priest driven ambulance and hit to death

...and then proceeded to make early lips fucking classic.

 

Donahue went on with mercury rev, which was good until they turned to shit circa '97

 

Almost correct, except Mercury Rev were fucking brilliant until they turned to shit circa '97

 

and i don't understand the first bit of your post though... i already corrected your initial statement and explained how Dingus had already made early lips classic on priest driven and hit to death. Without dingus there would be no Ronald Jones involvement. Flaming Lips were better before he joined to be fair, as great a guitar player/human being as he was/is.

 

Have you seen the fearless freaks documentary, ugh... what an unbearable cunthole Jonathon Donahue turned out to be. Totally fucking tragic dicklicker... their later critically acclaimed (by the likes of Q and Mojo magazine) records are fucking awful.

isn't deserter's songs, which came out in 98, their best record? i've never heard any of them but that seems to be the consensus.

  On 8/17/2009 at 4:36 PM, zaphod said:

  On 8/14/2009 at 9:11 AM, LUDD said:

  On 8/14/2009 at 8:19 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

  On 7/21/2009 at 12:33 PM, LUDD said:

  On 6/27/2009 at 6:53 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

Priest driven ambulance lacks Ronald Jones, from memory. He's what made early lips fucking classic.

 

 

jonathon donahue did that... ronald learned how to play guitar from listening to priest driven ambulance and hit to death

...and then proceeded to make early lips fucking classic.

 

Donahue went on with mercury rev, which was good until they turned to shit circa '97

 

Almost correct, except Mercury Rev were fucking brilliant until they turned to shit circa '97

 

and i don't understand the first bit of your post though... i already corrected your initial statement and explained how Dingus had already made early lips classic on priest driven and hit to death. Without dingus there would be no Ronald Jones involvement. Flaming Lips were better before he joined to be fair, as great a guitar player/human being as he was/is.

 

Have you seen the fearless freaks documentary, ugh... what an unbearable cunthole Jonathon Donahue turned out to be. Totally fucking tragic dicklicker... their later critically acclaimed (by the likes of Q and Mojo magazine) records are fucking awful.

 

isn't deserter's songs, which came out in 98, their best record? i've never heard any of them but that seems to be the consensus.

see above ... most critically acclaimed (by the likes of Q and Mojo).... make of that what you will

1991 yerself is steam is chaotic psychadelic guitar noise plus flutes and a fat peedo on vocals ... somewhere between butthole surfers, sonic youth, mbv and miles davis (very sleepy rivers) perhaps (but tbetter than all of those)

1993 boces continues in similar vein but with more brass and experimentation and bubblegum pop. sprawling epic pieces remain (better than most records in the universe with the exception of yerself is steam)

these 2 ^^ both feature original frontman dave baker

1995 see you on the other side (minus dave baker) ... moving into almost marvin gaye whats goin on area at times... guitar explosions less evident, beautiful sophisticated music wandering into pre war jazz and blues at times... everlasting arm just amazing song...

1998 deserters songs ... great album.. lots of bowed saws and early cinematic motifs... couple of duff tracks... less longevity than earlier records

everything later... ugh gay

IMO etc

same goes for flaming lips.... yoshimi is probably their most succesful / acclaimed record but 90-95 era was their best era in my book 90-92 to be precise

agreed... one of my favourite records of all time

my rev records are among the 1st things i would rescue in a fire

translucent blue vinyl ftw

is this LP named yet? someone let me know and i'll update the title

  On 8/18/2009 at 7:22 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

is this LP named yet? someone let me know and i'll update the title

I believe its called "Embroyonic". not sure about the spelling but the official name and cover art are both announced.

correct spelling = Embryonic