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1STmammal2wearPants1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,948
edited November 2009 in Other Music
is sexy time.

flows together so well.....total freak out.
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  • LiftedLifted Posts: 1,836
    if my heart didn't lie with middle cyclone, i would give this album the gold medal for album of the year. absolutely mind blowing. best thing i've heard from the lips since....ever.
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    I have friends who just can't get into it, but they are not jazz fans. I love this album. It totally has a jazzy feel to the way it was assembled. The entire album flows well. I can't point people to songs it just the feel the entire album has.

    This will be in my top ten i'm sure of it.
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  • jr19jr19 Posts: 338
    i am liking what i have heard so far... have not heard the album fully yet. been at work and such. but it is very trippy so far. good change of pace.
  • noahgendanoahgenda Posts: 63
    thought i would put this out there if it wasn't posted already

    http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/62886 ... nyl_LP__CD
  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,522
    I really like it even though I'm annoyed they are promoting it as a double album when it all could have fit onto one disc.

    I'm sure I'll like it even more when I give it a couple of more listens. After only one listen I can already tell its better than At War with the Mystics, gotta see if its as good as Soft Bulletin or Yoshimi though.
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  • Pepe SilviaPepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    noahgenda wrote:
    thought i would put this out there if it wasn't posted already

    http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/62886 ... nyl_LP__CD


    they are also releasing a mega deluxe vinyl edition
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  • jr19jr19 Posts: 338
    have listened now 3X through and i really like it. very moody music with a theme of space to me.
  • mrveddersonmrvedderson Posts: 784
    They have a live secret show streaming on their website
  • 1STmammal2wearPants1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,948
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    I really like it even though I'm annoyed they are promoting it as a double album when it all could have fit onto one disc.

    it could have, and did heh. the regular version is on one disc. yeah -- that was a bit deceiving.

    that being said, it is a good one.
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  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    Picking up the deluxe edition today. Nice writeup on the LA show on the LA times website, plus some Q&A with Wayne.

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_b ... ywood.html

    Some parts that I didn't find so encouraging:

    "When the Flaming Lips officially tour on “Embryonic” in 2010, fans shouldn’t necessarily expect an edgier trek than the New Year’s Eve-like parties that a Flaming Lips show has become. Coyne says the celebratory-like live show is now a Flaming Lips staple, akin to revisiting one’s favorite restaurant.

    “It’s kind of redone in the way a city is redone,” Coyne says of what the band is working on for 2010. “There’s some great old structures you never want to tear down, and you take chances next to it and you build a new futuristic museum. I would never want people to think that if you saw us three years ago, what we’re doing now has nothing to do with that.”"

    Having seen essentially the same show 5 or 6 times over the last 6 years, I don't get the same thrill as I did at first. It seems less spontaneous now. I'd like to see a focus on returning to the music. The theatrics are fine, and belong at a lips show, but I really think it's getting to a point where they need to put the music first in the performance, and the theatrics second.

    Or at least bring back "Lightining Strikes the Postman" that song kicked ass live.

    This part though sounds really cool:

    "The Flaming Lips have already recorded a follow-up to “Embryonic.” The band will release a track-by-track interpretation of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” in the near future, which it recorded with Stardeath and the White Dwarfs, a band that features Coyne’s nephew Dennis.

    Henry Rollins and Peaches make guest appearances on the album, Coyne told the crowd during a pre-concert question-and-answer session. A Flaming Lips spokesman says the album will likely be an iTunes-only release, at least initially. "
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  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    my wife just came home with this for me as a surprise...and i'm about halfway through my 1st listen. i'm really enjoying this record so far!!!!
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  • analogueaddict72analogueaddict72 Posts: 307
    DSOM tribute sound intriguing, have only heard about a 1/4 of the album so far but so far I'm impressed.

    Very dark indeed, I've ordered the vinyl so will look forward to hearing it on the black circle in early December by the time it reaches me. Apparently they fucked up the pressings and the album was pressed on the wrong colours, only 200 and 100 got destroyed and the other 100 got out and now they are fetching silly prices on Ebay as we speak.

    I've only got At War With the Mystics but plan to purchase Soft Bulletin & Yoshmi, any more recommendations after that?
  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 93,997
    received this huge tube & box from warner. flaming lip's litho poster & embryonic deluxe editon! :)

    embryonic.jpg
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    i really like this album. Has a great feel.

    I've always thought they could do a good pink floyd cover so i'm excited about DSOTM too
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  • AvocadoLadyAvocadoLady Posts: 680
    There's a clip of them playing "Eclipse" from DSOTM here:

    http://www.kcrw.com/music/in_studio

    Might have to scroll down a bit to find it.
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  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    See the Leaves! What a great track.
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    am i the only flaming lips fan that doesnt really care for this album? it's an interesting space rock album, but nothing more. i'd rather listen to floyd or even the lips covering floyd than this. but then, i also always seemed to be the only lips fan that loved at war with the mystics... i loved hearing their carnival-esque, psychedelic take on pop music. it was the closest thing to the beatles i ever heard... a perfect blend of experimental rock and pop appeal. this is just like an album full of interludes cut from pink floyd albums...
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    There were parts of At War With the Mystics that I loved (Vein of Stars, Yeah Yeah Yeah, Pompeii) but it didn't feel as cohesive of an album as say Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi, or even Embryonic. Some tracks (like Haven't Got A Clue) seemed way to heavy handed for me.

    Embryonic, while I haven't gotten into the lyrics yet, has a great flow to it musically. And it is a huge change from Mystics, or even some of the (musically) optimistic pop on Yoshimi.

    Thinking about it, it could be that I prefer Wayne's lyrics when they don't relate to the day to day (like some did on Mystics). I much prefer Wayne's extensential lyrics about life, death, and everything in between.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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