Damn, from across the room I thought someone was doing a really strange remix of a Neil Young song.

Music is ok singing is baaaad

coldatlantic wrote:

it's namby-pamby, actually, but otherwise, you're pretty much spot-on with whiney & boring.

i like this song though -- a little namby perhaps, but not quite pamby in my book.

The Flaming Lips are a band that have matured very well. This is their best stuff ever.

Don't get it. whiny and boring. i don't know what "mamby pamby" means, but seems like an excellent description.

musiclover wrote:

Why am I thinking of Eliszabeth Taylor. Oh yeah, she has a perfume called OBSESSION. ;)

I love this song so much, that I bought it and play it over and over. Can't get enough !! :D

Lovely and well-crafted soundscape with some orchestral moments. I'm always suprised when I hear the audience.

i first heard this song here on RP... made me get the last few Flaming Lips albums... amazing sound! love to play it loud in my car.

A strangely refreshing song indeed

Great choice Bill! I love this song, it just broke into the monotony at work! Keep up the good work and the great selections!

Please NO MORE!!!
I can't stand this mamby-pamby song. When ever you play it I am forced to switch stations.

With all the sporadic audience laughter, clapping, and what not, I always feel like there's a joke I don't get when I hear this song.

LOVE this song!!!

michaelc wrote:
Sounds more like KC without the sunshine band!

I just realized as I listened to this song tonight that if there could be such a thing, this IS Radio Paradise's "signature tune", if ever there was one. More than any other song, this one has been on the playlist, and in regular rotation, for the entire time that I've been listening...

Way better than the silly fibre-optic Jesus song that Bill always plays.

This album just gets me, every song is brilliant. Thank you for giving the Flaming Lips so much air play. They deserve it!

Love this. The bass line is fantastic, gets better each chorus.

I gotta check out that Steve Burns site. My daughter loves "Yoshimi" and might get a kick out of the collaboration!

Thanks!

window wrote:

Oh, Yoshimi
They don't believe me
But you wont let those
Robots eat me.....

michaelc wrote:

in a most perculiar but great way!

Flaming Lips have a new collaborative album with Steve Burns (you know, Steve,from Blues Clues). Check out Steve's website at www.steveswebpage.com

neil sound-a-like

I'm afraid all I knew about this band was the Jelly song until now. What a mistake that song was to release to airplay when they can create really emotive songs such as this. The loneliness, with the laughing crowd superimposed upon the whistful melody... great stuff.

Just doesn't do it for me, sorry.

Saw then in Toronto this summer .... what a revelation.
"Race for the prize" will allways give me goose bumps.

Platypus wrote:


i would love to hear ANYTHING off of the Soft Bulletin.

durn it, there i went thinking this was neil young... AGAIN!!

This is an excellent song. Could we also get "Do you realize?"

-Chief

DavidCarrico wrote:
i thought it was neil young! how weird...

I like this song...in a weird way reminds me of neil young!?

iggy33 wrote:


Get the album. Lots of good songs, some great. Then pick up their 1999 cd, "The Soft Bulletin". In fact, I would buy them both and listen first to "Bulletin". It was a quantum evolution for this band. The lyrics are beautiful and touching. Listen to it all the way through, with the lyric sheet for quicker immersion into this experience. This album was a revelation. And, fwiw, it received great critical acclaim, with many proclaiming this a 5 star masterpiece. It's good.

Whenever you have a chance: SEE/EXPERIENCE the Lips in concert. Adding to what Snama said, the concert experience is a fun, surreal and, potentially, transcendant trip. The concert is almost entirely music from these two cd's. Saw them in St. Louis and Montreal this summer and I laughed and cried at each.