“It’s an album you return to and hear differently as your own life moves forward and endings of every kind become all too real, a reminder that this flash of now is all we will ever have.”ĭuring this tense period, when The Flaming Lips weren’t sure what would come next, Coyne, Drozd, and bassist Michael Ivins experimented.
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And bandleader Wayne Coyne’s father was diagnosed with cancer in October 1996 and then died three months later. Ronald Jones, the brilliant guitarist whose leads and textures had been one of the group’s sonic signatures, left the group Warner Bros., The Flaming Lips’ label, was in turmoil following reorganization and some of the band’s initial champions departed Steven Drozd, the superstar drummer, had a growing drug problem.
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Their next album, Clouds Taste Metallic, didn’t sell nearly as well, and after a lengthy tour supporting it, they hit a patch of trouble. By the mid-1990s, The Flaming Lips had been playing music together for a long time and they lucked into a certain amount of success when “She Don’t Use Jelly,” from their 1993 album Transmissions from the Satellite Heart, became a whimsical MTV-fueled novelty hit. One way to understand why The Soft Bulletin has endured is to go back to the anxious period it emerged from. By some measures, 20 years is the length of a generation, enough time to reflect on those around you who were born and grew up and grew old and those who might not be around anymore. Twenty-year anniversaries are the best album anniversaries - long enough to say the album truly comes from another world, but not so long ago that this particular world is entirely unfamiliar. Those who heard it then remember how startling it sounded on that first play but its dazzling sonics became a comfort, and everyone who has connected with The Soft Bulletin since has carried part of it with them. The orchestral production and grand sweep brought comparisons to song cycles from decades earlier, like the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, but The Soft Bulletin also felt like the future, the right album to bring the decade to a close. It seemed to look backward and forward simultaneously. Recorded in Cassadaga, New York April 1997 - February 1999ĭescription TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: InformalThe Flaming Lips’ The Soft Bulletin, released in May or June 1999, depending on which side of the Atlantic you were on, is an album about many things - the passage of time, the meaning of love, the importance of human connection and, ultimately, how the looming presence of death intensifies experience. The Soft Bulletin was recorded in Cassadaga, New York, April 1997-February 1999. Courageous, accomplished and exploding with intelligence and sonic texture, the album topped more than 60 year-end "best of" lists, helped rank the psychedlic-noise-popsters among the world's most influential bands and led to the best-selling of 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. One of the most respected and innovative bands in music, The Flaming Lips scored a major breakthrough with 1999's The Soft Bulletin, the group's most accessible album to that point. Soft Bulletin is courageous, accomplished and exploding with intelligence and sonic texture!įeatured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the April 2010 Issue of Stereophile! TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal Typical order times are located within the product description. It is not guaranteed.Ī Special Order item is an item that we do not stock but can order from the manufacturer. When an item is Out Of Stock and we have an estimated date when our stock should arrive, we list that date on our website in the part's description. We do not have a specific date when it will be coming.Īwaiting repress titles are in the process of being repressed by the label.
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