#FLAMING LIPS SOFT BULLETIN REISSUE PLUS#
Over the course of 13 tracks the trio plus producer Fridmann gave us a preview of what was to come. The Soft Bulletin ended up being released in its perfect form, but hearing songs like “A Machine In India”, “Okay I’ll Admit That I Really Don’t Understand”, and “The Big Ol’ Bug Is The New Baby Now” is where the essential nuggets lie. The alternate mixes of album tracks like “Buggin” and “The Spiderbite Song” are great and fascinating insights into alternate views of well loved songs, but the non-album tracks are the real treat here. His contribution to the Flaming Lips over the last 25 years can’t be overstated enough, and this album was his debut as the Lips secret weapon. He’s essentially an orchestra in one man. Multi-instrumentalist Steve Drozd proves he was far more than a great drummer. “Riding To Work In The Year 2525(Your Invisible Now)” is another wonder, a sort of psych Burt Bachrach-meets-Roky Erickson. It’s as if Coyne allowed himself to be vulnerable for the first time. There’s a lushness here that didn’t exist a mere three years prior. “Thirty-Five Thousand Feet Of Despair” is not the same band that gave us “Bad Days” and “She Don’t Use Jelly”, and yet it is. What this album shows more than anything is that sometimes the fear of extinction brings out what a person is truly made of. The Soft Bulletin Companion is a window into a band being reborn. It contains alternate mixes and non-album tracks that represented both the unwieldy experimentation of Zaireeka, and the honed-in psychedelic pop majesty of The Soft Bulletin. Their newest release, The Soft Bulletin Companion, is a vinyl reissue of a promotional CD-R the Flaming Lips released in 1999. Finally, the band is releasing 'The Soft Bulletin Companion' on Record Store Day (June 12) via Warner Records. Also, on yesterday’s 'CBS Sunday Morning' they did a great segment on the band’s recent space bubble concerts. They stretch into 2022 and include shows in North America and the UK. The Soft Bulletin was a reinvention of Oklahoma’s “Fearless Freaks”, and was the dawn of a brand new era and career for Coyne and Co. The Flaming Lips have announced some new tour dates. Out of raw, uninhibited experimentation came one of the most revered psych pop albums of, at the very least, my generation. It wasn’t what you’d call a success, but it opened the door to the Lips next album, the monumental The Soft Bulletin. Records on May 17, 1999, in the United Kingdom.
#FLAMING LIPS SOFT BULLETIN REISSUE FULL#
Zaireeka was a sound experiment where four albums were required to be played simultaneously to get the full psychedelic effect. The Soft Bulletin is the ninth studio album by American rock band the Flaming Lips, released by Warner Bros. With no expectations of hits or standard album form the three, along with producer Dave Fridmann, created the experimental Zaireeka. This led to a certain amount of artistic freedom. After guitarist Ronald Jones left the band the remaining members, Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins, and Steve Drozd, seriously wondered if the band was done. The Flaming Lips were in serious flux in 1997.
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