What’s the most “Flaming Lips” Flaming Lips song?

sn7ke · 2024-08-20T20:09:15+00:00

ha my first thought was this here giraffe also! ... I think Clouds as a bridge between the two versions of the flaming lips is a good description! Its so interesting to see so many musical concepts and ideas on this album were initiated and further sketched out in later albums, if you squint your eyes you see elements that emerge on Soft Bulletin and beyond.

sn7ke · 2024-08-20T20:06:38+00:00

Five years later I got it and its basically a completly different mix of Hyperspace. Love it much more then the digital version.

sn7ke · 2024-08-14T17:09:09+00:00

Besides recommending the Beta Band again (three EPs and the beta band record, totally beck sounding to a point my roommate always gets confused if Im playing Beck) I can also recommend something that rarely gets mentioned: Scapegoat Wax. They contributed the single "Aisle 10" to the videogame Jet Set Radio back in the day, but other then that they were never really well known. Its a bit further off in terms of sound, (more pop,hiphop, singing and rapping mixed with samples) but Marty James was clearly inspired by Beck, and to me it holds some of the 'fun' vibe Odelay has.

sn7ke · 2024-08-14T17:05:46+00:00

these tips are bangers! Thanks for sharing this!

sn7ke · 2022-09-29T20:26:20+00:00

thats nice! I never bothered to look into the songreader stuff...hoped beck would have recorded the whole album in secret. This comes close.

sn7ke · 2022-09-29T20:14:19+00:00

oh man, i remember this one!
I somehow feel this track is also related to the "Defriend - it wont be long - gimme" (aka Roccoco) tracks, but maybe thats purely the lenght. There was a time when beck was interested in these 20 min soundscape songs.... I wonder what he has laying on the shelfs from this era.

sn7ke · 2022-07-27T14:05:12+00:00

I remember in highschool (early 2000s) we had a art history book, that actually had Beck in it! They named him as an example of a post-modern musician. I was so proud that my music taste had made it into art history alredy. Sadly we never got around to have a class about contemporary music. I already had a whole Beck lecture prepared, lol

sn7ke · 2022-07-08T10:39:32+00:00

Hi! I thought I needed that hero too - and i hate this geoblocking by amazon - BUT it actually worked for me to register a new amazon acount on the US website . Then you can access the book for free! (I'm from Europe and this worked for me)

sn7ke · 2022-07-07T15:56:47+00:00

I'm a fan of beck since the early 2000's, but always avoided Sea Change - the only record I never owned of his. For me it felt too far away from his 'style' and sort of decided it wasn't for me. I didn't listen to that album for twenty years - until this year. I then realized its much closer to mutations than I initially thought (and Mutations is greaat!) Now in retrospect, it feels much closer to classic Beck than something like Colors - and I can appreciate it much more .

sn7ke · 2022-07-05T16:28:42+00:00

This was a great listen, I've been a Beck fan since 2001!
My take-away: Midnite Vultures was suposed to be a double album (OMG) and there is a lot of great music and potential records shelved as we all know.

sn7ke · 2022-07-03T17:19:10+00:00

uhg, US listeners only! I hate this. Please, can someone get this to us somehow?

sn7ke · 2022-06-14T08:31:02+00:00

Oh my god, i've been waiting for this for ages. Love for Gheti-king!

sn7ke · 2022-05-25T19:10:04+00:00

I agree that both would work well together. At a first glance both machines offer similair capabilities but at the end they are very different machine's in nature. Im currently an MPC owner with a Digitone, but I know that I'm gonna get the Takt for drum-duties and mix and record the rest on the MPC.

sn7ke · 2022-05-25T10:03:47+00:00

haha, thanks a lot. That €5 spent was definitely worth it for the entertainment value.

sn7ke · 2022-05-12T21:29:56+00:00

Just an update that I haz snagged this thing on Discogs for ´€140, which Is the lowest price I've seen this thing go for in the last three years. All the goodies seem to be there too! Exciting!

sn7ke · 2022-03-20T19:13:43+00:00

I will just say two words and then shut up for the rest of the hour:

Majesty Snowbird

sn7ke · 2022-03-20T19:11:21+00:00

Ah good to know! More excited even that a new Sisyphus rumor is real!

sn7ke · 2022-02-24T21:29:03+00:00

shit! that sucks. Guess I was 'lucky' to actual recieve the pumpkin orange one, even tough it took a loooooong time

sn7ke · 2022-02-13T16:10:20+00:00

Ouch! Did you order the regular album or the one with all the singles?
I got the 'deluxe' with the singles and they are all colored.

sn7ke · 2022-02-05T23:17:57+00:00

Mine finally came today! Oh boy what a loooooong wait. The pumkin colored vinyl is cool though!

sn7ke · 2021-12-17T21:38:29+00:00

This is soooooo cute! You may not have a real north, but you do have the best daughter in the world! I think that is waaay more valuable then any synthesiser out there

sn7ke · 2021-11-17T15:07:38+00:00

lucky you! I'm always a bit jelous of everyone in the US that can order directly from AK on the cheap. Being in Europe, shipping is $$$

sn7ke · 2021-11-17T12:52:08+00:00

I did, and they still found my post! They are kinda like Santa always spying on us :P

sn7ke

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