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Enraged_Ape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-24-04 07:38 AM
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Any Flaming Lips fans on this board?
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I just bought "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" after hearing the song "Fight Test" on the Smallville soundtrack. (And, yeah, I know that song was cribbed, consciously or unconsciously, from Cat Stevens' "Father and Son", but the Lips have always been upfront about that. It's still a GREAT SONG, and anyway Stevens has cowriting credit now.)

Anyway, about "Yoshimi", all I can say is...well, I can't think of anything to say right now. It's a truly phenomenal album, kind of a mixture of Neil Young, Radiohead, Mike Nesmith, and Pink Floyd with a smidgen of Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" thrown in, and unlike 90% of records I buy today, I cannot stop listening to it. And even though I think Wayne Coyne's lyrics are simplistic and that he often tries to be weird solely for weirdness's sake, I can't help thinking this may be one of the greatest groups (or at least albums) of the last ten years.

So does ANYONE have an opinion on any of this?

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