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Originally Posted by h8kurdt
Right I'm gonna say it. The Flaming Lips' version of A Day In The Life is actually really good. Miley Cyrus' bit is especially great.
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Yeah, I had my doubts at the start, but the whole album is pretty fucking stellar. I just wish they'd done a "full" cover of the song, giant most-famous-crescendo-in-rock-history included. I think that those noisey moments at the end of "A Day in the Life" are very closely tied to very brand of orchestral acid-pop cacophony that the Lips have made their calling card since ... Well, since the punk rockers started adding pop rocks to their acid recipes.
It just would have been nice to hear. But as a whole, ...Help From My Friends is everything I love about the Lips, minus their own songwriting of course. It's the reason why they're my favorite *currently functioning* rock-type band in the world. They have been consistently not giving a fuck for exactly their entire fucking career, and despite the prog/jangle pop/classic rock cover album side projects, that's a pretty fucking punk rock ethos right there.