[afterthefact]

what era of the Flaming Lips do you like most? Their early more psych-punk era, the early to mid-nineties "ronald" era (the only way I could think to describe it), or their more over the top super pop era of the present?

[PAULYBEE2656]

everything from priest driven ambulance to clouds taste mettallic. although the telepathic surgery thing is also good...

everything from the soft bulletin to date is over powered, overly self indulgent, totally overrated utter crap. yoshini is the weakest album ive heard in a long time and its a million times better than the crud they just released.....

[HaydenAsche]

Soft Bulletin

[screamingskull]

whatever era it was that they did that Giraffe video/song. i LOVE Steven Drozd.

[krastian]

Originally Posted by PAULYBEE2656

everything from priest driven ambulance to clouds taste mettallic.

Same....I love it all except for the new one which gets on my nerves at times....some good moments though.

[screamingskull]

this here giraffe

[afterthefact]

I love it all too, although their new album, which song by song is ok at best, doesn't go over to well. Not that I hate it, but I feel like they lost a little creativity, and they were just trying to make stuff that was kinda like their last two albums. Still, can't wait to see them with SY in Columbus this year...

[screamingskull]

this era

 

 

 

[nomadicfollower]

Early Lips.

[dazedcola]

i guess i like the middle period best from In A Priest to Clouds Taste Metallic. Those albums are their most solid, but some of the early lips stuff is great and real underrated. "jesus shooting heroin", "everything's exploding", "charlie manson blues", "my own planet" and "godzilla flick" their early classics. It'd be cool if they'd bust out something old like them on the new tour.

[afterthefact]

well this time they don't have a new album to push, so I don't see why they couldn't

[Alex's Trip]

I like Hit to Death-Soft Bulletin the most. I don't have anything before Hit to Death, yet.

[Everyneurotic]

all eras fucking slay.

lately it's been at war with the mystics but the priest driven ambulance has been rocked on my speakers too.

[Savage Clone]

Beginning through Telepathic Surgery is my favorite. I like some Clouds Taste stuff too and I like the new one, but Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi make my teeth hurt with their saccharine sugariness.

[skiesfalling]

Middle era (Jonathon Donahue & Ronald) best, but early lips is the shit too!! Oh My Gawd is fucking incredible!!! I saw a live video that had the Celing is Bending on it and that is the most far out song they have ever done!!

I have to defend the new album though....It may carry some of the newer sounds on it but it also conveys some Clouds Taste ME like vibes too.... Great stuff!

[afterthefact]

I think my problem with the new album is whenever I think of it, I think of the yeah yeah yeah song, and that's not fair to classify the whole album by it, since that song is... well, it's the yeah yeah yeah song, you know what I mean

[screamingskull]

HOW HAPPY AM I?!?!?!
i saw the flaming lips in may and i just got tickets to see them again in november!!
AHHHHHHH!!!!, im soo happy, they are my absolute favourite band at the moment, the new albums rocks!!!!, and all their albums are amazing and Steven Drozd is a geneous and Wayne Coyne is an hero if ever there was one, and Michael is too kool!. aww i love them so much. he he.
best band in the universe!

[EyeballGrowth]

 

THAT is my favorite era of the flaming lips

 

That is me ^ at a Flaming Lips show, yay

 

another picture of the same show

 

and another

I'm so glad there are still bands like them around. Best show I've ever been to, without a doubt. You really want to see them if you get the chance. I will never forget that show.

Anyone going to the SY/Flaming Lips in Columbus, OH Aug 28th?

[screamingskull]

Oh god..., i just found this................it dosent matter what i listen to it all leads back to Elliott and i cant listen to him anymore, its too beautiful it just make me want to die..........



FLAMING LIPS STAR REMEMBERS ELLIOTT SMITH
Steven Drodz pays a warm tribute to his old friend...
THE FLAMING LIPS'' STEPHEN DRODZ has told
NME.COM of his sadness on hearing of ELLIOTT
SMITH's death.

Speaking to NME.COM last
week, Drodz, drummer with the Flaming
Lips, spoke of his regret that the singer could
not have been helped more. He had been in the studio with Smith in recent months.


"When I first heard, I was devastated and
crying. It was just that initial reaction; you're never prepared for that,"
explained Drodz. "I just really feel like if he could have
got it together and been happy on some level, the potential for really great
music was there."


As previously reported on NME.COM
Elliott Smith died on Tuesday last week (21). He was found in
his apartment in Los Angeles with a single knife wound to the chest. Most
famous for the Academy Award nominated 'Miss
Misery', from the 'Good Will Hunting' soundtrack,
Smith released five albums during his career, most notably 'XO' in 1998.


"The first
time I met him was in 1996," explained Drodz "I was touring
with Those Bastard Souls. We were opening up for
Sebadoh and Elliott was on first. It was
before he had any real notoriety or fame, we hit it off, but he was always
in his own world."

"When we toured in 2000, I got to know him really
well, I knew he was always struggling just to get through the day," he
recalled. "For me, my fondest and most disturbing memory of him was when we did ecstasy together one night and we were listening to Elton John's greatest
hits. That song 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' came on and he
started bawling his eyes out."

"We did some recording together and we
hung out a lot. I think Elliott had a thing about him," added
Drodz. "That obvious sadness and depression, it wasn't fake
at all, and people will miss that a lot."

[screamingskull]

the litebrite’s now black and white
cause you took apart a picture that wasn’t right
pitch burning on a shining sheet
the only maker that you want to meet
a dying man in a living room
who’s shadow paces the floor
who’ll take you out in the open door
this is not my life
it’s just a fond farewell to a friend
it’s not what i’m like
it’s just a fond farewell to a friend
who couldn’t get things right
fond farewell to a friend
he said really i just wanna dance
good and evil matched perfect it’s a great romance
i can deal with some psychic pain
if it’ll slow down my higher brain
veins full of disappearing ink
vomiting in the kitchen sink
disconnecting from the missing link
this is not my life
it’s just a fond farewell to a friend
it’s not what i’m like
it’s just a fond farewell to a friend
who couldn’t get things right
fond farewell to a friend
i see you’re leaving me and taking up with the enemy
the cold comfort of the in between
a little less than a human being
a little less than a happy high
a little less than a suicide
the only things that you really tried
this is not my life
it’s just a fond farewell to a friend
it’s not what i’m like
it’s just a fond farewell to a friend
who couldn’t get things right
fond farewell to a friend
this is not my life
it’s just a fond farewell to a friend