Favorite Flaming Lips LP

[wing]

What is your favorite Flaming Lips album from musical and/or production perspectives? Post below your thoughts/feelings on why you like the one you do. Oh, and the poll is only specifically for their LPs, but feel free to list an EP or single that you really love...

Personally I really love The Soft Bulletin... it has awesome songs and neat sounding production, especially on the drums. Though the production on Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is also quite awesome, I think...

[JGriffin]

I prefer Soft Bulletin to Yoshimi. I think Yoshimi is a bit too polished sounding for me, at least for what I'm looking for in a Lips experience. I also think "Do You Realize" is a bit of a crap song with a dorky lyric. But I also will say that I've spent lots more time with Soft Bulletin than any other Lips record so I can't really be objective...What I can say is that after Radiohead's OK Computer spent a year solid in my car stereo, the next record to spend that long in the tape deck was Soft Bulletin.

[AstroDan]

My favorite is Yoshimi, but I'd have to admit that The Soft Bulletin is a great, great record and probably their best.

I like Yoshimi because it's insanely textured. Like they threw in every instrument and synth known to man, but it never sounds like too much; it all works. It's also very fun, is loaded with sweet ass melodies and it contains Fight Test, which is such an incredible song. The record also sounds very clean yet huge at the same time.

BTW, has anyone else noticed that the Soft Bulletin on CD and vinyl are two completely different mixes?

[Cephallus]

it's unanimous.

[wing]

I can agree with the feeling that Yoshimi is too polished production wise... yet upon listening again just now, I really love these songs... they're great, very nicely done. Just like AstroDan says, it textures very well for all the instruments they use.

And if anyone hasn't ever seen them live, I cannot suggest it enough.

[KingOlaf]

Well, "Hear It Is" is my fav 'cause I have it on white vinyl.

[thearnicasync]

I'm going to plead "not an engineer" and vote In a Priest Driven Ambulance. [/i]

[Verboten]

The Soft Bulletin inspired me to try new things in the studio and in my arrangements - it blew my mind. I got to the Lips kinda late - but they really grabbed me - first band in a long time to do that.

[Bear]

Clouds Taste Metallic has always been my favorite from them. Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi, Sattelite Heart and Hit to Death In the Future head are all great, great albums, but Clouds is king for me. It was one of those records that changed the way I saw music.

[inverseroom]

Soft Bulletin for me, too. Transmissions is a close second. I have a friend who swears by Priest-Driven Ambulance but I haven't heard it yet.

Do you find that the first album you hear from a band often becomes your favorite, no matter what they do subsequently? I didn't know about the Lips until Soft Bulletin, and though I like every album of theirs that I have, it's still my favorite...

[Rick Hunter]

Soft Bulletin. I have history with that record. I started listening to in during rough times and made big impression on me. I dont even listen to it that much anymore cause I dont really need to. Its the "nuke" in my CD rack, got bust it out when things really get hairy.

--inverse room--
Yeah, first album of a band I hear allways sticks with me more. Except weezer.

[joeysimms]

Bee Gees 1st or Yessongs, I really can't decide..

[brainfreezebob]

Zaireeka is Flaming Lips album your kids will be talking about, or staring into space drooling about.

[wayne kerr]

Dude, you forgot Flaming Lips Live at Budokhan!

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[inverseroom]

Zaireeka is Flaming Lips album your kids will be talking about, or staring into space drooling about.

I wonder if they might someday remix it in 5.1? Us regular people would get to hear it, and it would not be such a far cry from the original conception. As for me, I have not yet been willing to shell out the cash for something I will have to completely rearrange my house to listen to.

I will, though. It's inevitable. Sigh.