Band: The Flaming Lips
Album: Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
Best song: “Slow Nerve Action” and “She don’t Use Jelly” are classics.
Worst song: “Be My Head” isn’t amazing.
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Band: The Flaming Lips (with Stardeath and White Dwarfs)
Album: The Dark Side of the Moon
Best song: Let me say that I don’t think the album is really all that good, but rather kind of daring. The version of “Money,” while not necessarily to my liking, is a really intersting update. That’s probably the best song on the record.
Worst song: Hmmm. “Eclipse” isn’t 1/10 as good as the original and is pretty boring.
I love the Flaming Lips. The single greatest rock and roll show I’ve ever seen is the Lips on the first leg of the Soft Bulletin tour in Columbia, Mo. in 2000. It was before the band had started playing arenas. Soft Bulletin had broken, but the band hadn’t created the arena-show side of it; instead, Wayne & Co. simply had a projector, a bunch of puppets and a fuckload of moxie. It was awesome.