Dang, friends, that’s a hell of a groove there. “Big Bang” indeed!
This is not a groove. Too pretty.
I wonder what the shortest Five Songs has been? I mean, five songs long, but in text.
I’m absolutely not going to figure it out, mind you.
But I gotta figure this one is the “winner”. I’ll do better tomorrow!
Prior to turning into the atmospheric, melancholy, fuzzed-out band they are today, the Flaming Lips were an experimental, drugged-out psych band that really didn’t know where things were going, but didn’t particularly care. They released a series of albums that you can charitably describe as “uneven” but most would probably categorize as “unlistenable”. They started going in the right direction with 1990’s In A Priest Driven Ambulance, which gives us today’s song. Somehow, Warner Brothers signed them to a major label based on this record. Anyway, I actually like it better than the immediately following album, and this albums is where to stop if you’re going backwards through the Lips’ discography.
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