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This replacement disc was sent, only by request, to purchasers of the mispressed The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin 5.1. A Warner Music Group Company. Track durations are not printed on the release.Sébastien Tellier – La Ritournelle (2004)Honourable mentions also go to: Lambchop for ‘Up With The People’ (2000) Outkast for ‘Ms.
More than anything, it’s an album that cherishes and celebrates life. The Soft Bulletin is a densely packed, multi-layered sonic landscape that is both plaintive and optimistic. No question, there was potential for The Flaming Lips to make a truly great album, but to make something so profoundly great as The Soft Bulletin? I’m sorry, but “ She Don’t Use Jelly” doesn’t quite foretell that. Sure, there were glimpses of greatness in Transmission from the Satellite Heart and Hit To Death on the Future Head even the mind-boggling mass of Zarieeka had its moments.
But just as he did wonders with his own Mercury Rev’s Deserter’s Songs, Fridmann makes the songs sound dense but never muddled. There’s a lot going on in these songs, layer upon layer of strings, drums, keys, you name it. Since the release of The Soft Bulletin, Fridmann has been employed by a wide range of artists, from The Delgados to Sleater-Kinney, but I still believe that it’s his work with The Flaming Lips that shows exactly what kind of tricks he’s got up his sleeve.
It’s almost a song in three movements as Coyne’s yearning and almost wounded vocals about his bleeding face. It takes all that I have in me to not raise my hands to the sky as Coyne sings “ they lifted up the sun!”“The Spark That Bled” is another wonderfully beautiful and complex song. But the song that really goes for the gusto is “A Spoonful Weighs a Ton.” It begins innocently enough, with fairy tale strings and a sunny atmosphere but leads into a fuzzed out bass and sharp drums that have been turned way up.
Coyne’s child-like warbles give the song an irreverent undertone, but as he sings, “ well, I’m glad that it didn’t destroy you, how sad that would be/ Cause if it destroyed you, it would destroy me,” his relief and gratefulness is truly genuine.“What is the Light?” is a spectacularly great track propelled by minimal thumping then kicking off to a stuttering drumbeat. “The Spiderbite Song” is the bad times of The Flaming Lips in song, as it also recounts bassist Michael Ivins near-fatal car accident (“ when you had that accident in your car, the whole thing just seemed really too bizarre“). “The Spiderbite Song” in particular as Coyne sings about a spider bite: “ when you got that spiderbite on your hand, I thought we would have to break up the band.” But of course, looking deeper, it’s not really about a spiderbite, but rather, about Steven Drozd’s heroin use, which almost caused him to have his arm amputated. At about 3:55 in, the song switches gears again, leading with sunny guitars, giving a more playful vibe before it closes with a repetition of the beginning coda.Death and the fragility and wonder of life are a recurring theme in The Soft Bulletin as the band was reeling from recent obstacles.
“Feeling Yourself Disintegrate” explores the same thought with remedial beat boxing and lots and lots of reverb.Though The Soft Bulletin dwells quite a bit on death and mortality, it is remarkably upbeat it’s what makes the album and The Flaming Lips so great. Though it’s really about how death lurks as every corner, it’s amazingly upbeat. It is a simply sweet song with a wonderful melody, particularly the well-placed bells and trumpet blasts.Death comes up again in “Suddenly Everything Has Changed” about the fragility of human life. But “The Observer” just leads into the best track on the album, “Waitin’ for a Superman.” Inspired by the then-recent death of his father, Wayne Coyne delivers understated yet emotional vocals.
The overall message? Love life, live to the fullest, rejoice. It’s an album that you can pick up when you’re down and it just puts everything in perspective and lightens your load. The Soft Bulletin is probably one of the most life-affirming records I’ve heard and its message is infectious.
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