as a promo-only CD to pair alongside The Soft Bulletin. There are odd experiments, melodic dead ends, plenty of outtakes, prototype mixes, and everything in between on this 13-song collection originally intended by the band’s manager and Warner Bros. It’s abundantly clear that The Soft Bulletin Companion is a compilation of curios for diehard fans of a monumental album from early in the band’s nearly 40 years of existence. Dubbed by a few bold critics at the time as the Pet Sounds of the ’90s, their ninth studio record started to unlock a whole new level of festival audience far beyond what came before for the psychedelic weirdos from the Sooner State.įrontman Wayne Coyne has often referred to rare Flaming Lips hits during past interviews as gifts from the “gods of music.” Concert staples such as “Do You Realize?” or the title track off 2002’s Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots are moments when the gods bent down and tapped the band on the shoulder, said it was time, and rewarded the good work they had set up previously with the best tracks on The Soft Bulletin only three years before (“Race for the Prize” and “Waiting for a Superman”). Released in 1999, it was a moment when the group essentially started all over again with something wholly new as they reacted to the death of Wayne Coyne’s father, as well as other deaths of loved ones experienced by longtime guitarist and keyboardist Steven Drozd. Rhythmic and piano-laden, it's heavenly in both its conception and execution.The Flaming Lips ’ Soft Bulletin was a watershed moment for the Oklahoma City rock band. NME (Magazine) (5/8/99, p.38) - 9 out of 10 - ".a joyous, celestial celebration of sound. Mojo (Publisher) (7/99, p.97) - ".a stately parade of sound.Very curious, very gripping, very fine."
Mojo (Publisher) (1/00, p.31) - Ranked #6 in Mojo Magazine's "Best of 1999." Mojo (Publisher) (p.66) - Ranked #6 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" - "plifting, orchestral swell and joyful psych experiments."
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Melody Maker (5/15/99, p.36) - 4 stars (out of 5) - ".THE SOFT BULLETIN is a smart, snappy record full of great tunes." "ĬMJ (6/28/99, p.5) - ".may be the Lips' most challenging, yet still wonderfully exaggerated and far-reaching to date.The group's spaced-out moments, which came off as compelling little accidents in the past, are now more lucid, moody and colorful than ever." Spin (7/99, pp.126-7) - 9 (out of 10) - ".THE SOFT BULLETIN may be the most extraordinary rock record you'll hear all year.a symphonic work of fully realized cosmic pop, full of surging sweeping melodicism and expansive, heart tugging tunes."Įntertainment Weekly (7/9/99, p.78) - ".a vertiginous rainbow swirl that crams so many ideas into so many tight spaces that each track is like a perfectly rendered Joseph Cornell box." - Rating: A THE SOFT BULLETIN raises such pre-millennial realist/fantasy notions in the midst of a 90s "Tomorrow Never Knows," and in the process setting a high bar for the last great rock-era records of the 20th century. Songs like "Superman," "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" and a half-dozen others, hint at the hopelessness of life's outcome while maintaining a sense of faith (a common Lips theme). The music adds a context of grandeur to Coyne's lyrics of Zen and the cosmic joke.
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