Other Mixes By Pop Kulcher
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How The Flaming Lips Saved Rock & Roll And Melted My Brain (Deluxe Edition)
| Side A | ||
| Artist | Song | |
| Flaming Lips | Trains, Brains & Rain | |
| Flaming Lips | Jesus Shootin' Heroin | |
| Flaming Lips | Everything's Explodin' | |
| Flaming Lips | One Million Billionth Of A Millisecond... | |
| Flaming Lips | Chrome Plated Suicide | |
| Flaming Lips | After The Gold Rush | |
| Flaming Lips | Shine On Sweet Jesus | |
| Flaming Lips | Unconsciously Screamin' | |
| Flaming Lips | Everyone Wants To Live Forever | |
| Flaming Lips | Gingerale Afternoon | |
| Flaming Lips | Halloween On The Barbary Coast | |
| Flaming Lips | Turn It On | |
| Flaming Lips | Pilot Can At The Queer Of God | |
| Flaming Lips | She Don't Use Jelly | |
| Flaming Lips | Be My Head | |
| Flaming Lips | Psychiatric Explorations Of The Fetus | |
| Flaming Lips | This Here Giraffe | |
| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| Flaming Lips | Bad Days | |
| Flaming Lips | Christmas At The Zoo | |
| Flaming Lips | Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand | |
| Flaming Lips | Riding To Work In The Year 2025 | |
| Flaming Lips | The Big Ol' Bug Is The New Baby Now | |
| Flaming Lips | Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head | |
| Flaming Lips | Race For The Prize | |
| Flaming Lips | The Spiderbite Song | |
| Flaming Lips | Buggin' | |
| Flaming Lips | Waitin' For A Superman | |
| Flaming Lips | The Gash | |
| Flaming Lips | Fight Test | |
| Flaming Lips | Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Pt. 1 | |
| Flaming Lips | Ego Tripping At The Gats Of Hell | |
| Flaming Lips | Do You Realize?? | |
| Flaming Lips | The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song | |
| Flaming Lips | Free Radicals | |
| Flaming Lips | Mr. Ambulance Driver | |
| Flaming Lips | The W.A.N.D. | |
Comment:
An expanded 2-cd revision of an older mix, adding the two most recent albums and a few choice cuts from their reissued early work. One of those bands that I completely overlooked for many years, only to catch up with them much later and have them become one of my all time favorites. I heard their earliest, garage band efforts back in college and found it a bit noisy and uninspired; the next I heard they were doing "She Don't Use Jelly" on Beverly Hills 90210, not exactly a great inducement to check them out.But then I heard The Soft Bulletin when it came out in 1999 and I was hooked. I'm still not a huge fan of the early, noisier stuff, which is thinly represented here; I think they really came into their own in a series of nearly-great albums in the early/mid 90's, but even those couldn't prepare the world for amazing experimental works like Soft Bulletin and Zaireeka and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots.
This mix is a pretty fair exploration of their poppier side, grabbing a few tunes off each album (excluding their debut, when Wayne Coyne's brother was still handling vocals) right up through this year's pretty decent (but not perfect) At War With The Mystics, most notably "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song," which, annoying yeah yeah yeah's aside, may be their catchiest ditty yet.
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Awesome. Very nice look over a lot of their best stuff, and nice liner notes too. It took me a long, long time to get into these guys. It was Race For The Prize that finally did it (that and eventually deciding to pick up Yoshimi one day when it was seriously on sale). I think they take a lot of work and listening time, but you do reap the benefits; the title is spot-on! Great work overall.
Fantasic. Once of my favorite bands. Nice work.
cool - saw them during the early noisy phase, but never again. my friend was their road manager in those days. years passed and i 'd lost track of them - needless to say i was shocked to see them make it "big". still a great band. nice selections here.
I jumped on the bandwagon with Soft Bulletin and am just getting into their back catalog. This is really well done.
Well thought out picks, excellent tribute.
Nice. I've got a two-disc version from a couple of years ago (All I know is my mind is blown), but, as usual, we've got some different picks. They're definitely worthy of a two-disc set, though.
One of my favorite bands and very worthy of a two disc set for sure. I recently saw the film about them on Sundance. Worth checking out -
The Fearless Freaks
The Fearless Freaks
Good stuff, I didn't know that they did early noisy stuff - I only know their most recent. As usual, I live and learn.
Good stuff indeed - loved Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi but have never ventured further. Yet. Thanks for this fun-looking primer!
I missed this one. But I am giving it all stars as one of the rare single artist compilations I comment on. And that is for the title of the mix alone. Have you seen the At War With Baraka film yet? If not, I'd love to turn you onto it. Send me an email and I will work out the download for you.
One word came to mind when I saw this...PERFECTION!