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Originally posted by Undertoad
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
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That
is a great record. I still like Radiohead more, but the Lips make some damned fine music. I saw them open up for the Butthole Surfers in '93...good show.
I've always wanted to listen to their 1997 release
Zaireeka. The problem is that its 4 CDs are meant to be played simultaneously. So, you have to set up 4 independent CD players, and probably need someone to help you start them all at the same time. If you don't play all 4 CDs at the same time, it apparently won't sound right. From what I've heard though, it's a great release...and it's very cool that a major label was willing to release something so "challenging."
Speaking of Radiohead, the Lips do a cover of "Knives Out" on their
Fight Test EP (UT, don't know if you've heard it yet or not...it's on Rhapsody), and it's very good. Wayne Coyne's voice sounds so much like Thom Yorke's that it's spooky...but it's distinct enough that you know he's not imitating. They also do an interesting cover of Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" on the EP.