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The rear end Stooge posted:Has there been a release date confirmed for The Terror yet? Wikipedia says this month, but I'm not finding much besides that outside of articles written in like August. I recently got into their later, Embryonic and later stuff after being introduced to Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi earlier this year and HOLY poo poo it's amazing. Embryonic was mindblowing on my first listen from beginning to end. From what I've read on the Terror they're continuing in the same trend of Embryonic and Heady Fwends, so count me in as someone who's buying this as soon as it comes out.
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crankdatbatman posted:Wikipedia says this month, but I'm not finding much besides that outside of articles written in like August. It's so nice to hear someone enthuse over recent Lips stuff in this thread. Too many older dudes in this thread who can't get over the 90s.
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Epi Lepi posted:It's so nice to hear someone enthuse over recent Lips stuff in this thread. Too many older dudes in this thread who can't get over the 90s. Hey now, hold on, I've said multiple times that Embryonic is the best thing the Lips have done maybe ever, and certainly in a long time. Soft Bulletin and Mystics are really the only albums I could do with never listening to again.
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precision posted:Hey now, hold on, I've said multiple times that Embryonic is the best thing the Lips have done maybe ever, and certainly in a long time. Soft Bulletin and Mystics are really the only albums I could do with never listening to again. Can't argue with Mystics, all the tracks besides Pompeii and Mr Ambulence Driver are pretty played out for me.
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Epi Lepi posted:It's so nice to hear someone enthuse over recent Lips stuff in this thread. Too many older dudes in this thread who can't get over the 90s. I'm 26.
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precision posted:I didn't even recognize him at first. I was like "Wait, did he quit the band? What did I miss?" Drozd looks skinny and unhealthy, but I met J Spaceman earlier this year and when he's not wearing the sunglasses the dude looks like he's in his 60s or something. Is Derek exclusively a touring member or did he contribute music to The Terror? I'm still fuzzy on his role in the band.
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worthy, because near as I can tell J has done more drugs by a decent margin and has technically died twice.
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Epi Lepi posted:It's so nice to hear someone enthuse over recent Lips stuff in this thread. Too many older dudes in this thread who can't get over the 90s. Not our fault you were in your diapers when they were touring for Transmissions, their best shows ever IMO. If you would have seen them live back then you'd probably understand. Steven on drums and Ronald on guitar was something to behold and is one of the few good shows I remember from that era. Also I like AWWTM 
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Slackerish posted:Is Derek exclusively a touring member or did he contribute music to The Terror? I'm still fuzzy on his role in the band. Curious about this too.
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Surfingelectrode posted:Derek has been more than just a touring member for the past two years or three years. But what's his background? What has he done? How did he join the band? I'm just interested, he's the only FLip member I know nothing about.
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Slackerish posted:But what's his background? What has he done? How did he join the band? He was the marketing manager at Hellfire (Scott Booker's management company) and ran their street team back in the early-mid 2000s. When the Lips started to tour behind Embryonic, they realized they needed an extra musician, so they asked him to come play with them, and he stuck. Pitchfork 2009 was his first show with them. He's also done stuff with the Starlight Mints, Steve Burns, and Liz Phair. If I remember correctly, that song with Chris Martin from Heady Fwends is pretty much all Derek.
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Surfingelectrode posted:Derek has been more than just a touring member for the past two years or three years. Yeah, in 2010 he went to Massachusetts with Steven and they got married.
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 1 Look... The Sun is Rising 2 Be Free, A Way 3 Try to Explain 4 You Lust 5 The Terror 6 You Are Alone 7 Butterfly, How Long it Takes to Die 8 Turning Violent 9 Always There... in Our Hearts Out April 1st, with a non-album track called Sun Blows Up Today out February 3rd. http://pitchfork.com/news/49286-the-flaming-lips-announce-new-album-the-terror/ Pretty psyched! The Valentine's Day release should also be out around the beginning of February. Edit: Here's the full press release with notes by Wayne and Steven. Surfingelectrode fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Jan 24, 2013 |
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Wayne posted:"Why would we make this music that is The Terror-- this bleak, disturbing record...?? I don't really want to know the answer that I think is coming: that WE were hopeless, WE were disturbed and, I think, accepting that some things are hopeless... or letting hope in one area die so that hope can start to live in another?? Maybe this is the beginning of the answer. I'm gonna assume "bleak, disturbing" material won't translate well to a live show, unfortunately.
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I love the album art and I'm super looking forward to this. Reading the press release though, I'm way too sober to understand anything Wayne wrote beyond the "What is the Terror?" section. Also makes me think Wayne isn't the happiest guy right now, maybe there is truth to those stories about his marriage falling apart.
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Bit of a correction... the album is out April 2 in the US and: "UPDATE: The track is actually being released January 29, when the digital pre-order for the album will begin. And "Sun Blows Up Today" will be featured in a commercial that will air during the Super Bowl that stars the Flaming Lips. (No word as to what the commercial is for just yet.)"
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The SARS Volta posted:I'm gonna assume "bleak, disturbing" material won't translate well to a live show, unfortunately. Some of their "bleak, disturbing" songs like Drug Chart and Ashes in the Air work very well live IMO. I can see it working out. I love the album art, hate the tracklist. songs like "you are alone"..not subtle.
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By the way, don't forget that one of these songs came out back in 2011. I know it was remixed for the album and will probably sound way different, but I guess it's still a taste of what the album will be like?
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Surfingelectrode posted:By the way, don't forget that one of these songs came out back in 2011. I know it was remixed for the album and will probably sound way different, but I guess it's still a taste of what the album will be like? There's video of them playing You Lust live too right? Isn't that the track they did with Phantogram?
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Epi Lepi posted:There's video of them playing You Lust live too right? Isn't that the track they did with Phantogram? Yeah, but I have a feeling that the album version of that will be much better. That show at the Hard Rock Casino pool in Biloxi was loving weird.
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I love that album art too. Reminds me of their older albums. Hopefully this one's better than Embryonic, because I could never get into that album at all and it's been several years since Mystics came out (an album I absolutely love). Maybe I should give Embryonic another chance, though. I did love Heady Fwends after all.
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This is awesome news. Seeing updates in this thread and remembering hearing that the album was supposed to come out this month made me think it may have been released today, but I will definitely take news of a release date instead.hughesta posted:Embryonic is an absolute monster of an album. Give it a few more tries! Also this. A thousand times this. It's an album I'm always afraid to listen to again because my first run through was so good.
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Embryonic is the tits and I suspect the new album will build on the style of the weirder songs on it. I came across this article that orders their albums and while their placement of Telepathic Surgery is... bizarre, to say the least... I really dig their top 2: http://stereogum.com/1236652/the-flaming-lips-albums-from-worst-to-best/top-stories/lead-story/attachment/clouds/
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The SARS Volta posted:I'm gonna assume "bleak, disturbing" material won't translate well to a live show, unfortunately. No more space bubble or confetti, doom and gloom show  That actually would probably be a good thing since that stuff has been played out ten times over.
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This album is going to be so loving good, I just know it. But it saddens me to read Wayne's comments and to see how lonely and miserable he feels right now. I hope things begin to look up for him very soon.
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Heres the new song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR0kjG-uab4
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I really like it. It kind of reminds me of a mix of an early Lips song mixed with a modern one. Like the aggression and speed of a song from Hit to Death with the synths and singing style of their recent work.
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Don't really dig that new track too much, but seeing how it is a non album track I doubt the album will carry that sound. It just sounded too much like a Polyphonic Spree song. That being said I think the album art for The Terror rules and I'm really looking forward to it.
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First impression of the new song is it's pretty cool, but I won't be able to truly judge it till I can load it on my iPod and blast it in my car. And I do think it'll be a good car-blasting song. That freakout at the end makes me happy, though it does sound a little.. chiptune-ish?Surfingelectrode posted:Yeah, but I have a feeling that the album version of that will be much better. I'm definitely looking forward to the studio version of this song.
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Skttrbrain posted:Heres the new song Video is private.
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Surfingelectrode put it up on Soundcloud. https://soundcloud.com/surfingelectrode/the-sun It's a song alright.
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precision posted:Video is private. I think they released it too early or something because it's private for me too now and I was able to watch it an hour ago.
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I like Embryonic and all but if Sun is a representation of The Terror and all then I'll probably like it more.
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Epi Lepi posted:I think they released it too early or something because it's private for me too now and I was able to watch it an hour ago. I'm pretty sure that it was sent out to music press this morning but Rolling Stone, being Rolling Stone, posted the link publicly on their site. I learned from the Erykah Badu thing to always grab things like this while they're up. I love the song. It's for a Superbowl ad, so of course it isn't going to be a really dark, bleak song. But as a fun pop song I think it's really good, especially considering that the Lips have done some really bad pop songs in the past (see: At War with the Mystics + b-sides). Also, I think Blast Fantasto is spot on with the Hit to Death comparison. Edit: Video is back up. Surfingelectrode fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Jan 25, 2013 |
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My copy of The Flaming Lips... - The Dark Side of the Moon finally arrived after a 9 and a half month wait. Took longer than Deathconciousness on vinyl. Hey, Mr. Surfingelectrode. Do you have any insight on who the people are on the artwork for the album? I know that's Steven on the sleeve, but I don't know who the other dude with the kid is. Sometimes looks like Michael.
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